User guide

6 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012.
8.3.4 Volume selection ..................................................................................................................................... 163
8.3.5 Managing mounted images .................................................................................................................... 164
8.4 Operations available in vaults ............................................................................................... 164
8.4.1 Operations with archives ........................................................................................................................ 165
8.4.2 Operations with backups ........................................................................................................................ 165
8.4.3 Converting a backup to full ..................................................................................................................... 166
8.4.4 Deleting archives and backups ................................................................................................................ 167
9 Bootable media ................................................................................................................... 168
9.1 How to create bootable media ............................................................................................. 169
9.1.1 Linux-based bootable media ................................................................................................................... 170
9.1.2 Adding the Acronis Plug-in to WinPE 2.x or 3.x ...................................................................................... 174
9.2 Connecting to a machine booted from media ...................................................................... 176
9.3 Working under bootable media ........................................................................................... 176
9.3.1 Setting up a display mode ....................................................................................................................... 176
9.3.2 Configuring iSCSI and NDAS devices ....................................................................................................... 177
9.4 List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media ............................ 177
9.5 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...................................................................................... 179
10 Disk management ................................................................................................................ 180
10.1 Supported file systems ......................................................................................................... 180
10.2 Basic precautions .................................................................................................................. 180
10.3 Running Acronis Disk Director Lite ....................................................................................... 181
10.4 Choosing the operating system for disk management ......................................................... 181
10.5 "Disk management" view ..................................................................................................... 181
10.6 Disk operations ..................................................................................................................... 182
10.6.1 Disk initialization ...................................................................................................................................... 182
10.6.2 Basic disk cloning ..................................................................................................................................... 183
10.6.3 Disk conversion: MBR to GPT .................................................................................................................. 185
10.6.4 Disk conversion: GPT to MBR .................................................................................................................. 186
10.6.5 Disk conversion: basic to dynamic .......................................................................................................... 186
10.6.6 Disk conversion: dynamic to basic .......................................................................................................... 187
10.6.7 Changing disk status ................................................................................................................................ 188
10.7 Volume operations ............................................................................................................... 188
10.7.1 Creating a volume.................................................................................................................................... 188
10.7.2 Delete volume ......................................................................................................................................... 192
10.7.3 Set active volume .................................................................................................................................... 193
10.7.4 Change volume letter .............................................................................................................................. 193
10.7.5 Change volume label ............................................................................................................................... 194
10.7.6 Format volume ........................................................................................................................................ 194
10.8 Pending operations ............................................................................................................... 195
11 Administering a managed machine ...................................................................................... 196
11.1 Backup plans and tasks ......................................................................................................... 196
11.1.1 Actions on backup plans and tasks ......................................................................................................... 196
11.1.2 States and statuses of backup plans and tasks ....................................................................................... 198
11.1.3 Export and import of backup plans ......................................................................................................... 201
11.1.4 Deploying backup plans as files .............................................................................................................. 204
11.1.5 Backup plan details .................................................................................................................................. 205
11.1.6 Task/activity details ................................................................................................................................. 206