User`s guide

ManualsBrandsACRONIS ManualsComputer equipmentBACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER VIRTUAL EDITION - COMMAND LINE REFERENCE UPDATE 3

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction ......................................................................................8

1.1 SonicWALL

Bare Metal Recovery – a complete solution for corporate users...........................8

1.2 SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery components.......................................................................9

1.3 Supported file systems and storage media.........................................................................10

1.3.1 Supported file systems ..............................................................................................10

1.3.2 Supported storage media...........................................................................................10

Chapter 2. SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery Server Edition installation and

startup................................................................................................................12

2.1 System requirements.......................................................................................................12

2.1.1 Minimum hardware requirements ...............................................................................12

2.1.2 Supported operating systems and processors ..............................................................12

2.2 Installing SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery components ......................................................13

2.2.1 Installation of SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery Server Edition.......................................13

2.2.2 SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery Universal Enterprise Server installation........................13

2.3 Running SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery..........................................................................14

2.4 Removing SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery components .....................................................14

Chapter 3. General information and proprietary SonicWALL technologies......15

3.1 The disk/partition image ..................................................................................................15

3.2 Full and incremental backups............................................................................................15

3.3 SonicWALL Universal Restore ...........................................................................................16

3.3.1 SonicWALL Universal Restore purpose.........................................................................16

3.3.2 SonicWALL Universal Restore general principles...........................................................16

3.3.3 SonicWALL Universal Restore and Microsoft Sysprep....................................................17

3.3.4 Limitations in using SonicWALL Universal Restore ........................................................17

3.4 Viewing disk and partition information...............................................................................17

Chapter 4. Using SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery...........................................19

4.1 Main program window .....................................................................................................19

4.2 Available operations.........................................................................................................20

Chapter 5. Creating backup archives ................................................................23

5.1 Backing up disks and partitions (image backup).................................................................23

5.2 Setting backup options.....................................................................................................26

5.2.1 Archive protection.....................................................................................................26

5.2.2 Pre/post commands ..................................................................................................27

5.2.3 Database support......................................................................................................28

5.2.4 Compression level.....................................................................................................30

5.2.5 Backup performance .................................................................................................31

5.2.6 Archive splitting........................................................................................................32

5.2.7 Media components....................................................................................................33

5.2.8 Error handling...........................................................................................................33

5.2.9 Additional settings.....................................................................................................34

Chapter 6. Restoring the backup data ..............................................................36

6.1 Considerations before recovery.........................................................................................36

6.1.1 Restore under Windows or boot from CD?...................................................................36

6.1.2 Network settings in rescue mode................................................................................36

6.1.3 Recovering dynamic volumes.....................................................................................36

6.2 Restoring files and folders from images.............................................................................37

6.3 Restoring disks/partitions from images..............................................................................40

6.3.1 Starting the Restore Data Wizard................................................................................40

6.3.2 Archive selection.......................................................................................................40

6.3.3 Restoration type selection..........................................................................................41