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The "farther" you store the archive from the original partition, the safer it will be in case of
data damage. For example, saving the archive to another hard disk will protect your data if
the primary disk is damaged. Data saved to a network disk, ftp-server or removable media
will survive even if all your local hard disks are down. In addition to NFS, Acronis True
Image Server for Linux supports the SMBFS network file system.
Please check, that the network backup node is accessible for Acronis True Image Server for Linux Rescue
CD Network Browser, otherwise you cannot restore images stored on this node.
An FTP server must allow passive mode for file transfers. To enable data recovery directly from FTP
server split the archive to files no more than 2 Gb in size.
You can also use Acronis Secure Zone (see details in
backups. In that case, you need not provide the file name.
7. Click Next.
8. Select whether you want to create a full, incremental or differential backup. If you have
not backed up the selected disks/partitions yet, or the full archive seems too old to append
incremental changes to it, choose full backup. Otherwise it is recommended that you create
an incremental or differential backup (see
9. Click Next.
10. Select the backup options (that is, backup file splitting, compression level, password
protection, pre/post backup commands etc.). You may Use default options or Set the
options manually. If the latter is the case, the settings will be applied only to the current
backup task. Alternatively, you can edit the default options from the current screen. Then
your settings will be saved as default. See
11. Click Next.
12. Provide a comment for the archive. This can help prevent you from restoring the wrong
disk/partition. However, you can choose not to make any notes. The backup file size and
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Creating backup archives under X Window System
3.3 Acronis Secure Zone
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups
5.3 Setting backup options
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for more information.
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