User`s guide

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction ......................................................................................7
1.1 Acronis® True Image Echo Server – a complete solution for corporate users..........................7
1.2 Acronis True Image Echo Server key features......................................................................8
1.3 New in Acronis True Image Echo Server..............................................................................9
1.4 Supported file systems and storage media.........................................................................10
1.4.1 Supported file systems ..............................................................................................10
1.4.2 Supported storage media...........................................................................................10
1.5 Technical support............................................................................................................10
Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Echo Server installation and startup ..............11
2.1 System requirements.......................................................................................................11
2.1.1 Minimum hardware requirements ...............................................................................11
2.1.2 Supported operating systems.....................................................................................11
2.2 Installing Acronis True Image Echo Server.........................................................................11
2.3 Running Acronis True Image Echo Server..........................................................................12
2.4 Removing Acronis True Image Echo Server........................................................................12
Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ............13
3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images............................................13
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups..........................................................................13
3.3 Acronis Secure Zone
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3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager....................................................................................15
3.4.1 How it works ............................................................................................................15
3.4.2 How to use...............................................................................................................15
3.5 Working from a rescue CD ...............................................................................................15
3.6 Working from a remote terminal.......................................................................................16
3.7 Backing up software and hardware RAID arrays.................................................................16
3.8 Support for LVM volumes.................................................................................................16
3.9 Backing up to tape drive ..................................................................................................17
Chapter 4. The program interface under X Window System ............................19
4.1 The main window and available operations........................................................................19
4.1.1 The main area..........................................................................................................19
4.1.2 The menu.................................................................................................................20
4.1.3 Status bar ................................................................................................................21
4.2 Viewing disk and partition information...............................................................................21
Chapter 5. Creating backup archives ................................................................22
5.1 Backing up files and folders (file backup)...........................................................................22
5.2 Backing up disks and partitions (image backup).................................................................26
5.3 Setting backup options.....................................................................................................28
5.3.1 Archive protection.....................................................................................................28
5.3.2 Source files exclusion ................................................................................................29
5.3.3 Pre/post commands ..................................................................................................29
5.3.4 Before/after data capture commands..........................................................................29
5.3.5 Compression level.....................................................................................................30
5.3.6 Backup performance .................................................................................................30
5.3.7 Fast incremental/differential backup ...........................................................................31
5.3.8 Archive splitting........................................................................................................31
5.3.9 Media components....................................................................................................32
5.3.10 Error handling.........................................................................................................32
5.3.11 Additional settings...................................................................................................33
Chapter 6. Restoring the backup data under X Window system ......................34
6.1 Considerations before recovery.........................................................................................34
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