Backing Up To Tape Drive; Viewing Disk And Partition Information - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.1 - WORKSTATION User Manual

3.8 Backing up to tape drive

Acronis True Image Workstation 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 computer, controlling the backup process (i.e. where
you are running Acronis True Image Workstation local version or Acronis True Image
Management Console) the list of devices available for backup storage will be extended with a
name corresponding to the drive type.
To place backup archives on a tape drive, connected to another network computer, install
Acronis Backup Server on that computer. Then a new device type Acronis Backup Server will
appear in the list of devices, and you will be able to access the tape under this device.
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.

3.9 Viewing disk and partition information

You can change the way of data representation in all schemes you see in various wizards.
To the right are three icons: Arrange Icons by, Choose Details and i (Display the
properties of the selected item), the last duplicated in the context menu invoked by
right-clicking objects.
To sort messages by a particular column, click the header (another click will switch the
messages to the opposite order) or Arrange Icons by button and select the column.
To select columns to view, right-click the headers line or left-click the Choose Details
button. Then flag the columns you want to display.
If you click the i (Display the properties of the selected item) button, you will see the
selected partition or disk properties window.
This window contains two panels. The left panel contains the properties tree and the right
describes the selected property in detail. The disk information includes its physical
parameters (connection type, device type, size, etc.); partition information includes both
physical (sectors, location, etc.), and logical (file system, free space, assigned letter, etc.)
parameters.
You can change the width of columns by dragging their borders with the mouse.
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