Table Of Contents - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.1 - SERVER FOR WINDOWS User Manual

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction...........................................................................................7
1.1 Acronis® True Image Server - a complete solution for corporate users ................................. 7
1.2 New in Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Windows ............................................................. 8
1.3 System requirements and supported media ......................................................................... 9
1.3.1 Minimum system requirements .................................................................................... 9
1.3.2 Supported operating systems....................................................................................... 9
1.3.3 Supported file systems .............................................................................................. 10
1.3.4 Supported storage media .......................................................................................... 10
1.4 Technical support............................................................................................................ 10
Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Server installation and starting ..........................12
2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Server ................................................................................ 12
2.1.1 Acronis Universal Restore installation.......................................................................... 13
2.2 Extracting Acronis True Image Server ............................................................................... 13
2.3 Running Acronis True Image Server.................................................................................. 13
2.4 Removing Acronis True Image Server ............................................................................... 13
Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ................14
3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ........................................... 14
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups.......................................................................... 14
3.3 Acronis Secure Zone........................................................................................................ 15
3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ................................................................................... 16
3.4.1 How it works ............................................................................................................ 16
3.4.2 How to use .............................................................................................................. 16
3.5 Acronis Snap Restore....................................................................................................... 16
3.5.1 Limitations in using Acronis Snap Restore ................................................................... 16
3.5.2 How it works ............................................................................................................ 17
3.5.3 How to use .............................................................................................................. 17
3.6 Acronis Universal Restore................................................................................................. 17
3.6.1 Acronis Universal Restore purpose.............................................................................. 17
3.6.2 Acronis Universal Restore general principles................................................................ 18
3.6.3 Acronis Universal Restore and Microsoft Sysprep ......................................................... 18
3.6.4 Using Acronis Universal Restore in virtual environment ................................................ 19
3.6.5 Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore ............................................................. 19
3.6.6 Getting Acronis Universal Restore............................................................................... 19
3.7 Using dynamic disks and volumes..................................................................................... 19
3.8 Backing up to tape drive .................................................................................................. 20
3.9 Viewing disk and partition information .............................................................................. 20
Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Server ........................................................22
4.1 Main program window ..................................................................................................... 22
4.2 Available operations ........................................................................................................ 24
Chapter 5. Creating backup archives ....................................................................26
5.1 Backing up files and folders (file backup) .......................................................................... 26
5.2 Backing up disks and partitions (image backup)................................................................. 30
5.3 Setting backup options .................................................................................................... 32
5.3.1 Archive protection..................................................................................................... 33
5.3.2 Source files exclusion ................................................................................................ 33
5.3.3 Pre/post commands .................................................................................................. 33
5.3.4 Database support ..................................................................................................... 34
5.3.5 Compression level..................................................................................................... 35
5.3.6 Backup performance ................................................................................................. 35
5.3.7 Fast incremental/differential backup ........................................................................... 36
5.3.8 Archive splitting........................................................................................................ 36
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