Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introducing Acronis® Snap Deploy®
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 What you can do with Acronis Snap Deploy 3
- 1.2.1 Take an image of the master system (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality)
- 1.2.2 Manual deployment (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality)
- 1.2.3 Scheduled deployment (new in v 3)
- 1.2.4 Event-driven deployment (new in v 3)
- 1.2.5 Command line and scripting under Win PE (new in v 3)
- 1.2.6 Standalone deployment (new in v 3)
- 1.2.7 Custom Deployment (User-initiated deployment) (new in v 3)
- 1.2.8 Deployment of a disk partition or MBR (new in v 3)
- 1.2.9 Selective deployment (MAC filtering) (new in v 3)
- 1.2.10 Password protection (new in v 3)
- 1.2.11 Manage a remote computer (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality)
- 1.3 What else is new in v 3?
- 1.4 Supported operating systems
- 1.5 License policy
- 1.6 Upgrade to v 3
- 1.7 Technical support
- 2. Understanding Acronis Snap Deploy
- 3. Installation
- 3.1 System requirements
- 3.2 Used ports and IP addresses
- 3.3 General rules of installation
- 3.4 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console
- 3.5 Installation of Acronis License Server
- 3.6 Installation of Acronis OS Deploy Server
- 3.7 Installation and setup of Acronis PXE Server
- 3.8 Installation of Acronis WOL Proxy
- 3.9 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy Management Agent
- 3.10 Installation of Acronis Universal Deploy
- 3.11 Extracting the Acronis Snap Deploy components
- 3.12 Using Acronis License Server
- 4. Using Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console
- 5. Creating Acronis bootable media
- 6. Configuring PXE Server
- 7. Taking an image
- 8. Checking the master image
- 9. Deployment templates
- 9.1 Why save templates?
- 9.2 Creating templates
- 9.2.1 Master image selection
- 9.2.2 Disk/partition selection
- 9.2.3 Target disk and partition selection
- 9.2.4 User accounts
- 9.2.5 Computer names and domain/workgroup
- 9.2.6 Network settings
- 9.2.7 Security identifiers
- 9.2.8 Transferring files
- 9.2.9 Executing applications
- 9.2.10 Using Acronis Universal Deploy
- 9.2.11 Deployment options
- 9.2.12 Comments and summary
- 10. Standalone deployment
- 11. Manual deployment
- 12. Event-driven deployment
- 13. Scheduled deployment
- 14. Custom deployment mode
- 15. Command line and scripting under Win PE and Bart PE
- 16. Managing a remote computer
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If your operating system and its loader reside on different partitions, always include both
partitions in the image. The partitions must also be deployed together; otherwise there is a
high risk that the operating system will not start.
Select disks and partitions to image
7.5.2 Image name and location
Acronis Master Image Creator can save an image:
- on a network share
- on the master computer internal hard drive
- on USB and FireWire (IEEE-1394) storage devices (hard drives, flash drives) attached to the
master computer
- on DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW loaded in the master computer media drive.
A sizeable image can be split between multiple media automatically.
Select the image location in the device tree. Type the name of the file in the Filename field. The
program can generate a unique file name. Just click the Generate name for a new file button on
the right.