User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE CORPORATE WORKSTATION 8.0

[. . . ] User's Guide Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation Compute with confidence www. acronis. com Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. [. . . ] If you use tapes that already contain data, their contents will be cleared and overwritten 3. Incremental images can be appended to the tape containing the previous image, either full, or incremental 4. You don't have to provide a filename to store an image on or restore it from a tape 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 long. Creating a partition (disk) image Chapter 5. Creating a partition (disk) image Disk (partition) image creation means backing up all data stored on your workstation. Having these images you can restore your workstation after failures and protect yourself from hard disk data losses. 5. 1 Selecting partitions In the Select Partitions to Image window you will see the hard disk layout of your workstation. You can select one or more hard disks or any combination of partitions and hard disks. Disk and partition layout Having selected partitions and/or disks, click Next. Note that this button is disabled as far as no partitions or disks are selected. 5. 2 Selecting image location Specify image file location on a storage device: Acronis Secure Zone (see "Acronis Secure Zone"); Hard disk; Network disk; Creating a partition (disk) image Removable media drive, including tapes, CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RW, Iomega Zip, Iomega Jaz, magneto-optical drives and so on. Data storage device connected to the remote PC (a tape drive). You should have UDF recording software installed for burning images on DVD, for example: Roxio DirectCD, Ahead InCD and other the same. Image location selection Select image location in the disk tree. If you select Acronis Secure Zone or a tape, you don't have to provide a name. You can store several partitions and/or disks in a single file, but you can't append images to a file. Just click Generate file name for a new file button at the right. You can create a disk (partition) image on the same disk (partition), if there is enough space for it, but do not leave it there. Better burn images to removable media, such as a CD, DVD or Zip disks, move to another hard disk or a network drive. The only reason to place an image on the same disk (partition) is creating a local, secondary image, used to restore damaged files. Remember, if your disk becomes physically damaged, an image stored on the same disk will be inaccessible. 5. 3 Selecting image mode At this point, you must decide if you need to create a complete or incremental partition (disk) image. Creating a partition (disk) image Image mode selection A full image contains all hard disk data, so it takes a lot of space. Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation does not include swap file information (win386. swp under Windows 98/Me and pagefile. sys under Windows NT SP6/2000/XP), or hiberfil. sys (a file that keeps RAM contents when the computer goes into hibernation). This considerably reduces the image size and increases the speed of creating the image. An incremental image contains data only from sectors that changed after the previous full or incremental image was created, so it is usually smaller and takes less time to create. Therefore, if you create the first disk (partition) image, you should select the complete mode. If you already have a full image, it is recommended that you create incremental images. If you have defragmented your hard disk since the last full image, an incremental image could be as large as the full image. Therefore we recommend you to make a defragmentation of a hard disk before the full image of the given disk will be created. 5. 3. 1 Creating an incremental image To create an incremental disk/partition image, choose your original full disk image file in the directory tree of Image Archive Creation window and press Next button. If you already created the incremental backup, choose the last incremental disk/partition image in the directory tree. CD, insert the last CD and then follow instructions of the Create Image Wizard. Creating a partition (disk) image (Having a policy for creating full and incremental images is recommended. For example, you might consider creating a full image monthly and incremental images weekly. ) If all image files are stored together, if doesn't matter which one you select, as the program will recognize them as a single image. If you stored these files on several removable discs, you must provide the latest image file, otherwise, restoration problems might occur. 5. 4 Selecting image file size At this step you can specify if the program should create a single file or split it into equal smaller images. If you select Automatic, Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation will try to decide this for every particular case. If there's enough space on the selected disk, the program will create a single image file. [. . . ] The reasons to do this are Troubleshooting described in the 298491 article of Microsoft Knowledge Base: "One problem from duplicating an installation of Windows 2000 is that each cloned computer has the same security identifier (SID) and computer name. This may prevent the cloned computers from functioning correctly in a workgroup or a domain. To work around this problem, administrators use the System Preparation Tool (Sysprep. exe) to remove configuration settings that are unique to the computer such as the computer name and SID. " This problem also relates to Windows NT 4. 0 SP6 and Windows XP, so you should prepare these OS in a similar way. You can download Microsoft System Preparation Tool from www. microsoft. com or extract from deploy. cab located on Windows XP installation CD. [. . . ]