User Guide

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction...........................................................................................8
1.1 Acronis True Image Enterprise Server – a complete solution for corporate users.....................8
1.2 Acronis True Image Enterprise Server Architecture...............................................................9
1.3 License policy ................................................................................................................. 10
1.4 New in Acronis True Image 9.1 Enterprise Server ..............................................................10
1.5 System requirements and supported media.......................................................................11
1.5.1 Minimum system requirements ..................................................................................11
1.5.2 Suppor ed opera ing systems..................................................................................... 11 t t
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1.5.3 Suppor ed file systems.............................................................................................. 12
1.5.4 Suppor ed storage media .......................................................................................... 13
1.6 Technical support............................................................................................................ 13
Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Enterprise Server installation and starting.........14
2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Enterprise Server components.............................................. 14
2.1.1 Installation of Acronis True Image Enterprise Server local version and Acronis True Image
Agent for Windows.............................................................................................................14
2.1.2 Installation of Acronis True Image Agent for Linux....................................................... 15
2.1.3 Installation of Acronis Group Server ........................................................................... 15
2.1.4 Acronis Backup Server installation and setup...............................................................15
2.1.5 Acronis Universal Restore installa ion..........................................................................16
2.2 Extracting Acronis True Image Enterprise Server components............................................. 16
2.3 Setting up security parameters for Acronis True Image Enterprise Server............................. 16
2.3.1 Usernames and passwords ........................................................................................16
2.3.2 Firewall setup...........................................................................................................17
2.4 Running Acronis True Image Enterprise Server components................................................17
2.4.1 Running Acronis True Image En erprise Server (local version) ...................................... 17
2.4.2 Running Acronis True Image Management Console......................................................17
2.4.3 Running other Acronis components ............................................................................18
2.5 Removing Acronis True Image Enterprise Server components............................................. 18
Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ................19
3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ...........................................19
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups..........................................................................19
3.3 Acronis Secure Zone........................................................................................................20
3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...................................................................................21
3.4.1 How it works............................................................................................................21
3.4.2 How o use ..............................................................................................................21
3.5 Acronis Backup Server.....................................................................................................21
3.5.1 Backup locations their quotas and time limits.............................................................22
3.5.2 Quotas and time limits for computers and users..........................................................22
3.5.3 Administrator profiles and User profiles.......................................................................22
3.5.4 Operations with archives...........................................................................................23
3.6 Acronis Snap Restore.......................................................................................................23
3.6.1 How it works............................................................................................................23
3.6.2 How o use ..............................................................................................................24
3.7 Acronis Universal Restore.................................................................................................24
3.7.1 Acronis Universal Restore purpose..............................................................................24
3.7.2 Acronis Universal Restore general principles................................................................ 25
3.7.3 Acronis Universal Restore and Mic osoft Sysprep .........................................................25
3.7.4 Using Acronis Universal Res ore in virtual environment ................................................25
3.7.5 Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore............................................................. 26
3.7.6 Ge ing Acronis Universal Restore...............................................................................26
3.8 Using dynamic disks and volumes..................................................................................... 26
3.9 Backing up to tape drive..................................................................................................27
3.10 Viewing disk and partition information.............................................................................27
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