User`s guide

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction...........................................................................................
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1.1 Acronis® True Image Workstation – a complete solution for corporate users.........................8
1.2 Acronis True Image Workstation Architecture......................................................................9
1.3 License policy ...................................................................................................................9
1.4 New in Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation......................................................................10
1.5 System requirements and supported media.......................................................................11
1.5.1 Minimum system requirements ..................................................................................11
1.5.2 Supported operating systems.....................................................................................11
1.5.3 Supported file systems..............................................................................................12
1.5.4 Supported storage media ..........................................................................................12
1.6 Technical support............................................................................................................13
Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Workstation installation and starting .................14
2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Workstation components......................................................14
2.1.1 Installation of Acronis True Image Workstation local version and Acronis True Image Agent
for Windows......................................................................................................................
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2.1.2 Installation of Acronis Group Server ...........................................................................15
2.1.3 Acronis Backup Server installation and setup...............................................................15
2.1.4 Acronis Universal Restore installation..........................................................................15
2.2 Extracting Acronis True Image Workstation components.....................................................16
2.3 Setting up security parameters for Acronis True Image Workstation....................................16
2.3.1 Usernames and passwords ........................................................................................16
2.3.2 Firewall setup...........................................................................................................16
2.4 Running Acronis True Image Workstation components.......................................................17
2.4.1. Running Acronis True Image Workstation (local version).............................................17
2.4.2 Running Acronis True Image Management Console......................................................17
2.4.3 Running other Acronis components ............................................................................17
2.5 Removing Acronis True Image Workstation components.....................................................17
Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ................19
3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ...........................................19
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups..........................................................................19
3.3 Acronis Secure Zone........................................................................................................20
3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...................................................................................21
3.4.1 How it works............................................................................................................21
3.4.2 How to use ..............................................................................................................21
3.5 Acronis Backup Server.....................................................................................................21
3.5.1 Backup locations, their quotas and time limits.............................................................22
3.5.2 Quotas and time limits for computers and users..........................................................22
3.5.3 Administrator profiles and User profiles.......................................................................22
3.5.4 Operations with archives ...........................................................................................23
3.6 Acronis Snap Restore.......................................................................................................23
3.6.1 Limitations in using Acronis Snap Restore...................................................................23
3.6.2 How it works............................................................................................................23
3.6.3 How to use ..............................................................................................................24
3.7 Acronis Universal Restore.................................................................................................24
3.7.1 Acronis Universal Restore purpose..............................................................................24
3.7.2 Acronis Universal Restore general principles................................................................25
3.7.3 Acronis Universal Restore and Microsoft Sysprep.........................................................25
3.7.4 Using Acronis Universal Restore in virtual environment ................................................26
3.7.5 Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore .............................................................26
3.7.6 Getting Acronis Universal Restore...............................................................................26
3.8 Backing up to tape drive..................................................................................................26
3.9 Viewing disk and partition information ..............................................................................27