Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Echo Server Installation And Startup; System Requirements; Minimum Hardware Requirements; Supported Operating Systems - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ECHO - FOR LINUX User Manual

Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Echo Server
installation and startup

2.1 System requirements

2.1.1 Minimum hardware requirements

Acronis True Image Echo Server requires the following hardware:
Pentium processor or higher
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512MB RAM
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CD-RW drive for bootable media creation
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Mouse (recommended).
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2.1.2 Supported operating systems

Operating systems based on Linux 2.4.9 or later kernel including 2.6.x.
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x64 versions of Linux distributions are also supported in case of a 32-bit library is
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present in the selected Linux x64 distribution.
To obtain the up-to-date information about distributions, supported by your copy of
Acronis True Image Echo Server, see the readme.txt file supplied with the program.
Acronis True Image Echo Server bootable version enables disk-level backup and recovery
on a computer running any PC-based operating system.

2.2 Installing Acronis True Image Echo Server

To install Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux:
Assign to the setup file the attribute Executable
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Run the setup process
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• Follow setup program instructions.
If the setup could not compile the necessary module for your Linux distribution, please
refer to the file HOWTO.INSTALL:
/usr/lib/Acronis/TrueImageServer/HOWTO.INSTALL
You can choose to install, besides Acronis True Image Echo Server, the Rescue Media
Builder tool. With Rescue Media Builder you can create bootable rescue disks or their ISO
images.

2.3 Running Acronis True Image Echo Server

To run the program under the X Window System interface, use the trueimage command
or select Acronis True Image Echo Server from the system tools menu.
To work in the console mode, use trueimagecmd and trueimagemnt tools, described
Chapter 12. Console mode
in
If your disk data is totally corrupted, load the bootable Acronis True Image Echo Server
version from removable media (created by you using Rescue Media Builder). Then you
will be able to restore the disk from its previously created image.
. See also man trueimagecmd or man trueimagemnt.