Acronis True Image Echo Workstation Components - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ECHO - WORKSTATION User Manual

availability for mission critical applications. Additionally, users can control hard disk drive
writing speeds and control network bandwidth used during backups, allowing minimal
disruption of business operations.
Supports Leading Edge Technology
Businesses today are moving to leverage the latest technologies, including dual-core, 64-
bit processors and 64-bit operating systems. With Acronis True Image Echo Workstation,
you can protect these new machines, as well as legacy computers, running a single
application with a common interface.
Leverages Existing Technology Investments
The product can leverage your current storage infrastructure by supporting a variety of
storage media, so you can avoid costly hardware purchases to implement the solution.
The product supports key storage technologies such as: Direct Attached Storage (DAS),
Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SAN), Redundant Arrays of
Independent Disks (RAID), tapes, USB and IEEE-1394 (FireWire) compliant storage
devices, CDs, DVDs, removable drives (Floppy, Zip, etc.) and shared storage. Moreover,
the product ensures that you maximize the space on these resources with four levels of
compression.
Disk cloning and new disk deployment
Acronis True Image Echo Workstation can be used to clone an image onto multiple
machines. For example, let's say a company purchased several computers and needs
similar environments on each of them. Traditionally, the IT manager would install the
operating system and programs on every computer. With Acronis True Image Echo
Workstation, the IT manager would configure a single computer, then create a disk image
of the system. That image can then be duplicated onto multiple computers.
If you need to upgrade the hard disk drive, Acronis True Image Echo Workstation
simplifies the task to few mouse clicks creating the exact copy of your old disk to a new
one and adjusting partitions size to fit a new hard disk.
Volumes conversion
Acronis True Image Echo Workstation can back up and recover dynamic volumes.
Dynamic volume as is can be recovered over the same volume or unallocated space of a
dynamic group. Acronis True Image Echo Workstation has necessary tools for any-to-any
disks conversion in terms of basic disks and dynamic volumes of any type (simple,
spanned, striped, mirrored or RAID 5). The tools are available in bootable program
version as well. Having booted the Acronis environment, you can easily prepare the
desired dynamic group on bare metal or a computer with non-Windows operating system.

1.2 Acronis True Image Echo Workstation components

Acronis True Image Echo Workstation includes the following components.
1. Acronis True Image Management Console is a tool for remote access to Acronis
components. Administrator uses the console to install, configure and control the
components from remote.
2. Acronis True Image Agent is an application that resides on client computers and
performs Acronis operations such as data backup or restore.
3. Acronis Group Server is a management tool that provides ability to schedule,
monitor and manage group backup tasks. It deploys group tasks to the agents, polls the
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