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Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction...........................................................................................

1.1 Acronis® True Image Server – a complete solution for corporate users.................................7

1.2 New in Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Windows.............................................................8

1.3 System requirements and supported media.........................................................................9

1.3.1 Minimum system requirements ....................................................................................9

1.3.2 Supported operating systems.......................................................................................9

1.3.3 Supported file systems.............................................................................................. 10

1.3.4 Supported storage media .......................................................................................... 10

1.4 Technical support............................................................................................................ 10

Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Server installation and starting ..........................12

2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Server ................................................................................ 12

2.1.1 Acronis Universal Restore installation.......................................................................... 13

2.2 Extracting Acronis True Image Server ............................................................................... 13

2.3 Running Acronis True Image Server.................................................................................. 13

2.4 Removing Acronis True Image Server ............................................................................... 13

Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ................14

3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ........................................... 14

3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups..........................................................................14

3.3 Acronis Secure Zone........................................................................................................ 15

3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ................................................................................... 16

3.4.1 How it works............................................................................................................ 16

3.4.2 How to use .............................................................................................................. 16

3.5 Acronis Snap Restore....................................................................................................... 16

3.5.1 Limitations in using Acronis Snap Restore ................................................................... 16

3.5.2 How it works............................................................................................................ 17

3.5.3 How to use .............................................................................................................. 17

3.6 Acronis Universal Restore.................................................................................................17

3.6.1 Acronis Universal Restore purpose.............................................................................. 17

3.6.2 Acronis Universal Restore general principles................................................................ 18

3.6.3 Acronis Universal Restore and Microsoft Sysprep ......................................................... 18

3.6.4 Using Acronis Universal Restore in virtual environment ................................................ 19

3.6.5 Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore ............................................................. 19

3.6.6 Getting Acronis Universal Restore............................................................................... 19

3.7 Using dynamic disks and volumes..................................................................................... 19

3.8 Backing up to tape drive..................................................................................................20

3.9 Viewing disk and partition information .............................................................................. 20

Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Server ........................................................22

4.1 Main program window..................................................................................................... 22

4.2 Available operations ........................................................................................................ 24

Chapter 5. Creating backup archives ....................................................................26

5.1 Backing up files and folders (file backup) .......................................................................... 26

5.2 Backing up disks and partitions (image backup)................................................................. 30

5.3 Setting backup options ....................................................................................................32

5.3.1 Archive protection..................................................................................................... 33

5.3.2 Source files exclusion................................................................................................ 33

5.3.3 Pre/post commands .................................................................................................. 33

5.3.4 Database support ..................................................................................................... 34

5.3.5 Compression level..................................................................................................... 35

5.3.6 Backup performance................................................................................................. 35

5.3.7 Fast incremental/differential backup........................................................................... 36

5.3.8 Archive splitting........................................................................................................ 36