User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE SERVER 8.0

[. . . ] User's Guide Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows 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. [. . . ] Restoring a disk (partition) from an image As mentioned above (see "Running Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows "), Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows can be run in several ways. We recommend that you restore disks using Windows, only using other methods if Windows doesn't load. a CD) from which you loaded the program does not keep you from using other CDs with images. Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows is loaded entirely into RAM, so you can remove the bootable CD to insert an image disk. To restore a partition (disk) from an image, Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows must obtain exclusive access to this partition (disk). If you receive a message stating the partition (disk) can not be blocked, close applications that use this partition (disk) and start over. If you can not determine which applications use the partition (disk), close them all. 5. 1 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 30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Restoring a disk (partition) from an image If you are to restore an image from removable media, e. g. CD, first insert the last CD and then follow instructions of the Restore Image Wizard. If you provided a comment to the image, it will help you know if you selected the right image to restore. Note that the comment can be seen without entering a password for a protected image. If an image was protected with a password, Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows will ask for it. The Next button will be disabled until you enter the correct password. If you are to restore a disk (partition) from an incremental image, Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows will suggest you to select one of successive incremental files by date/time of its creation. Thus, you can return the disk (partition) state to a certain moment, often called "a point of restore". Image Date Selection To restore data from an incremental image, you must have all previous incremental images and the initial full image. If any of successive images is missing, restoration is impossible. 5. 2 Checking image integrity before restoration Before an image is restored, Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows can check its integrity. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 31 Restoring a disk (partition) from an image To do this, flag Yes, I want to verify the image archive on the Verify Archive Before the Restoring page of the image restoration wizard. Checking image integrity before restoration This is disabled by default in Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows. 5. 3 Selecting a partition to restore A single file might contain images of several partitions or even disks, as shown in the figure below. 32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Restoring a disk (partition) from an image Select a partition to restore During a single 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. 5. 4 Selecting a location to restore to As a rule you should restore image to the same partition that the image was created from. 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 special reason to restore an image to another partition, restore it only to partition that was used to create the 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. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 33 Restoring a disk (partition) from an image 5. 5 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. Select partition type If you need only the data, you don't have to create another primary partition. [. . . ] 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. You can download Microsoft System Preparation Tool from www. microsoft. com or extract from deploy. cab located on Windows XP installation CD. [. . . ]