User guide

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8.1.1 Linux-based bootable media ................................................................................................................ 161
8.1.2 Adding the Acronis Plug-in to WinPE 1.x .............................................................................................. 165
8.1.3 Adding the Acronis Plug-in to WinPE 2.x or 3.0 .................................................................................... 166
8.1.4 Building Bart PE with Acronis Plug-in from Windows distribution ....................................................... 167
8.2 Connecting to a machine booted from media ................................................................... 167
8.3 Working under bootable media ........................................................................................ 168
8.3.1 Setting up a display mode..................................................................................................................... 168
8.3.2 Configuring iSCSI and NDAS devices ..................................................................................................... 169
8.4 List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media ............................ 169
8.5 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ................................................................................... 171
9 Disk management................................................................................................................... 172
9.1 Supported file systems ...................................................................................................... 172
9.2 Basic precautions .............................................................................................................. 172
9.3 Running Acronis Disk Director Lite .................................................................................... 173
9.4 Choosing the operating system for disk management ....................................................... 173
9.5 "Disk management" view .................................................................................................. 173
9.6 Disk operations ................................................................................................................. 174
9.6.1 Disk initialization ................................................................................................................................... 174
9.6.2 Basic disk cloning .................................................................................................................................. 175
9.6.3 Disk conversion: MBR to GPT ............................................................................................................... 177
9.6.4 Disk conversion: GPT to MBR ............................................................................................................... 178
9.6.5 Disk conversion: basic to dynamic ........................................................................................................ 178
9.6.6 Disk conversion: dynamic to basic ........................................................................................................ 179
9.6.7 Changing disk status ............................................................................................................................. 180
9.7 Volume operations ........................................................................................................... 180
9.7.1 Creating a volume ................................................................................................................................. 180
9.7.2 Delete volume ...................................................................................................................................... 184
9.7.3 Set active volume.................................................................................................................................. 185
9.7.4 Change volume letter ........................................................................................................................... 185
9.7.5 Change volume label ............................................................................................................................ 186
9.7.6 Format volume ..................................................................................................................................... 186
9.8 Pending operations ........................................................................................................... 187
10 Administering a managed machine ........................................................................................ 188
10.1 Backup plans and tasks ..................................................................................................... 188
10.1.1 Actions on backup plans and tasks ....................................................................................................... 188
10.1.2 States and statuses of backup plans and tasks ..................................................................................... 190
10.1.3 Export and import of backup plans ...................................................................................................... 193
10.1.4 Deploying backup plans as files ............................................................................................................ 196
10.1.5 Backup plan details ............................................................................................................................... 197
10.1.6 Task/activity details .............................................................................................................................. 198
10.2 Log.................................................................................................................................... 199
10.2.1 Actions on log entries ........................................................................................................................... 199
10.2.2 Log entry details ................................................................................................................................... 200
10.3 Alerts ................................................................................................................................ 200
10.4 Collecting system information........................................................................................... 201
10.5 Adjusting machine options ................................................................................................ 201
10.5.1 Customer Experience Program ............................................................................................................. 202