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1. filerestore Restores files and folders from a file archive filename file name password password asz index N net_user username net_password password ftp_user ftp_password reboot log file name log_net_user remote user log_net_password password target_folder target folder overwrite older never always restore_security on off original_date on off verify Verifies the archive data integrity filename file name password password net_user username net_password password ftp_user ftp_password creboot log file name log_net_user remote user log_net_password password asz pit_info filename file name aah password password asz Displays the net_user username numbered list of net_password password backups contained ftp_user ftp_password in the specified archive consolidate filename file name target_filename file name Creates a consistent copy of the archive password password net_user username net_password password include_pits pits numbers which will contain ftp_user ftp_password only the specified reboot log file name back log_net_user remote user acKups log_net_password password 136 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 convert Converts an image to virtual disk format for using with a
2. Please specify the size and location You can change it with the mouse in the graphical view or enter the exact values in the text boxes 2 E 2 084 GB FATS2 Minimum partition size 39 19 MB Maximum partition size 3 999 GB Free space before 1 034 GB 2i Partition size 2 084 GB Free space after 902 1 MB a These changes might be useful if you are to copy your hard disk to a new high capacity one by creating its image and restoring it to a new disk with larger partitions 86 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 7 3 9 Assigning a letter to the restored partition Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will assign an unused letter to a restored partition You can select the desired letter from a drop down list If you set the switch to No no letters will be assigned to the restored partition hiding it from OS You should not assign letters to partitions inaccessible to Windows such as to those other than FAT and NTFS 7 3 10 Restoring several disks or partitions at once 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 If you want to restore another disk partition select Yes I want to restore another partition or hard disk drive Then you will return to the partition selection window 7 3 4 again and will have to repeat th
3. Restore Data Wizard Contents Selection MG Documents and Settings 2M ivan MG Desktop MG my Documents 6 Select the options for the restoration process that is pre post restoration commands restoration process priority file level security settings etc You may Use default options or Set the options manually f you set options manually the settings will be applied only to the current restore task Alternatively you can edit the default options from the current screen Then your settings will be saved as default See 74 Setting restore options for more information 80 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 7 Set filters for the specific types of files that are not to be restored For example you may want hidden and system files and folders as well as files with tmp and bak extensions not to be restored from the archive You can also apply custom filters using the common Windows masking rules For example to exclude all files with extension exe add exe My exe will reject all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my All of these settings will take effect for the current task How to set the default filters that will be called each time you restore data see 7 4 1 Files to exclude from restoration 8 The next selection allows you to keep useful data changes made since the selected backup was created Choose what to do if the program finds in the target folder a fi
4. Select the destination new hard disk From the list of available drives then press Next Capacity Model Interface 4 000 GB Mware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE O Primary Maste 5 virtual IDE H 0000 IDECO Pri Disk 3 6 000 GB YMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Secondary Slave Dynamic Disk 7 997 GB T Primary JE Logical TE unallocated py a IE Unsupported The previously selected source becomes grayed out and disabled for selection If either disk is unpartitioned the program will automatically recognize it as the destination and bypass this step 126 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 14 3 4 Partitioned destination disk At this point the program checks to see if the destination disk is free If not you will be prompted by the Nonempty Destination Hard Disk window stating that the destination disk contains partitions perhaps with data Nonempty Destination Dynamic Disk ROP You have chosen a destination dynamic disk that already contains some partitions The destination drive you have chosen contains some partitions that might have useful data The operation is possible only if the destination hard disk is empty In order to proceed with the operation you should either allow Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server to delete all the partitions on the destination hard disk or click Back and choose another destination hard disk O Delete partitions on the destination hard disk Description
5. xX xH OAO we Tuesday January 09 2007 12 4 i Tuesday January 09 2007 12 5 Eh Thursday November 08 2007 8 A Thursday November 08 2007 9 ih Thursday November 08 2007 9 td Thursday November 08 2007 9 Type Module Error Code Date Thursday November 08 2007 9 51 24 PM 1 G Information 100 2 warning 100 3 GInformation 1 2 0x640002 11 Ox640008 11 8 20 506 Ox101FA 11 8 20 11 8 20 4 Information 1 5 GDInformation 100 1 008 0x103F0 11 8 20 6 Ox640006 11 8 20 A Create Bootable Rescue Media Help Contents How to use logs lt i gt LJ Thursday November 08 2007 9 51 11 PM Details 1 GD Information The Current backup operation operation started Eal No operation started The left panel can contain up to 50 logs If there are more you can browse the list using the More and Less buttons with the left and right arrows To delete a log select it and click Delete If any step was terminated by an error the corresponding log will be marked with a red circle with a white X inside The right window features the list of steps contained in the selected log The three buttons to the right control message filters the white X in the red circle filters error messages the exclamation sign in a yellow triangle filters warnings and the i in the blue circle filters information messages To select co
6. If you are going to create an incremental backup see 3 2 Full incremental and differential backup select the latest full or incremental backup you have In fact if all incremental backup files are stored together with the basic full backup it doesn t matter which one you select as the program will recognize them as a single archive If you stored the files on several removable disks you must provide the latest archive file otherwise restoration problems might occur If you are going to create a differential backup select the full backup which will be a base or any of the existing differential backups Either way the program will create a new differential backup The farther you store the archive from the original partition the safer it will be in case of data damage For example saving the archive to another hard disk will protect your data if your primary disk is damaged Data saved to a network disk ftp server or removable media will survive even if all your local hard disks are down You can also use Acronis Secure Zone see details in 3 3 Acronis Secure Zone or Acronis Backup Server see details in 3 5 Acronis Backup Server for storing backups In those cases you need not provide the file name When backing up to Acronis Secure Zone you have an option of dual destination backup If enabled the program will automatically place a copy of your backup archives on a local drive or network share See details in 6 3 12
7. i Add User Profile Wizard User Settings Please select either to use del lt Back J net gt J cancel User or administrator 9 Define which users will be allowed to back up data on the backup server Add the users as follows Add the person s local or domain account to the AcronisBackupServerUsers group on the backup server Click Set up User profiles gt Add Choose the user name Choose Use default settings Click Proceed 10 Define the computers which administrators will back up using Acronis True Image Agents Add the computers as follows Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 21 Click Set up Administrator profiles gt Add Choose the computer or enter its name Choose Use default settings Click Proceed 2 01 x 7 Connect view Tools Help Remote Management A New Connection W Disconnect H Reconnect Tools Y Install Acronis Components ecomp energy estrella green globra kader lef london md 8 5 newcomp newbie ps server savage butchery saystorage K sir_fastus Computer 8 Help lt Back Next gt Cancel Adding a computer to the administrator profile 11 Schedule a check for exceeding the quotas and time limits if needed according to the selected policy To do so select Acronis Backup Server Management gt Specify Default Settings gt Schedule automatic consolidation and backup management Choose Perio
8. Acronis Inc 2000 2007 You can back up data automatically on a schedule see Chapter 8 Scheduling tasks and not worry about zone overflow issues However if you keep long chains of incremental backups it is a good practice to check the zone free space periodically To do so start the Manage Acronis Secure Zone wizard and see the zone free space that is displayed on the wizard s second page For information on how to create resize or delete Acronis Secure Zone using this wizard see Chapter 9 Managing the Acronis Secure Zone In case you remove Acronis True Image Agent or Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version from the system there is an option to keep Acronis Secure Zone along with its contents which will enable data recovery on booting from bootable media or remove Acronis Secure Zone The Acronis Secure Zone should not be the only location where a backup is stored Should the disk have a physical failure the Acronis Secure Zone could be lost This is particularly critical for backups of servers the Acronis Secure Zone should only be one part of an overall backup strategy 3 4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager 3 4 1 How it works The Acronis Startup Recovery Manager enables starting Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server on a local computer without loading the operating system If the operating system won t load you can run Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server by itself to restore damaged pa
9. H H Notifications 4 SNMP notifications Sq Event tracing g Windows event log Select whether to send event log messages issued by ae Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server to computers 2 SNMP notifications running SNMP management programs gt B Default backup options Sh Default restoration options Do not send messages to SNMP server Send messages to SNMP server Choose types of events to send a Server name or its IP Community public Send test message Description Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server sends all types of events to all available SNMP servers Sending SNMP messages is disabled by default To set up sending messages select Send messages to SNMP server and specify e types of events to be reported All events Warnings and Errors or Errors only e name or IP address of the host running the SNMP management application to which notifications will be sent e name of SNMP community to which both the host running SNMP management application and the computers executing the task belong 12 5 Managing System Restore Microsoft Windows System Restore tool available in Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems is used to undo harmful changes to the system without losing recently changed or created user data To run the System Restore tool or find out more about it select Start gt Programs gt Accessories gt System Tools gt System Restore If y
10. Oje If the archive is located on removable media e g CD first insert the last CD and then insert disks in reverse order when Restore Data Wizard prompts Data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the archive to be split into files no more than 2GB in size If you suspect that some of the files may be larger first copy the entire archive along with the initial full backup to a local hard disk or network share disk See notes and recommendations for supporting FTP server in 1 4 2 Supported storage media If you added a comment to the archive it will be displayed to the right of the drives tree If the archive was protected with a password Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will ask for it The partitions layout the comment and the Next button will be unavailable until you enter the correct password 2 If the selected archive contains incremental backups Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will suggest that you select one of successive incremental backups by its creation date time Thus you can return the disk data to a certain moment To restore data from an incremental backup you must have all previous incremental backups and the initial full backup If any of successive backups is missing restoration is not possible To restore data from a differential backup you must have the initial full backup as well 82 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 7 3 3 Restoration type selection Selec
11. Some of these options might be disabled depending on the operating system 5 Specify the task start time and other schedule parameters according to the selected periodicity see 8 1 1 8 1 5 6 Next you will have to specify the name of the user who owns the executed task otherwise no scheduled execution will be available Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 95 Schedule Task Wizard User Information Select the user name and password Enter the name and password of a user The task will run as if it was started by that user Please note that the domain name must be specified if the user is a member of a domain Enter the user name administrator Enter the password 000000 Confirm password e000oo If a password is not entered the scheduled tasks might not run In the upper field enter a user name Enter a password twice in two fields below OQ Help 7 At the final step the task configuration is displayed Up to this point you can click Back to make changes in the created task If you click Cancel all settings will be lost Click Finish to save the task 8 The task schedule and default name appear in the Scheduled Tasks window You can rename the task if need be 8 1 1 Setting up daily execution If you select daily execution set the Start time and days on which you want to execute the task e Every day e Weekdays e Every x days once in several day
12. User s Guide Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server 4 Acronis Compute with confidence Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 All rights reserved Acronis and Acronis Secure Zone are registered trademarks of Acronis Inc Acronis Compute with Confidence Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Acronis Snap Restore and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis Inc 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 Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder Distribution of this work or derivative work in any standard paper book form for commercial purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED AS IS AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH DISCLAIMERS ARE HELD TO BE LEGALLY INVALID 2 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT BY ACCEPTING YOU ORIGINAL PURCHASER INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO ACCEPT THE PRODUCT UNDER THESE TERMS
13. s backup location within the same device you must have at least as much free space on the device as the user s archives occupy because the archives will first be copied to the new location and then deleted from the old place If you select a user profile and click Clear all archives created by this user will be deleted However this operation will not work for the administrators profiles If you select a user profile and click Delete this will disable backup to the backup server for this user and his existing archives will be deleted This operation might also be time consuming so you can schedule it for the off peak period Deleting an administrator profile will not result in deleting any archives The person whose profile is deleted just loses the right to back up to the backup server and to manage the backup server There must be at least one administrator on a backup server Therefore deleting the last administrator profile is not possible The maximum number of administrators is not limited 4 5 5 Configuring Backup Locations To display a full list of backup locations click Configure Backup Locations 52 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 W Acronis True Image Management Console writers oj xj J Connect View Tools Help Remote Management Sd New Connection X Disconnect H Reconnect a Create Bootable Rescue Media fe Ci Backups Backups 0 bytes Unlimited Unlimited Y Install Acronis C
14. 2000 2007 Chapter 11 Operations with archives 11 1 Validating backup archives You can check the integrity of an archive to be certain that the archive is not damaged Here s how to run a one time validation task For how to schedule regular archive validation see 8 1 Creating scheduled tasks 1 To start the Backup Archive Validation Wizard select Validate Backup Archive in the main window or in the Tools group or click Validate Backup Archive on the toolbar 2 Select the archive to validate If the archive is located in Acronis Secure Zone select it to choose the archive at the next step Backup Archive Yalidation Wizard Backup Archive Select Select backup archive you want to verify Desktop a ssa MyBackup F Acronis Backup Servers a ti Backup archive name MyBackup tib 4 FTP Connections Backup archive type image w B My Documents The selected backup sequence number 1 My Computer EB 31 Floppy A No description is available for this backup archive S Local Disk C Date Tuesday January 09 2007 12 52 26 PM 8 3 DVD CD RW Drive D Size 2 709 GB Se Local Disk G co Backup amp je ny ts MyBackup2 4 000 GB 13 991 GB NTFS S MyFileBackup 3 MyFileBackup2 B Shared Documents ge Ie Eile name F MyBackup tib lt Files of type Backup Archives tib 3 Click Proceed to launch the validation procedure After the v
15. SO Documents and Setting SO Inetpub v Ji gt File name C Backups MyBackupS tib het Files of type Backup Archives tib v O tee An archive MyBackup consisting of one full MyBackup and four incremental backups MyBackup2 5 is selected 3 The program displays a list of backups belonging to the selected archive with the backups creation date and time The list is similar to that in the restore wizard The upper backup is the full backup the rest are incremental backups Select the backups you want to keep Editing images mounted in R W mode results in creating incremental backups that are a kind of offshoots of the incremental chain Therefore they cannot be consolidated and always will be excluded from the archive copy 112 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Backup Consolidation Wizard Backup Date Selection Select backups you want to consolidate into the backup archive being created Backup Date sua MyBackup tib C Monday July 16 2007 2 51 01 PM Created Tuesday July 17 2007 6 54 40 PM C Tuesday July 17 2007 5 02 06 PM Type Incremental M Tuesday July 17 2007 5 35 09 PM No description is available For this backup C Tuesday July 17 2007 6 54 18 PM archive iv Tuesday July 17 2007 6 54 40 PM Oe The clone archive will consist of MyBackup3 and MyBackup5 however their numbers will be zero no number and 2 MyBackup3 will change into a full bac
16. YOU CAN CHOOSE NOT TO ACCEPT BY SELECTING I decline AND NOT INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server the Software is Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 All rights are reserved The ORIGINAL PURCHASER is granted a LICENSE to use the software only subject to the following restrictions and limitations 1 The license is to the original purchaser only and is not transferable without prior written permission from Acronis 2 The original purchaser can use the software on a single computer You cannot use the software on more than a single machine even if you own or lease all of them without the written consent of Acronis 3 The original purchaser cannot engage in nor permit third parties to engage in any of the following A Providing or permitting use of by or transferring the software to third parties B Providing use of the software in a computer service business network timesharing or multiple user arrangement to users who are not individually licensed by Acronis C Making alterations or copies of any kind in the software except as specifically permitted above D Attempting to unassemble decompile or reverse engineer the software in any way E Granting sublicenses leases or other rights in the software to others F Making copies or verbal or media translations of the users guide G Making telecommunication data transmission of the software Acronis has the right to terminate
17. exe will exclude all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my 68 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 This option is effective for file folders backup only When creating a disk partition image you cannot filter out any files 6 3 3 Pre post commands You can specify commands or batch files to be automatically executed before and after the backup procedure For example you may want to remove some tmp files from the disk before starting backup or configure a third party antivirus product to be started each time before the backup starts Click Edit to open the Edit Command window where you can easily input the command its arguments and working directory or browse folders to find a batch file The program does not support interactive commands i e commands that require user input for example pause The backup process will run concurrently with your commands if you uncheck the Do not perform operations until the commands execution is complete box which is checked by default 6 3 4 Database support Database servers such as MS SQL Server and MS Exchange can be problematic to backup partially due to open files and indexes and partially due to rapid data changes Therefore it is usually recommended that the database be suspended just before the backup data capture You can suspend the database and clear all caches to ensure that all transactions are completed at the moment of data cap
18. it will be overwritten Including date in the backup file name will add to the name the time and date of the backup creation formatted as lt DD Month YYYY HH MM SS gt Example C MyBackup date tib If you are going to create an incremental backup see 3 2 Full incremental and differential backup select the latest full or incremental backup you have In fact if all incremental backup files are stored together with the basic full backup it doesn t matter which one you select as the program will recognize them as a single archive If you stored the files on several removable disks you must provide the latest archive file otherwise restoration problems might occur If you are going to create a differential backup select the full backup which will be a base or any of the existing differential backups Either way the program will create a new differential backup 62 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Create Backup Wizard Backup Archive Location anges that took place since the ull backup X Delete FF Create new folder lt Local Disk F E Desktop Local Disk Acronis Secure Zone Sa Acronis Backup Servers Free Space 3 277 GB Total Size 5 986 GB FTP Connections E B My Documents E y My Computer EA 3 Floppy A Hs Local Disk C 2 DVD CD RW Drive D Hs Local Disk E Local Disk F MyBackup S v File name F MyFileBack
19. up your current project daily and back up the application disk once a week FB Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server 4 loj x Operations View Tools Help 2 acronis Pick a Category EA Backup and Recovery B Backup Archives lt Hard Disk Management Tools No items to display s p Manage Acronis Secure Zone S Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager A Create Bootable Rescue Media 2 Show Log Help ae Contents How to edit a scheduled task How to rename a scheduled task How to delete a scheduled task 2 No operation started All the scheduled tasks appear in the Scheduled Tasks window where you can start stop edit delete and rename them To navigate to the Scheduled Tasks window click Tasks in the Manage Tasks group or select the Task Scheduling category on the sidebar 8 1 Creating scheduled tasks 1 To start the Schedule Task Wizard click Create on the Scheduled Tasks window toolbar or select Operations gt Schedule Task from the main menu 2 Choose the Backup or Validate operation If the latter is the case choose the archive in the next window and you will be taken straight to step 4 3 If backup is your choice configure a backup task in the usual way see Chapter 6 Creating backup archives f you choose to create the backup archive on a network drive enter a user name and a password for the drive access 4 Set the task execution periodicity 94 C
20. virtual machine filename file name password password asz index N net_user username net_password password ftp_user ftp_password log file name log_net_user remote user log_net_password password target_filename fil hnarddisk disk number vm_type vmware esx microsoft par allels name Jur ur_path path list Lists available drives and partitions With the filename option lists the image contents password password index N asz net_user username net_password password ftp_user ftp_password filename file name explore Connects an image as a virtual drive filename file name password password asz index N net_user username net_password password ftp_user ftp_password log file name log_net_user remote user log_net_password password for a split image the name of the last created file partition partition number letter X unplug Disconnects the image connected as a virtual drive letter X letter all asz_create Creates the Acronis Secure Zone on the selected drive oss_numbers reboot log file name log_net_user remote user log_net_password password narddisk X partition partition number size ASZ size in sectors unallocated asz_activate asz_activate Activates the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
21. Acronis Backup Server 1 1 594 English C Documents and Settings Administrato Acronis True Image Agent 9 5 6046 English C Documents and Settings Administrato s True Image Enter 6 English ume SIA to gt ja C e gt 4 Select computers on which the Acronis component is to be installed This can be done by browsing the network When browsing the network you can select entire workgroups or domains typing the computers names or addresses click Next then add computers to the list importing the computers list from txt or csv files Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 37 Remote Install Wizard Computer Selection Choose a method you will use for computer selection 5 C Enter computer names or addresses manually J Specify a file with a list of computers Description Select this item if you want to browse your network and to choose computers to which to install components O ev 5 Provide administrator username and password for each computer If there is a universal administrator account on the network enter the account credentials for one computer and set the option to apply it to all computers that you select Domain administrator credentials and universal credentials for workgroups can be applied in this way Remote Install Wizard Specify Computers Provide the name of a computer and
22. Edit Computer Profile Wizard will guide you through the same selections as the Add Computer Profile Wizard Changing the computer backup location will move all existing and redirect future backups of this computer to another folder device etc As moving files may take a lot of time and system resources it is recommended that you schedule this operation for the time when the backup server computing load will be minimal You can do this in the Start Parameters window To complete configuring the profile click Finish in the final summary window 50 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 To change a computer backup location within the same device you must have at least as much free space on the device as the computer archives occupy because the archives will first be copied to the new location and then deleted from the old folder If you select a computer and click Clear all archives of this computer data will be deleted Deleting a computer profile will disable backup to backup server for this computer and delete its existing archives This operation can be time consuming so schedule it for the off peak period 4 5 3 Adding Users and Administrators to the Acronis Backup Server database Acronis Backup Server creates a user group named AcronisBackupServerUsers see Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Computer Management gt Local Users and Groups on the backup server when it is installed At this point the group c
23. Ey writers Main window of Acronis True Image Management Console when connected to a remote computer Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 39 The task list content depends on the programs installed on the connected computer The most populated list will include managing Backup and Recovery Tasks using the Acronis True Image Agent Acronis Group Server Management and Acronis Backup Server Management While you are operating on a remote computer the computer could reboot or the connection to the computer could be broken for other reasons This will result in operations failure such as hiding of the remote computer file system in wizards or operation may hang Use Reconnect on the sidebar to test whether the computer is available again or eliminate any malfunction that persists When the console is disconnected Reconnect provides a handy one click connection to the most recently accessed machine 4 3 2 Backup and recovery tasks After clicking on Backup and Recovery Tasks the program window will appear like the graphic below Acronis True Image Management Console writers T Connect view Tools Help Remote Management x Pick a Task for the Remote Computer 2 New Connection Managing backup archives and schi asks on a remote computer W Disconnect H Reconnect Pick a Category Backup Back up your files folders or the entire hard disk Tools a er A Create Bootable Rescue Media 4 Install Acronis Compone
24. Inc 2000 2007 17 a Install Acronis True Image w 5 y N _ Management Console 4 O F ji EE Install Acronis True Image Agent l for Windows Install Acronis Backup Server l Acronis E mm s Install Acronis Group Server True Image i Echo Enterprise oP Extract Acronis True Image Agent for Linux Server s 4 ol a www acronis com i Install Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server f Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server Install Window It is recommended that you install Acronis True Image Management Console first After that you will be able to install most of other components remotely to any networked computer 2 3 1 Installation of Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version and Acronis True Image Agent for Windows For Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server and Acronis True Image Agent for Windows Typical Custom and Complete installation is available Having pressed Custom you can choose to install besides the main component Rescue Media Builder and Bart PE plug in for Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server or Acronis Secure Zone manager for Acronis True Image Agent With Rescue Media Builder you can create bootable rescue disks or RIS packages see details in Chapter 10 Creating bootable media nstalling the Bootable Rescue Media Builder will allow you to create bootable media its ISO image or a bootable RIS package at any time from the main
25. Keep the destination hard disk partitions and data You should choose another destination hard disk cet JLo You will have to select between e Delete partitions on the destination hard disk all existing partitions will be deleted during cloning and all their data will be lost e No I do not want to delete partitions no existing partition will be deleted discontinuing the cloning operation You will only be able to cancel this operation and return to select another disk To continue select the first choice and click Next Note that no real changes or data destruction will be performed at this time For now the program will just map out cloning All changes will be implemented only when you click Proceed 14 3 5 Old and new disk partition layout If you selected the automatic mode before the program will ask you for nothing further You will see the window graphically illustrating information as rectangles about the source disk partitions and unallocated space and the destination disk layout Along with the disk number some additional information is provided disk capacity label partition and file system information Partition types primary logical and unallocated space are marked with different colors Next you will see the cloning summary 14 3 6 Old disk data If you selected the manual mode the program will ask you what to do with the old disk e Create a new partition layout All ex
26. Server under Windows because this method provides more functionality Boot from the bootable media or use the Startup Recovery Manager see 3 4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager only if Windows does not load The boot CD from which you loaded the program does not keep you from using other CDs with backups Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server is loaded entirely into RAM so you can remove the bootable CD to insert the archive disk Be careful Disk letters in standalone Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server might sometimes differ from the way Windows identifies drives For example the D drive identified in the standalone Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server might correspond to the E drive in Windows If a backup image is located on bootable media you might have a choice of using Acronis A One Click Restore This operation always restores the entire physical disk Therefore if your disk consists of several partitions the partitions that are missing from the image will be lost Please make sure that the image contains all disk partitions or you do not need the partitions that are not imaged before using Acronis One Click Restore For more information on Acronis One Click Restore see 6 3 10 Media components 7 1 2 Network settings in rescue mode When booted from removable media RIS server or by Startup Recovery Manager Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server may not detect the network This can occur if there is no DHCP
27. System Restore Create Bootable Rescue Media 3 Help Ssss Analyzing partition Fi 2 No operation started By default the program displays operations included in the Backup and Recovery category Operation icons are divided into three groups The Task group contains the following operations e Backup create a backup archive e Recovery restore data from a previously created archive The Manage Tasks group contains the following operations e Tasks schedule backup or archive validation tasks on your computer and manage them e Logs open the Log Viewer window The Tools group contains the following items 56 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 e Explore and Validate Backup Archives explore file level archives mount disk partition images as virtual drives run the archive integrity checking procedure e Manage Hard Disks clone disk i e transfer the OS applications and data from the old disk to the new one or mark out partitions on a new hard disk added for data storage with the OS and applications kept on the old one convert basic disks to dynamic and create dynamic volumes e Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager activate the boot restoration manager F11 key e Manage System Restore turn on off Microsoft Windows System Restore tool and set its options directly from Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server e Create Bootable Rescue Media run the bootable media creation procedure P
28. The product also supports the creation of custom commands before and after backups For example users can automatically run anti virus products before an image is created and verify the validity of backups after the image has been created And because these tasks can be scheduled you need not recreate the script to run the pre and post event tasks each time you can set the scheduled events once and they will run each time automatically Ensures 24 X 7 Uptime With Acronis patented drive snapshot technology systems can be imaged while they are in use ensuring 24 by 7 system availability This technology enables the product to backup and image critical operating system files the master boot record and any partition based boot records without requiring a reboot A CPU allocation feature allows you to limit the amount of CPU usage for the application to maximize the CPU s 8 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 availability for mission critical applications Additionally users can control hard disk drive writing speeds and control network bandwidth used during backups allowing minimal disruption of business operations A feature that allows you to suspend database activity for several seconds is provided so that you can create a valid image of mission critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle This database suspension process supports Microsoft s Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS If
29. Tools Task Name Computers Pending Computers A Create Bootable Rescue Media Backup of all discs PRESENMACHINE Y Install Acronis Components Group Task Create Incremental Backup Archive Group Tasks Backup of all discs i All Disks New ile Acronis Secure Zone Show Log Compression Normal Operation 1 of 1 Help a Create Incremental Backup Archive F From All Disks By What is a group task Acronis Secure Zone How to create group tasks Compression Normal Read more about group tasks management Scheduled 12 00 00 AM Thursday November 08 2007 EH writers To stop or restart the task execution use the Stop or Restart toolbar items The task schedule if created remains valid For a group task that is not currently being executed on either computer the following operations are also available Run now an instant task start command The task schedule if created remains valid 46 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Check the group server will connect in turn to all computers involved in the group task and check if the child tasks are intact on the computers so that the group task can run effectively The result will be displayed When managing a group task enter the same username and password you entered when created the task 4 4 4 Acronis Group Server options Acronis Group Server regularly polls computers included in its database for their status Ready Offline and so on accor
30. True Image Echo Enterprise Server offers the following components e Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server full version Includes support of USB PC Card and SCSI interfaces along with the storage devices connected via them and therefore is highly recommended e Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server safe version Does not include USB PC Card or SCSI drivers Recommended for use in case of problems with running Full version e Acronis Bootable Agent full version 104 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 The bootable version of Acronis True Image Agent This component is designed to provide unattended restores from remote locations Ta Acronis Media Builder Rescue Media Contents Selection placed on t uter and run the E F Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server A M 3 Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server Safe version Acronis Bootable Agent a Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server Full version Version 9 5 8016 Language English Acronis Bootable Agent Full version Start automatically after 10 se Space required 69 73 MB lt Back ll Next gt f Cancel Hep To find more about components of other Acronis products see the respective user guides The Start automatically after parameter specifies the timeout interval for the boot menu If this parameter is not specified at booting a computer the program will display the boot men
31. _ Saturday _ Sunday If the computer is off when the scheduled time comes the task won t be performed but you can force the missed task to launch at the next system startup by checking a box under the Start time fields Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 97 8 1 3 Setting up monthly execution If you select monthly execution set the Start time and days on which to execute the task e Day on the specified date e The lt specify a day gt on the specified day e g on second Tuesday or fourth Friday select this from the drop down lists Schedule Task Wizard 2 xl Monthly Execution of Task Set parameters of monthly task running Select the time and day you want this task to start Start time 9 hours 45 minutes PM J If the computer is turned off run the missed tasks when it will be started Start time Opay 1 lt The First IE If the computer is off when the scheduled time comes the task won t be performed but you can force the missed task to launch at the next system startup by checking a box under the Start time fields Hep 8 1 4 Setting up one time execution If you select the one time execution set the Start time and date on which to execute the task Schedule Task Wizard i One Time Parameters ect parameters for one time Select the time and date you want this task to start Start time 3 hours 25 E
32. are adjusted for the MBR partition table rather than just as ascending numbers This means that primary partitions have numbers 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 4 logical partitions numbers start with 1 5 For example if the disk has one primary and two logical partitions their numbers can appear as follows partition 1 1 1 2 1 3 Or oss_numbers partition 1 1 1 5 1 6 reboot Reboot the server after the operation is Any completed log file name Create a log file of the current operation Any with the specified file name log_net_user remote user If the log file is created on a network Any share include the user name for logon to the share log_net_password password If the log file is created on a network Any share include the password for logon to the share 16 1 3 Specific options commands options specific for individual trueimagecmd Option Description create harddisk disk number Specifies the hard disks to include into the image file The list of available hard disks is provided by the 1ist command An image may contain data of more than one hard disk In that case separate disk numbers by commas e g hnarddisk 1 3 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 139 partition partition number By specifying narddisk DYN you will back up all dynamic volumes present in the system Specifies the partitions to include int
33. come up and you will have an option to enable Acronis Universal Restore later in the Restore Data Wizard 2 When restoring an entire disk the program will analyze the target disk structure to see if the disk is free 84 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Restore Data Wizard Restored Hard Disk Drive Location You should select a hard disk drive for the restore Please select a destination hard disk drive to restore the hard disk drive image The hard disk drives already restored are disabled The destination hard disk drives without enough space for restoring an image are disabled as well Drive Capacity Model Interface z Disk 1 4 000 GB YMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Primary Master to 2 8 Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE O Primary Slave 6 000 GB YMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Secondary Slave Se Disk 3 ACRONIS SZ 3 999 GB FAT32 E 3 999 GB FAT32 Primary Logical TE Unallocated fg rea I Unsupported olume If there are partitions on the target disk you will be prompted by the Nonempty Destination Hard Disk Drive window stating that the destination disk contains partitions perhaps with data Help You will have to select between e Yes I want to delete all the partitions on the destination hard disk before restoring all existing partitions will be deleted and all their data will be lost e No I do not want to delete partitions no existing part
34. copy contents and if some backups are missing from the copy they will be copied to the external location along with the new backup In addition to enhancing the archive security provided with replication this feature allows traveling users to keep a consistent copy of the laptop data both on the laptop and the corporate server When the network is not available the program will back up data to Acronis Secure Zone alone When connected again all changes made to the archive will be transferred to the copy during the first backup operation The feature provides quick backup to the internal drive as an intermediate step before saving the ready backup on the network on stationary servers This comes in handy in cases of slow or busy networks and time consuming backup procedures Disconnection during the copy transfer will not affect the backup procedure as opposed to backing up directly to the remote location Even if a password is set for the Acronis Secure Zone the copy archive will not be protected with the password 6 3 13 Wake On LAN This option is available only for tasks created by the Acronis Group Server The preset is Enable Wake On LAN With this setting Acronis Group Server will send a magic packet to the remote computer network interface card NIC before starting backup A magic packet is a packet that contains 16 contiguous copies of the receiving NIC s Ethernet address This will power on the computer for running the back
35. disk when data moving is completed Suitable for most users We recommend using automatic mode in most cases The manual mode can be useful if you need to change the disk partition layout If the program finds two disks one partitioned and another unpartitioned it will automatically recognize the source disk as the partitioned disk and the destination disk as the unpartitioned disk so the next two steps will be bypassed 14 3 2 Selecting source disk If the program finds several partitioned disks it will ask you which is the source i e the older data disk Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 125 Disk Clone wizara Source Hard Disk Select your old hard disk from the list below Select the source old hard disk from the list of available drives then press Next Interface 4 000 GB are Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE O Primary Master S Disk 3 6 000 GB VMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Secondary Slave w Ic 4 000 Gp 3 991 GB NTFS Ts Primary JE Logical TH Unallocated j ie IE Unsupported OJo You can determine the source and destination using the information provided in this window disk number capacity label partition and file system information 14 3 3 Selecting destination disk After you select the source disk select the destination where the disk information will be copied Disk Clone wizara Destination Hard Disk Select your new hard disk from the list below
36. every server With Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server the IT manager would configure a single server then create a disk image of the system That image can then be duplicated onto multiple servers If you need to upgrade the server hard disk drive Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server simplifies the task to few mouse clicks creating the exact copy of your old disk to a new one and adjusting partitions size to fit a new hard disk Volumes conversion Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can back up and recover dynamic volumes Dynamic volume as is can be recovered over the same volume or unallocated space of a dynamic group Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server has necessary tools for any to any disks conversion in terms of basic disks and dynamic volumes of any type simple spanned striped mirrored or RAID 5 The tools are available in bootable program version as well Having booted the Acronis environment you can easily prepare the desired dynamic group on bare metal or a computer with non Windows operating system Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 9 1 2 Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server includes the following components 1 Acronis True Image Management Console is a tool for remote access to Acronis components Administrator uses the console to install configure and control the components from remote 2 Acronis True Image Agent is an appli
37. file For more information see 3 7 Acronis Universal Restore lq Zs Appearance H Notifications i5 Default restoration options HGy Event tracing E3 amp Default backup options You can set the options to be used by default for data restoration When configured these options are applied to the restore data wizard freeing you from configuring Ay Files to exclude from restoration the corresponding wizard s steps each time you restore Files overwriting mode ata Pre Post commands amp Restoration priority a File level security settings Additional settings Default restoration options Here you can specify a path to the driver repository on a network drive or CD where Acronis Universal Restore will search for drivers at restoring a system disk on dissimilar hardware If several paths are specified the program will scan all locations and choose the most suitable driver 90 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 7 4 7 Additional settings 1 You can choose whether to restore files date and time from the archive or assign the files the current date and time 2 Before data is restored from the archive Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can check its integrity If you suspect that the archive might have been corrupted select Validate backup archive before restoration To check archive data integrity you must have all incremental and differential backups belonging to the archive a
38. images 1 Start the Restore Data Wizard by clicking on the restore operation icon in the main program window 2 Select the archive If the archive is located in Acronis Secure Zone select it to choose the archive on the next step 78 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Restore Data Wizard Backup Archive Selection Select backup archive that contains data you want to restore E Desktop a Acronis Backup Servers FTP Connections B My Documents p My Computer E7 E 314 Floppy A HS Local Disk C 2 DVD CD RW Drive D Hs Local Disk E Bs Local Disk F S MyBackup S MyBackup2 S MyFileBackup HO Shared Documents MyFileBackup This is the file backup archive No description is available for this backup archive Date Thursday November 08 2007 8 57 02 PM Size 2 247 MB File name F MyFileBackup tib he Files of type Backup Archives tib ha If the archive is located on removable media e g CD first insert the last CD and then insert disks in reverse order when Restore Data Wizard prompts OQ Help Data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the archive to consist of files no more than 2GB in size If you suspect that some of the files may be larger first copy the entire archive along with the initial full backup to a local hard disk or network share disk See notes and recommendations for supporting FTP server in
39. is completed To view the log click the Show Operation Logs button on the toolbar If you burn an archive to multiple removable media be sure to number them since you will have to insert them in order during the restoration 6 2 Backing up disks and partitions image backup 1 Start the Create Backup Wizard by clicking on the backup operation icon in the main program window 2 Select My Computer 3 Select disks partitions or dynamic volumes to back up You can select a random set of disks partitions and dynamic volumes Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 65 Create Backup Wizard Partitions Selection You can create an image of selected partitions or an entire hard disk drive Please select the partitions or entire hard disk drives Partition Flags Capacity Used Space Type Disk 1 C Disk 2 O erat32 E Pri Act 7 997 GB 16 06 MB FAT32 LBA Disk 3 ol FAT32 F Pri Act 5 998 GB 2 721 GB FAT32 Total size 5 191 GB 4 Select the name and location of the archive Help If you are going to create a full backup type the file name in the File Name line or use the file name generator a button to the right of the line If you select an existing full backup it will be overwritten Including date in the backup file name will add to the name the time and date of the backup creation formatted as lt DD Month YYYY HH MM SS gt Example C MyBackup date tib
40. is saved on the backup server If you used your local account to install the backup server and then logged in Windows on the console computer using your domain account enter the local user name along with the backup server name for example Server1 username Otherwise the name will be identified as a domain one Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 19 Acronis True Image Management Console writers HI Connect View Tools Help 2wle os ao leoe Remote Management Pick a Task for the Remote Computer 3 B New Connection Pick a task you want to perform on the remote computer X Disconnect H Reconnect Pick a Category Tools w Backup and Recovery Tasks A Create Bootable Rescue Media es age lt up and recovery operations check backup archive file s integrity or 49 Install Acronis Components Fall Acronis Group Server Management View group status of current operations and manage group tasks z writers 4 Acronis Backup Server Management gt Specify Default Settings gt Set Backup Location gt specify path to the storage drive You can create a folder for the backup location on the storage drive To see the folder in the tree and add it to the path collapse and expand the drive 5 Click Back gt Configure Backup Locations gt make sure that the new default location is created and delete the location in Documents and Settings 6 Set limitations to disk space and storage period for the locati
41. media 1 4 1 Supported file systems e FAT16 32 e NTFS e Ext2 Ext3 e ReiserFS e Reiser4 e Linux SWAP e XFS e JFS e DFS If a file system is not supported or is corrupted Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can copy data using a sector by sector approach For XFS and JFS file systems the partition resizing feature is not supported 1 4 2 Supported storage media e Hard disk drives e Networked storage devices such as Storage Area Networks SANs and Network Attached Storage NAS e Tape libraries autoloaders SCSI tape drives e DE and SCSI RAID controllers of any level e FTP servers e CD R RW DVD R RW DVD R including double layer DVD R DVD RW DVD RAM 12 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 e USB 1 0 2 0 FireWire IEEE 1394 and PC card storage devices e ZIP Jaz and other removable media an FTP server must allow passive mode for file transfers Data recovery directly from FTP server requires the archive to consist of files no more than 2GB in size It is recommended that you change the source computer firewall settings to open ports 20 and 21 for both TCP and UDP protocols and disable the Routing and Remote Access Windows service Burned rewritable discs cannot be read in Linux without kernel patch 1 5 License policy Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server licensing is based on number of servers on which Acronis True Image Agent and or Acronis True Image Echo Enterp
42. minutes bm Fi IF the computer is turned off run the missed tasks when it will be started Start date 7al 16 S 20078 98 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 If the computer is off when the scheduled time comes the task won t be performed but you can force the missed task to launch at the next system startup by checking a box under the Start time fields 8 1 5 Setting up event driven execution Execution on increasing or decreasing free space on a disk The task will be started when the free space on the either disk selected for the backup changes by the specified value The preset is 20MB Schedule Task Wizard p 2 x Free disk space change selection Free disk space change selection Free disk space change by 20 MB 4 Description Free disk space change size description O ev 8 2 Managing scheduled tasks The task Status Schedule Last Run Time and Last Result are shown in the Scheduled Tasks window To view the other task details right click on its name There are two ways of changing the task parameters Editing allows you to change any task parameters This is performed in the same way as creation however the earlier selected options will be set so you have to enter only the changes To edit a task select it and click Edit on the toolbar If you want to change only the task start trigger time or event click Schedule on the toolbar Then you will have
43. must obtain exclusive access to the target partition disk This means no other applications can access it at that time If you receive a message stating that the partition Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 81 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 7 3 1 Starting the Restore Data Wizard Start the Restore Data Wizard by clicking on the restore operation icon in the main program window 7 3 2 Archive selection 1 Select the archive If the archive is located in Acronis Secure Zone select it to choose the archive at the next step Restore Data Wizard 2 x Backup Archive Selection Select backup archive that contains data you want to restore E Desktop amp Ee Acronis Backup Servers FTP Connections l 3 MyBackup Backup archive name MyBackup tib Backup archive type image E a My Documents The selected backup sequence number 1 4 My Computer iE a 314 Floppy 4 HS Local Disk C Date Tuesday January 09 2007 12 52 26 PM HS DVD CD RW Drive D Size 2 709 GB HS Local Disk E Local Disk F SE My Backup S MyBackup2 E MyFileBackup sd MyFileBackup2 L EM Shared Documents Eile name F MyBackup tib No description is available for this backup archive Ie I lt Files of type Backup Archives tib
44. next steps including data required for client authentication is encrypted Once Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components are installed encrypted communication between the components is enabled automatically The earlier versions of Acronis True Image Enterprise Server did not support encrypted communication therefore connection to such components if they present on the network will not be encrypted You have an option to completely disable non encrypted communication with some or all Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components In this case the components will not be able to communicate with components of earlier versions For how to disable non encrypted communication see the next section with Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server agents The console must be upgraded A The earlier versions of Acronis True Image Management Console cannot communicate to the Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server console Encryption is provided with Secure Socket Layer mechanism There are two stakeholders of the encryption operation e Client application the application that tries to establish initiates connection This could be the Acronis True Image Management Console or Acronis Group Server Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version can also be a client when it performs backup to Acronis Backup Server e Server application the application to which the client tries to connect This could be Acronis Tru
45. on a tape drive proceed in the same way as with other devices with the following exceptions 1 A full backup can be stored on an empty tape only If the tape already contains data its contents will be overwritten on prompt You have an option to disable prompts See details in 6 3 14 Additional settings 2 In cases where you want to keep more than one archive on the tape for example you want to back up two disks separately select ncrementa backup mode instead of a full backup when you create an initial backup for the second disk In other situations incremental backup is used for appending changes to the previously created archive 3 You do not have to provide filenames for backups You might experience short pauses that are required to rewind the tape 34 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Low quality or old tape as well as dirt on the magnetic head might lead to pauses that can last up to several minutes 3 8 3 Setting up backup to a tape or a tape library in the local network To enable backup to a tape or a tape library in the local network 1 Install the tape or the tape library on a server accessible to all users 2 Install Acronis Backup Server on that server 3 Create local accounts on that server for all users who will back up their data to the tape tape library Accounts must belong to the Backup Operators group and be the real accounts with which users log in Windows 4 At creating backup tasks if lo
46. partitions layout and start creating another partition or move on by unchecking Create new partition in unallocated space and clicking Next 15 3 Disk add summary The disk add summary contains a list of operations to be performed on disks Add New Disk Wizard E 2 x Acronis This wizard is ready to proceed Here is a complete list of True Im age operations to be performed Enterpris e Operation 1 of 2 Clearing disk Server Hard disk 3 Operation 2 of 2 Creating partition Hard disk 3 Drive letter Ei File system FAT32 volume label Size 5 990 GB lt lt F A Please click Proceed to start www acronis com O After you click Proceed Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will start creating and formatting new partitions indicating the progress in a special window You can stop this procedure by clicking Cancel In that case you will have to repartition and format the new disk or repeat the disk add procedure 134 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Chapter 16 Command line mode and scripting Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version supports the command line mode and enables backup automation by executing XML scripts The command line mode functionality is somewhat limited as compared to the GUI mode You will not be able to perform operations that require the reboot of the system such as restore a system partition or clone a system drive These operations only c
47. password password asz_content Displays the Acronis Secure Zone size free space and contents password password asz_ files Displays the Acronis Secure Zone size free space and contents using the generated file names password password Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 137 asz delete _fi les Deletes the most recent backup in the archive located in the Acronis Secure Zone filename file name password password log file name log_net_user remote user log_net_password password asz_ delete Deletes the Acronis Secure Zone password password oss_numbers reboot log file name log_net_user remote user log_net_password password partition partition number clone reboot Clones a hard disk narddisk disk number target_harddisk disk number help Shows usage 16 1 2 Common options options common for most trueimagecmd commands Option Description Archive location Access to archives filename file name Backup file name Other than ASZ Archive name when restoring or deleting ASZ files from ASZ Can be obtained with asz_files password password Specify the password for the archive if Other than ASZ required Specify the password for the ASZ if ASZ required asz number of archive Addresses to the ASZ and selects
48. plug in is installed on the computer the default path is Program Files Acronis TruelmageEchoEnterpriseServer BartPE If not run Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server setup file choose Modify and install the Acronis Bart PE plug in Acronis Win PE ISO Builder locates the Acronis Bart PE plug in using the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Acronis TrueImageEchoEnterpriseServer Settings BartPE created at the time of installation If you moved the Bart PE plug in to another folder after installation change the key accordingly If the above key is missing the builder does not work 2 Insert your Win PE distribution CD into the media drive of the computer If you have a distribution copy on the hard disk copy the path to it The distribution files must be unpacked and allocated in a separate folder 3 Select Programs gt Acronis gt Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server gt Acronis Win PE ISO Builder 4 Specify a source folder for building Win PE ISO i e the media drive with Win PE distribution or a folder with the distribution copy 5 Locate a folder where you want to create Win PE ISO and provide the name for the ISO file 6 Check your settings in the summary screen and click Proceed 7 Use any third party tool that will burn ISO images to CD or DVD Media based on Win PE 2 0 and including Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server requires at least 768MB RAM to work 106 Copyright Acronis Inc
49. priority 70 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 The preset is Low The priority of any process running in a system determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process Decreasing the backup priority will free more resources for other CPU tasks Increasing the backup priority may speed up the backup process due to taking resources from the other currently running processes The effect will depend on total CPU usage and other factors 2 HDD writing speed The preset is Maximum Backing up in the background to an internal hard disk for example to the Acronis Secure Zone may slow other programs performance because of the large amounts of data transferred to the disk You can limit the hard disk usage by Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server to the desired level To set the desired HDD writing speed for data being backed up drag the slider or enter the writing speed in kilobytes per second 3 Network connection speed The preset is Maximum You can view and set the options for the selected items 2 Appearance A H Notifications J Eo Network connection speed H Event tracing an A Default backup options You can set the speed of transferring the data being A E backed up through network 5 Archive Protection A 7 i AY Source files exclusion Transferring speed stated as a percent of the E Pre Post commands highest possible speed LF 9g Database support lt
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51. select New connection from the sidebar or the Connect menu 2 Enter the computer network name IP address or select it using Browse button Browse will open a list including all computers controllable with Acronis True Image Management Console 3 Enter administrator or backup operator username and password s r ZE When connecting to a backup server inside a domain mind whether your domain or PS local account is registered on the backup server If you entered Windows on a network computer using your domain account while your local account is registered enter the local user name along with the backup server name for example Serverl username Otherwise the name will be identified as a domain one After a connection is established you will see a list of operations available in the central part of Acronis True Image Management Console main window Acronis True Image Management Console writers HI Connect Yiew x Remote Management Pick a Task for the Remote Computer B New Connection Pick a task you want to perform on the remote computer W Disconnect H Reconnect j Pick a Category a Tools os w Backup and Recovery Tasks A Create Bootable Rescue Media r p and recovery operations check backup archive file s integrity o Y Install Acronis Components b cronis Group Server Management status of current operations and manage group Acronis Backup Server Management Backup storing policies management l
52. spite of the fact that one backup will be deleted Data recovery from any of the remaining backups will be possible 4 Export an archive from Acronis Backup Server to a local hard drive or network share To do so select any backup belonging to the archive and click Export Then provide name for the archive copy and a path to the location where the copy will be created 5 Import an archive from external location to a computer s or user s backup location on the backup server To do so use Import on the toolbar Editing images mounted in R W mode results in creating incremental backups that are a kind of offshoots of the incremental chain Such backups are always excluded from the archive being imported 4 5 7 Limiting access to Acronis Backup Server To access the Acronis Backup Server options connect the console to the backup server and select Tools gt Options from the menu 1 Maximum number of connections This comes in handy when you want to back up a group of computers quickly and not allow users to access the backup server at the time Generally limiting number of tasks simultaneously processed by Acronis Backup Server may speed up each taken separately backup procedure at the expense of its possible delay If maximum number of connections is set then some agents or local Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server versions may be unable to access the server immediately after 54 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 200
53. system disks partitions Browse logs of Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server operation Set up default backup or restore options such as system network resources usage before after backup commands etc Set up default parameters for sending notifications about Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server operation and tracing this operation in Windows Application Event Log Scheduling Tasks Schedule backup and archive validation operations Click Backup or Recovery then follow the wizard s instructions See details in Chapter 6 Creating backup archives and Chapter 7 Restoring the backup data Click Logs in the Manage Tasks group or select the Show Log tool on the sidebar to navigate to the Event Log window See details in 12 3 Viewing logs Select Tools gt Options gt Default backup options or Default restoration options and make settings See details in 6 3 Setting backup options and 7 4 Setting restore options Select Tools gt Options gt Notifications or Event tracing and make settings See details in Chapter 12 Notifications and event tracing Click Tasks in the Manage Tasks group or select the Task Scheduling category on the sidebar to navigate to the Scheduled Tasks window Then click the Create button on the toolbar and follow the wizard s instructions See details in Chapter 8 Scheduling tasks 58 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Run stop edit clone rename delete ba
54. the backup options ensure that the Wake On LAN option is enabled Any computer that is asleep as the task starts will be powered on for running the task 6 3 14 Additional settings 1 Validate backup archive upon operation completion The preset is disabled The program will check integrity of the just created or supplemented archive immediately after backup when enabled To check archive data integrity you must have all incremental and differential backups belonging to the archive and the initial full backup If any of successive backups is missing validation is not possible 2 Overwrite data on a tape without user confirmation The preset is enabled A full backup when created on a tape drive overwrites all data stored on the tape see 3 8 2 Backing up to tape drives for more information In this situation Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will warn that you are about to lose data on the tape To disable this warning check the middle box 3 Ask for first media while creating backup archives on removable media The preset is enabled You can choose whether to display the Insert First Media prompt when backing up to removable media With the default setting backing up to removable media may be not possible if the user is away because the program will wait for someone to press OK in the prompt box Therefore you should disable the prompt when scheduling a backup to removable media Then if the removable media is ava
55. time state The issue is somewhat like backing up a database The classic example is the Active Directory database which seldom can be recovered to a usable state Therefore integration with dedicated tools available from VM vendors is advisable Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server supports VMware Consolidated backup available in VMware Infrastructure 3 This application takes snapshots of virtual machines and uploads them to the proxy server This enables LAN free VM backup from the server rather than directly from ESX server Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 has the Virtual Server Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS writer VS Writer which takes the VM snapshot by the backup software request Support for the VS writer may be considered in future Acronis True Image Enterprise versions If you plan to back up the virtual machine files stop or suspend the virtual machine Since the virtual disk file changes from session to session and therefore will be always included in the backup incremental or differential backups are not appropriate in this case An incremental backup size will be almost equal to a full backup size 13 2 Recovering data on virtual machines A virtual disk can be restored from its image tib file previously created with Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server just as physical disk can be recovered 120 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 If the virtual machine cannot start boot it into Acroni
56. to perform only scheduling steps leaving other settings the same To delete a task with confirmation select it and click Delete on the toolbar To rename a task select it click Rename on the toolbar enter the new task name and press Enter In Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version there is an option to duplicate a task so that you need program it only once Select the task and click Clone on the toolbar Pass through the same wizard as when editing a task and make changes if necessary As opposed to editing the result will be saved as a separate task You will have the option to rename the clone for better identification Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 99 Chapter 9 Managing the Acronis Secure Zone The Acronis Secure Zone is a hidden partition for storing archives on the computer system itself It is necessary for using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager For more information about these functions see 3 3 Acronis Secure Zone and 3 4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager When you click Manage Acronis Secure Zone in the menu the program searches for the zone on all local drives If a zone is found the wizard will offer to manage it resize or change the password or delete If there is no zone you ll be prompted to create it If the Acronis Secure Zone is password protected the proper password must be entered before any operation can take place 9 1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone The Acronis Secure Zon
57. to the next window Backup Consolidation Wizard Backup Date Selection ckup Date pl gt _ Tuesday July 17 2007 5 35 09 PM WB Tuesday July 17 2007 6 54 40 PM The resulting archive contents 114 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Chapter 12 Notifications and event tracing Sometimes a backup or restore procedure can last for 30 minutes or more Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can notify you when it is finished through the WinPopup service or e mail The program can also duplicate messages issued during the operation or send you the full operation log after operation completion By default all notifications are disabled 12 1 Email notification To set up e mail notification select Tools gt Options gt Notifications gt E mail view and set the options for the selected items E wt Appearance p J Notifications zj E mail a windows Messenger WinPopup Specify default e mail account that will be used by li f backup and restore wizards for notification E3 a Event tracing co Default backup options E mail address E a Default restoration options Outgoing mail server SMTP Set port 25 User name Password Additional e mail parameters Send test e mail message OK Cancel Provide the e mail address to which notifications will be sent You can enter several addresses separated by semicolons Provide the outgoing SMTP
58. trueimagecmd COMMANAS 1cccccscsevees 139 16 1 4 trueimagecmd exe USAGE CXAINPIES ecieecccec eee c etn EEE HEEL EEE E EERE EEE E EEE EEE b ate 144 16 1 5 Command line Mode usage under DOS wiiiiiccccccectn tic tite tee e enn EEE E EEE EE EEE EDEL EEE EEE ttt 148 T6 2 SCrIPUnG KEER EEEE TE E AE Rich austessadeacd Sasa Sonada aston asbvass T 148 16 2 1 Script execution PAFAIMClels 1 ccc cecentncceceeneete eee need en eee e ten AnD REDED EER Ed EA ADDED ETE EB abet tet EnEDA 148 L6 2 2 Script SEU CTU ze fash Cea site sie Geshe E oh asad aad E oi ated bd agin Geb step posed aad oat Soa beet pc Oe 149 16 2 3 Script usage examples ririiiiii iiiaio irinin eii EE EEE EE EENE EREE E 150 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 7 Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1 Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server a complete solution for corporate users Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server is a comprehensive backup and recovery solution for heterogeneous computer infrastructure that may include any combination of physical and virtual networked and standalone Windows and Linux based servers Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server creates a transportable image independent of the hardware platform that can be restored directly to and from any virtual or physical environment Minimizes downtime Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server enables you to restore systems in minutes not hours or days An entire system can be restored from an im
59. user input for example pause Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 89 The backup process will run concurrently with your commands if you uncheck the Do not perform operations until the commands execution is complete box which is checked by default 7 4 4 Restoration priority The default setting Low The priority of any process running in a system determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process Decreasing the restoration priority will free more resources for other CPU tasks Increasing of restoration priority may speed up the restore process due to taking resources from the other currently running processes The effect will depend on total CPU usage and other factors 7 4 5 File level security settings The preset is Restore files with their security settings If the files security settings were preserved during backup see 6 3 9 File leve security settings you can choose whether to restore files security settings or let the files inherit the security settings of the folder where they will be restored This option is effective only when restoring files from file folders archives 7 4 6 Specifying mass storage drivers This option appears only in those computers options where Acronis Universal Restore is installed Acronis Universal Restore is an option to Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server It should be purchased separately and installed from a separate setup
60. 0 2007 drivers receive the system queries and restore the sectors that are necessary for the requested operation 3 At the same time Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server proceeds with the complete sector by sector image restoration in the background However the requested sectors have the highest priority Finally the image will be fully restored even if the user performs no actions at all But if you choose to start working as soon as possible after the system failure you will gain at least several minutes considering that restoration of a 10 20GB image most common image size takes about 10 minutes The larger the image size the more time you save 3 6 3 How to use To be able to use Acronis Snap Restore prepare your system this way you can do it either locally using Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version or remotely using Acronis True Image Management Console 1 Install Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version or Acronis True Image Agent on the local computer 2 Create the Acronis Secure Zone on the local computer hard disk see Chapter 9 Managing the Acronis Secure Zone 3 Activate Acronis Startup Recovery manager see 3 4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and create bootable media or RIS package with Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server see Chapter 10 Creating bootable media 4 Back up image the local computer s system disk to Acronis Secure Zone see 6 2 Backin
61. 000 Server 2003 e Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions e Windows Vista all Editions Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server bootable version enables disk level backup and recovery on a computer running any PC based operating system 2 2 Security parameters 2 2 1 Credentials Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server fully supports all security standards used in Windows To install Acronis components on a computer the user must be a member of the Administrators group on the computer To get access to Acronis True Image Agent installed on a computer the user must be a member of the Administrators or Backup operators group on the computer The Acronis Group Server uses administrator s credentials to perform data backup tasks on the computers You will be asked for the credentials during the Acronis Group Server installation The credentials you provide will be used for running the Acronis Group Server service and also applied to all networked computers Therefore it is recommended that you have a uniform account for all computers where the Acronis True Image Agent is installed Domain administrators can use the domain administrator account In a workgroup it would make sense to create identical accounts in the Administrators group on each computer with Acronis True Image Agent If you do not wish to create a uniform account provide credentials for each computer after Acronis Group Server installatio
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63. 1 4 2 Supported storage media If you added a comment to the archive it will be displayed to the right of the drives tree If the archive was protected with a password Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will ask for it The comment and the Next button will be unavailable until you enter the correct password 3 If the selected archive contains incremental backups Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will suggest that you select one of successive incremental backups by its creation date time Thus you can return the files folders to a specific time and date To restore data from an incremental backup you must have all previous incremental backups and the initial full backup If any of successive backups is missing restoration is not possible To restore data from a differential backup you must have the initial full backup as well Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 79 Restore Data Wizard ey 2 i Backup Date Selection C when a backup was created and to which state you want to revert kd Ba Thursday November 08 2007 02 PM Thursday Novembe 01 04 PM 4 Select a folder on your computer where you want to restore selected folders files a target folder You can restore data to their original location or choose another folder if necessary 5 Select files and folders to restore You can choose to restore all data or browse the archive contents and select the desired folders or files
64. 5 4 If you are creating a CD DVD diskettes or any removable media insert the blank disk so the program can determine its capacity If you chose to create a bootable disk ISO image specify the ISO file name and the folder in which to place it If you chose to save bootable data on a RIS server specify the server and provide the user name and password to access it 5 Next the program will calculate how many blank disks are required in case you have not chosen ISO or RIS and give you time to prepare them When you are finished click Proceed After you create a boot disk mark it and keep it in a safe place 10 2 Creating a Win PE ISO with Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server Windows Preinstallation Environment Win PE is a minimal Windows system based on the Windows XP Professional and the Windows Server 2003 kernels Win PE is commonly used by OEMs and corporations for deployment test diagnostic and system repair purposes Using Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server in Windows Preinstallation Environment allows a combination of Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server and Win PE facilities and provides more functionality than using only Acronis bootable media The Acronis Universal Restore add on to Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server if installed will also be included in the ISO image To add the Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server plug in to your Win PE distribution 1 Make sure that Acronis Bart PE
65. 7 starting their task They will be trying to connect to the server every 5 seconds until the connection is allowed Therefore the real backup start time may differ from the scheduled one If it is not practical or efficient for you be aware of this setting when creating group tasks so that number of computers in the group does not exceed the limit you set By default the number of connections is unlimited This corresponds to setting 0 The console connection to Acronis Backup Server is not counted EJ EA Network gy Status check interval wy Backup server quotas Backup server quotas Notifications You can limit the number of simultaneous connections to a backup 7 server and bandwidth available for each connection If zero the Event tracing value has no limitations a B Default backup options w Default restoration options it f Maximum number of connections oa Limit bandwidth for a connection to H D oag 2 Limit bandwidth for a connection to Limiting bandwidth for each connection helps equalize the server usage among simultaneously running tasks Practice is the best way to determine the correct limit In most cases you can leave it as is By default bandwidth per connection is not limited This corresponds to setting 0 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 55 Chapter 5 Using Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version
66. Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version supports the GUI mode the command line mode and can be used to execute XML scripts Here we describe the operations available in the GUI mode which provides the widest functionality For console commands and scripting please see Chapter 16 Command line mode and scripting 5 1 Main program window The main program window contains the menu the toolbar the sidebar and the main area The sidebar features a pane for selecting task category the Tools and Help panes The main area displays operation icons or tasks depending on the category selected f 3 Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server T operations View Tools Help Pick a Category Pick a Task 3 ERES Pick a task you want to perform on the local computer g Hard Disk Management 2 Task Scheduling er Backup Back up your files folders or the entire hard disk Tools ap Manage Acronis Secure Zone Recovery d Activate Acronis Startup Recover the entire hard disk contents or restore individual files Recovery Manager Create Bootable Rescue Media Manage Tasks Z Show Log Tasks Manage tasks scheduled on your computer Help Contents Logs B How to back up your data View operation lag on your computer Howto restore your data How to schedule backup or Pick a Tool Explore and Yalidate Backup lt lt Activate Acronis Startup Archives Recovery Manager Manage Hard Disks w Manage
67. B My Documents Shared Documents My Network Places Details To explore an incremental backup you must have all previous incremental backups and the initial full backup If any successive backups are missing exploring is not possible To explore a differential backup you must have the initial full backup as well Double click the backup icon to view the data saved in the backup You can copy and paste or drag and drop any file or folder from the backup being explored to any hard disk folder 11 2 2 Mounting an image 1 Start the Mount Image Wizard by selecting Operations gt Mount Image in the main program menu 2 Select the archive from the drives tree If the archive is located in the Acronis Secure Zone select it to choose the archive The mount operation does not support Acronis Backup Server so backup servers are not displayed in the tree Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 109 Mount Image Wizard 21x Image Selection nount in the tre ition backup Fro t MyBackup Backup archive name MyBackup tib Backup archive type image The selected backup sequence number 1 B My Documents E 4 My Computer amp A 314 Floppy 4 Hs Local Disk C 4 DVD CD RW Drive D BS Local Disk F No description is available for this backup archive _ Date Tuesday January 09 2007 12 52 26 PM Size 2 709 GB MyBackup2 e MyFileBackup ia MyFileBa
68. Dual destination backup Dynamic volumes are fully supported as a backup destination place Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can access backup archives created on dynamic volumes in standalone rescue mode as well as under Windows control 66 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 See notes and recommendations for using the FTP server in 1 4 2 Supported storage media 5 If your choice was not Acronis Backup Server select whether you want to create a full or incremental backup If you have not backed up the selected disks partitions yet or the full archive seems too old to append incremental changes to it choose full backup Otherwise it is recommended that you create an incremental or differential backup see 3 2 Full incremental and differential backup 6 Select the backup options that is backup file splitting compression level password protection pre post backup commands etc You may Use default options or Set the options manually If the latter is the case the settings will be applied only to the current backup task Alternatively you can edit the default options from the current screen Then your settings will be saved as the defaults See 6 3 Setting backup options for more information 7 Provide a comment for the archive This can help prevent you from restoring the wrong disk or partition However you also can choose not to make any notes The backup file size and creation date are automatically appe
69. Exchange IMAP4 net start Microsoft Exchange MTA Stacks Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 69 net start Microsoft Exchange POP3 net start Microsoft Exchange Routing Engine Create batch files in any text editor for example name it pause_services bat and resume_services bat Use Edit buttons to the right of Before data capture command and After data capture command fields to open the Edit Command window where you can browse folders to find the respective batch files or scripts A single command can be specified in the same window along with its arguments and working directory It is critical to note that these commands as opposed to Pre post commands above will be executed before and after the data capture process which takes seconds while the entire backup procedure may take much longer depending on the amount of data to be imaged Therefore the database idle time will be minimal Before after data capture commands can also be used for other purposes especially if VSS support is enabled You may want to suspend an application other than a database for example The commands execution and the VSS actions will be sequenced as follows before commands gt VSS Suspend gt data capture gt VSS Resume gt after commands The backup process will run concurrently with your commands if you uncheck the Do not perform operations until the commands execution is complete box w
70. GRUB you might consider installing them to a Linux root or boot partition boot record instead of MBR before activating Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 27 Here s an example of how you would use this feature If failure occurs on a computer turn on the computer and press F11 when you see the Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager message This will run a standalone version of Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server that only slightly differs from the complete version For information on restoring damaged partitions see Chapter 7 Restoring the backup data Be careful Disk letters in standalone Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server might sometimes differ from the way Windows identifies drives For example the D drive identified in the standalone Acronis True Image might correspond to the E drive in Windows 3 5 Acronis Backup Server Acronis Backup Server is an application for centralized storage and management of enterprise backup archives in accordance with the policies set by an administrator It ensures optimal usage of storage resources used for backup archives Outdated archives will be automatically deleted at the same time the latest data recovery is always possible In addition Acronis Backup Server facilitates creation and executing group backup tasks For information on how to install and set up Acronis Backup Server see 2 3 4 Acronis Backup Server
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72. Mount Image and follow the wizard s instructions See details in 11 2 2 Mounting an image Select Operations gt Unmount Image and follow the wizard s instructions See details in 21 2 3 Unmounting an image Click Manage Acronis Secure Zone then follow the wizard s instructions See details in Chapter 9 Managing the Acronis Secure Zone Click Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager then follow the wizard s instructions See details in 3 4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Select Tools gt Convert to dynamic disk then follow the wizard s instructions See details in 75 1 Converting disk to dynamic Select Tools gt Dynamic volume creation wizard then follow the Wizard s instructions See details in 75 2 Creating dynamic volumes Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 59 Transfer the system to a new hard disk See Chapter 14 Transferring the system to a new disk Format partitions on a new hard disk See Chapter 15 Adding a new hard disk Other Tools Create bootable rescue media its ISO or See Chapter 10 Creating bootable media RIS package Turn on off Windows System Restore tool See 12 5 Managing System Restore Some of the above operations can be executed in command line mode For more information on Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server command line mode see 16 1 Working in the command line mode 60 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Chapter 6 Creating backup archiv
73. OMponentsS eccerre 24 Chapter 3 General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 0 25 3 1 The difference between file archives and disk partition iMAQ S ceceeeeeeeeeeeeeee teenies 25 3 2 Full incremental and differential backups 0 0 00 eet eee eee tne ee ee eee aaade tenes 25 Jo ACRONIS SECURE LOMO ticsanth a th a mie Snead hats irae cacti aeia a EAA AEAN 26 3 4 Acronis Startup Recovery Managel 0ccecece ee rere reer naan tees 27 3 41 HOW IE WOIKS ni eiiiai tissue ios Beat baa gs ees aves ak ogi A RE E AE AA ATT 27 BAD HOW to USO i ieee site pits Sols venik oe use A dagls savas nines didpediaks beats AE ATED aat 27 3 5 Acronis BACKUP SEIVER weswctenwcavestateitimad eine tahedel neti det debi viata a l G EE RE 28 3 571 BACKUP location Sirin eiaa iie A TCE EUTG A E dene aeh A A eset estes eet 28 3 5 2 Quotas and time limits for computers and USefS essessssssereesesrrsrrrrrnrererrrrrnrenererrrrrnrs 29 3 5 3 Administrators and UsSElSrsreriirmitirarraien a re TAEAE T ETET aus en TR 29 3 5 4 Operations With archiVeS sesssssssssessesssssrsrsssesssrsrnrnrsesnsrsrrrnesesnsrsrrnnsnnnnasnnnntnnnnsssrnnnenet 30 3 6Acronis Snap REStore nsaan na elie tine poet ee a Teadet 30 3 6 1 Limitations in using Acronis Snap ReStore ssssssssesessssssrsrreeesssrrrrrrnrnnsrerrrrrnrnnenerrrrrnrs 30 ERIA HOW TE WOTKS E E TE E EE E E E EAE 30 SOS HOW LO USC aii ir eA ET AAE ANOA TE AEAEE AEEA T AA E E aA 31 3 7 Acronis Uni
74. Popup lt 4 E mail m if Specify WinPopup settings that will be used by backup and restore wizards for notification H Ga Event tracing E amp Default backup options Computer Name v R gt B Default restoration options Send notification upon operation s successful completion Send notification upon operation failure Send notification when user interaction is required Send test WinPopup message Provide the name of the computer to which notifications will be sent Below in this window you can choose whether you want to get notifications when the operation is completed successfully when the operation failed during the operation when user interaction is required 12 3 Viewing logs Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server allows users to view its working logs These logs can provide information about scheduled tasks results including reasons for failure if any To view the log window select Show log on the toolbar or from the Tools menu The log browsing window contains two panes the left one features the log list while the right one shows selected log contents 116 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 eel44aq Pick a Category Q EA Backup and Recovery B Backup Archives J Hard Disk Management Task Scheduling Tools amp sap Manage Acronis Secure Zone i Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Event Log View list of events happened on this computer
75. age Any partitions missing from the image will be lost If you want more functionality during restoration write a standalone version of Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server to the rescue disk Then you will be able to configure the restore task using Restore Data Wizard use Acronis Snap Restore or Acronis Universal Restore The Advanced tab lets you select full safe or both Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server loader versions The safe version does not have USB PC card or SCSI drivers and is useful only in cases where the full version does not load If you want the computer booted from the media to be accessible for remote control with Acronis True Image Management Console add Acronis Bootable Agent to the media If you have other Acronis products such as Acronis Disk Director Suite installed on your computer the bootable versions of these programs components will be offered as Advanced as well If you check Do not place additional components if there is no free space box the program will try to write the most basic components to the media 6 3 11 Error handling 1 Ignore bad sectors The preset is disabled With the default setting the program will display a pop up window each time it comes across a bad sector and ask for user decision whether to continue or stop the backup procedure In order to back up the valid information on a rapidly dying disk enable ignoring bad sectors The rest of the data will be backed up an
76. age that includes everything the system needs to run the operating system applications databases and configurations it is not necessary to reinstall software or reconfigure your system or network settings The complete system restoration can be performed to an existing system to a new system with different hardware or to virtual machines With the Acronis Snap Restore feature users can access the server and begin working during the restore process further decreasing downtime File level backups provide you with the flexibility to only backup specific critical files Eases Administration Wizards guide users through backup and recovery tasks ensuring the product can be implemented with minimal user training A central management console provides remote administration ensuring that all systems in the network regardless of the domain or workgroup structure can be managed from one location Complete unattended restores from remote locations are supported with a remote bootable agent Automates Backup With the scheduling capability in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server you simply create backup tasks tailored by group or certain times or events To ensure that backups have occurred or if user intervention is required you can request notifications via email or Windows Pop up You can view Acronis events in the Windows Application Events Log or Acronis own log files Log messages can be automatically sent out to SNMP clients
77. al sectors location etc and logical file system free space assigned letter etc parameters You can change the width of a column by dragging its borders with the mouse Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 35 Chapter 4 Using Acronis True Image Management Console 4 1 General information Acronis True Image Management Console is the primary tool for managing data backup restore on remote computers where Acronis True Image Agent is installed The console allows for the managing of computer groups and corporate backup archives using Group and Backup Servers as well as managing individual backup restore tasks for every computer Acronis True Image Management Console HI Connect Yiew Tools Help gt inline i Management Console gt New Connection ie tool janagement W Disconnect Tools Create Bootable Rescue Media Pick a Task ped Install Acronis Components a Connect to a remote computer where Acronis True Image Agent or Acronis d or Pick a Tool x a Install Acronis components to a remote computer g Create Bootable Rescue Media X Disconnected Acronis True Image Management Console main window 4 2 Installing updating Acronis components on remote machines Acronis True Image Management Console allows for group installation and updates of Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components on remote computers To perform any of these operations you will need administrator rig
78. alidation is complete you will see the results window You can cancel checking by clicking Cancel Hep You must have all incremental and differential backups belonging to the archive and the initial full backup to check archive data integrity If any successive backups are missing validation is not possible 11 2 Exploring archives and mounting images Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server offers two kinds of archive contents management mounting for images and exploring for both images and file level archives This feature is available in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version only Mounting images using Acronis True Image Management Console is not supported Archives located on an Acronis Backup Server or an FTP server cannot be explored or mounted Both operations are performed through the Backup Archives category Exploring images and file level archives lets you view their contents and copy the selected files to the hard disk Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 107 Mounting images as virtual drives lets you access them as though they were physical drives This means that e anew disk with its own letter will appear in the drives list e using Windows Explorer and other file managers you can view the image contents as if they were located on a physical disk or partition e you will be able to use the virtual disk in the same way as the real one open save copy move create delete
79. all it in place of your CD ROM If that is not possible you can clone a hard disk by creating its image and restoring it to a new hard disk with larger partitions There are two transfer modes available automatic and manual In the automatic mode you will only have to take some simple actions to transfer all the data including partitions folders and files to a newer disk making it bootable if the original disk was bootable There will be only one difference between these disks partitions on the newer disk will be larger Everything else including the installed operating systems data disk labels settings software and everything else on the disk will remain the same This is the only result available in the automatic mode The program can only duplicate the original disk layout to the new one To obtain a different result you will have to answer additional questions about cloning parameters The manual mode will provide additional data transfer flexibility 1 You will be able to select the method of partition and data transfer e asis e new disk space is proportionally distributed among the old disk partitions e new disk space is distributed manually 2 You will also be able to select operations to perform on the old disk e leave partitions and data on the old disk e remove all information from the old disk e create new partitions on the old disk and remove all the older information On program screens dama
80. an be done through the GUI Scripting is intended only for backup 16 1 Working in the command line mode An administrator might need a console interface in some situations Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server supports this mode with TrueImageCmd exe utility The file is located in a folder where Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server has been installed by default it is C Program Files Acronis Truel mageEchoEnterpriseServer 16 1 1 Supported commands TrueImageCmd has the following format trueimagecmd command optionl option2 Commands may be accompanied with options Some options are common for most trueimagecmd commands while other are specific for individual commands Below is a list of supported commands and compatible options Command Common Options Specific Options create filename file name nharddisk disk number password password asz partition partition number Creates an Image of net_user username file_partition partition letter specified disks and net_password password raw progress on off partitions ftp_user ftp_password incremental differential compression 0 9 split size in MB oss_numbers reboot log file name log_net_user remote user log_net_password password filebackup filename file name include names PPs password password asz exclude_names names Backs up specified n t_user username
81. and Windows XP operating systems Files folders encryption is set in 72 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Properties gt General gt Advanced Attributes gt Encrypt contents to secure data Check the option if there are encrypted files in the backup and you want them to be accessed by any user after restore Otherwise only the user who encrypted the files folders will be able to read them Decryption may also be useful if you are going to restore encrypted files on another computer These options relate only to file folders backup 6 3 10 Media components The preset is disabled When backing up to removable media you can make this media bootable by writing to it additional components As a result you will not need a separate rescue disk Choose the basic components necessary for boot and restoring data on the General tab The Acronis One Click Restore is a minimal addition to the image archive stored on removable media allowing one click disk recovery from this archive This means that at boot from the media and clicking restore all the data contained in the image will be silently restored Because the one click approach does not presume user selections such as selecting AN partitions to restore Acronis One Click Restore always restores the entire disk Therefore if your disk consists of several partitions and you are planning to use Acronis One Click Restore all the partitions must be included in the im
82. arget partition number for restoring a partition over the existing one If the option is not specified the program assumes that the target partition number is the same as the partition number specified with the partition option Dynamic volumes are specified with prefix DYN e g target_partition DYN1 Sets the start sector for restoring a partition to the hard disk unallocated space size partition size in sectors fat16_32 Sets the new partition size in sectors Enables the file system conversion from FAT16 to FAT32 if the partition size after recovery is likely to exceed 2GB Without this option the recovered partition will inherit the file system from the image type active primary logical Sets the restored partition active primary or logical if possible for example there cannot be more than four primary partitions on the disk Setting a partition active always sets it primary while a partition set primary may stay inactive If the type is not specified the program tries to keep the target partition type If the target partition is active the restored partition is set active If the target partition is primary and there are other primary partitions on the disk one of them will be set active while the restored partition becomes primary If no other primary partitions remain on the disk the restored partition is set active When restoring a partition on unallocated space the program e
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84. atabase To create a dynamic volume 1 Close all applications that use the disk s on which the volume is to be created 2 Start the Dynamic Volume Creation Wizard by selecting Tools gt Create Dynamic Volume in the main program menu 3 Select basic dynamic or newly connected disks on which the dynamic volume will be created Dynamic disks are selected by default You can deselect any if need be later in the wizard If you tick off disks other than dynamic these will be converted to dynamic disks and included in the dynamic group However this will be done when the operation starts While you are using the wizard no changes are made to disks 92 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Dynamic Yolume Creation Destination Hard Disks 2 2151 x Select your hard disks From the list below Disk Disk Type Volumes Capacity Model Interface Free g Diski Basic Ntfs C 5 000 GB YMware VMware Virtual 51 0 SESI 5 000 GB MI Disk 2 Dynamic 8 000 GB YMware Mware Virtual 51 0 SCSI 7 997 GB WM Disk3 Dynamic 6 000 GB VMware VMware Virtual 51 0 SCSI lt Back I Next gt Cancel 4 Select the type of dynamic volume that will be created simple spanned striped mirrored or RAID 5 5 Specify amount of space that the dynamic volume will occupy on each of the selected disks The value you Set is adjusted to the selected volume type For a spanned volume amount of space on each
85. ating system you must image the system disk or partition a file based backup is not sufficient for the operating system restore 4 You can exclude specific files from a backup by setting filters for the types of files you do not wish to back up For example you may want to exclude hidden and system files and folders or files with tmp and bak extensions Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 61 You can also apply custom filters using the common Windows masking rules For example to exclude all files with extension exe add exe My exe will exclude all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my Create Backup Wizard 2 x Source Files Exclusion You can specify files you do not want to include in the backup archive Specify files you do not want to include in the backup archives C Exclude all system files and folders Exclude Files matching the Following criteria bak i z g ev H aer __ B Remove Brea All of these settings will take effect for the current task For information on how to set the default filters that will be called each time you create a file backup task see 6 3 2 Source files exclusion 5 Select the name and location of the archive If you are going to create a full backup type the file name in the File Name line or use the file name generator a button to the right of the line If you select an existing full backup
86. ault quotas time limits are preset to Unlimited except for Maximum number of incremental backups for each full backup which is set to 5 the largest value of this parameter is not limited but it is recommended that you do not set unreasonably large values You can change the default user computer quotas time limits by selecting Specify Default Settings gt Set Quotas Time limits and entering the desired values Default Quotas and Time Limits Set Quotas and Time Limits t the quotas and time limits that will be applied to a newl C Maximum backup location size Unlimited C Maximum number of backups in a location Unlimited Maximum number of incremental backups For each full backup 10 3 C Maximum storage period days Unlimited To enable Acronis Backup Server to process archives schedule quotas time limits check task Select Specify Default Settings gt Schedule Automatic Consolidation and Backup Management and schedule one time daily weekly or monthly check of all user s computers archives on the backup server for meeting limitations If the check reveals that some of quotas time limits are exceeded the archive processing described in 3 5 2 Quotas and time limits for computers and users will be executed Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 49 Please take note of the fact that checking limitations makes no sense if you have not changed at least one of the preset Unlimited values for
87. ault restore options in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version select Tools gt Options gt Default Restoration Options from the main program menu To do the same remotely connect the Acronis True Image Management Console to the remote computer click Remote Computer Options and select Default Restoration options You can edit the default or set the temporary restore options while creating a restore task as well 88 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 You can view and set the options for the selected items E3 a Appearance Es Notifications Eo Specifying Mass Storage Drivers HG Event tracing pi B i If you have a mass storage controller such as a SCSI a Default backup options RAID or Fibre Channel adapter for your hard disk you a B Default restoration options can install this driver manually bypassing the automatic is Files to exclude from restoration driver search and install procedure Files overwriting mode Use this option only if the automatic search and install a Pre Post commands procedure was unsuccessful B Restoration priority 9 File level security settings Specifying Mass Storage Search removable media for device drivers C Search for device drivers in the following locations j cre Be J 7 4 1 Files to exclude from restoration The preset is Restore all files You can set the default filters for the specific types of files that ar
88. cation that resides on client computers and performs Acronis operations such as data backup or restore Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server includes Acronis True Image Agent for Windows to be installed on Windows based systems and Acronis True Image Agent for Linux to be installed on Linux platform The agents operate in a similar way the only difference visible to user concerns the way of installation 3 Acronis Group Server is a management tool that provides ability to schedule monitor and manage group backup tasks It deploys group tasks to the agents polls the agents for the status of running tasks and provides the administrator with the summary tasks state display over the network 4 Acronis Backup Server is an application for centralized storage and management of enterprise backup archives The administrator can set space quotas and backup schemes schedule check tasks that consolidate backups in case of quota violation perform one time backups consolidation This ensures optimal usage of the storage capacity Acronis Backup Server also enables users to access a tape library connected to the server 5 Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version is a locally controlled server management tool with additional functionality as compared to Acronis True Image Agent The local version supports besides backup and recovery operations exploring archives mounting images as virtual drives cloning hard disks data and f
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90. ckup and archive validation tasks Archives Management Explore any archive s contents and restore individual files from any archive Validate backup archives wherever they reside be it local network or removable media Consolidate backup files inside an archive Convert disk images to virtual disk files of the type you select vmdk vhd hdd Mount partitions images to explore and modify their contents or to restore individual files Unmount previously mounted partition images Hard Disk Management Manage Acronis Secure Zone create delete resize remove or change password Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Convert a basic disk to dynamic Create a dynamic volume Click Tasks in the Manage Tasks group or select the Task Scheduling category on the sidebar to navigate to the Scheduled Tasks window See details in 8 2 Managing scheduled tasks Select Tools gt Explore Backup Archive and follow the wizard s instructions See details in 21 2 1 Exploring an archive Select Tools gt Validate Backup Archive then follow the wizard s instructions See details in 21 1 Validating backup archives Select Tools gt Consolidate archive then follow the Wizard s instructions See details in 11 3 Consolidating backup Select Tools gt Convert backup to Virtual Disk and follow the wizard s instructions See details in 12 4 Converting disk images to virtual disks Select Operations gt
91. ckup2 H Shared Documents My Network Places ser Filename F MyBackup tib hed Files of type Backup Archives tib a5 If you added a comment to the archive it will be displayed to the right of the drives tree If the archive was protected with a password Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will ask for it Neither the partitions layout nor the Next button will be enabled until you enter the correct password Help 3 If you selected an archive containing incremental images Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will suggest that you select one of the successive incremental images by its creation date time This allows you to explore the partition state for a given point in time To mount an incremental image you must have all previous incremental images and the initial full image If any of the successive images are missing mounting is not possible To explore a differential backup you must have the initial full backup as well 4 Select a partition to mount Note that you cannot mount the entire disk You can also select a letter to be assigned to the virtual drive from the Drive letter drop down list If you do not want to assign a letter to the virtual drive select Do not assign 110 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Assigning Logical Drive Letters assign logical drive letters to the partitions From the backup archive you The parti
92. cluding its partitions and unallocated space as well as the new disk layout Hard Disk Drives Structure see your source hard disk layout before cloning and the destination hard layout after cloning Please review the source hard disk layout before cloning and the destination hard disk layout that will be created during the cloning procedure Before cloning Primary Logical TH unallocated Py PR I Unsupported olume To continue with the hard disk cloning press the Next button Help 130 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Along with the hard disk number you will also see disk capacity label partition and file system information Different partition types including primary logical and unallocated space are marked with different colors If you selected manual partition creation earlier the partition layout will look different This partitioning method is described below 14 3 11 Cloning summary In the next window you will see a list of briefly described operations to be performed on the disks Disk Clone Wizard 2 x Acronis This wizard is ready to proceed Here is a complete list of True Im age operations to be performed Enterpris e Operation 1 of 3 Reboot required Clearing disk Server Hard disk 2 Operation 2 of 3 Reboot required Copying partition Hard disk 1 gt 2 Drive letter iC File system NTFS Volume label Size 3 991 GB gt 7 997 GB Operat
93. credentials for connection to it Computer Ltest 1 Specified computers User name adm tor Name Password e eeee Ltest 1 _ Save password Reboot the remote computer __ Set these credentials and options to all computers Test Connection Apply te If you do not specify credentials for all machines involved or if the credentials are not valid for some machines you will have an option to provide credentials during installation there is an option Other user in the username password error prompt Most Acronis components require the system restart on their installation To allow immediate remote computer reboot check the Reboot the remote computer box This option also can be applied to all computers or set to each machine individually 6 The summary window displays a list of computers where the Acronis component will be installed 38 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 7 Once the installation starts the program displays the operation progress and the name of the computer on which the component is being installed To update an Acronis component on a remote computer perform the same procedure 4 3 Managing a single remote computer To perform any operation on a single remote computer you must first connect to it 4 3 1 Connecting to a remote computer To establish a remote connection 1 Click Connect to a remote computer in the center of Acronis True Image Management Console main window or on the toolbar or
94. cret question N Answer What is your Father s middle name g What was the name of your first school Who was your childhood hero What is your Favorite pastime What is your all time Favorite sports team What was your high school mascot What make was your First car or bike Where did you First meet your spouse What is your pet s name 3 Enter the new password and confirm it or select Do not use password protection You can also select a secret question that will be asked in case you forget the password 4 To perform the password change operation click Proceed in the final wizard window 9 4 Deleting Acronis Secure Zone Acronis Secure Zone deletion will automatically disable Acronis Startup Recovery Manager if it is activated and destroy all backups stored in the zone There is an option to keep Acronis Secure Zone along with its contents which will enable data recovery on booting from bootable media or remove Acronis Secure Zone if you remove Acronis True Image Agent or Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version from the system To delete the zone without uninstalling the program proceed as follows 1 When prompted by the wizard select Remove Acronis Secure Zone 2 Select the partitions to which you want to add the space freed from the zone If you select several partitions the space will be distributed proportionally to each partition 3 Next you will see a list of briefly
95. cronis Secure Zone to select the image during the next step 3 If there are several disks in the image select one to convert 4 Choose a type of the disk to be created 5 Specify the path to the file to be created The file can be directed to any storage supported by Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server except for an Acronis Backup Server or the Acronis Secure Zone Since the disk space is not preallocated the physical disk on which the virtual disk will run is expected to have sufficient space for the virtual disk to grow 6 Click Proceed in the summary window Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 123 Chapter 14 Transferring the system to a new disk 14 1 General information Sooner or later computer users find that their hard disk is just too small If you don t have space for more data you can add another disk specifically for data storage For example you might find that your hard disk does not have enough space for the operating system and installed applications preventing you from updating your software In this case you have to transfer the system to a higher capacity hard disk This feature is available in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version only Transferring systems using Acronis True Image Management Console is not supported To transfer the system you must first install the disk in the server If a server doesn t have a bay for another hard disk you can temporarily inst
96. cronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server saves a sector based snapshot of the disk which includes the operating system registry drivers software applications and data files as well as system areas hidden from the user This procedure is called creating a disk image and the resulting backup archive is often called a disk partition image Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server stores only those hard disk parts that contain data for supported file systems Further it does not back up swap file information pagefile sys and hiberfil sys a file that keeps RAM contents when the computer goes into hibernation This reduces image size and speeds up image creation and restoration A partition image includes all files and folders independent of their attributes including hidden and system files boot record FAT file allocation table root and the zero track of the hard disk with master boot record MBR A disk image includes images of all disk partitions as well as the zero track with the master boot record MBR All Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server archives files have a tib extension by default It is important to note that you can restore files and folders not only from file archives but from disk partition images too To do so mount the image as a virtual disk see 11 2 2 Mounting an image or start the image restoration and select Restore specified files or folders 3 2 Full incremental and different
97. d on the backup server Generally there are two types of profiles on the backup server Administrators and Users The Administrators profiles are designed to perform backups on remote computers with Acronis True Image Agents Whatever computer the administrator backs up backup data will be sent to the same location assigned to the computer Administrators can also manage archives on the backup server including archives created via Users profiles The Users profiles are designed to back up data from computers with Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version Whatever computer the user operates on backup data will be sent to the same location assigned to that user 3 5 4 Operations with archives Acronis Backup Server can display a list of backups stored on the backup server and sort the list by location or owners users and computers An administrator if need be can consolidate any backup except for the oldest one in the archive manually with the preceding backup file This operation deletes the preceding backup and sets concatenation between the backup being consolidated and the backup before the deleted one Thus the archive integrity will not be affected in spite of the fact that one backup will be deleted Data recovery from any of the remaining backups will be possible An archive can be exported from Acronis Backup Server to a local hard drive or network share or imported from external location to a computer s
98. d you will be able to mount the image and extract valid files to another disk 2 Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode The preset is disabled Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 73 Corporate administrators need an option to continue a back up despite any errors that might occur without the system popping up an error box Details of the operation including errors if any could be found in the operation log With the silent mode enabled the program will not display interactive windows Instead it will automatically handle situations requiring user intervention such as running out disk space except for handling bad sectors which is defined as a separate option No prompts will be displayed including those for removable media or overwriting data on a tape If an operation cannot continue without user action it will fail Therefore enable this feature if you do not want unattended backup operations hang on pop ups and errors 6 3 12 Dual destination backup The preset is disabled The option is available on y if the backup is destined for the Acronis Secure Zone If enabled the program will automatically place a copy of each backup being created in Acronis Secure Zone on a local drive network share or FTP server The consistency of the external archive copy is maintained automatically After a backup is saved to the Acronis Secure Zone the program compares the updated archive contents to the
99. dd the converted disk either system or non system to the VM and use the data contained on the disk 13 3 2 Recover both data and the VM In case the VM cannot start do one of the following e add the converted system disk to the VM and remove the corrupted disk or e create a new VM with the converted system disk or e add the disk to the previously created machine clone this allows replacing the machine on the network in seconds because you need not configure a new VM 13 3 3 Physical to virtual migration Physical disks images can be converted to virtual disks as well as virtual disks images A Windows system image will be supplemented with appropriate system drivers during conversion so that Windows could boot up on the VM In fact the Acronis Universal Restore technology is applied in background because the program is aware which drivers are needed for compatible virtual machines The conversion operation enables five step physical to virtual migration 1 Create images of all or some physical machine disks including the system disk 2 Convert the images to virtual disks 3 Create a new VM with the converted system disk Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 121 4 Add the other converted disks to the VM 5 Start the VM and complete the hardware drivers configuration if Windows prompts This allows e the fastest replacement of the physical machine with the previously created virtual copy e moving multiple w
100. decreased Resizing of the partitions may require a reboot Please keep in mind that reducing a system partition to the minimum size may prevent your operating system from booting When reducing the zone any unallocated space if the hard disk has it will be allocated to the selected partitions along with the space freed from the zone Thus no unallocated space will remain on the disk 5 Next you will see a list of briefly described operations to be performed on partitions disks After you click Proceed Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will start resizing the zone Progress will be reflected in a special window If necessary you can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel However the procedure will be canceled only after the current operation is finished Zone resizing can take several minutes or longer Please wait until the whole procedure is finished 9 3 Changing the password for Acronis Secure Zone 1 When prompted by the wizard select Manage Acronis Secure Zone 102 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 2 Select Change password Manage Acronis Secure Zone Wizard Acronis Secure Zone Protection You can protect your Acronis Secure Zone from unauthorized access Provide password and confirm it in the boxes below Note that the password is case sensitive OC Do not use password protection Use password protection Enter the password eeee Confirm the password Se
101. described operations to be performed on partitions disks After you click Proceed Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will start deleting the zone Progress will be reflected in the opened window If necessary you can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel However the procedure will be canceled only after the current operation is finished Zone deletion might take several minutes or more Please wait until the whole procedure is finished Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 103 Chapter 10 Creating bootable media 10 1 Creating Acronis rescue media You can run Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server on a bare metal or on a crashed computer that cannot boot You can also back up disks on a non Windows computer copying all its data sector by sector into the backup archive To do so you will need bootable media with the standalone Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server version Because Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server is available only as a download you must create bootable media using the Bootable Media Builder For this you will need a blank CD R RW DVD R RW several formatted diskettes the wizard will tell you the exact number or any other media your server can boot from such as a Zip drive Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server also has the ability to create an ISO image of a bootable disk on the hard disk If there is a Microsoft RIS server in your local network an IT administrator can save t
102. dically Choose Weekly Schedule check to be performed once a week during off peak time Click Proceed The backup server is ready to work To perform backup using the Administrator profile connect the console to the agent on a remote computer and create a standard backup task while selecting Acronis Backup Servers gt backup server name gt Personal Backup Location as backup destination Or create a group task for several computers with the same destination Users can back up their data with local program versions while selecting the same destination 22 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 2 3 5 Acronis Universal Restore installation Acronis Universal Restore is an option for Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server It is purchased separately and installed from a separate setup file Acronis Universal Restore has its own serial number that is required at installation Acronis Universal Restore can only be installed on a computer where at least one of the following Acronis components is installed Acronis True Image Agent for Windows Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version Bootable Media Builder Acronis Universal Restore can be installed on a networked computer either locally by running the setup program or remotely using one of remote installation services such as Systems Management Server a component of Microsoft Windows NT BackOffice program package Remote installation of Acronis Universal Re
103. ding to 4 4 1 Group status display The default interval between enquires is 2 seconds You have an option to set the status refresh rate based on your network requirements There is usually no need to refresh the view at all when the console is disconnected from the group server A separate option allows you to disable the polling on console disconnection or set a wider interval between packets There is also an option to stop scanning network for newly connected computers This can speed up operations with the computers already discovered After the scanning is disabled Acronis Group Server stops sending the packets but the response may come to the packets already sent Therefore some computers may be added to the computer list after scanning is disabled This is not a malfunction You can view and set the options for the selected items gf Network EAE Status check interval IJ wy Status check interval J Backup server quotas E S Notifications You can set up Acronis Group Server to check status of remote computers with custom periodicity EE Event tracing 5 lz E3 amp Default backup options Check status every E B Default restoration options 0 hh 0 Amin 2 S sec M Do not browse network for new computers f V If disconnected from a group server check status every ojh O min 15 sec To adjust the status refresh rate connect the console to the computer where Acroni
104. direct user computer backup data to the backup server while space or number quota is exceeded will not succeed Backup to the full location will also be prohibited An administrator can schedule a check of meeting the limitations All archives on the backup server will be checked and if the space quota is violated or the maximum number of backups is exceeded the backups will be processed as follows e Acronis Backup Server will combine the first full backup with the next incremental one into one full backup which will be dated the later backup date Then if necessary this backup will be combined with the next until the occupied storage space or number of backups decreases to the preset limit Thus the archive integrity will not be affected in spite of the fact that the oldest backups will be deleted This procedure is called automatic consolidation The actual number of backups can exceed the Maximum number of backups by one This enables the program to detect the fact of quota violation and start consolidation 3 5 3 Administrators and Users At installation Acronis Backup Server creates the user group called AcronisBackupServerUsers Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Computer Management gt Local Users and Groups gt AcronisBackupServerUsers Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 29 The person who installed the program becomes the administrator in this group The administrator is automatically registere
105. disk is selected independently If only one disk is selected a simple volume is created Striped mirrored and RAID 5 volumes imply even distribution of data between disks Therefore the volume must occupy the same space on each disk If you set different values your latest setting will be applied to all the disks If the set value is more than unallocated space on any disk the minimal available space amount will be applied to all the disks The resulting volume size is displayed under the disk selection field At this step you can deselect disks that you do not want to be included in the volume Dynamic Yolume Creation Disk Selection Select All None Specify amount of space that the dynamic volume will occupy on the selected disk Volume type Simple spanned Allocated on the disk 3 999 GB Warning The whole disk will be converted to dynamic All source partitions on the selected disk will be lost Total size of the volume 3 999 GB lt Back I Next gt f Cancel O Hep 6 Click Proceed in the summary window Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 93 Chapter 8 Scheduling tasks Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server allows you to schedule periodic backup and archive validation tasks Doing so will give you peace of mind knowing that your data are Safe You can create more than one independently scheduled task For example you can back
106. e Convert disk images to virtual disk files of the type you select vmdk vhd hdd Hard Disk Management Manage Acronis Secure Zone create delete resize remove or change password Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Convert a basic disk to dynamic Click Remote Computer Options select Default backup options or Default restoration options and make settings See details in 6 3 Setting backup options and 7 4 Setting restore options Click Remote Computer Options select Notifications or Event tracing and make settings See details in Chapter 12 Notifications and event tracing Click Show tasks to navigate to the Manage Computer Tasks window Click Create then follow the wizard s instructions See details in Chapter 8 Scheduling tasks Click Show tasks to navigate to the Manage Computer Tasks window See details in 8 2 Managing scheduled tasks Click Validate Backup Archive then follow the wizard s instructions See details in 11 1 Validating backup archives Click Consolidate archive then follow the Wizard s instructions See details in 21 3 Consolidating backup Click Convert backup to Virtual Disk and follow the wizard s instructions See details in 13 4 Converting disk images to virtual disks Click Manage Acronis Secure Zone then follow the wizard s instructions See details in Chapter 9 Managing the Acronis Secure Zone Click Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager then fol
107. e Image Agent Acronis Group Server Acronis Backup Server 2 2 4 Security parameters in Acronis Administrative Template As stated above encryption generally does not require setting up However connection to Acronis components of earlier versions will not be encrypted To completely disable non encrypted communication with some or all Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components use the Administrative Template provided by Acronis Through the Microsoft Group Policy mechanism the template can be applied to a single computer as well as to a domain How to apply Acronis Administrative Template 1 Run Windows Group Policy Objects Editor WINDOWS system32 gpedit msc 2 Open the Group Policy object you want to edit and in the console tree right click Administrative Templates 3 Click Add Remove Templates 4 Click Add 5 Browse to the Acronis Administrative Template Program files Common __ Files Acronis Agent acronis_agent adm or Program files Acronis Truel mageConsole acronis_agent adm and click Open 6 Once the template is added open it and edit the desired settings 16 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 For detailed information about Windows GPO Editor please see http msdn2 microsoft com en us library aa374163 aspx For detailed information about Group Policies please see http msdn2 microsoft com en us library aa374177 aspx The Acronis Administrative Template contains the following setti
108. e above steps Otherwise do not set this switch 7 3 11 Using Acronis Universal Restore Acronis Universal Restore is an add on to Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server It is purchased separately and installed from a separate setup file The following is true for Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server installations including Acronis Universal Restore 1 Using Acronis Universal Restore will help you create a bootable system clone on different hardware for more information see 3 7 Acronis Universal Restore Choose this when restoring a system disk to a computer with a dissimilar processor different motherboard or other mass storage device than in the imaged system Restore Data Wizard 2 x Acronis Universal Restore You can specify whether to use Acronis Universal Restore technology On this page you can select whether to use Acronis Universal Restore Using Acronis Universal Restore you are able to restore image of a system volume on any computer regardless of hardware configuration it has Also you can use specified system drivers during restoration Use Acronis Universal Restore Description Use this option if you want to restore your system partition from a backup image that was created using similar hardware 2 If the target hardware has a specific mass storage controller such as a SCSI RAID or Fibre Channel adapter for the hard disk you can install the appropriate driver manual
109. e can be located on any internal disk It is created using unallocated space if available or at the expense of free space on a partition Partition resizing may require a reboot A computer can have only one Acronis Secure Zone To create a zone on another disk you must first delete an existing zone 1 Before creating a zone you may want to estimate its size To do so start a backup and select all data you are going to copy into it At the Set Backup Options step choose Set the options manually then set the compression level You will see the estimated full backup size for disk partition backup or the approximate compression ratio for file level backup with which you can calculate the estimated full backup size Multiply this by about 1 5 to be able to create incremental or differential backups 2 If there are several disks installed select one on which to create Acronis Secure Zone Manage Acronis Secure Zone Wizard Disk Selection You can select a hard disk drive where you want to create Acronis Secure Zone Please choose a hard disk drive to create Acronis Secure Zone on Drive Capacity Model Interface Disk 1 4 000 GB VMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Primary Master ES Disk 3 6 000 gt Virtual IDE H 0000 F 5 998 GB FAT32 Primary BH Logical TH Unallocated pm Dynamic IE Unsupported volume Ov 3 Select the partitions from which space will be used to create the zone 100 Copyri
110. e disk does not allow for tracking changes in total disk space usage At the same time manual management of thousands 28 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 of archives in a location may be a serious problem Practice is the best criterion for your choice You can move clear or delete existing backup locations or edit their size limitations and storage period 3 5 2 Quotas and time limits for computers and users Individual quotas and time limits determine every computer s or user s quota on a backup server This include 1 maximum storage space allocated to a user computer in MB GB or TB 2 maximum number of backups 3 maximum number of incremental backups for each full backup 4 maximum storage period for the user s computer s backups A storage period is the amount of time that is allotted for a user or the backup location to maintain a file These values define how Acronis Backup Server itself will handle the backup archives At first backup of the computer user s data to the backup server a full backup will be created The next backups will be incremental until the maximum number of incremental backups is reached After that a full backup and a set of subsequent incremental backups is created then again a full backup and so on When backing up to backup server a user cannot select backup mode full incremental differential The backup mode will be set by Acronis Backup Server An attempt to
111. e not to be restored Use the common Windows masking rules For example to exclude all files with extension exe add exe My exe will exclude all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my This option is effective only when restoring files from file folders archives When restoring files from a disk partition image you cannot filter out any files 7 4 2 Files overwriting mode This option allows you to keep useful data changes made since the backup being restored was done Choose what to do if the program finds in the target folder a file with the same name as in the archive Overwrite existing file this will give the archived file unconditional priority over the file on the hard disk Overwrite existing file if it is older this will give the priority to the most recent file modification whether it be in the archive or on the disk Do not overwrite existing file this will give the file on the hard disk unconditional priority over the archived file This option is effective only when restoring files from file folders archives 7 4 3 Pre post commands You can specify commands or batch files to be automatically executed before and after the restore procedure Click Edit to open the Edit Command window where you can easily input the command its arguments and working directory or browse folders to find a batch file The program does not support interactive commands i e commands that require
112. e two or more backups pits in the copy numbers will be added to their names include_pits pits numbers Specifies the backups pits to be included in the archive copy To get the numbers of pits use pit_info Separate multiple values with semicolon for example include_pits 2 4 5 convert target_filename fil Specifies the path to and name of the virtual disk file to be created name The file extension corresponds to the type of the virtual machine to which the virtual disk will be added VMware virtual machine vmdk MS virtual machine vhd Parallels virtual machine hdd 142 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 narddisk disk number Specifies the hard disks to convert by numbers For each disk a separate virtual disk will be created By specifying harddisk DYN you will convert all dynamic volumes that present in the system vm_type vmware esx Micro soft parallels The type of the virtual machine to which the virtual disk will be added ur Use when converting image of a disk containing Windows and the resulting virtual disk is supposed to be bootable With this key the program will add drivers necessary for the virtual machine type selected with vm_type key to the resulting virtual disk If the image was taken from a virtual machine of the same type normally the key is not needed Drivers for the virtual machine reside in the storage defined by t
113. eBackup Backup archive name MyFileBackup tib Backup archive type file The selected backup sequence number 1 E Desktop Fa FTP Connections ag My Documents My Computer SB 3 Floppy a Se Local Disk C 3 DVD CD RW Drive D Bs Local Disk F a MyBackup i MyBackup2 S MyFileBackup MyFileBackup2 No description is available for this backup archive Date Thursday November 08 2007 9 01 04 PM Size 2 606 MB Filename F MyFileBackup tib he Files of type Backup Archives tib hs Help Open Cancel 2 If you added a comment to the archive it will be displayed to the right of the drives tree If the archive was protected with a password Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will ask for it Further steps will not be enabled until you enter the correct password 3 The program opens a Windows Explorer window displaying the archive contents If you selected an archive containing incremental or differential backups Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will suggest that you select one of the successive backups by its creation date time This allows you to explore the data state for a given point in time LT cx File Edit View Favorites Tools Help ay Cp Back GD wi Search Folders E Address ka F MyFileBackup tib z Go amp amp Other Places a Backup Thu Backup Thu Nov 08 07 Nov 08 0 Local Disk F 21 57 02
114. eat the procedure 11 2 3 Unmounting an image We recommend that you unmount the virtual disk after all necessary operations are finished as keeping up virtual disks takes considerable system resources If you do not the virtual disk will disappear after your server is turned off To disconnect the virtual disk click Unmount Image and select the disk to unmount You can also unmount the disk in Windows Explorer by right clicking on its icon and selecting Unmount 11 3 Consolidating backups The file name based consolidation allows deleting the backups that you do not need any more from any archive while keeping the archive consistency The operation is somewhat similar to consolidating backups on the Acronis Backup Server In either case you can delete from an archive if need be the base full backup The program will create another full backup in place of the oldest remaining backup The difference is as follows 1 On the backup server backups are deleted permanently File name based consolidation creates a consistent copy of the archive that does not contain deleted backups but the source archive stays as is unless you delete it This requires more disk space but ensures Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 111 security of the archive in case the consolidation fails because of power failure or lack of disk space 2 On the backup server you only can consolidate two backups in one File name based consolidation keeps which
115. ers on a network drive or CD which will also be used for drivers search The Windows default driver storage folder is determined in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows Current version DevicePath This storage folder is usually WINDOWS inf 2 Manual selection of mass storage device driver If the target hardware has a specific mass storage controller such as a SCSI RAID or Fibre Channel adapter for the hard disk you can install the appropriate driver manually bypassing the automatic driver search and install procedure 3 Installing drivers for plug and play devices Acronis Universal Restore relies on built in plug and play discovery and configuration process to handle hardware differences in devices that are not critical for the system start such as video audio and USB Windows takes control over this process during the logon phase and if some of the new hardware is not detected you will have a chance to install drivers for it later manually 3 7 3 Acronis Universal Restore and Microsoft Sysprep Acronis Universal Restore is nota system preparation tool You can apply it to any system image created by Acronis products including images prepared with Microsoft System Preparation Tool Sysprep The following is an example of using both tools on the same system Acronis Universal Restore does not strip security identifier SID and user profile settings in order to run the system immediately after reco
116. erver local version select Tools gt Options gt Default Backup Options from the main program menu To do the same remotely connect Acronis True Image Management Console to the remote computer click Remote Computer Options and select Default backup options You can edit the default or set the temporary backup options while creating a backup task as well Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 67 You can view and set the options for the selected items E3 Appearance f oe H Notifications Default backup options HG Event tracing g You can set up the options to be used by default for backups creation When configured these options are applied to the Default backup options ON m P w Archive Protection backup creation wizard freeing you from configuring the Ay Source files exclusion corresponding wizard s steps each time you create backup Pre Post commands iF ke Database support c Compression level E Backup performance e Fast incremental differential backup Archive splitting a File level security settings F Media components Error handling 2 Dual destination Additional settings E3 B Default restoration options Help 6 3 1 Archive protection Password The preset is no password An archive can be protected with a password To protect the archive data from being accessed by anybody except you enter a password and its confirmation into the tex
117. es To be able to restore the lost data or roll back your system to a predetermined state you should first create a data or entire system backup file If you are not concerned about restoration of your operating system along with all settings and applications but plan to keep safe only certain data the current project for example choose file folder backup This will reduce the archive size thus saving disk space and possibly reducing removable media costs Backing up the entire system disk creating a disk image takes more disk space but enables you to restore the system in minutes in case of severe data damage or hardware failure Moreover the imaging procedure is much faster than copying files and may Significantly speed the backup process when it comes to backing up large volumes of data see details in 3 1 The difference between file archives and disk partition images 6 1 Backing up files and folders file backup 1 Start the Create Backup Wizard by clicking on the backup operation icon in the main program window 2 Select My Data 3 From the tree pane select files and folders to back up You can select a random set of files folders partitions disks and even computers Create Backup Wizard 2 x Source Files Selecti Select Files and folder yant to back up My Documents y Network Places System Folder Desktop Free Space 1 521 GB Total Size 3 991 GB In order to restore your oper
118. et or the full archive seems too old to append incremental changes to it choose full backup Otherwise it is recommended that you create an incremental or differential backup see 3 2 Full incremental and differential backup Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 63 Select Backup Mode You can choose either full incremental or differential backup mode Create an incremental backup Create a differential backup archive Description Creates a new backup archive of specified files Folders partitions or entire hard disk drives 7 Select the backup options that is backup file splitting compression level password protection pre post backup commands etc You may select Use default options or Set the options manually f the latter is the case the settings will be applied only to the current backup task Alternatively you can edit the default options from the current screen Then your settings will be saved as the defaults See 6 3 Setting backup options for more information 8 Provide a comment for the archive This can help prevent you from restoring the wrong files However you can choose not to make any notes The backup file size and creation date are automatically appended to the description so you do not need to enter this information 9 At the final step the backup task summary is displayed Up to this point you can click Back to make changes in the created task Clicking Proceed w
119. etects the new disk itself In this case you will immediately proceed to the new partition creation Help If there are any partitions on the new disk they must be deleted first Select Delete partitions on the destination hard disk and click Next to continue 15 2 Creating new partitions Next you will see the current partition layout Initially all disk space will be unallocated This will change after you add new partitions To create a partition select Create new partition in unallocated space and click Next to perform steps required by the partition creation wizard You will be prompted to set the new partition location and size You can do this by entering values to the Unallocated space before Partition size or Unallocated space after fields by dragging the partition borders or by dragging the partition itself Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 133 If the cursor turns to two vertical lines with left and right arrows it is pointed at the partition border and you can drag it to enlarge or reduce the partition size If the cursor turns to four arrows it is pointed at the partition so you can move it to the left or right if there is unallocated space near it Having provided the new partition location and size you can input a label for the new partition If you make a mistake at partitioning click Back to redo the process Finally you will be taken back to the partition layout screen Check the resulting
120. ever backups you choose and deletes any backups that are not selected Consolidation can be performed both using the Acronis True Image Management Console connected to Acronis True Image Agent and with Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version The bootable program version also supports consolidation To consolidate backups in the archive 1 Do one of the following Connect the console to the computer where Acronis True Image Agent is installed select Backup and Recovery tasks and click Consolidate Archive In Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version start the Backup Consolidation Wizard by selecting Tools gt Consolidate archive in the main program menu 2 Select the archive from the drives tree The file name based consolidation does not support Acronis Backup Server and Acronis Secure Zone so these are not displayed in the tree Backup Consolidation Wizard Source Archive Selection Choose a backup file that is a part of a backup archive you want to clone E Desktop ai My Documents E P My Computer ssa MyBackup5 tib Backup archive name MyBackup tib Backup archive type file amp y 314 Floppy A The selected backup sequence number 5 Bs Local Disk C Are ee once heen hi so Backups No description is available for this backup archive wa MyBackup2 tib Date Tuesday July 17 2007 6 54 40 PM E3 MyBackup3 tib Size 87 28 MB eB
121. exclude_masks masks files and folders net_password password exclude_system exclude_hidden ftp_user ftp_password incremental differential compression 0 9 split size in MB reboot log file name log_net_user remote user log_net_password password Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 135 deploy Restores disks and partitions except for filename file name password password index N net_user username asz narddisk disk number partition partition number target_harddisk disk number target_partition partition the MBR from an net_password password number file_partition partition image ftp_user ftp_password letter start start sector oss_numbers reboot fat16_32 size partition size in log file name sectors log_net_user remote user type active primary logical log_net_password password preserve_mbr When using the Acronis Universal Restore option ur_path path ur_username user ur_password pwd ur_driver inf filename deploy_mbr filename file name hnarddisk disk number password password asz target_harddisk disk number Restores the MBR index N from a disk or net_user username partition image net_password password ftp_user ftp_password oss_numbers reboot log file name log_net_user remote user log_net_password password
122. files or folders If necessary the image can be mounted in read only mode Please keep in mind that although both file archives and disk partition images have a default tib extension only images can be mounted If you want to view file archive contents use the Explore operation The following is a brief summary of the Explore and Mount operations Explore Mount Archive type File level disk or partition image Partition image Assigning a letter No Yes Archive modification No Yes in R W mode Files extraction Yes Yes Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can mount or explore an image archive only if all its volumes reside in the same directory If your archive spans several CD R RW discs and you want to mount the image copy all volumes to a hard disk drive or network drive 11 2 1 Exploring an archive 1 Click Explore and Validate Backup Archives in the Tools group or select the Backup Archives category on the sidebar to navigate to the Manage Backup Archives window Then select Explore Backup Archive Or you can select Tools gt Explore Backup Archive in the main program menu 2 Select an archive from the drive tree and click Open If the archive is located in Acronis Secure Zone select it to choose the archive at the next step The explore operation does not support Acronis Backup Server so backup servers are not displayed in the tree 108 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 a MyFil
123. from 63 to 64000 sector trueimagecmd deploy filename z Server30Cdrive tib partition 1 1 target_partition 2 1 type active password 123qwe e This will restore partition 1 1 stored in image Server30Cdrive tib protected with password 123qwe to partition 2 1 The restored partition will be of active type trueimagecmd deploy_mbr harddisk 1 asz 2 index 3 password pswd e This will restore MBR from the image of hard disk 1 to the same hard disk 1 The image is contained in the backup 3rd created in the archive number 2 located in Acronis Secure Zone that is protected with the pswd password trueimagecmd deploy_mbr harddisk 1 target_harddisk 2 filename ftp server folder arc tib ftp_user fuser ftp_password fpswd Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 145 e This will restore MBR from the image of hard disk 1 to the hard disk 2 The image is contained in the arc tib file located on the FTP server 3 Back up files trueimagecmd filebackup filename E Backups Myproject tib include D Workarea MyProject exclude_names D Workarea MyProject Old exclude_hidden e This will back up files from the MyProject folder residing in D Workarea except for files in the Old subfolder and hidden files to the file Myproject tio and save this file in E Backups folder 4 Restore files trueimagecmd filerestore filename E Backups Myproject tib original_date e This will restore al
124. g up disks and partitions image backup You can back up other disks partitions as well but the system image is mandatory When performing Snap Restore the current Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server AN version always restores the entire system disk Therefore if your system disk consists of several partitions all of them must be included in the image Any partitions which are missing from the image will be lost If failure occurs boot the local computer from the bootable media or RIS server or using F11 Start the recovery procedure see 7 3 Restoring disks partitions or files from images select the system disk image from Acronis Secure Zone choose Use Snap Restore and in the next window click Proceed In a few seconds the computer will reboot to the restored system Log in and start work no additional reboots or other actions are required You can perform Snap Restore running Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server in Windows operating systems as well However it is mandatory to have bootable media in case Windows cannot boot 3 7 Acronis Universal Restore 3 7 1 Acronis Universal Restore purpose A system disk image can be deployed easily on the hardware where it was created or to identical hardware However if you change a motherboard or use another processor version a likely possibility in case of hardware failure the restored system could be unbootable An attempt to transfer the system to a new much more p
125. ged partitions are marked with a red circle and a white X inside in the upper left corner Before you start cloning you should check such disks for errors using the appropriate operating system tools 124 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 14 2 Security Please note the following If the power goes out or you accidentally press RESET during the transfer the procedure will be incomplete and you will have to partition and format or clone the hard disk again No data will be lost because the original disk is only being read no partitions are changed or resized until data transfer is completed We recommend that you do not delete data from the old disk until you are sure it is correctly transferred to the new disk the server boots up from it and all applications work 14 3 Executing transfers 14 3 1 Selecting Clone mode You will see the Clone mode window just after the welcome window Clone Mode You can choose between either fully automated or manual clone modes Select the hard disk clone mode You can find the description of your selection below Press Next when ready to proceed Ofu Manual Description Automatic mode is used for hard disk cloning All your partitions From the old hard disk will be copied to the new one in few simple steps and make your new hard disk bootable All your partitions will be automatically resized to fit the new hard disk Note that you have to remove the old hard
126. gged in Windows with the above accounts users of local Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server version will be able to select the tape tape library from the list of destination devices The backup server administrator can create group or individual tasks for computers to back up their data to the tape tape library using Acronis True Image Management Console Filenames for backups are not needed when backing up to tape 3 9 Viewing disk and partition information You can change the way data is represented in all schemes you see in various wizards To the right are three icons Arrange Icons by Choose Details and i Display the properties of the selected item the last duplicated in the context menu invoked by right clicking objects To sort messages by a particular column click the header another click will switch the messages to the opposite order or Arrange Icons by button and select the column To select columns to view right click the headers line or left click the Choose Details button Then flag the columns you want to display If you click the i Display the properties of the selected item button you will see the selected partition or disk properties window This window contains two panels The left panel contains the properties tree and the right describes the selected property in detail The disk information includes its physical parameters connection type device type size etc partition information includes both physic
127. ght Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Manage Acronis Secure Zone Wizard Create Acronis Secure Zone 4 In the next window enter the Acronis Secure Zone size or drag the slider to select any size between the minimum and maximum ones Manage Acronis Secure Zone Wizard Size You can specify the Acronis Secure Zone size The minimum size is approximately 35MB depending on the geometry of the hard disk The maximum size is equal to the disk s unallocated space plus the total free space on all partitions selected at the previous step When creating the zone the program will first use the unallocated space If there is not enough unallocated space the selected partitions will be decreased Partition resizing may require a reboot Please keep in mind that reducing a system partition to the minimum size might prevent your operating system from booting a Ag Ag w Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 101 5 You can set a password to restrict access to the zone The program will ask for the password at any operation relating to it such as data backup and recovery mounting images or validating archives on the zone using the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager with the F11 key resizing and deleting the zone Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server repair or update will not affect the password However if the program is removed and then installed again while keeping the Acronis Secure Zone on the dis
128. he registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Acronis UniversalRestore Drive rsPackPath In case the storage has been moved please change the key or use the command ur_path path ur_path path filename file_name partition partition number The same as ur with custom path to the virtual machine drivers storage With this option the image contents is displayed When listing image contents partition numbers may not coincide with those in the drives partitions list if the image does not contain all the disk partitions For example if the image contains partitions 2 3 and 2 5 they will be listed as 2 1 and 2 2 If the deploy partition command cannot find a partition in the image by its physical number use partition lt number in the image gt target_partition lt physical number of the target partition gt keys For the above example to restore partition 2 5 to its original place use partition 2 2 target partition 2 5 Specifies a list of partitions to be mounted as virtual drives Without this option all partitions stored in the image will be mounted To obtain the partition number for this option list the image contents with the list filename command an use the number from the Idx column letter letter X Assigns letters to the mounted drives This option is used with partition option only Specifies the virtual drive to be disconnected by letter letter a
129. he bootable data on this server as well Then any networked computer will be able to boot Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server from the RIS package If you have other Acronis products such as Acronis Disk Director Server installed on your computer you can include standalone versions of these programs on the same bootable disk as well This feature is available both in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version and Acronis True Image Management Console However Acronis True Image Management Console does not contain Rescue Media Builder in its own installation Therefore to be able to create bootable media RIS package from Acronis True Image Management Console you must have Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version or another Acronis product including Rescue Media Builder installed on the same computer If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server installation you will not be able to use this feature 1 Click Create Bootable Rescue Media on the toolbar or the sidebar or select Create Bootable Rescue Media from the Tools menu You can also run the Bootable Rescue Media Builder without loading Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server by selecting Programs gt Acronis gt True Image gt Bootable Rescue Media Builder from the Start menu 2 Select which components of Acronis programs you want to place on the bootable media Acronis
130. he network check Network path select the target folder and specify the username and password for access to the network drive When backing up to a backup server choose Personal Backup Location or tape drive and enter backup server administrator s credentials For more information about backup servers see 3 5 Acronis Backup Server You should also provide the archive name for each computer unless the archives are targeted to Acronis Secure Zones or a backup server Pressing the button to the right of the name input field will assign to each archive the respective computer s name 6 For the backup task only Specify the usual backup settings backup mode full incremental or differential a password for the backup archive if necessary default or custom backup options and comment For more information see Chapter 6 Creating backup archives 7 Provide a name for the group task The name will be displayed in the Group Tasks Management window see below to allow quick task identification 8 Select when you would like the task to be started The scheduling procedure is almost the same for individual and group tasks see Chapter 8 Scheduling tasks for details 9 If for any reason traffic limitation for example you do not want the task to start on all computers simultaneously set the Start time shift parameter The task will start on all computers in turn with the time shift you specify As soon as you select time shift the resu
131. hich is checked by default 3 Multi volume snapshot The preset is disabled Enable the Multi volume snapshot feature if you are going to back up data located on multiple volumes and you must preserve its consistency such as a database spanned across the volumes In this case a single snapshot for all volumes is created which will be used for backup creation When disabled snapshots for volumes will be taken one by one 6 3 5 Compression level The preset is Normal The data will be copied without any compression which may significantly increase the backup file size if you select None as the compression level However if you select Maximum compression the backup will take longer to create The optimal data compression level depends on the type of files stored in the archive For example even maximum compression will not significantly reduce the archive size if the archive contains essentially compressed files such as jpg pdf or mp3 However formats such as doc or xls will compress more than other file types Generally it is recommended that you use the default Normal compression level You might want to select Maximum compression for removable media to reduce the number of blank disks required 6 3 6 Backup performance The three options below might have a more or less noticeable effect on the backup process speed This depends on overall system configuration and physical characteristics of devices 1 Backup process
132. hts on the target machines Installation of Acronis components onto remote machines running all Windows Vista editions is not possible You will have to install the components locally on such computers If the remote computer runs Windows XP the option Control panel gt Folder options gt View gt Use simple file sharing must be disabled on that computer If the remote computer runs Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows 2003 Server the option Control panel gt Windows Firewall gt Exceptions gt File and Printer Sharing must be enabled on that computer 36 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 To install Acronis components 1 Click Install Acronis components to a remote computer in the center of Acronis True Image Management Console main window on the toolbar or the sidebar or select the same item from the Tools menu 2 Select the installer location from the list Registered Components Search removable media or Specify location The default selection Registered Components will use setup files from the default C Program Files Common Files Acronis Remotel nstall folder 3 Select the Acronis component and specify the component features you want to install for custom component features see 2 3 nstalling Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components Remote Install Wizard Select Program Please select the program to install on the remote computer Program Version Language Filename
133. ial backups Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can create full incremental and differential backups A full backup contains all data at the moment of backup creation It forms a base for further incremental or differential backup or is used as a standalone archive A full backup has the shortest restore time as compared to incremental or differential ones An incremental backup only contains data changed since the last full or incremental backup creation Therefore it is smaller and takes less time to create However since it does not contain all data needed to restore an image a the previous incremental backups and the initial full backup are required for restoration A differential backup creates an independent file containing all changes since the last full archive Generally data from a differential backup will be restored faster than an incremental backup as it does not have to process through a long chain of previous backups Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 25 A standalone full backup could be an optimal solution if you often roll back the system to the initial state for example systems in a gaming club or Internet caf where you need to undo changes made by the guests In this case you need not re create the initial full image so the backup time is not crucial and the restore time will be minimal Alternatively if you are interested in saving only the most current data state to be able to restore it i
134. ilable for example CD R RW inserted the task can run unattended Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 75 4 Reset archive bit The preset is disabled The option relates only to file level backup In Windows operating systems each file has an attribute File is ready for archiving available at selecting file gt Properties gt General gt Advanced gt Archive and Index attributes This attribute also known as archive bit is set by the operating system each time the file is changed and can be reset by backup applications each time they include the file in a backup copy Archive bit value is used by various applications such as databases With Reset archive bit enabled Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will reset archive bits of all files being backed up Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server itself does not use the archive bit value When performing incremental or differential backup it determines whether a file has changed by the file size and the date time when the file was last saved 76 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Chapter 7 Restoring the backup data 7 1 Considerations before recovery 7 1 1 Restore under Windows or boot from CD As mentioned above see 2 5 1 Running Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can be run in several ways We recommend that you first try to restore data running Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise
135. ill launch the task 10 For Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version only The task progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel You can also close the progress window by clicking Hide The backup creation will continue but you will be able to start another operation or close the main program window In the latter case the program will continue working in the background and will automatically close once the backup archive is ready If you prepare some more backup operations they will be queued after the current one 64 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 3 Operation Progress ioj xj Acronis Create Full Backup Archive From C Documents and Settings True Image ivan Desktop Enterprise To file F MyFileBackup tib Compression Normal Server Exclude Files matching mask Match criterion bak tmp Operation 1 of 1 ae D Backup files and folders O C Documents and Settings ivan Desktop EJ C Documents and Settings ivan Desktopiseri Total progress 9 Acronis Tangata wh tence A www acronis com Cancel You can adjust the backup process priority To do so click on the process icon in the System Tray and select Low Normal or High priority from the menu that appears For information on how to set the default priority see 6 3 6 Backup performance 11 You may want to see the log when the task
136. indow e Options open a window for editing default backup restore options setting text appearance fonts configuring e mail or Windows pop up notifications etc The Help menu is used to view help and obtain information about Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 57 Most of the operations are represented two or even three times in different window areas providing several ways to select them for more convenience For example you can start the necessary operation or tool by clicking its icon in the main area or by selecting the same item from the Operations or Tools menu Status bar There is a status bar divided into two parts at the bottom of the main window The left side briefly describes the selected operation the right side indicates operation progress and results If you double click on the operation results you will see the log window Taskbar notification area icon During most of the operations a special indicator icon appears in the Windows taskbar notification area If you mouse over the icon you will see a tool tip indicating the operation s progress This icon doesn t depend on the main program window being open It is present for background execution of scheduled tasks as well 5 2 Managing a local computer You can perform the following operations on the local computer Operation How to access Back up and Recover Back up and restore data including
137. installation and setup For information on how to manage Acronis Backup Server see 4 5 Managing backup server 3 5 1 Backup locations Backup server is a networked computer where Acronis Backup Server is installed A backup location is a storage area for backups on a local backup server hard drive At installation Acronis Backup Server creates one default backup location The location has the following properties Path C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data Acronis BackupServer Backups Maximum backup location size Unlimited Maximum storage period days Unlimited All backup data destined to the backup server will be saved in the default backup location Because it may not be practical or efficient for you to store all backup data in one location the backup server allows you to create as many locations as you need each with its own properties The three basic rules are e any location except for the default one must be assigned to at least one user or computer e only one location can be assigned to a user or computer e the default location may not be assigned to a user or computer There must be a default backup location on a backup server though You can create a separate location for each user or computer while adding them to the backup server distribute the users computers between several locations or assign the same location to all users computers Maintaining multiple small backup locations on a singl
138. ion 3 of 3 Reboot required Copying MBR Hard disk 1 gt 2 A Please click Proceed to start www acronis com Cloning a disk containing the currently active operating system will require a reboot In that case after clicking Proceed you will be asked to confirm the reboot Canceling the reboot will cancel the entire procedure Cloning a non system disk or a disk containing an operating system but one that is not currently active will proceed without reboot After you click Proceed Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will start cloning the old disk to the new disk indicating the progress in a special window You can stop this procedure by clicking Cancel In that case you will have to repartition and format the new disk or repeat the cloning procedure After the operation is complete you will see the results message 14 4 Cloning with manual partitioning 14 4 1 Old and new disk partition layouts The manual transfer method enables you to resize partitions on the new disk By default the program resizes them proportionally In the next window you will see rectangles indicating the source hard disk including its partitions and unallocated space as well as the new disk layout Along with the hard disk number you will see disk capacity label partition and file system information Different partition types including primary logical and unallocated space are marked with different colors Copyright Acronis I
139. is Secure Zone is deleted If you specify several partitions the space will be distributed proportionally to each partition s size clone narddisk disk number Specifies a source hard disk which will be cloned to the new hard disk target_harddisk disk number Specifies the target hard disk number where the source hard disk will be cloned 16 1 4 trueimagecmd exe usage examples 1 Image disks and partitions trueimagecmd create filename C Test 1l tib Lp k 3 partition 2 e This will create an image named 1 tib of the partitions 2 1 and 1 3 The image will be saved to the C Test folder trueimagecmd create filename Test 1l tib 1 1 3 file_partition 3 1 trueimagecmd create asz partition 2 1 1 3 e This will create an image of the partitions 2 1 and 1 3 in the Acronis Secure Zone partition 2 e This will create an image named 1 tib of the partitions 2 1 and 1 3 The image will be saved in the folder Test on partition 3 1 trueimagecmd create filename C Test 1l tib password qwerty harddisk 2 reboot raw incremental compression 5 split 640 progress off 144 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 e This will append an incremental image to the image named 1 tib of hard disk 2 The image will be saved to C Test folder protected with password qwerty split into parts of 640MB and contain all cluster data Image compression le
140. isting partitions and their data will be deleted but they will also be cloned to the new disk so you won t lose them Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 127 e Keep data leave the old disk partitions and data intact e Destroy data destroy all data on the old disk Old Hard Disk Usage a should keep data on You may choose between these scenarios to keep your old drive unmodified create a new layout For it or destroy all data on it ry Create a new partition layout x C Destroy data Description All partitions on your old drive will be kept untouched Select this if you plan to remove your old hard disk drive From your computer and keep it in a safe place as a backup after your data is transferred to the new drive If you are going to sell or give away your old disk we recommend that you make sure you destroyed the data on it If you are going to keep it for data storage you can create a new partition layout on it In this case the disk will be ready right after cloning is complete To protect yourself from unforeseen consequences it would be better to leave the old disk data intact as you will be able to delete it later 14 3 7 Destroying the old disk data If you elected to destroy the old disk data in the previous step you will have to select the destruction method now e Quick quick one pass destruction e Normal multipass destruction 128 Copyright Acroni
141. ition or a whole hard disk drive to restore Ae a Partition Flags Capacity Free Space Type Disk 1 fe NTFS C Pri Act 3 991 GB 1 518 GB NTFS Disks and partitions images contain a copy of track 0 along with the MBR Master Boot Record It appears in this window in a separate line You can choose whether to restore MBR and track 0 by checking the respective box Restore the MBR if it is critical to your system boot 7 3 5 Selecting a target disk partition 1 Select a target disk or partition where you want to deploy the selected image You can restore data to its initial location to another disk partition or to an unallocated space The target partition should be at least the same size as the uncompressed image data All the data stored on the target partition will be replaced by the image data so be careful and watch for non backed up data that you might need When restoring a Windows system disk and select a target disk the program compares critical for the system start devices found in the image registry and the target computer registry If the chipset motherboard or mass storage device are different there is a risk that the system will not be able to boot Then you will be prompted whether you want to buy Acronis Universal Restore To find out more about this option see 3 7 Acronis Universal Restore To buy the option follow the link If you already have Acronis Universal Restore the prompt will not
142. ition will be deleted discontinuing the recovery operation You will be able to cancel the operation or return to select another disk Note that no real changes or data destruction will be performed at this time For now the program will just map out the procedure All changes will be implemented only when you click Proceed in the wizard s final window To continue select the first choice and click Next You will be taken directly to step 7 3 10 Restoring several disks or partitions at once 7 3 6 Changing the restored partition type When restoring a partition you can change its type though it is not required in most cases To illustrate why you might need to do this let s imagine that both the operating system and data were stored on the same primary partition on a damaged disk If you are restoring a system partition to the new or the same disk and want to load an operating system from it you will select Active If you restore a system partition to another hard disk with its own partitions and OS most likely you will need only the data In this case you can restore the partition as Logical to access the data only By default the original partition type is selected Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 85 Selecting Active for a partition without an installed operating system could prevent your server from booting 7 3 7 Changing the restored partition file system You can change the partition file syste
143. k the password for the zone will be reset 6 After this you will be prompted to activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager which will enable you to start Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server at boot time by pressing F11 key Or you can activate this feature later from the main program window 7 Then you will see a list of operations to be performed on partitions disks After you click Proceed Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will start creating the zone Progress will be reflected in a special window If necessary you can stop zone creation by clicking Cancel However the procedure will be canceled only after the current operation is finished Acronis Secure Zone creation might take several minutes or more Please wait until the whole procedure is finished 9 2 Resizing the Acronis Secure Zone 1 When prompted by the wizard select Manage Acronis Secure Zone 2 Select to increase or decrease the zone You might need to increase it to provide more space for archives The opposite situation could arise if either partition lacks free space 3 Select partitions from which free space will be used to increase Acronis Secure Zone or that will receive free space after the zone is reduced 4 Enter the new size of the zone or drag the slider to select the size When increasing the Acronis Secure Zone the program will first use unallocated space If there is not enough unallocated space the selected partitions will be
144. kup 4 Choose location and name for the archive copy By default the program suggests the same location and the source archive name with 1 added Backup Consolidation Wizard 2 x Consolidated Archive Location Specify place where to store the cloned backup archive X Delete file P Create new folder Backups Desktop File Folder 7 B My Documents Z p My Computer Free Space 583 9 MB BA 314 Floppy A 3 Total Size 4 987 GB BS Local Disk C s0 Backups S MyBackup2 tib S MyBackup3 tib E3 MyBackup4 tib S MyBackup5 tib gt MyBackup tib BL v s i amp Filename C Backups MyBackup 1 tib Files of type Backup Archives tib a5 O te New archive will be created in the same folder and named MyBackup 1 5 The program displays the summary window Click Proceed to start consolidation In our example when consolidation is completed the folder Backups will contain two archives MyBackup and MyBackup 1 The first is the source archive the second is the copy consisting of MyBackup 1 and MyBackup 1 2 MyBackup 1 is a full backup containing data as of Tuesday July 17 2007 5 35 09 PM MyBackup 1 2 is an incremental backup containing data as of Tuesday July 17 2007 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 113 6 54 40 PM You can make sure of this by starting the consolidation wizard again selecting the archive MyBackup 1 and proceeding
145. l files from E Backups Myproject tio to the original folder and assign the files the original date and time Since the overwrite option is not specified the latest files modifications will be replaced with the original ones 5 Consolidate backups trueimagecmd pit_info filename smbsrv Archives Kons tib e This will display the numbered list of backups contained in the archive Kons tib residing on the network share smbsrv Archives Program Files Acronis Truel mageEchoEnterpriseServer trueimagecmd pit_info filename sru e lenal kons tib Pi hase date 6 27 2007 11 39 18 AM z image kind incremental date 6 27 2007 11 43 13 AM eso type image kind incremental date 6727 2007 11 44 64 AM Pit number type image kind incremental date 6 27 2607 11 48 22 AM Pit number 5 type image kind incremental date 6 27 26807 11 58 32 AM Operation has succeeded trueimagecmd consolidate filename smbsrv Archives Kons tib target_filename D Kons_new tib include pits 2 4 5 e This will create on the disk D an archive consisting of three files Kons_new tib pit 2 of the archive smbsrv Archives Kons tib former smbsrv Archives Kons2 tib Kons_new2 tib pit 4 former smbsrv Archives Kons4 tib and Kons_new3 tib pit 5 former smbsrv Archives Kons5 tib 6 Convert an image to virtual disk trueimagecmd convert filename C MyBackup tib target_filename C MyHDD vmdk vm_type vmware harddi
146. layout You might have to perform some more resizing and relocation before you get the layout you need 132 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Chapter 15 Adding a new hard disk If you don t have enough space for your data you can either replace the old disk with a new higher capacity one data transfers to new disks are described in the previous chapter or add a new disk to store data leaving the system on the old disk If the server has space for another disk it would be easier to add a data disk drive than to clone a system one This feature is available in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version only Adding disks using Acronis True Image Management Console is not supported To add a new disk you must first install it in your server 15 1 Selecting a hard disk Select the disk that you ve added to the server Add New Disk Wizard 2 x Destination Hard Disk Select your new hard disk from the list below Select the destination new hard disk From the list of available drives then press Next Drive Capacity Model Interface lt Disk 1 4 000 GB VMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE O Primary Master z Disk 2 Dynamic GPT 8 GB VMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Primary Slave Pm Disk3 6 000 tual IDE H0000 IDE 0 F 6 000 cg 998 GB FAT32 M Primary BH Logical E Unallocated p retells I Unsupported olume This window might be bypassed if the program d
147. le with the same name as in the archive Restore Data Wizard Restoration Mode You can choose how to restore existing files Specify the action to perform if the destination Folder already contains a file with the same name as the file that is being restored C Overwrite existing file if it is older Do not overwrite existing file Description Select this item if you want to allow the program to overwrite existing files with restored files Overwrite existing file this will give the archived file unconditional priority over the file on the hard disk Overwrite existing file if it is older this will give the priority to the most recent file modification whether it be in the archive or on the disk Do not overwrite existing file this will give the file on the hard disk unconditional priority over the archived file 9 At the final step the restoration summary is displayed Up to this point you can click Back to make changes in the created task Clicking Proceed will launch the task 10 For Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local or bootable version The task progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel Please keep in mind that the aborted procedure still may cause changes in the destination folder 7 3 Restoring disks partitions or files from images To restore a partition disk from an image Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server
148. ll harddisk X Disconnects all virtual drives Specifies the hard disk number where the Acronis Secure Zone will be created Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 143 partition partition number Specifies partitions from which free space will be taken for Acronis Secure Zone size ASZ size in sectors unallocated Sets the Acronis Secure Zone size in sectors If not specified the size is set as an average between the maximal unallocated space plus free space on all partitions selected with the partition option and minimal about 35MB values Either way the program will first use the unallocated space If there is not enough unallocated space the selected partitions will be decreased Resizing of locked partitions requires a reboot With unallocated the zone will use all unallocated space on the disk Partitions will be moved if necessary but not resized Moving of locked partitions requires a reboot The partition option is ignored asz_activate Activates the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager The option will not take effect if the system partition is resized during Acronis Secure Zone creation In that case use the separate asz_activate command asz_activate password password Sets a password for the Acronis Secure Zone asz_delete partition partition number Specifies partitions to which free space will be added after the Acron
149. low the wizard s instructions See details in 3 4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Click Convert to dynamic disk then follow the wizard s instructions See details in 7 5 1 Converting disk to dynamic Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 41 Other Tools Create bootable rescue media its ISO or See Chapter 10 Creating bootable media RIS package Update the remote agent Click Update the remote agent then follow the Wizard s instructions The procedure is the same as described in 4 2 nstalling updating Acronis components on remote machine After you perform all necessary operations on the remote computer select Disconnect or New connection on the toolbar sidebar or the Connect menu 4 4 Managing groups of computers 4 4 1 Group status display When connected to a computer where Acronis Group Server is installed click Acronis Group Server management to display the following window 01x 7 Connect View Tools Help Remote Management New Connection X Disconned gt Group Tasks Management H Reconnect onnect Ee Add Export se e a Tools a i New EI Fi ET hel A Create Bootable Rescue Media Computer State Login Info Operation Progress Start Time Estimate amp ECOMPUTER Unmanaged Group Tasks Ih ESTRELLA Unmanaged len Th EUROPE Unmanaged E Show Log Ih FABHOST Unmanaged REST offline Help ID ANDREW Inaccessible COMPTECH Offline Y Install Acronis Components Com
150. lt Compression level i 1 i i 1 6 Backup performance t B Backup priority HDD writing speed e Transferring speed stated in kilobytes per second 10 col ectiol Network connection speed e Fast incremental differential backup paper Archive splitting File level security settings Media components Error handling Dual destination Hep Minimum Maximum i 1 1 lt If you frequently backup data to network drives think of limiting the network usage used by Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server To set the desired data transfer speed drag the slider or enter the bandwidth limit for transferring backup data in kilobytes per second This setting is also applied to an FTP connection if an FTP server is selected as backup destination device 6 3 7 Fast incremental differential backup The preset is Use fast incremental differential backup Incremental differential backup captures only changes in data occurred since the last backup To speed up the backup process Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server determines whether the file has changed by file size and the date time when the file was last saved Disabling this feature will make the program compare the entire file contents to that stored in the archive This option relates only to disk partition image backup Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 71 6 3 8 Archive splitting Sizeable backups can be split into several files that
151. lt settings Each user or computer added to Acronis Backup Server database is associated with the default backup location and the default user computer quotas and time limits When installed on a computer which becomes a backup server from this point on Acronis Backup Server creates the following folder C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data Acronis BackupServer This folder is a default backup location You can change the default backup location and its quotas time limits by selecting Specify Default Settings gt Set backup location and entering the desired location and values Changing the default backup location will direct backups of newly added users computers to another folder while users computers associated with old default backup location will continue back up to the old place 48 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Acronis True Image Management Console writers 7 Connect View Tools Help 0 0 9 42 9 Remote Management P New Connection Set the nd time limits W Disconnect D Reconnect kup location and quotas and time limits that will be applied to ec mputer by ault Tools Pick a task A Create Bootable Rescue Media Y Install Acronis Components omputers and users Set Quotas and Time Limits Set quotas and time limits For led computers and users Schedule Auto idation and Backup Management 4 Check backup are storing policies set For users and computers The def
152. lting task start time for the first and the last computer will be displayed 10 Now enter the username and password It is assumed that accounts with the same username and password exist on all computers of the group In this case the task will be automatically distributed to the computers Otherwise you will be asked for the username and password for every computer during the task distribution 11 At the final step the group task summary is displayed Up to this point you can click Back to make changes in the created task Create Group Task Wizard 2 x Acronis Acronis True Image Management Console is ready to proceed with T I creating group task Here is the complete list of operations to be rue mage performed Management Co n sole Group Task Create Incremental Backup Archive Task Name Backup of all discs From All Disks To file Acronis Secure Zone Compression Normal Operation 1 of 1 Create Incremental Backup Archive From All Disks am To Acronis Secure Zone Compression Normal www acronis com Please click Proceed to start Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 45 12 After you click Proceed Acronis True Image Management Console connects to every computer of the group in turn to distribute the task If a remote computer is inaccessible shut down for example a dialog box appears In this box choose Ignore to exclude the computer from the group or Cancel to cancel the entire ta
153. lumns step parameters to display right click the headers line or left click the Choose Details button Then check the desired parameters To sort messages by a particular parameter click its header click again to reverse order or the Arrange Icons by button the second from the right and select the desired parameter You can also change column width by dragging the borders with a mouse 12 4 Event tracing 12 4 1 Windows event log You can choose whether to store event log messages issued by Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server to Windows Event Log to see this log run eventvwr exe or select Control Panel gt Administrative tools gt Event Viewer gt Application The default setting Do not save messages To change this setting select Tools gt Options gt Windows event log Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 117 An additional choice is available recording All events Warnings and Errors or Errors only 12 4 2 SNMP notifications Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can provide the following Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP objects to SNMP management applications 1 3 6 1 4 1 24769 100 200 1 0 string identifying a type of occurred event Information Warning Error 1 3 6 1 4 1 24769 100 200 2 0 string containing text description of occurred event it looks identically to messages published by Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server in its log 2 Appearance
154. ly bypassing the automatic driver search and install procedure Use this option only if the automatic search and install procedure was unsuccessful Acronis Universal Restore uses three sources for drivers Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 87 the driver repository a folder or folders on a network drive or CD specified in restore options If you have not specified the driver repository in advance you can do it at next step the mass storage device driver specified by the user at the current step the Windows default driver storage folders in the image being restored The program will find the most suitable drivers of all available drivers and install them into the restored system However the driver defined by the user will have the priority It will be installed with appropriate warnings even if the program finds the better driver When restoring the system to a virtual machine that uses SCSI hard drive controller be sure to specify SCSI drivers for virtual environment in the Specifying Mass Storage Drivers window Use drivers bundled with your virtual machine software or download the latest drivers versions from the software manufacturer website 7 3 12 Setting restore options Select the options for the restoration process that is pre post restoration commands restoration process priority etc You may Use default options or Set the options manually If you set the options manually the settings will be ap
155. m during its restoration although it is seldom required Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can make the following file system conversions FAT 16 gt FAT 32 and Ext2 gt Ext3 For partitions with other native file systems this option is not available Let us imagine you are to restore a partition from an old low capacity FAT16 disk to a newer disk FAT16 would not be effective and might even be impossible to set on the high capacity hard disk That s because FAT16 supports partitions up to 4GB so you will not be able to restore a 4GB FAT16 partition to a partition that exceeds that limit without changing the file system It would make sense here to change the file system from FAT16 to FAT32 However keep in mind that not all operating systems support FAT32 MS DOS Windows 95 and Windows NT 3 x 4 x do not support FAT32 and will not be operable after you restore a partition and change its file system These can be normally restored on a FAT16 partition only 7 3 8 Changing the restored partition size and location You can resize and relocate a partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse or by entering corresponding values in the appropriate fields Using this feature you can redistribute the disk space between partitions being restored In this case you will have to restore the partition to be reduced first Restore Data Wizard Restored Partition Size Specify the size and location of the restored partition
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157. n as described in point 4 of 4 4 1 Group status display You can combine both methods for example to set up a uniform account for domain members and set individual accounts for members of a workgroup 2 2 2 Firewall setup Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server uses the following ports and IP addresses for remote operation e server Acronis True Image Agent UDP port 9876 e server Acronis True Image Agent TCP port 9876 if busy choose a port at random e client Acronis True Image Management Console UDP port 9877 if busy choose a port at random e Pv4 multicast address 239 255 219 45 e Pv6 multicast address FFO5 fAA5 741E You might have to set the appropriate firewall access options Options for the Windows Firewall included in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows 2003 Server are set automatically during Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components installation However make sure that the option File and Printer Sharing in the Control panel gt Windows Firewall gt Exceptions is enabled on the remote computer before the remote operation starts Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 15 2 2 3 Encrypted communication Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server provides capability to secure all data transferred between Acronis components within local net and through DMZ including the backup stream Encryption starts on the first earliest stage of connection attempt so all data transferred on the
158. n case of system failure consider the differential backup It is particularly effective if your data changes tend to be little as compared to the full data volume An incremental backup is most useful when you need frequent backups and possibility to roll back to any one of multiple stored states For example let s say you create a full backup once a month If you then create an incremental backup each day of a month you will get the same result as if you created full backups every day However the cost in time and disk space or removable media usage will be as little as one tenth as much It is important to note that the above arguments are just examples for your information Feel free to make up your own backup policy in accordance with your specific tasks and conditions Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server is flexible enough to meet any real life demands An incremental or differential backup created after a disk is defragmented might be considerably larger than usual This is because the defragmentation program changes file locations on disk and the backups reflect these changes Therefore it is recommended that you re create a full backup after disk defragmentation 3 3 Acronis Secure Zone The Acronis Secure Zone is a special hidden partition for storing archives on the computer system itself For archive security purposes ordinary applications cannot access it In the Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server Wizards
159. nc 2000 2007 131 Manual Relayout You may adjust the size and position of partitions manually Check the box below if you want to proceed with a relayout If you are satisfied with current partition layout uncheck the box Before cloning S llc U 4 000 cg 3 991 GB NTFS J After cloning S K 3GB 7 997 GB NTFS C Proceed relayout To resize either partition check the Proceed relayout box If you are satisfied with the partition layout shown uncheck this box if checked Clicking Next you will proceed to the cloning summary window Be careful Clicking Back in this window will reset all size and location changes that you ve selected so you will have to specify them again First select a partition to resize It will be underlined in red Resize and relocate it on the next step You can do this by entering values to the Unallocated space before Partition size or Unallocated space after fields by dragging the partition borders or by dragging the partition itself If the cursor turns to two vertical lines with left and right arrows it is pointed at the partition border and you can drag it to enlarge or reduce the partition s size If the cursor turns to four arrows it is pointed at the partition so you can move it to the left or right if there s unallocated space near it Having provided the new location and size click Next You will be taken two steps back to the partition
160. nd the initial full backup If any of successive backups is missing validation is not possible 3 Having restored a disk partition from an image Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can check the integrity of the file system To do so select Check file system after restoration Verification of the file system is available only when restoring disk partitions under Windows and for FAT16 32 and NTFS file systems 4 The bootable Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server version has also an option that after the restoration is finished the computer reboots and starts the newly restored OS without any user interaction If this option is set post operation commands will not be executed Include the reboot command in your batch file if you need these commands to be executed 7 5 Creating dynamic disks and volumes Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server must obtain exclusive access to the disks to perform operations with disks and volumes This means no other applications can access it at that time Please close all other applications that use the disks such as Windows Disk Management before starting the disk conversion and dynamic volume creation wizards 7 5 1 Converting disk to dynamic This operation is available both in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version and Acronis True Image Agent including bootable versions of these components Having booted to the Acronis environment you can easily prepare the desi
161. nded to the description so you do not need to enter this information 8 At the final step the backup task summary is displayed Up to this point you can click Back to make changes in the created task Clicking Proceed will launch the task 9 For Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version only The task progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel You can also close the progress window by clicking Hide The backup creation will continue but you will be able to start another operation or close the main program window In the latter case the program will continue working in the background and will automatically close once the backup archive is ready If you prepare some more backup operations they will be queued after the current You can adjust the backup process priority To do so click on the process icon in the System Tray and select Low Normal or High priority from the menu that appears For information on how to set the default priority see 6 3 6 Backup performance x _ 10 You may want to see the log when the task is completed To view the log click the Show Operation Logs button on the toolbar If you burn an archive to multiple removable media be sure to number them since you will have to insert them in order during the restoration 6 3 Setting backup options To view or edit the default backup options in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise S
162. ndwidth usage when backing up to FTP Error handling ignore bad sectors silent mode no pop ups continue on all errors Dual destination backup Acronis Secure Zone network share Support for VMware Consolidated backup Archive bit reset file level backup only Generating time based names for backup files Recovery Recovery of dynamic volumes Recovery of system dynamic volumes on dissimilar hardware using Acronis Universal Restore or Acronis Snap Restore Scheduling Schedule archive validation Start every N hours within daily schedule Start on free disk space change by the specified amount Cloning a task Notification via e mail Multiple e mail addresses From and Subject fields Logon to incoming mail server Operations with archives Convert disk images to virtual disks for VMware Microsoft and Parallels virtual machines Consolidate backup files create a consistent copy of archive while deleting selected backups Explore archives open in read only mode any image or file level backup Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 11 Operations with hard disks Convert basic disk to dynamic Create dynamic volumes CLI features MBR restore Backup to FTP server Allow logs on net share Merge unallocated space by moving partitions and create Acronis Secure Zone on the space Security Encrypted SSL communication between Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components 1 4 Supported file systems and storage
163. ngs Encryption Options e Server Requires Encryption This option defines the server behavior in case the client does not support encryption When enabled connection to the client will be terminated When disabled the client will be allowed to establish non encrypted connection e Client Requires Encryption When connecting to server applications the Acronis client applications always attempt to establish an encrypted connection The Client Requires Encryption option defines the client behavior in case the server does not support encryption When disabled the non encrypted connection will be established When enabled the connection will be terminated 1 Encryption options Properties aixi Setting Explain Se Encryption options C Disabled I Server Requires Encryption I Client Requires Encryption Previous Setting Cancel Apply After applying the template or editing the encryption options you should restart the Remote Agent s 2 3 Installing Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components To install Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components run the Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server setup file If you have the trial version of Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server installed on your system you must uninstall it before installing the commercial version of the product Select the program to install and follow instructions on the screen Copyright Acronis
164. nto multiple files of the specified size That comes in handy when backing up to a hard disk with a view to burning the archive to CD R RW or DVD R RW later on Creating a backup directly on CD R RW or DVD R RW generally will take considerably more time than it would on a hard disk 6 3 9 File level security settings Preserve files security settings in archives By default files and folders are saved in the archive with their original Windows security settings i e permissions for read write execute and so on for each user or user group set in file Properties gt Security If you restore a secured file folder on a computer without the user account specified in the permissions you may not be able to read or modify this file You can disable preserving the files security settings in archives to completely eliminate this kind of problem Then the restored files folders will always inherit the permissions from the folder to which they are restored parent folder or disk if restored to the root Alternatively you can disable files security settings during restoration even if they are available in the archive see 7 4 5 File leve security settings below The result will be the same the files will inherit the permissions from the parent folder In archives store encrypted files in decrypted state The preset is disabled Simply ignore this option if you do not use the encryption feature available in Windows 2003 Server
165. nts ki Recovery R he entire hard disk contents or restore individual files or Pick a Management Tool Show Log Sh of performed operations or Pick a Tool T Update Remote Agent Validate Backup Archive Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Consolidate Archive MELEE Convert Backup To Yirtual Disk Manage Acronis Secure Zone Convert to Dynamic Disk Remote Computer Options You can perform the following operations on the remote computer Operation How to access Back up and restore data including system Click Backup or Recovery then follow the disks partitions Wizard s instructions See details in Chapter 6 Creating backup archives and Chapter 7 Restoring the backup data Browse logs of Acronis True Image Agent Click Show Log See details in 12 3 operation Viewing logs 40 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Set up default backup or restore options such as system network resources usage before after backup commands etc Set up default parameters for sending notifications about Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server operation and tracing this operation in the Windows Application Event Log Scheduling Tasks Schedule backup and archive validation operations Run stop edit clone rename delete backup and archive validation tasks Archives Management Validate backup archives wherever they reside be it local network or removable media Consolidate backup files in an archiv
166. o the image file The list of available partitions is provided by iist Partition numbers are specified as lt disk number gt lt partition number gt e g partition 1 1 1 2 3 1 Dynamic volumes are specified with prefix DYN e g partition DYN1 DYN2 file_partition partition letter Specifies the partition where the image file will be stored by letter or number This option is used with filename file_name In that case the file name must be specified without drive letter or root folder For example file_partition D filename 1 tib Dynamic volumes are specified with prefix DYN e g file_partition DYN1 filename 1 tib raw Use this option to create an image of a disk partition with an unrecognized or unsupported file system This will copy all disk partition contents sector by sector Without this option only the sectors containing useful system and user data are imaged for the supported file systems progress on off Shows hides the progress information percent completed It is shown by default filebackup include names Files and folders to be included in the backup comma separated For example include E Workarea MyProject exclude_names names Files and folders to be excluded from the backup comma separated For example exclude_names E Workarea MyProject 111 doc E W orkarea MyProject Old exclude_masks mask
167. ocation and issue an appropriate message To delete the location completely first reassign the default backup location by selecting Specify Default Settings gt Set backup location Cleaning and deleting backup locations might be time consuming operations so you can schedule them for the off peak period 4 5 6 Managing Archives To display a full list of backups stored on the backup server click Manage Backup Archives Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 53 W Acronis True Image Management Console Ltest 2 ol x T Connect Yiew Tools Help Remote Management New Connection W Disconnect H Reconnect Tools amp Create Bootable Rescue Media Backup Archive Size Path Description Y Install Acronis Components Itest 1 SeTuesday July 31 2007 11 47 13 AM 61 MB C BL Vitest 2 3 writers S Tuesday July 31 2007 1 10 48 PM 55 MB C BL Ready w Ltest 2 You can 1 Sort the list by Location or Owners users and computers by clicking on the respective item above the list 2 Filter out from the list all user s or all computer s backups use buttons in the Filter group 3 Consolidate any backup except for the oldest one in the archive with the preceding backup file This operation deletes the preceding backup and sets concatenation between the backup being consolidated and the backup before the deleted one Thus the archive integrity will not be affected in
168. omponents writers To edit limitations for a backup location select the backup location click Quotas and Time Limits and enter the new values in the appearing window To move a backup location along with all archives existing on it select the backup location and click Move to The Move Backup Location Wizard will display all users and computers associated with the selected backup location so you could make sure your choice is right Then select the new location for the archives As moving files can take a lot of time and system resources it is recommended that you schedule this operation for the time when the backup server computing load will be minimal You can do it in the Start Parameters window To complete configuring the operation click Finish in the final summary window To move a backup location within the same device you must have at least as much free space on the device as all the archives in the backup location occupy because the archives will first be copied to the new place and then deleted from the old place To delete all archives stored in a backup location select the location and click Clear To delete a backup location select the location and click Delete This will delete all archives stored in this location and redirect the associated computer user s backups to the default backup location The default backup location cannot be deleted If you try to do so the program will clean the default backup l
169. omputer role operating system and IP address click the computer name The details are displayed on the sidebar To see details of the group task being executed on a remote computer mouse over the computer name In this window you can also 1 Filter out from the list offline inaccessible or unmanaged computers or filter out online computers to see those that cannot be managed use buttons in the Filter group 2 Import computers into the group server in case they are not discovered automatically due to network behavior It makes sense to install Acronis components on these computers first so that you will be able to create tasks for these computers To add a single computer e click Add on the toolbar e type in the computer name or IP address To add computers from Active directory e click Add on the toolbar e type in the name of the domain controller e when the active directory is expanded tick off the desired computers or the entire directory To add multiple computers from a file e prepare a txt or csv file listing semicolon separated computers names and IP addresses as follows Namel IP1 Name2 P2 e click Add on the toolbar e specify path to the above file 3 Export computers from the group server to a txt or csv file that can be used by other application or new versions of Acronis Group Server To do so e click Export on the toolbar e specify name of the file and a path to a folder where you want
170. on if needed according to the selected policy To do so select Configure Backup Locations gt select location gt Quotas and time limits The maximum backup location size can be set to the storage drive capacity minus the estimated size of the largest backup some space must be reserved for the temporary file created at consolidation 7 Set the default limitations for users computers if needed according to the selected policy To do so select Acronis Backup Server Management gt Specify Default Settings gt Set Quotas and time limits The maximum disk space allowed for a user computer can be set as the max location size divided by total number of users and computers Generally value of this setting can reach the maximum location size 8 Read about administrators and users profiles in 3 5 3 Administrators and Users Define if you need more than one administrator on the backup server If yes add administrators as follows Add the person s local or domain account to the AcronisBackupServerUsers group on the backup server Click Set up User profiles gt Add Choose the user name 20 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Remote Management E H New Connection W Disconnect 2 Reconnect Tools Q A Create Bootable Rescue Media I Install Acronis Components Select from the local backup server users or the domain users Choose Create user with administrator s rights Click Proceed
171. on E trueimage list filename asz 2 index 3 password aszpw which is equal to trueimagecmd list asz 2 index 3 password aszpw e This will list content of the backup 3 created in the archive number 2 located in Acronis Secure Zone that is protected with the aszpw password 9 Acronis Secure Zone managing backups by file names trueimagecmd asz_files password aszpw e This will list the Acronis Secure Zone size free space and contents using generated filenames lal x C Program Files fAcronis TrueImageEchoEnterpriseServer gt trueimagecmd asz_files password aaa ASZ size 5387526144 byte ASZ free space 4363616648 byte FILE name AAAZ TIB size 56414317 byte type image base creation time 2 16 2607 3 43 34 PM type image incremental creation time 4 25 2667 11 44 47 AM name FAAA TIB size 3125556 byte type file base eation time 8 22 2666 12 28 46 PM name FAAB2 TIB size 5147 byte type file base creation time 8 14 2087 2 17 45 PM type file incremental creation time 8 14 2087 2 19 43 PM In our example the Acronis Secure Zone contains three archives The archive AAA2 2 stands for number of backups in the archive consists of full base image backup created on 2 16 2007 at 3 43 incremental backup created on 4 25 2007 at 11 44 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 147 The archive FAAA F means that this is a file level archive contains one base file level backu
172. ontains the only user who installed the program By default this user has administrator s rights on the backup server and is able to manage the backup server and perform backups using computer profiles To enable any other user to back up data from any networked computer where Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version is installed to backup server an administrator should add this user to Acronis Backup Server database To do so first add this person s local or domain account to the AcronisBackupServerUsers group Then click Set up User profiles gt Add select the user name and specify backup location quotas and time limits for this user in Add User Profile Wizard windows Use the default backup location quotas and time limits or make specific settings for the new user If you specify a new path to backup location for the new user a new backup location will be created W Acronis True Image Management Console writers Dj x cornet Yiew Tools Help 22 00 5 29 04 SB New Connection W Disconnect A Reconnect Tools amp Create Bootable Rescue Media Y Install Acronis Components Name Domain Backup Location Quota Period Max Backups in Locatior Administrators Qadmtor WRITERS administrator WRITERS Qusers Quest WRITERS C BackupServer Backups Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited E writers Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 51 To add another administrator first add this pe
173. opyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Schedule Task Wizard Task Running Scheduling 1 select the time when to run the task or event on which the task will be ed Run this task When my computer starts C Daily when Ilog on weekly C When my computer shuts down C Monthly when I log off One time only Once a day When free disk space changes Description The task will be created but not run You will be able to run the task manually later e Manually later the task will be saved but not launched automatically You will be able to launch it later by clicking Run in the Scheduled Tasks window Help e Daily the task will be executed once a day or once in several days e Weekly the task will be executed once a week or once in several weeks on the selected day e Monthly the task will be executed once a month on the selected day e One time only the task will be executed once at the specified time and day e Free disk space change the task will be executed when the free disk space changes by the specified amount e When my computer starts the task will be executed at every OS startup e When I log on the task will be executed each time the current user logs in to the os e When my computer shuts down the task will be executed before every server shutdown or reboot e When I log off the task will be executed each time the current user logs off of the OS
174. or user s backup location on the backup server 3 6 Acronis Snap Restore With this feature you can boot the OS on a crashed computer before the system is completely restored from an image and start work seconds after the restoration is launched The restoration will be continued in the background 3 6 1 Limitations in using Acronis Snap Restore 1 Acronis Snap Restore is currently available for images located in the Acronis Secure Zone only 2 Acronis Snap Restore does not support images of Windows Vista If any Vista edition is detected in an image the Snap Restore option will not appear 3 Acronis Snap Restore does not work if the image contains dynamic disks and volumes 4 Acronis Snap Restore cannot be used if the image contains no operating system a logical partition or disk image or when restoring file archives 3 6 2 How it works When the restoration procedure is started Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server 1 Finds the sectors in the image which contain system files and restores these sectors first First the OS is restored and can be started very quickly Having started the OS the user sees the folder tree with files though file contents still is not recovered Nevertheless the user can start working 2 Next the application writes on the hard disk its own drivers which intercept system queries to the files When the user attempts to open files or launch applications the 30 Copyright Acronis Inc 200
175. orkloads from legacy physical servers to virtual machines to reduce hardware maintenance and power consumption costs The alternative method of physical to virtual migration is by restoring a physical disk from an image to a virtual machine The procedure is the same as with restoring physical machines To ensure booting up the system on the virtual machine use Acronis Universal Restore If the target virtual drive is a SCSI hard drive provide appropriate drivers For example the VMware environment requires Buslogic or LSI logic drivers Use drivers bundled with your virtualization software or download the latest drivers versions from the software manufacturer s website For more information about the recovery procedure see Chapter 7 Restoring the backup data The inverse migration virtual to physical is done using common disk imaging and restoring 1 Create images of all or some virtual machine disks including the system disk 2 Restore the images to physical disks When restoring a system disk use Acronis Universal Restore Complete the hardware driver configuration if Windows prompts Combination of the two migration features gives you the flexibility to implement a lot of scenarios for example e replace your physical server on the network with its virtual copy while the server is recovered or upgraded e test the new software or other changes you wish to make to the server on its virtual copy and then apply the changes
176. ormatting partitions on new hard disks creating dynamic volumes command line mode and scripts execution 6 Acronis Universal Restore is a separately sold add on to Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server that automatically configures Windows drivers in a system recovered on dissimilar hardware This enables the seamless system start and operation 7 Acronis Bootable Rescue Media Builder creates bootable media its ISO image or the RIS package thus enabling data recovery over bare metal non Windows or corrupted operating systems 1 3 New in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server Management console Reconnect last connect option Ability to connect to agent for Linux without root rights Centralized installation and update of Acronis components on multiple computers Group server Import and export computers through txt csv files Run stop restart edit check group tasks Group validation tasks 10 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Set how often to check the computers state status refresh rate Wake on LAN for backup Backup server Import export archives from external locations Limit number of connections Limit bandwidth used per connection Access to tape library for every user Backup Backup and restore of 2 TB volumes Encrypting backups with industry standard AES cryptographic algorithm key size 128 192 256 bit Multi volume snapshot for databases spread on several disks Control network ba
177. ou run Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server regularly this feature in your operating system is redundant You can turn it off freeing up to 12 of your hard disk space directly from Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server 118 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 This feature is available in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version only Managing System Restore using Acronis True Image Management Console is not possible 1 To start the System Restore Management Wizard click the Manage System Restore icon in the main program window 2 Click Next 3 Now you can turn on off System Restore on all your hard disk s partitions at once or do it individually for each partition Note that you cannot turn off System Restore on the system disk partition yet keep it on other disks partitions 4 Click Next 5 The program lists the configured changes You can click Back to choose different settings If you click Cancel all new settings will be lost Click Proceed to apply the changes If you turn off System Restore on any disk or partition all previously created restore points for that disk partition will be deleted Please make sure you do not need those restore points before proceeding Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 119 Chapter 13 Working with a virtual environment Virtual machine technologies provide a powerful tool to help accelerate the development testing deploymen
178. owerful computer will usually produce the same unbootable result because the new hardware is incompatible with the most critical drivers included in the image Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 31 Using Microsoft System Preparation Tool Sysprep does not solve this problem because Sysprep permits replacing drivers only for Plug and Play devices sound cards network adapters video cards etc As for system Hardware Abstraction Layer HAL and mass storage device drivers they must be identical on the source and the target computers see Microsoft Knowledge Base articles 302577 and 216915 Acronis Universal Restore technology provides an efficient solution for hardware independent system restoration by replacing the crucial Hardware Abstraction Layer HAL and mass storage device drivers Acronis Universal Restore is applicable for 1 Instant recovery of a failed system on different hardware 2 Hardware independent cloning and deployment of operating systems 3 Real to virtual and virtual to real computer migration for system recovery test and other purposes 3 7 2 Acronis Universal Restore general principles 1 Automatic HAL and mass storage drivers selection Acronis Universal Restore searches the Windows default driver storage folders in the image being restored for HAL and mass storage device drivers and installs drivers that better fit the target hardware You can specify a custom driver repository a folder or fold
179. p The archive FAAB2 B means that this is the second file level archive in the zone consists of full base file level backup created on 8 14 2007 at 2 17 incremental backup created on 8 14 2007 at 2 19 trueimagecmd filerestore filename asz FAAA target_folder e password aszpw e This will restore files and folders with their original paths from the sole base backup FAAA to the root of partition E C Program oe ane e Sirup ee ee ee filerestore 7filename asz FAAA target_folder e password aa Rirrrinerrrrrrctrimetr tte treet ttre TTTS ETY Operation has succeeded 10 Acronis Secure Zone deleting backups trueimagecmd asz_delete_files password aszpw filename FAAB tib e This will delete the most recent backup in the FAAB archive In our example 7 the incremental backup created on 8 14 2007 at 2 19 will be deleted The next execution of the same command will delete the base FAAB backup By continuing with the FAAA and AAA names you can clear the Acronis Secure Zone except for the last remaining base backup that cannot be deleted 11 Clone trueimagecmd clone harddisk 2 target_harddisk 3 e Clone hard disk 2 to hard disk 3 12 Explore image trueimagecmd explore filename myserver backup mybackup tib net_user john net_password qwerty e This will connect all images stored in file mybackup tiob on the network drive as virtual drives 16 1 5 Command line mode usage under DOS For u
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181. pe drives are accessible both remotely through the Acronis Backup Server and locally when installed on the computer with Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version The following diagram illustrates ways of access to tape for networks with 1 and without 11 backup server Acronis Managemen Console Workstation Acronis True Image Acronis True Image z Echo Emerprise Server Echo Emerprise Server Acronis Trua Image Acronis Backup Server local version local version Agent Tape library Autoloader Tape library Autoloader Tape library Autoloader or Tape drive or Tape drive or Tape drive 3 8 1 Backing up to tape libraries and autoloaders A tape library is a high capacity storage device consisting of one or more tape drives and a loader that automatically selects and loads multiple tape cartridges using barcode identification Tape libraries with only one drive and loader are known as autoloaders Tape libraries are widely used as an efficient repository for long term stored archival data Once the tape library is full old data is progressively overwritten by new data With tape libraries support Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can store several backup chains from different machines and users For instructions on how to enable backup to a tape library in the local network see 3 8 3 Setting up backup to a tape or a tape library in the local network 3 8 2 Backing up to tape drives Backup and restore
182. plied only to the current restore task Alternatively you can edit the default options from the current screen Then your settings will be saved as default See 7 4 Setting restore options for more information 7 3 13 Restoration summary and executing restoration 1 At the final step the restoration summary is displayed Up to this point you can click Back to make changes in the created task If you click Cancel no changes will be made to disk s Clicking Proceed will launch the task execution 2 For Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local or standalone version The task progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel However it is critical to note that the target partition will be deleted and its space unallocated the same result you will get if the restoration is unsuccessful To recover the lost partition you will have to restore it from the image again If Acronis Universal Restore finds no Hardware Abstraction Layer HAL or mass storage devices drivers compatible with the new hardware in all available sources you will be prompted to browse to a network share drive or insert a floppy disk or CD with the necessary drivers Upon starting Windows it will initialize the standard procedure for installing new hardware At this point you will be able to specify drivers for devices if Windows cannot find them automatically 7 4 Setting restore options To view or edit the def
183. program window or running Bootable Rescue Media Builder on its own The widely used Bart PE utility provides a Windows like operating environment invoked via removable bootable media Applications are installed into Bart PE in the form of plug ins Choosing Bart PE plug in installation disabled by default provides the ability to include Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server into a Bart PE plug in tab The plug in files will be placed into the component installation folder along with other program files Acronis Secure Zone manager lets you create delete and resize a special hidden partition for storing backup archives see 3 3 Acronis Secure Zone When installed Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version creates a new device in the Device Manager list Control Panel gt System gt Hardware gt Device Manager gt Acronis Devices gt Acronis TrueImage Backup Archive Explorer Do not disable or uninstall this device as it is necessary for connecting image backups as virtual disks see 11 2 2 Mounting an image 18 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 2 3 2 Installation of Acronis True Image Agent for Linux To install the Acronis True Image Agent for Linux extract its setup file to a shared network drive or removable media assign the attribute Executable to this file then perform installation procedure on a Linux based system For how to extract the file see 2 4 Extracting Acronis True Image Echo En
184. puter Details 9 ALEXCOMP MD 8 5 Unmanaged Address 10 1 70 128 th NEWCOMP Unmanaged MAC Address Change th SAVAGE BUTCHERY Unmanaged Role PC 19 PRESENMACHINE Inaccessible G Mites fh ALEXCOMP Unmanaged State 9 Inaccessible ALEXSMITH eee Credentials Set Visibilty 4 Hide GLOBRA offline LEF offline lt gt 3 writers Here you can monitor states of Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server tasks backup restore validating backup archives on all networked computers Ready the remote computer is available for the next task Prepare preparations are being made on a remote machine for the task execution analyzing partitions preparing backup scripts etc Running a task is being executed on the remote computer Paused the task is paused and waiting for user input on the remote computer 42 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Failed the task could not be completed because of an error Finished the task has been completed successfully Cancelled the task has been cancelled on the remote computer Offline the remote computer is not connected to the network or is switched off Inaccessible the remote computer is not accessible due to lack of access rights firewall and security settings etc Unmanaged the Acronis True Image Agent is not installed on the remote machine Use Search to find a computer in the list quickly To see details of the computer in brief the c
185. quotas time limits The actual number of backups created in a backup location can exceed the Maximum number of backups by one This enables the program to detect the fact of exceeding and start consolidation Backup to the full location will be prohibited until the consolidation takes place 4 5 2 Set up Administrator profiles Add a remote computer to Acronis Backup Server database if you want to be able to remotely back up data from that networked computer where Acronis True Image Agent is installed Click Set up Administrator profiles gt Add select the computer and specify backup location quotas and time limits for this computer in Add Computer Profile Wizard windows You can use the default backup location quotas and time limits or make particular settings for the new computer If you specify a new path to backup location for the new computer a new backup location will be created W Acronis True Image Management Console writers Dj x B80 0 9 29 06 Remote Management SJB New Connection W Disconnect A Reconnect Tools Create Bootable Rescue Media Name Backup Location Quota Period Max Backups in Location Max Backups i W Install Acronis Components writers C BackupServer Backups Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited 5 C meremin C BackupServer Backups Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited 5 Ey writers You might need to change a computer profile already set To do so select the computer and click Edit The
186. r the backup image is located in Acronis Secure Zone This is because Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and Acronis Secure Zone are primarily meant for instant data recovery on the same computer 3 7 5 Getting Acronis Universal Restore Acronis Universal Restore is an add on to Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server It is purchased separately has its own license and is installed from a separate setup file Let s assume for a moment that you own Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server but have not purchased Acronis Universal Restore When you create a task for restoring a Windows system disk and select a target disk either physical or virtual in the Restore Data Wizard the program compares crucial for the system start devices found in the image registry and the target computer registry If the chipset motherboard or mass storage device are different and therefore there is a risk that the system cannot boot you will be prompted whether you want to buy Acronis Universal Restore To buy the option follow the link If you already have Acronis Universal Restore the prompt will not come up and you will have an option to enable Acronis Universal Restore later in the Restore Data Wizard Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 33 3 8 Backing up to tape libraries and tape drives Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server supports tape libraries autoloaders and SCSI tape drives as storage devices Tape libraries autoloaders and ta
187. red dynamic group on bare metal or a computer with a non Windows operating system Considerations before conversion e The operation supports both MBR and GPT basic disks An MBR basic disk must have at least 1MB of free space at the end of the disk for the dynamic disk database e If a disk is converted for purposes other than preparing a target disk for restoration which means you wish to keep its data be sure to back up the disk contents before converting Just as with any major change to disk partitions or volumes conversion is a high risk operation e Basic disks that contain multiple operating system installations when converted will keep only one operating system bootable the system that was running during conversion Should a disk with multiple operating system installations be converted the best practice is to boot from another disk To convert a basic disk to dynamic Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 91 1 Close all applications that use the basic disk s that will be converted 2 If there are partitions on the basic disk s define whether you want to keep them If yes the partitions will be converted to simple dynamic volumes Therefore only the existing unallocated space will be available as a target for dynamic volume recovery If you want to recover over the entire disk delete partitioning using the Add New Disk operation see Chapter 15 Adding a new hard disk or third party tools 3 Do one of
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189. rise Server local version are to be installed This means you need one license for each server you are going to backup whether you will control it on site with the local program version or remotely using Acronis True Image Agent or use both ways of control The number of Acronis True Image Management Console Acronis Group Server and Acronis Backup Server installations is not counted Acronis Universal Restore is an option to Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server and has its own serial number 1 6 Technical support Users of legally purchased copies of Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server are entitled to free technical support from Acronis If you experience problems installing or using Acronis products that you can t solve yourself by using this guide then please contact Acronis Technical Support More information about contacting Acronis Technical Support is available at the following link http www acronis com enterprise support Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 13 Chapter 2 Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server installation and startup 2 1 System requirements 2 1 1 Minimum hardware requirements Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server requires the following hardware e Pentium processor or higher e 256MB RAM e FDD or CD RW drive for bootable media creation e Mouse recommended 2 1 2 Supported operating systems Acronis True Image Management Console e Windows Professional 2000 SP4 XP P
190. rminal to background operation You can terminate backup operation executed by TruelmageTerminal by pressing Ctri B 16 2 2 Script structure Scripts are written in the XML language and you can use the following tags Source Specifies the partitions or disks to be imaged Letters assigned to partitions must be used without a colon Disk numbers correspond to their system numbers To create images of several partitions or disks use the SOURCE tag for each of them e g lt source letter C gt lt source letter D gt lt source disk 1 gt lt source disk 2 gt Target Specifies the name and the location of an image file e g lt target file E Mybackup2 tib username username password password gt username and password parameters are optional They are used to access networked resources As a target for the image files you can indicate CD R RW or tape drive Options This tag can be used with a number of additional parameters Compression specifies the backup compression level Can be None Low Normal High ncremental specifies whether you need to create an incremental image file If equal to false or 0 a complete image file will be created If there is already a file with the name specified it will be replaced without warnings If equal to true or 1 and there is already a file with the name specified an incremental image will be created Othe
191. rofessional SP2 e Windows Server 2000 Advanced Server 2000 Server 2003 e Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions e Windows Vista all Editions except for installation of Acronis components on remote machines running Vista Acronis True Image Agent for Windows Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server Acronis Backup Server Acronis Group Server e Windows Professional 2000 SP4 Professional XP SP2 e Windows Server 2000 Advanced Server 2000 Server 2003 e Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions e Windows Vista all Editions except for the Acronis Snap Restore feature Acronis True Image Agent for Linux e Linux 2 4 18 or later kernel including 2 6 x kernels e SuSE 8 0 8 1 8 2 9 0 9 1 9 2 9 3 RedHat 9 0 Advanced Server 2 1 Advanced Server 3 0 Advanced Server 4 0 Fedora Core 1 Fedora Core 2 Fedora Core 3 Fedora Core 4 Enterprise Server 3 0 Mandrake 8 0 9 2 10 0 10 1 Slackware 10 Debian stable and unstable sarge ASPLinux 9 2 ASPLinux 10 ASPLinux 11 ASPLinux Server Il ASPLinux Server IV Virtuozzo 2 6 x Gentoo UnitedLinux 1 0 Ubuntu 4 10 TurboLinux 8 0 TurboLinux 10 0 e x64 versions of the above Linux distributions and some others Linux distributions are also supported Acronis Universal Restore optional e Windows Professional 2000 SP4 XP Professional SP2 14 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 e Windows Server 2000 Advanced Server 2
192. rogram menu The program menu bar features the Operations View Tools and Help items The Operations menu contains a list of the available operations including scheduling tasks The View menu contains items for managing the program window look e Toolbars contains commands that control toolbar icons e Common Task Bar enables disables the sidebar e Status Bar enables disables the status bar The Tools menu contains the following items e Manage Acronis Secure Zone create delete and resize a special hidden partition for storing archives Acronis Secure Zone e Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager activate the boot restoration manager F11 key e Explore Backup Archive explore file level archives or mount disk partition images as virtual drives e Validate Backup Archive run the archive integrity checking procedure e Consolidate archive applicable for archives containing more than one backups This will create a consistent copy of the archive with an option to exclude backups that are no more needed e Convert Backup to Virtual Disk convert a disk image created with the program tib to a virtual disk file of the type you select vmdk vhd hdd e Create Bootable Rescue Media run the bootable media creation procedure e Dynamic Volume Creation Wizard create dynamic volumes on basic or dynamic disks e Convert to dynamic disk convert a basic disk to a dynamic one e Show Log open the Log Viewer w
193. rson s local or domain account to the AcronisBackupServerUsers group Then click Set up User profiles gt Add select the user name and choose Create user with administrator s rights on the next page An administrator can manage all archives on the backup server regardless of their owner while a common user can only backup or restore his data from the backup server An administrator has no user profile in other words the administrator is not assigned a backup location quotas and time limits like common users are and uses the administrator profile for both remotely and locally controlled backups 4 5 4 Changing User profiles You might need to change a user profile that is already set To do so select the user and click Edit The Edit User Profile Wizard will guide you through the same selections as the Add User Profile Wizard except administrator s or user s rights To change the rights you will have to delete the user profile and then add the user again with the new rights Changing the user s backup location will move all existing and redirect future backups performed by the user to another folder device etc As moving files can take a lot of time and system resources it is recommended that you schedule this operation for the time when the backup server computing load will be minimal You can do it in the Start Parameters window To complete configuring the profile click Finish in the final summary window To change a user
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195. rtitions Unlike booting from the Acronis removable media or RIS server you will not need a separate media or network connection to start Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server It is especially handy for mobile users who need to run a server operating system on their laptop 3 4 2 How to use To be able to use Acronis Startup Recovery Manager at boot time prepare as follows you can do it either locally using Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version or remotely using Acronis True mage Management Console 1 Install Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version or Acronis True Image Agent on a computer 2 Create Acronis Secure Zone on the computer hard disk see Chapter 9 Managing the Acronis Secure Zone 3 Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager To do so click Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and follow the Wizard s instructions If you try to activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager while Acronis Secure Zone is missing from the system you will be prompted to create the zone then Acronis Startup Recovery Manager will be activated Otherwise Acronis Startup Recovery Manager will be activated immediately When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated it overwrites the master boot record MBR with its own boot code If you have any third party boot managers installed you will have to reactivate them after activating the Startup Recovery Manager For Linux loaders e g LiLo and
196. rwise Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 149 the program will create a complete image file The default value for this parameter is true Description adds a description to an image file The comment must be a single string though its length is not limited Split splits a large image file into a number of smaller files of the specified size which can be provided in bytes kilobytes megabytes etc Password adds password protection to an image file 16 2 3 Script usage examples The following example illustrates the usage of a script to backup two partitions logical drives C and F mybackup2 tib is specified as an incremental image file High compression level is selected and the image is to be split into 650MB parts for recording to CD R RW media Password protection will also be added The entire script must be located between the lt backup gt and lt backup gt tags lt xml version 1 0 encoding utf 8 gt lt backup gt lt source letter c gt lt source letter f gt lt target file e mybackup2 tib gt lt options compression high incremental true description this is my backup split 650 Mb password _ gt lt backup gt The script for backing up to tape tapeN specifies the tapes numbers lt xml version 1 0 encoding utf 8 gt lt backup gt lt source letter c gt lt source letter f g
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198. s Applies masks to select files to be excluded from the backup Use the common Windows masking rules For example to exclude all files with extension exe add exe My exe will exclude all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with a my exclude_masks txt 111 exclude_system Excludes all system files from the backup exclude_hidden Excludes all hidden files from the backup deploy file_partition partition letter Specifies the partition where the image file is stored by letter or number This option is used with filename file_name In this case the file name must be specified without drive letter or root folder For example file_partition D filename 1 tib 140 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Dynamic volumes are specified with prefix DYN e g file_partition DYN1 filename 1 tib hnarddisk disk number Specifies the basic hard disks to restore partition partition number Specifies the partitions to restore Dynamic volumes are specified with prefix DYN e g partition DYN1 target_harddisk disk number Specifies the hard disk number where the image will be restored By specifying target_harddisk DYN you will select unallocated space on all dynamic disks that present in the system target_partition partiti on number start start sector Specifies the t
199. s Group Server is installed and select Tools gt Options gt Network gt Status check interval 4 5 Managing backup server Before you start managing the backup server be sure to read section 3 5 Acronis Backup Server stating the basic operating principles of this application When connected to a computer where Acronis Backup Server is installed click Acronis Backup Server management to display the following window Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 47 Acronis True Image Management Console writers T Connect View Tools Help 00 9 42 9 9G Remote Management d Acronis Back r Management B New Connection Manage policies o W Disconnect H Reconnect Pick a task A Tools lt ie Set up Administrator Profiles Create Bootable Rescue Media Add a new computers delete or edit existing ones 4 Install Acronis Components Configure Backup Locations nd time limits For backup locations change their placement clear their contents or Backup Server merge ordd storing policies When connecting to a backup server inside a domain be aware whether your domain or local account is registered on the backup server If you entered Windows on a network computer using your domain account while your local account is registered enter the local user name along with the backup server name for example Serverl username Otherwise the name will be identified as a domain one 4 5 1 Defau
200. s Inc 2000 2007 Destroying Parameters Choose data destroying parameters There are two methods available in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server Select the appropriate method C Normal Description Choose this method For quick data wiping The sectors will be zeroed in one pass The second method takes more time but makes it impossible to recover data afterwards even with special equipment The first method is less secure but is still suitable for most cases 14 3 8 Selecting partition transfer method Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will offer you the following data transfer methods e Asis e Proportional the new disk space will be proportionally distributed among cloned partitions e Manual you will specify the new size and other parameters yourself Moving Method Choose the method of data moving From your old drive to the new one Select data moving method Manual Description The original partition sizes will be scaled according to the new drive size If the new drive is smaller in size the partitions will shrink accordingly if the new drive is larger the partitions will be enlarged proportionally Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 129 If you elect to transfer information as is a new partition will be created for every old one with the same size and type file system and label The unused space will become unallocated Further
201. s specify the interval e Repeat task every set this if the task must be performed several times a day 96 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Schedule Task Wizard Daily Execution of Task Set parameters of daily task running Select the time and day you want this task to start Start time og hours 45 minutes Pm C IF the computer is turned off run the missed tasks when it will be started Start time Every day C Weekdays e Every 2 days C Repeat task every 2 hours until 9 hours 42 minutes PM If the computer is off when the scheduled time comes the task won t be performed but you can force the missed task to launch at the next system startup by checking a box under the Start time fields OQ Help 8 1 2 Setting up weekly execution If you select weekly execution set the Start time specify the task execution periodicity in the Every x weeks box every week every two weeks etc and check the days on which to execute the task Schedule Task Wizard f Weekly Execution of Task Set parameters of wi task running Select the time and day you want this task to start Start time E hours 48 minutes Pm C IF the computer is turned off run the missed tasks when it will be started Every el a weeks Select the day s of the week below onday Tuesday Wednesday C Thursday Friday
202. s rescue environment using physical bootable media or RIS server or by adding the bootable media ISO to the virtual machine Another option is to create a new virtual machine with same configuration and disk size as the imaged machine and recover data to this disk The procedure is the same as with physical machines See details in Chapter 7 Restoring the backup data The alternative way of recovering a VM is by converting the image tib file to a virtual disk file of appropriate format and adding this disk to the VM This is the easiest way to recover data on a virtual machine 13 3 Using the disk conversion feature A virtual hard disk is a file that provides storage for a virtual machine Different virtualization software use different virtual disk format and therefore the file extension Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server has the ability to convert a disk image created with the program tib to a virtual disk file of the type you select vmdk vhd hdd You will then be able to add the disk to a virtual machine of compatible type VMware MS virtual machine Parallels virtual machine respectively The further usage of the disk is as follows 13 3 1 Recover data on the VM In case data is corrupted or inadvertently deleted while the VM is running do one of the following e add the converted disk either system or non system to the VM copy the needed data to the original disk then remove the converted disk or e a
203. saueessdudaadestanneva 8 1 1 Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server a complete solution for corporate users 8 1 2 Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server COMPONENHS e cece ee cece eee eet teeter ee ee ean 10 1 3 New in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server 0 cccceceeee cette eeee tree sees aeeeeeeeeeeee ania 10 1 4 Supported file systems and storage Media eee eee e EEEren 12 1 4 1 Supported FC SY SLOSS 2dehaa dus eii a a a saint ag e and elehsbiehe otis 12 1 4 2 Supported Storage medias si ssccveatcaie vast iiri an ea cate EEA RE EAE A EEE 12 T5 License polyn saen ouaaa E E a a E oady a aa a dente awa nat aie 13 1 0 Te hnical SUPPOM nearen E AA Aa Aa ANa eens A Eea N ees 13 Chapter 2 Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server installation and startup a ECT TCRE CELE UT REPUTE CTeCerereCeere CLCEPEUTTCTTT OT TCLCT TTR CEET CECT ET TTT CITTTCPCRETTEECRETTCECEET TTP CRELT 14 2 1 System reQuireMents s s ccchcerehec chic cckenvede whe a a aa Kaaa ae nce rian ait haarana kaa 14 2 1 1 Minimum hardware requirements occiecccccccccncn cece eect ene EEE EE EEE ELLE EEE E EEE EEE EEE EE EEE 14 2 1 2 Supported operating SYSLOINS mrisimniirer rinii e EAE ADA D ERED EE A EAE 14 2 2 Security parameters inampa a a aa aiaa tines bloat nent awe ins 15 PAAR E Ba O 1 I EEEE E TA T Pen ES 15 222 Firewall setup sctant raed baolishiatelh Rate bath Ebel a eo sanded aes hehe 15 2 2 3 Encrypted COMUNUNICACION
204. se in the MS DOS compatible environments Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server includes the TrueImageCmdDos exe utility It is located in a folder where Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server has been installed by default it is C Program Files Acronis Truel mageEchoEnterpriseServer 16 2 Scripting 16 2 1 Script execution parameters Scripts are executed by the TrueImageTerminal exe utility located in the Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server installation folder i e C Program 148 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Files Acronis Truel mageEchoEnterpriseServer This utility is also used to monitor backup progress TruelmageTerminal execution parameters TrueImageTerminal exe arguments Arguments include the following help outputs help information about TruelmageTerminal exe parameters progress outputs progress of backup operations run either from Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server graphics user interface or from the script execute script file name executes a script If there are several scripts to be executed they are queued An example for executing MyBackup tis script TrueImageTerminal exe execute C MyBackup tis nowait an optional script execution argument Enables to terminate TruelmageTerminal before backup is finished Example TrueImageTerminal execute C MyBackup tis nowait By pressing Ctrl C you can force backup progress output off and switch TruelmageTe
205. server in your network or if your computer address was not identified automatically for some reason To enable a network connection specify network settings manually in the window available at Tools gt Options gt Network adapters Network Settings View change network connection settings amp Network adapters Network adapter PCnet32 or PCnetPCl based ethd Hardware address 00 00 29 03 54 20 Status 0 Mbps Full Duplex Cable connected Media type Use Auto Negotiation DHCP Used IP address 192 168 5 130 Subnet mask 255 255 255 0 DNS suffix localdomain Default gateways lt E OK Cancel v Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 77 7 1 3 Recovering dynamic volumes Dynamic volumes are volumes located on dynamic disks i e disks managed by Windows Logical Disk Manager LDM For more information on dynamic disks please refer to your Windows documentation Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can back up and recover dynamic volumes A dynamic volume can be recovered over the same volume or unallocated space of a dynamic group If recovered over another volume the target volume s contents will be overwritten with the image contents but the type or other properties of the target volume will not be changed To restore a dynamic volume exactly as it is prepare a target dynamic group without volumes This can be done with the Convert to dynamic disk tool In case you want
206. server name A user name and a password might also be needed if the SMTP server requires authentication Some Internet service providers require authentication on the incoming mail server before being allowed to send anything If this is your case click Advanced and tick off Log on to incoming mail server and provide the server name Filling up the From and Subject fields will help the e mail client program filter notifications to the appropriate folder If the From field is left blank messages will be constructed as if they are from the destination address Below in this window you can choose whether you want to get notifications when the operation is completed successfully check Add full log to the notification to add the full operation log to the message when the operation failed check Add full log to the notification to add the full operation log to the message during the operation when user interaction is required 12 2 WinPopup notification To set up WinPopup notification Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 115 1 Enable the Messenger service on both the computer executing the task and the computer that will receive messages The Messenger service is disabled by default in Windows Server 2003 family Change the service Startup mode to Automatic and start the service You can view and set the options for the selected items E Py Appearance J B Notifications T Windows Messenger Win
207. sk When distribution is complete the group task appears in Group Tasks Management window If you connect to any computer included into the group you will see its individual task based on the group task you successfully created 4 4 3 Group tasks management The Group Tasks Management window displays the list of group tasks To see details of a group task mouse over the task name To create new or delete existing backup task use the New and Delete items on the Group tasks toolbar To edit a task select it and click Edit Editing is performed in the same way as creation however the earlier selected options will be set so you have to enter only the changes Deleting or editing a task does not affect the current task execution A task that has been edited or deleted while running will come to an end without any changes The changes you made will be applied when execution is completed In addition to editing tasks for groups you can edit individual tasks produced by the group task on each computer involved To do so connect the console to the desired computer For details see 8 2 Managing scheduled tasks Acronis True Image Management Console writers s E lol x 7 Connect View Tools Help Remote Management Group Tasks Management a Create or delete existing group tasks Jia New Connection p x Disconnect S view Group Status H Reconnect New i Runnow jeg Check TA Edit fee Cancel g Delete
208. sk 1 3 e This will convert images of disks 1 and 3 contained in the file C MyBackup tib to the virtual disks C MyHDD vmdk and C MyHDD2 vmdk for using with VMware type virtual machines 7 List trueimagecmd list 146 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 e This will list available partitions trueimagecmd list asz e This will list contents of the latest image located in Acronis Secure Zone 8 Acronis Secure Zone managing backups by archive numbers trueimagecmd asz_content e This will list the Acronis Secure Zone size free space and contents c Command C Program Files fAcronis TrueImageEnterpriseServer gt trueimagecmd asz_content ASZ size 34439215104 byte ASZ free space 34409676800 byte ARCHIVE number type file base creation time 4 2 2007 3 52 PM type file base creation time 4 2 2007 4 04 PM 3 type file incremental creation time 4 4 2007 6 31 PM 3 type file incremental creation time 4 4 2007 6 32 PM In our example the Acronis Secure Zone contains two archives The older archive 1 consists of one full base file level backup created on 4 2 2007 at 3 52 The second archive contains a base file level backup with two increments You can restore data from any backup as follows trueimagecmd filerestore asz 2 index 2 target_folder e e This will restore files and folders from the backup created on 4 4 2007 at 6 31 PM with their original paths to the root of partiti
209. sks You can create a disk partition backup task or archive validation task for several remote computers at once File level backup for groups of computers is unavailable 1 In Group status or Group tasks management window select New Group Task on the toolbar The Create Group Task Wizard starts to guide you through the task creation procedure 2 Select the type of the task backup or validation 3 Form a group for the current task check computers in the list of remote computers 4 For the backup task only Select disks partitions to backup You can select any combination of hard disks by number according to Windows numeration and partitions by letter or All hard disks This setting is applied to every computer in the group so having a standard similar disks partitions layout on remote computers would be a plus Create Group Task Wizard Select disks partitions Please select disks or partitions for backup Please select disks or partitions for backup O Hard disk number 1 Partition letter N Help Cea ter 44 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 5 Specify the paths for the backup archives To place every archive on its local computer specify Local path or select Acronis Secure Zone if there is such a zone on every remote computer For more information about the Acronis Secure Zone see 3 3 Acronis Secure Zone To place backups on t
210. store with Acronis True Image Management Console is not supported After installation Acronis Universal Restore automatically plugs in one or more of above program components Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version name displayed in its main window changes to Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server with Universal Restore 2 4 Extracting Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components During Acronis True Image Management Console installation all Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components setup msi files will be placed to C Program Files Common Files Acronis Remotelnstall folder Thus you will be able to remotely install modify or repair the components using Acronis True Image Management Console or msiexec exe utility When installing Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components on a local computer you can save setup files for each Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server component separately on a local or network drive This will help when modifying or recovering the existing component installation on a local computer To save a component s setup file e run the Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server setup file e inthe Install Menu right click on the component name and select Extract e select a location for the setup file and click Save 2 5 Running Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components 2 5 1 Running Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version Yo
211. t lt target cdrw taperecorder tape0 gt lt target cdrw taperecorder tapell gt lt options compression high incremental true description this is my backup gt lt backup gt 150 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007
212. t fields A password should consist of at least eight symbols and contain both letters in the upper and lower cases preferably and numbers to make it more difficult to guess If you try to restore data from a password protected archive or append an incremental differential backup to such an archive Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will ask for the password in a special window allowing access only to authorized users Passwords cannot be set for archives created in the Acronis Secure Zone To protect such archives set a password for the zone itself Encryption The preset is 128 bit Once the password has been set you can choose to encrypt the backup for advanced security with industry standard AES cryptographic algorithm The password is used to generate a key which may differ in length There are 4 choices no encryption 128 192 and 256 bit encryption The more the key size the longer time to cipher and the greater is your data security 6 3 2 Source files exclusion By default all files from the selected folders will be included in the archive You can set default filters for the specific types of files you do not wish to back up For example you may want hidden and system files and folders as well as files with tmp and bak extensions not to be stored in the archive You can also apply custom filters using the common Windows masking rules For example to exclude all files with extension exe add exe My
213. t and support of PC applications As with physical machines virtual machine VM data needs to be backed up periodically to prevent its loss due to hardware failure or human errors Since more and more organizations choose running their business processes in a virtual environment they need a solution to perform the data backup and restore on virtual machines This chapter covers how Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can be used in virtual and heterogeneous environments 13 1 Backing up data on virtual machines A virtual machine is an emulated computer running within a host operating system The software that emulates the computer is called the virtualization software Three of the most popular types of virtualization software are VMware Server and VMware Workstation Microsoft Virtual Server and Microsoft Virtual PC and Parallels Workstation Generally a virtual machine can be treated 1 As a physical computer when it is online Most Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server features and settings are applicable to a VM The backup procedure is almost the same see details in Chapter 6 Creating backup archives 2 As a set of files that change in line with the VM state The files represent the VM configuration storage memory or other parameters The files can be backed up with both imaging and file level backup However backing up the running VM files can prevent us from restoring the virtual system to a consistent point in
214. t what you want to restore Restore Data Wizard Restoration Type Selection You can select type of backup archive restoration Select one of the following restoration types r Restore disks or partitions 3 Restore specified files or folders Description Select this item if you want to restore your computer s system partition using a previously created bootable image and want to start using your computer without waiting the restoration process completion With Acronis Snap Restore you can restore your computer From the image and can start working in seconds while your system is still being restored Restore specified files or folders With this selection you will be further offered to select where to restore selected folders files original or new location choose files folders to be restored and so on These steps look like those in file archive restore However watch your selection if you want to restore files instead of disk partition uncheck the unnecessary folders Otherwise you will restore a lot of extra files Then you will be taken directly to Restoration Summary screen 7 3 13 Restoration summary and executing restoration Restore disks or partitions Having selected a usual way of disks partitions recovery you will have to make all settings described below Using Snap Restore When restoring a system disk partition image except for Windows Vista images from Acronis Secure Zone yo
215. terprise Server components 2 3 3 Installation of Acronis Group Server The Acronis Group Server only can be installed locally on a computer by running the setup program When installing Acronis Group Server you will be asked for credentials The credentials you provide are used for running the Acronis Group Server service and also applied to all networked computers Enter the uniform account information discussed in 2 2 1 Credentials f you do not use a uniform account provide credentials for each computer after the Acronis Group Server installation as described in point 4 of 4 4 1 Group status display 2 3 4 Acronis Backup Server installation and setup Before starting installation of this component please read section 3 5 Acronis Backup Server to get understanding of this component functionality and define the storage policy advantageous to your network We suggest that you start using Acronis Backup Server as follows 1 Set up a server with a system drive and a high capacity storage drive 2 Install Acronis Backup Server on the system drive Reboot on prompt In Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003 Server the option Control panel gt Windows Firewall gt Exceptions gt File and Printer Sharing must be enabled Otherwise remote users will not be able to back up on the backup server 3 Connect the console to Acronis Backup Server When connecting to a backup server inside a domain mind whether your domain or local account
216. the ASZ archive a full backup with or without increments To get the archive number use asz_content index N Selects a backup in a sequence of Any N Number of the backup in an archive 1 basic full backup 2 1st increment and so on 0 default latest increment incremental backups inside the archive To get a backup index from the ASZ use asz_content net_user username Specify a user name for network drive Network drive access net_password password Specify a password for network drive Network drive access ftp_user username Specify a user name for access to an FTP FTP server server 138 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 ftp_password password Specify a password for access to an FTP FTP server server Backup options incremental Set the backup type to incremental If not Any specified or there is no basic full backup a full backup will be created differential Set the backup type to differential If not Any specified or there is no basic full backup a full backup will be created compression 0 9 Specify the data compression level It Any ranges from 0 to 9 and is set to 3 by default split size in MB Split the backup into parts of the specified Other than ASZ size General options oss_numbers Declares that numbers of partitions in the Any partition option
217. the following Connect the console to the computer where Acronis True Image Agent is installed or its bootable version is booted Select Backup and Recovery tasks and click Convert to Dynamic Disk On a computer where Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version is installed or booted select Tools gt Convert to Dynamic Disk in the main program menu 4 Select the basic disk or a newly connected disk that is not yet initialized 5 Click Proceed in the summary window The backward dynamic to basic conversion can be performed using the Add New Disk operation This will destroy information as well as the GUID partitions table if there was one on the disk The result will be an MBR basic disk See details in Chapter 15 Adding a new hard disk 7 5 2 Creating dynamic volumes This operation is available only in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version including bootable version of this component Having booted to the Acronis environment you can easily prepare the desired dynamic group on bare metal or a computer with a non Windows operating system The operation supports both dynamic disks and MBR or GPT basic disks Basic disks will be converted to dynamic All data contained on the basic disk and the basic disk partitioning will be lost On dynamic disks only unallocated space will be used for the new volume An MBR basic disk must have at least 1MB of free space at the end of the disk for the dynamic disk d
218. this license if there is a violation of its terms or default by the original purchaser Upon termination for any reason all copies of the software must be immediately returned to Acronis and the original purchaser shall be liable to Acronis for any and all damages suffered as a result of the violation or default ENTIRE RISK THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU THE PURCHASER Acronis DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE OR ITS FUNCTIONS WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE OR THAT ANY DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED NO LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES IN NO EVENT SHALL Acronis OR ITS VENDORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR THE LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS BUSINESS INTERRUPTION LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE EVEN IF Acronis HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES SOFTWARE USAGE TERMS AND CONDITIONS Under current legislation the License Agreement is considered a contract between you and Acronis Inc The contract is a legal document and its violation may result in legal action Illegal use and or distribution of this software will be prosecuted Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 3 Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction sisiciiciscvesdiniadeasiete cddvinisesteesdsdewedstihesensanassie
219. tions from the backup archive you have chosen will have temporary logical drive letters shown in the hard disk graphical layout below To change the drive letter select a partition then choose another drive letter in the combo box below the hard disk graphical layout Choose Do not mount in the combo box if you do not want to assign a drive letter to the selected partition To select a partition place the mouse pointer over it and then click the left mouse button 24 Pw Partition Flags Capacity Free Space Type a Disk 1 fNTFS E Pri Act 3 991 GB 1 847 GB NTFS Disk 2 3 of FAT32 G Pri Act 7 997 GB 7 982 GB FAT32 LBA Drive letter for the selected partition H v 5 Select whether you want to mount image in Read only or Read Write mode Help 6 If you select Read Write mode the program assumes that the connected image will be modified and creates an incremental archive file to capture the changes It is strongly recommended that you list the forthcoming changes in the comment to this file 7 The program displays a summary containing a single operation Click Proceed to connect the selected partition image as a virtual disk 8 After the image is connected the program will run Windows Explorer showing its contents Now you can operate with files or folders as if they were located on a physical disk You can connect multiple partition images If you want to connect another partition image rep
220. to restore a dynamic volume in place of some volumes already existing on the target disks delete the original volumes using third party tools such as the Windows Disk Management tool Dynamic volume contents alone can be recovered onto a basic or dynamic volume without changing the target volume type Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version has the Create dynamic volume tool so that you be able to prepare the desired volumes on the target disks Backward conversion of dynamic volume to basic disks can be performed if need be using the Add new disk operation see Chapter 15 Adding a new hard disk With these tools anywhere to anywhere data recovery becomes available in terms of basic disks and dynamic volumes of any type simple spanned striped mirrored or RAID 5 The tools are available in bootable program version Having booted the Acronis environment you can easily prepare the desired dynamic group on bare metal or a computer with non Windows operating system For how to use the above tools see 7 5 Creating dynamic disks and volumes 7 2 Restoring files and folders from file archives Here we describe how to restore files folders from a file backup archive You can restore the desired files folders from a disk partition image as well To do so mount the image see 11 2 2 Mounting an image or start the image restoration and select Restore specified files or folders see 7 3 Restoring disks partitions or files from
221. to create it 4 Set and test credentials for access to each computer To do so select the computer then select on the sidebar Computer details gt Credentials Set type username and password and click Test connection The program will display the test result Key icons for successfully tested connections are colored gold Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 43 5 Set or change the MAC address for each computer To do so select the computer then select on the sidebar Computer details gt MAC address Set or Change and type the hex MAC address as XXXXXXXXXXXX or XX XX XX XX XX The program will test the MAC address for validity and display the test result 6 Hide computers that you do not wish to browse or make a hidden computer visible To hide a computer select it then select on the sidebar Computer details gt Visibility Hide To make a hidden computer visible and monitored enable Show hidden computers in the Filter group select the hidden computer then select on the sidebar Computer details gt Visibility Unhide 7 Create a group backup task for several remote computers at once see 4 4 2 Creating new group tasks 8 Connect to a remote computer to see the operation log start or edit tasks for this computer etc see 4 3 Managing a single remote computer To do so select a computer and click Connect 9 Switch to the Group tasks management window for managing group tasks 4 4 2 Creating new group ta
222. to the physical server 13 3 4 Converting workloads You can convert workloads from one virtual technology to another through imaging virtual drives For example let s say your company uses Microsoft Virtual Servers but you need to use VMware based virtual appliances This is easy to do with the conversion functionality Again a Windows system image will be supplemented with appropriate system drivers during conversion so that Windows could boot up on the another type of VM 1 Create images of all or some virtual machine disks including the system disk 2 Convert the images to virtual disks of desired format 3 Create a new VM of the desired type with the converted system disk 4 Add the other converted disks to the VM 5 Start the VM and complete the hardware driver configuration if Windows prompts 13 4 Converting disk images to virtual disks To convert a disk image to a virtual disk file 122 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 1 Do one of the following Connect the console to the computer where Acronis True Image Agent is installed Select Backup and Recovery tasks and click Convert to Virtual disk On a computer where Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version is installed select Tools gt Convert to Virtual Disk in the main program menu 2 Select the disk image to convert If the image is located on an Acronis Backup Server or in the Acronis Secure Zone select Personal backup location or A
223. together make the original backup A backup file can be split for burning to removable media or saving on an FTP server data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the archive to be split into files no more than 2GB in size The preset is Automatic With this setting Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will act as follows When backing up to the hard disk The program will create a single archive file if the selected disk has enough space and its file system allows the estimated file size The program will automatically split the backup into several files if the storage disk has enough space but its file system does not allow the estimated file size FAT16 and FAT32 file systems have a 4GB file size limit However the existing hard drive s capacity can reach as much as 2TB Therefore an archive file might easily exceed this limit if you are going to back up the entire disk If you do not have enough space to store the backup on your hard disk the program will warn you and wait for your decision as to how you plan to fix the problem You can try to free some additional space and continue or click Back and select another disk When backing up to a diskette CD R RW or DVD R RW Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will ask you to insert a new disk when the previous one is full Alternatively you can select Fixed size and enter the desired file size or select it from the drop down list The backup will then be split i
224. ture If it become necessary to restore a damaged database it will be restored completely and be ready to access after recovery 1 Volume Shadow Copy Service Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS provides the infrastructure for backup on running systems by keeping up coordination between user applications that update data on disk and backup applications VSS is available in Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating systems If your database is compatible with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS then checking the Enable VSS support box in Database support window will ensure completion of all transactions before the backup process starts The examples of VSS aware databases are Exchange Oracle SQL Server 2 Before after data capture commands However VSS is not available in server operation systems older than Windows 2003 Server and not all databases support VSS In these cases the transactions completion can be ensured by executing batch files or scripts that pause the appropriate Windows services and automatically resume them after data capture An example of a batch file suspending the Windows services for MS Exchange net stop msexchangesa y y net stop Microsoft Exchange Routing Engine An example of a batch file resuming the Windows services for MS Exchange net start Microsoft Exchange System Attendant net start Microsoft Exchange Event net start Microsoft
225. u and wait for someone to select whether to boot the OS or the Acronis component If you set 10 sec for Acronis Bootable Agent for example the agent will launch in 10 seconds after the menu is displayed This enables fully remote operations if you are booting from a RIS server 3 Select the type of bootable media CD R RW DVD R RW or 3 5 diskettes to create If your BIOS has this feature you can create other bootable media such as removable USB flash drives You can also choose to create a bootable disk ISO image or save bootable data on the RIS server When using 3 5 diskettes you will be able to write on a diskette or a set of the diskettes only one component at a time for example Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server To write another component start the Bootable Media Builder once again Ta Acronis Media Builder Bootable Media Selection drive t Choose a media type From the list below The list contains all available devices that could be used to create media that stores data required for booting including floppy disk drives CD drives and flash memory devices You can store bootable data in iso files Name Details S CD RW Drive 03 _NEC CDRW DVD CB1100A TB01 giso image 150 image file P H Removable Drive A Removable Disk Drive Server where Remote Installation Ser RIS is installed lt Back ll Next gt Cancel Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 10
226. u can run Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server in Windows by selecting Start gt Programs gt Acronis gt Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server gt Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server or clicking the appropriate shortcut on the desktop If your operating system fails to load you can run Acronis Startup Recovery Manager However this must be activated prior to use see 3 4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 23 to learn more about this procedure To run the program press F11 during the server bootup when you see a corresponding message that tells you to press that key Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will be run in the standalone mode allowing you to recover the damaged partitions If your disk data is totally corrupted and you cannot boot or if you have not activated Acronis Startup Recovery Manager load the standalone Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server version from the bootable media created by you using Rescue Media Builder or RIS server Then you will be able to restore the disk from a previously created image 2 5 2 Running Acronis True Image Management Console To run Acronis True Image Management Console select Start gt Programs gt Acronis gt Acronis True Image Management Console gt Acronis True Image Management Console 2 5 3 Running other Acronis components Acronis True Image Agents Acronis Backup Server and Acronis Group Server r
227. u will have the third choice to use Acronis Snap Restore Having selected this option you will proceed directly to the summary window 7 3 13 Restoration summary and executing restoration A few seconds after pressing Proceed the computer will reboot to the restored system Log in and start work no more reboots or other actions are required For more about Acronis Snap Restore see 3 6 Acronis Snap Restore restores the entire system disk Therefore if your disk consists of several partitions the partitions which are missing from the image will be lost Please make sure that the image contains all disk partitions or you do not need the partitions that are not imaged before using Acronis Snap Restore A When performing Snap Restore the Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server always However you can choose an ordinary way of restoration for that image This will allow you to make changes to the restored partition that would not be possible when using Acronis Snap Restore Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 83 Finally if you are not going to recover the system but only want to repair damaged files select Restore specified files or folders 7 3 4 Selecting a disk partition to restore The selected backup can contain images of several partitions or even disks Select which disk partition to restore Restore Data Wizard Partition or Disk to Restore Select a partition or a hard disk drive to Please select a part
228. un as services immediately after installation and the consequent system reboot if the latter is required Later on they will automatically launch at every system restart You can stop and start these programs in the same way as other services 2 6 Removing Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components You can remove any Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server component separately by selecting Control panel gt Add or remove programs gt lt The component name gt gt Remove Then follow instructions on the screen You may have to reboot your computer afterwards to complete the task In case you remove Acronis True Image Agent or Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version from the system there is an option to keep the Acronis Secure Zone along with its contents which will enable data recovery on booting from bootable media or remove Acronis Secure Zone 24 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 Chapter 3 General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 3 1 The difference between file archives and disk partition images A backup archive is a file or a group of files also called in this guide backups that contains a copy of selected files folders data or a copy of all information stored on selected disks partitions When you back up files and folders only the data along with the folder tree is compressed and stored Backing up disks and partitions is performed in a different way A
229. up task Once the backup procedure is over the computer can go to sleep if it times out Before using the feature make sure that Wake On LAN is enabled both on the computers that you intend to back up and the Acronis Group Server To enable the Wake On LAN feature on a computer to be backed up 1 Enter the computer BIOS and set Power gt Wake On PCI PME gt Power On 74 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 2 Set the NIC properties on the computer as follows Control Panel gt System gt Device Manager gt Network adapters gt select the NIC gt Properties gt Advanced Enable PME gt Enabled Wake On Link Settings gt OS Controlled Wake On Settings gt Wake On Magic Packet 3 Find out the computer MAC address Local Area Connection gt Status gt Support gt Details gt Physical Address 4 Repeat steps 1 3 for all computers you wish to wake on LAN To enable the Wake On LAN option on the Acronis Group Server 1 Find the computer to be backed up in the list of computers 2 Select the computer and enter its MAC address in the Acronis Group Server sidebar gt Computer details gt MAC address Set gt type the hex MAC address as XXXXXXXXXXXX or XX XX XX XX XX gt click OK The program will test the MAC address for validity and display the test result 3 Repeat steps 1 2 for all computers you wish to wake on LAN 4 Schedule a group backup task for the above computers When setting
230. up tib he LT Files of type Backup Archives tib v O ev The farther you store the archive from the original folders the safer it will be in case of data damage For example saving the archive to another hard disk will protect your data if the primary disk is damaged but won t be useful if the computer is destroyed in a fire or flood Data saved to a network disk ftp server or removable media will survive even if all your local hard disks are down You can also use Acronis Secure Zone see details in 3 3 Acronis Secure Zone or Acronis Backup Server see details in 3 5 Acronis Backup Server for storing backups In those cases you need not provide the file name When backing up to Acronis Secure Zone you have an option of dual destination backup If enabled the program will automatically place a copy of your backup archives on a local drive or network share as well as Acronis Secure Zone See details in 6 3 12 Dual destination backup Dynamic volumes are fully supported as a backup destination place Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can access backup archives created on dynamic volumes in standalone rescue mode as well as under Windows control See notes and recommendations for using the FTP server in 1 4 2 Supported storage media 6 If your choice was not Acronis Backup Server select whether you want to create a full incremental or differential backup If you have not backed up the selected files folders y
231. vel is 5 The server will be rebooted after the operation is completed trueimagecmd create partition 2 1 filename serverl folder arc tib net_user userl net_password pwl log server2 dir logl log log_net_user user2 log_net_password pw2 e This will create an image of partition 2 1 named arc tib in the shared folder serverl folder The operation log file log1 log will be saved on another share server2 dir Credentials for both shares are provided trueimagecmd create partition 2 filename ftp server folder archive tib ftp_user usrl ftp_password pswdl e This will create an image of partition 2 1 in the archive tib file located on the FTP server 2 Restore disks and partitions trueimagecmd deploy filename C Test 1l tib partition 2 1 e This will restore partition 2 1 from image 1 tib trueimagecmd deploy filename C Test 1 tib password qwerty harddisk 2 e This will restore hard disk 2 from image 1 tib protected with password qwerty trueimagecmd deploy filename C Test 1 tib partition 2 1 target_partition 1 1 e This will restore partition 2 1 stored in image 1 tib to partition 1 1 trueimagecmd deploy filename C Test 1l tib partition 2 1 target_harddisk 3 start 63 size 64000 type logical e This will restore partition 2 1 stored in image 1 tib to hard disk 3 A new logical partition will be created on disk 3
232. versal Restor einne sated a ae ee A AE vind a Aa Aa 31 3 7 1 Acronis Universal Restore PUIDOSC iiiicecccc cect en cece cette tenn LEED EERE EEE EEL EE EEE E EEE EEE EE EEE 31 3 7 2 Acronis Universal Restore general principles s s s sssesessesssssrrreesessrrrrrrrerererrrrrnrnnenernrrrers 32 3 7 3 Acronis Universal Restore and Microsoft SyYSprep esesssssssssesssssssrrrrrerersrerrrrrerensnerrrrrnrs 32 3 7 4 Limitations in using Acronis Universal R StOlEC cccccccteescccceeeeeee sean neeeeeeeeteet nana nnnntenenis 33 4 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 3 7 5 Getting Acronis Universal ROStOl iccecccecccnen cece ete e eee nn EEE E EEE EE EEE E ELLE EEE E EEE EEE EE EERE EEE 33 3 8 Backing up to tape libraries and tape CriveS eee eee e eee eee e ee ee enna tenes 34 3 8 1 Backing up to tape libraries and AUCOIOACELS 10 iie ieee eecettt cence ee te ee een n ened tee et teen nnn ennatttttts 34 3 8 2 BACKING UP tO LADO AriVeS iisn isisisi rodiad iiini n ADEE EAR EAA AET EAA A EAA O RT 34 3 8 3 Setting up backup to a tape or a tape library in the local NCCWOFK cctesecsestnseesesentessenen 35 3 9 Viewing disk and partition inforMation attt tn tE nE EEEE EEEEEEEE REEERE EE EEEE 35 Chapter 4 Using Acronis True Image Management COnSoOle ss ssssssssnsnnnnnnnnnnn 36 A1 General informatio Nisso ae devine ete elt act E EEE KEERA E U TEAKE ERS 36 4 2 Installing updating Acronis components on remote Machine
233. versal Restore and the mass storage driver to be installed filerestore target_folder target folder Specifies a folder where folders files will be restored a target folder If not specified the original path is re created from the archive overwrit always older never This option allows you to keep useful data changes made since the backup being restored was done Choose what to do if the program finds in the target folder a file with the same name as in the archive older this will give the priority to the most recent file modification whether it be in the archive or on the disk never this will give the file on the hard disk unconditional priority over the archived file always this will give the archived file unconditional priority over the file on the hard disk If not specified the files on the disk will always be replaced with the archived files restore_security on off Specifies whether to restore files security attributes default or the files will inherit the security settings of the folder where they will be restored original_date on off Specifies whether to restore files original date and time from the archive or assign the current date and time to the restored files If not specified the current date is assigned consolidate target_filename fil name Specifies the path to and name of the archive copy to be created If there ar
234. very without re joining the domain or re mapping network user profiles If you are going to change the above settings on a recovered system you can prepare the system with Sysprep image it and restore if need be using Acronis Universal Restore 32 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 3 7 4 Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore 1 The system recovered by Acronis Universal Restore might not start if the partition structure in the image or the target disk partitioning does not coincide with that of the source disk As a result the loader restored from the image will point to the wrong partition and the system will not boot or will malfunction Such might be the case if you image only selected partitions but not the entire source disk Keep in mind that the source disk may have a hidden maintenance partition created by the computer vendor Therefore if you check each partition for backup instead of checking the disk this hidden partition will not be included into the image restore not the entire source disk but only the selected partitions In some cases especially if your system resides on a partition other than the first this can confuse the loader and prevent the restored system from startup To avoid the problem we recommend that you image and restore the entire system disk 2 The Acronis Universal Restore option does not work if a computer is booted with Acronis Startup Recovery Manager using F11 o
235. windows the zone is listed along with all partitions available for storing archives Acronis Secure Zone is necessary for using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and Acronis Snap Restore features see below The three features in combination instantly make operational a system that fails to boot A consistent external copy of archives saved on Acronis Secure Zone can be created on a network share using dual destination backup feature See details in 6 3 12 Dual destination backup Acronis Secure Zone is always available for archive creation as long as there is space for the backup file If there is not enough space older archives will be deleted to create Space Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server uses the following approaches to clear space in the Acronis Secure Zone e lf there is not enough free space in the zone to create a backup the program deletes the oldest full backup with all subsequent incremental differential backups e If there is only one full backup with subsequent incremental differential backups left and a full backup is in progress then the old full backup and incremental differential backups are deleted e f there is only one full backup left and an incremental or differential backup is in progress you will get an error message telling you there is a lack of available space In that case you will have to either re create the full backup or increase the size of the Acronis Secure Zone 26 Copyright
236. xtracts the partition type from the image For the primary partition the type will be set as follows if the target disk is the 1st according to BIOS and it has not other primary partitions the restored partition will be set active if the target disk is the 1st according to BIOS and there are other primary partitions on it the restored partition will be set logical if the target disk is not the 1st the restored partition will be set logical preserve_mbr When restoring a partition over an existing one the target partition is deleted from the disk along with its entry in the target disk MBR Then with the preserve_mbr option the restored partition s entry will occupy the upper empty position in the target disk MBR Thus the target disk MBR is preserved If not specified the restored Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2007 141 partition s entry will occupy the same position as in the source disk MBR saved in the image If the position is not empty the existing entry will be moved to another position The following options are available when using the Acronis Universal Restore add on to Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server For more information see 3 7 Acronis Universal Restore ur_path path ur_username user ur_password pwd Specifies using Acronis Universal Restore and the path to the drivers storage ur_driver inf filename Specifies using Acronis Uni
237. you will be able to use the unallocated space to create new partitions or to enlarge the existing partitions with special tools such as Acronis Disk Director Suite As a rule as is transfers are not recommended as they leave much unallocated space on the new disk Using the as is method Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server transfers unsupported and damaged file systems If you transfer data proportionally each partition will be enlarged according to the proportion of the old and new disk capacities FAT16 partitions are enlarged less than others as they have a 4GB size limit Depending on the selected combination you will proceed to either the old disk partitioning window or the disk partition layout window see below 14 3 9 Partitioning the old disk If you selected Create a new partition layout earlier in the process it is now time to repartition your old disk During this step you will see the current disk partition layout Initially the disk has unallocated space only This will change when you create new partitions Having completed the required steps you will add a new partition To create another one simply repeat those steps If you make a mistake click Back to redo After you create the necessary partitions uncheck the Create new partition in unallocated space box and click Next 14 3 10 Old and new disk partition layouts In the next window you will see rectangles indicating the source hard disk in
238. your database or operating system does not support VSS Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server will execute your custom commands to execute database suspension Supports Leading Edge Technology Businesses today are moving to leverage the latest technologies including dual core 64 bit processors and 64 bit operating systems With Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server you can protect these new machines as well as legacy servers running a single application with a common interface Leverages Existing Technology Investments The product can leverage your current storage infrastructure by supporting a variety of storage media so you can avoid costly hardware purchases to implement the solution The product supports key storage technologies such as Direct Attached Storage DAS Network Attached Storage NAS Storage Area Networks SAN Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks RAID tapes USB and IEEE 1394 FireWire compliant storage devices CDs DVDs removable drives Floppy Zip etc and shared storage Moreover the product ensures that you maximize the space on these resources with four levels of compression Disk cloning and new disk deployment Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server can be used to clone an image onto multiple servers For example let s say a company purchased several servers and needs similar environments on each of them Traditionally the IT manager would install the operating system and programs on

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