User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE SERVER 7.0

[. . . ] Acronis True Image Server 7. 0 User's Guide www. acronis. com Copyright © SWsoft, 2000-2003. All rights reserved. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. [. . . ] Restoring a disk (partition) from an image As mentioned above (see "Running Acronis True Image Server "), Acronis True Image Server can be run in several ways. We recommend you to restore disks from under Windows, using other ways only if it doesn't load. a CD) you loaded from doesn't keep you from using other CDs with images. Acronis True Image Server is loaded entirely into the PC RAM, so you can remove the bootable CD to insert an image disc. To restore a partition from an image Acronis True Image Server must obtain exclusive access to this partition. So if you receive a message stating the partition can't be blocked, close applications that use this disk and start over. If you can't determine, which applications use the disk, close them all. Selecting an image to restore from Find and select file containing an image of the required partition. The File Name field will reflect its name and the Next will become available. If this image is located in Acronis Secure Zone, select it to select the image on the next step. Image selection for restoration 26 Copyright © SWsoft, 2000­2003 Acronis True Image Server User's Guide Restoring a disk (partition) from an image If you are to restore an image from removable media, e. g. CD, first insert the latest burnt CD and then insert them in order starting from the one created first. If you provided a comment to the image, it would help you understand if you selected the right image. Note that it can be seen without entering a password for a protected image. If an image was protected with a password, Acronis True Image Server will ask for it. In this case the Next button will be disabled until you enter the right password. If you are to restore a disk (partition) from an incremental image, you must have the current image as well as at least one or even all previous incremental images and the initial full image. The exact number of images depends on how disk contents changed between image creation procedures. Selecting a partition to restore A single file might contain images of several partitions or even disks, as shown in the figure below. Select a partition to restore During a single restoration session you can restore several partitions or disks one by one by selecting one disk and setting its parameters first, and then repeating these actions for every partition or disk to be restored. Select the necessary partition and click Next. Selecting a location to restore to As a rule you should restore image to the same partition that the image was created from. Restoring a disk (partition) from an image Acronis True Image Server User's Guide You can restore an image to another partition, but this is needed rather seldom. At that a partition should be of at least the same size as uncompressed image data. If you don't have a serious reason to restore an image to another partition, restore it only to partition that was used to create this image. Select partition to restore image to All the data stored on the restored partition will be replaced by the image data, so be careful and watch for non-backed up data that you might need. Selecting partition type When restoring a partition you can change its type though it's not required in most cases. To explain why you might need to do this, let's imagine that both OS, and data were stored on the same primary partition on the damaged disk. You are forced to restore the partition from a backup to another hard disk with its own partitions and OS. 28 Copyright © SWsoft, 2000­2003 Acronis True Image Server User's Guide Restoring a disk (partition) from an image Select partition type If you need only the data, you don't have to create another primary partition. In this case, you can restore the partition as logical to access the data only. But if you are to restore a system partition, you should select the Primary type for it. Finally, if you want to load operating system from it, select Active as well. Selecting Active for a partition without an installed operating system might prevent your PC from booting. Selecting a file system Though this is required rather seldom, you can change partition file system during its restoration. Restoring a disk (partition) from an image Acronis True Image Server User's Guide Select a file system Let's imagine you are to restore a partition from the old low-capacity FAT16 disk to a newer one. [. . . ] Before you clone or transfer Windows to another PC, you must prepare it with Microsoft System Preparation Tool (sysprep). The reasons to do this are 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 and Windows XP, so you should prepare these OS in a similar way. Scripting and scheduling Acronis True Image Server User's Guide You can download Microsoft System Preparation Tool from www. microsoft. com or extract from deploy. cab located on Windows XP installation CD. [. . . ]