Using Dynamic Disks And Volumes; Backing Up To Tape Drive - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.1 - SERVER FOR WINDOWS User Manual

3. Acronis Universal Restore does not strip security identifier (SID) and user profile settings.
This means that you will not need to re-join your domain or re-map network user profiles
after a restore.
4. Acronis Universal Restore supports a driver repository to centrally store all drivers so users
don't need to go looking for them.

3.7 Using dynamic disks and volumes

Acronis True Image Server for Windows supports Windows LDM (also called Dynamic Disks).
However, as dynamic disks are organized differently than basic, physical disk drives, their
backup has some peculiar features.
You can create an image of the entire dynamic disk or one or more dynamic volumes. This is
because a dynamic volume is located on several dynamic disks, so a partial backup would
not create a usable image.
The current version of the software is not capable of changing the volume size and file
system when an image is being restored to a dynamic volume. However, this is possible
when you restore a dynamic volume to a basic disk partition.
When you create a dynamic volume image, its type information (simple, mirror, and the like)
is lost, so the restoration is performed independently. In each case, the program stores and
restores volume contents only.
If a basic disk image is restored to a dynamic disk, it will destroy the dynamic disk's
contents. As a result, you will end up with a basic disk.
If Acronis True Image Server for Windows runs in rescue mode (for example, booted from
Bootable Rescue media), dynamic disks will be not accessible. Therefore, to be able to repair
a system partition, you must keep its image on a basic, network, or removable disk.

3.8 Backing up to tape drive

Acronis True Image Server for Windows supports SCSI tape drives. It can store backups on
the tape and restore data from the tape, store large backups to multiple tapes, and append
incremental/differential changes to a tape with the existing archives.
If a SCSI tape drive is connected to the server, the list of devices available for backup
storage will be extended with a name corresponding to the drive type.
Backup and restore on the tape proceed in the same way as with other devices, with the
following exceptions.
1. A full backup can be stored on an empty tape only. If you use tape that already contains
data, its contents will be overwritten.
2. In case you want to keep more than one archive on the tape, for example, back up two
disks separately, choose
second disk. In other situations, incremental backup is used for appending changes to the
previously created archive.
3. You do not have to provide filenames for backups.
You might experience short pauses that are required to rewind the tape.
Low-quality or old tape, as well as dirt on the magnetic head, might lead to pauses that can
last up to several minutes.
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