Datasheet
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Acronis® True Image Echo Enterprise Server – a complete solution for corporate users
- 1.2 Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components
- 1.3 New in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server
- 1.4 Supported file systems and storage media
- 1.5 License policy
- 1.6 Technical support
- Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server installation and startup
- 2.1 System requirements
- 2.2 Security parameters
- 2.3 Installing Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components
- 2.3.1 Installation of Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version and Acronis True Image Agent for Windows
- 2.3.2 Installation of Acronis True Image Agent for Linux
- 2.3.3 Installation of Acronis Group Server
- 2.3.4 Acronis Backup Server installation and setup
- 2.3.5 Acronis Universal Restore installation
- 2.4 Extracting Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components
- 2.5 Running Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components
- 2.6 Removing Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components
- Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies
- 3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images
- 3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups
- 3.3 Acronis Secure Zone®
- 3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
- 3.5 Acronis Backup Server
- 3.6 Acronis Snap Restore
- 3.7 Acronis Universal Restore
- 3.8 Backing up to tape libraries and tape drives
- 3.9 Viewing disk and partition information
- Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Management Console
- Chapter 5. Using Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server (local version)
- Chapter 6. Creating backup archives
- 6.1 Backing up files and folders (file backup)
- 6.2 Backing up disks and partitions (image backup)
- 6.3 Setting backup options
- 6.3.1 Archive protection
- 6.3.2 Source files exclusion
- 6.3.3 Pre/post commands
- 6.3.4 Database support
- 6.3.5 Compression level
- 6.3.6 Backup performance
- 6.3.7 Fast incremental/differential backup
- 6.3.8 Archive splitting
- 6.3.9 File-level security settings
- 6.3.10 Media components
- 6.3.11 Error handling
- 6.3.12 Dual destination backup
- 6.3.13 Wake On LAN
- 6.3.14 Additional settings
- Chapter 7. Restoring the backup data
- 7.1 Considerations before recovery
- 7.2 Restoring files and folders from file archives
- 7.3 Restoring disks/partitions or files from images
- 7.3.1 Starting the Restore Data Wizard
- 7.3.2 Archive selection
- 7.3.3 Restoration type selection
- 7.3.4 Selecting a disk/partition to restore
- 7.3.5 Selecting a target disk/partition
- 7.3.6 Changing the restored partition type
- 7.3.7 Changing the restored partition file system
- 7.3.8 Changing the restored partition size and location
- 7.3.9 Assigning a letter to the restored partition
- 7.3.10 Restoring several disks or partitions at once
- 7.3.11 Using Acronis Universal Restore
- 7.3.12 Setting restore options
- 7.3.13 Restoration summary and executing restoration
- 7.4 Setting restore options
- 7.5 Creating dynamic disks and volumes
- Chapter 8. Scheduling tasks
- Chapter 9. Managing the Acronis Secure Zone
- Chapter 10. Creating bootable media
- Chapter 11. Operations with archives
- Chapter 12. Notifications and event tracing
- Chapter 13. Working with a virtual environment
- Chapter 14. Transferring the system to a new disk
- 14.1 General information
- 14.2 Security
- 14.3 Executing transfers
- 14.3.1 Selecting Clone mode
- 14.3.2 Selecting source disk
- 14.3.3 Selecting destination disk
- 14.3.4 Partitioned destination disk
- 14.3.5 Old and new disk partition layout
- 14.3.6 Old disk data
- 14.3.7 Destroying the old disk data
- 14.3.8 Selecting partition transfer method
- 14.3.9 Partitioning the old disk
- 14.3.10 Old and new disk partition layouts
- 14.3.11 Cloning summary
- 14.4 Cloning with manual partitioning
- Chapter 15. Adding a new hard disk
- Chapter 16. Command-line mode and scripting
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: Acronis 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 differential 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,
all
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.
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