User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Acronis® True Image Server for Linux– a complete solution for corporate users
- 1.2 Features of Acronis True Image Server for Linux
- 1.3 Technical support
- Chapter 2. Installation and operation
- 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 Working from a rescue CD
- 3.6 Working from a remote terminal
- 3.7 Backing up software and hardware RAID arrays
- 3.8 Support for LVM volumes
- 3.9 Backing up to tape drive
- Chapter 4. Main program interface under X Window System
- Chapter 5. Creating backup archives under X Window System
- Chapter 6. Restoring the backup data under X Window System
- 6.1 Network settings in rescue mode
- 6.2 Restoring files and folders from file archives
- 6.3 Restoring disks/partitions or files from images
- 6.3.1 Starting the Restore Data Wizard
- 6.3.2 Archive selection
- 6.3.3 Restoration type selection
- 6.3.4 Selecting a disk/partition to restore
- 6.3.5 Selecting a target disk/partition
- 6.3.6 Changing the restored partition type
- 6.3.7 Changing the restored partition file system
- 6.3.8 Changing the restored partition size and location
- 6.3.9 Restoring several partitions at once
- 6.3.10 Setting restore options
- 6.3.11 Restoration summary and executing restoration
- 6.4 Restoring data with a rescue CD
- 6.5 Setting restore options
- Chapter 7. Scheduling tasks
- Chapter 8. Managing Acronis Secure Zone
- Chapter 9. Mounting partition images
- Chapter 10. Creating bootable media
- Chapter 11. Console mode
- Chapter 12. Other operations
- Chapter 13. Transferring the system to a new disk
- 13.1 General information
- 13.2 Security
- 13.3 Executing transfers
- 13.3.1 Selecting transfer mode
- 13.3.2 Selecting the source disk
- 13.3.3 Selecting the destination disk
- 13.3.4 Partitioned destination disk
- 13.3.5 Old and new disk partition layout
- 13.3.6 Old disk data
- 13.3.7 Destroying the old disk data
- 13.3.8 Selecting partition transfer method
- 13.3.9 Partitioning the old disk
- 13.3.10 Old and new disk partition layouts
- 13.3.11 Cloning script
- 13.4 Cloning with manual partitioning
- Chapter 14. Adding a new hard disk
General information and proprietary Acronis technologies
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3.9 Backing up to tape drive
Acronis True Image Server for Linux supports SCSI tape drives. It can store backups on the
tape and restore data from the tape, store large backups to multiple tapes, and append
incremental/differential changes to a tape with the existing archives.
If a SCSI tape drive is connected to the server, the list of devices available for backup
storage will be extended with a name corresponding to the drive type.
Backup and restore on the tape proceed in the same way as with other devices, with the
following exceptions.
1. A full backup can be stored on an empty tape only. If you use tape that already contains
data, its contents will be overwritten.
2. In case you want to keep more than one archive on the tape, for example, back up two
disks separately, choose incremental backup mode when creating initial full backup for the
second disk. In other situations, incremental backup is used for appending changes to the
previously created archive.
3. You do not have to provide filenames for backups.
You might experience short pauses that are required to rewind the tape.
Low-quality or old tape, as well as dirt on the magnetic head, might lead to pauses that can last up to
several minutes.