What's New In Acronis True Image Server 8.0 For Windows; What Is A Disk Image - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE SERVER 8.0 User Manual

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What's new in Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows

Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows has the following new features:
• Adjustment of a priority for image creation process;
• Excluding paging/hibernate files from images thereby decreasing the image file
size;
• Partition/disk image integrity check before restoration;
• Email or WinPopup notification when backup is finished;
• Logs viewing;
• Two boot disk variants: complete and safe;
• Improved interface and performance;
• Console mode;
• JFS and XFS file systems support (except partition resizing feature).
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What is a disk image

A disk (partition) image is a file that contains a copy of all information stored on a
disk. The image stores all the server data, including operating system, databases, all
programs, data and settings.
By backing up your information regularly, you will completely protect yourself from
data losses in case of system failures and even server malfunctions.
To restore your system after a failure, you simply use a previously created image.
By default, Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows image files have ".tib"
extension and can contain images of several partitions or disks.
Images of large partitions or several disks could be sizeable. In that case, an
image can be split into several files that together make the original image. A
single image can also be split for burning to removable media.
Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows can create incremental images.
An incremental image contains only data from those hard disk sectors that changed
after the previous disk image (full or incremental) was created. Thus such an image
is significantly smaller and takes less time to create than a full image. However, as it
does not contain all the necessary information about disks (partitions), it requires all
the previous incremental images and the initial complete image for restoration.
You can create incremental images frequently, as they need less space than
complete ones and take less time to create.
An incremental image created after a disk is defragmented might be considerably larger than
usual. This is because the defragmentation program changes file locations on disk and
incremental images reflect these changes.
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