Chapter 9. Creating Bootable Media; Creating Acronis Rescue Media - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.1 - SERVER FOR WINDOWS User Manual

Chapter 9. Creating bootable media

9.1 Creating Acronis rescue media

You can run Acronis True Image Server on a bare metal or on a crashed computer that
cannot boot. You can even back up disks on a non-Windows computer, copying all its data
sector-by-sector into the backup archive. To do so, you will need bootable media with the
standalone Acronis True Image Server version.
If you purchased the boxed product, you already have such a bootable CD, because the
installation CD contains, besides the program installation files, the Acronis True Image
Server standalone bootable version.
If you purchased Acronis True Image Server on the Web, you can create bootable media
using the Bootable Media Builder. For this, you will need a CD-R/RW blank, DVD+R/RW
blank, several formatted diskettes (the wizard will tell you the exact number), or any other
media your server can boot from, such as a Zip drive.
Acronis True Image Server also provides the ability to create an ISO image of a bootable
disk on the hard disk. If there is a Microsoft RIS server in your local network, an IT
administrator can save the bootable data on this server as well. Then any networked
computer will be able to boot Acronis True Image Server from the RIS package.
If you have other Acronis products, such as Acronis Disk Director Server, installed on your
computer, you can include standalone versions of these programs on the same bootable disk
as well.
If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Acronis True Image
Server installation, you will not be able to use this feature.
1. Click Create Bootable Rescue Media on the toolbar or the sidebar, or select Create
Bootable Rescue Media from the Tools menu. You can also run the Bootable Rescue
Media Builder without loading Acronis True Image Server by selecting Programs ->
Acronis -> True Image -> Bootable Rescue Media Builder from the Start menu.
2. Select which components of Acronis programs you want to place on the bootable media.
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