Exploring An Archive - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ECHO - ENTERPRISE SERVER User Manual

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Both operations are performed through the Backup Archives category.

Exploring images and file-level archives lets you view their contents and copy the

selected files to the hard disk.

Mounting images as virtual drives lets you access them as though they were physical

drives. This means that:

a new disk with its own letter will appear in the drives list

using Windows Explorer and other file managers, you can view the image contents as if

they were located on a physical disk or partition

you will be able to use the virtual disk in the same way as the real one: open, save, copy,

move, create, delete files or folders. If necessary, the image can be mounted in read-only

mode

Please keep in mind that although both file archives and disk/partition images have a

default ".tib" extension, only images can be mounted. If you want to view file archive

contents, use the Explore operation. The following is a brief summary of the Explore and

Mount operations:

Archive type

Assigning a letter

Archive modification

Files extraction

Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can mount or explore an image archive only if

all its volumes reside in the same directory. If your archive spans several CD-R/RW discs

and you want to mount the image, copy all volumes to a hard disk drive or network drive.

11.2.1 Exploring an archive

1. Click Explore and Validate Backup Archives in the Tools group or select the

Backup Archives category on the sidebar to navigate to the Manage Backup Archives

window. Then select Explore Backup Archive. Or, you can select Tools -> Explore

Backup Archive in the main program menu.

2. Select an archive from the drive tree and click Open. If the archive is located in

Acronis Secure Zone, select it to choose the archive at the next step. The explore

operation does not support Acronis Backup Server, so backup servers are not displayed in

the tree.

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Explore

File-level, disk or partition image

Yes

Mount

Partition image

Yes

Yes (in R/W mode)

Yes

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