Table Of Contents - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ECHO - SERVER FOR WINDOWS User Manual

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction ...................................................................................... 7
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1.1 Acronis True Image Echo Server - a complete solution for corporate users ............................ 7
1.2 New in Acronis True Image Echo Server .............................................................................. 8
1.3 Supported file systems and storage media ........................................................................... 9
1.3.1 Supported file systems ................................................................................................ 9
1.3.2 Supported storage media ........................................................................................... 10
1.4 Technical support ............................................................................................................ 10
Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Echo Server installation and startup .............. 12
2.1 System requirements ....................................................................................................... 12
2.1.1 Minimum hardware requirements ............................................................................... 12
2.1.2 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................... 12
2.2 Installing Acronis True Image Echo Server ......................................................................... 12
2.2.1 Installation of Acronis True Image Echo Server ............................................................ 13
2.2.2 Acronis Universal Restore installation .......................................................................... 13
2.3 Extracting Acronis True Image Echo Server components ..................................................... 14
2.4 Running Acronis True Image Echo Server .......................................................................... 14
2.5 Removing Acronis True Image Echo Server ........................................................................ 14
Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ............ 15
3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ............................................ 15
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups .......................................................................... 15
3.3 Acronis Secure Zone
3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .................................................................................... 17
3.4.1 How it works ............................................................................................................ 17
3.4.2 How to use ............................................................................................................... 17
3.5 Acronis Active Restore ..................................................................................................... 18
3.5.1 Limitations in using Acronis Active Restore .................................................................. 18
3.5.2 How it works ............................................................................................................ 18
3.5.3 How to use ............................................................................................................... 18
3.6 Acronis Universal Restore ................................................................................................. 19
3.6.1 Acronis Universal Restore purpose .............................................................................. 19
3.6.2 Acronis Universal Restore general principles ................................................................ 20
3.6.3 Acronis Universal Restore and Microsoft Sysprep .......................................................... 20
3.6.4 Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore .............................................................. 20
3.6.5 Getting Acronis Universal Restore ............................................................................... 21
3.7 Backing up to tape drives ................................................................................................. 21
3.7.1 Restoring data from archives located on tape devices ................................................... 22
3.8 Viewing disk and partition information ............................................................................... 22
3.9 Changing Acronis temporary folder path ............................................................................ 22
Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Echo Server ........................................... 23
4.1 Main program window ..................................................................................................... 23
4.2 Available operations ......................................................................................................... 25
Chapter 5. Creating backup archives ................................................................ 28
5.1 Backing up files and folders (file backup) ........................................................................... 28
5.2 Backing up disks and partitions (image backup) ................................................................. 32
5.3 Setting backup options ..................................................................................................... 34
5.3.1 Archive protection ..................................................................................................... 35
5.3.2 Source files exclusion ................................................................................................ 35
5.3.3 Pre/post commands .................................................................................................. 36
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