Operations With Archives; Acronis Snap Restore; How It Works - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.1 - WORKSTATION User Manual

Administrator profiles are used for managing backups, created by backup tasks, remotely
controlled from Acronis True Image Management Console.
An administrator assigns a backup location and sets quotas and time limits for each
computer running Acronis True Image Agent. After that, when creating an individual or
group backup task, he will specify the backup server as the target storage place, and every
computer's backup will be directed to the assigned location, which may differ from other
computers' location or be the same.
So, Administrator profiles manage the backup server resources allocation by computers.
User profiles are used for managing backups, created by backup tasks, locally controlled
with Acronis True Image Workstation.
An administrator assigns a backup location and sets quotas and time limits for each user,
who back up their data running Acronis True Image Workstation (local version). Later on, if
the user specifies the backup server as the target storage place, his backup will be directed
to the assigned backup location. If the user moves to another computer, his backup location,
quotas and time limits remain the same.
So, User profiles manage the backup server resources allocation by users.

3.5.4 Operations with archives

Acronis Backup Server can display a list of backups, stored on the backup server, and sort
the list by Location or Owners (users and computers).
An administrator, if need be, can manually Consolidate any backup (except for the oldest
one in the archive) with the preceding backup file. The resulting file will preserve all data
changes, contained in both files and have the latest backup date. Thus, the archive integrity
will not be affected, in spite of the fact that one backup will disappear. Data recovery from
any of the remaining backups will be possible.

3.6 Acronis Snap Restore

With this feature you can boot the OS on the crashed computer before the system is
completely restored from an image, and start the work seconds after the restoration is
launched. The restoration will be continued in the background.
This feature is currently available for images, being restored from the Acronis Secure Zone
(see above). Naturally, Acronis Snap Restore cannot be used if the image contains no
operating system (a logical partition or disk image) or when restoring file archives. Also,
Snap Restore of Windows 98/Me systems is not supported.

3.6.1 How it works

When the restoration procedure is started, Acronis True Image Workstation:
1. Finds the sectors in the image, containing system files, and restores these sectors first.
Thus, the OS is restored and can be started in a very short timeframe. Having started the
OS, the user sees the folder tree with files, though file contents still is not recovered.
Nevertheless, the user can start working.
2. Writes on the hard disk its own drivers, capable to intercept the system queries to the
files. When the user opens files or launches applications, the drivers receive the system
queries and restore the sectors that are necessary for the current operation.
3. At the same time, ATIES proceeds with the complete sector-by-sector image restoration in
the background. However, the system requested sectors have the highest priority.
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