User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ENTERPRISE SERVER 8.0

[. . . ] User's Guide Acronis True Image Enterprise Server 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 a basic disk image is restored to a dynamic disk, it will destroy the dynamic disk's contents. You can also create and restore an image of a system partition stored on a dynamic disk. If Acronis True Image Enterprise Server runs from Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (before Windows has started) or from Bootable Rescue media, dynamic disks will be not accessible. To be able to restore a system partition, you must keep its image on a basic, network, or removable disk. 4. 5 Backing up to tape drive The current version of Acronis True Image Enterprise Server supports SCSI tape drives. It can store images on and restore them from tape, store large images to multiple tapes, and append incremental images on to a tape with the existing images. If you have a SCSI tape drive connected to your server, the list of devices available for image storage and restoration will be extended with a name corresponding to the drive type. Images are created on and restored from tapes in the same way as from other devices, with the following exceptions. If you are to use data tapes previously used by other programs, their contents will be cleared 2. 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. 36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Creating a partition (disk) image Chapter 5. Creating a partition (disk) image Disk (partition) image creation means backing up all data stored on your server. Having these images you can restore your server 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 server. 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; Removable media drive, including tapes, CD-R/RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R/RW, Iomega Zip, Iomega Jaz, magneto-optical drives and so on. 37 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Restoring a disk (partition) from an image · Data storage device connected to the remote PC (a tape drive). You should have DVD UDF recording software installed for burning images on DVD disks, 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. 38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 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 Enterprise Server 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. [. . . ] 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. Below is a brief instruction on how to prepare your hard disk for cloning or transferring to another server: 1. [. . . ]