User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Workstation installation and
- Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis tech
- 3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition
- 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 drive
- 3.9 Viewing disk and partition information
- Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Management Console
- Chapter 5. Using Acronis True Image Workstation (local vers
- 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 Compression level
- 6.3.5 Backup performance
- 6.3.6 Fast incremental/differential backup
- 6.3.7 Archive splitting
- 6.3.8 File-level security settings
- 6.3.9 Media components
- 6.3.10 Additional settings
- 3.7.1 How to use
- 3.7.2 Using Acronis Universal Restore in virtual environmen
- 3.7.3 Hints on using Acronis Universal Restore
- 3.7.4 Benefits
- Chapter 7. Restoring the backup data
- 7.1 Restore under Windows or boot from CD?
- 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 partitions at once
- 7.3.11 Setting restore options
- 7.3.12 Using Acronis Universal Restore
- 7.3.13 Restoration summary and executing restoration
- 7.4 Setting restore options
- Chapter 8. Scheduling tasks
- Chapter 9. Managing Acronis Secure Zone
- Chapter 10. Creating bootable media
- Chapter 11. Other operations
- Chapter 12. Mounting an image as a virtual drive
- Chapter 13. Transferring the system to a new disk
- 13.1 General information
- 13.2 Security
- 13.3 Executing transfers
- 13.3.1 Selecting Clone mode
- 13.3.2 Selecting source disk
- 13.3.3 Selecting 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 summary
- 13.4 Cloning with manual partitioning
- Chapter 14. Adding a new hard disk
- Chapter 15. Command-line mode and scripting
Leverages Existing Technology Investments
The product can leverage your current storage infrastructure by supporting a wide variety of
storage media, so you can avoid costly hardware purchases to implement the solution. The
product supports key storage technologies such as: Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network
Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SAN), Redundant Arrays of Independent
Disks (RAID) devices, tapes, USB and IEEE-1394 (FireWire) compliant storage devices, CDs,
DVDs, removable drives (Floppy, Zip, etc.) and shared storage. Moreover, the product
ensures that you maximize the space on these resources with four levels of compression.
Disk cloning and new disk deployment
Acronis True Image Workstation can be used to clone an image onto multiple workstations.
For example, a company purchased several computers and needs similar environments on
each of them. Traditionally, an IT manager should install the operating system and programs
on every workstation. With Acronis True Image Workstation, the IT manager can create a
disk image of the first system deployed. That image can then be duplicated onto multiple
computers.
If you need to upgrade the workstation hard disk drive, Acronis True Image Workstation
simplifies the task to few mouse clicks creating the exact copy of your old disk to a new one
and adjusting partitions size to fit a new hard disk.
1.2 Acronis True Image Workstation Architecture
Acronis True Image Workstation includes the following components.
1. Acronis True Image Management Console – a tool for managing data backup/restore
in a local network from a single location. Facilities include remote program components
installation, managing computer groups (via Acronis True Image Group Server) and
backup archives (via Acronis Backup Server), scheduling individual and group backup
tasks, remote data recovery, checking backup archives, setting backup/restore options on
remote computers.
2. Acronis True Image Agent – a server application, enabling remote managing of data
backup/restore on a networked computer from Acronis True Image Management Console.
3. Acronis Backup Server – when installed on a networked computer, automatically
manages backup archives, stored on this computer, in accordance with the rules, set by an
administrator.
4. Acronis True Image Group Server – when installed on a networked computer, allows
group monitoring of backup tasks on all networked computers in real time.
5. Acronis True Image Workstation (local version) – a component for backup/restore
management on a local server. Facilities include scheduling backup tasks, data recovery,
exploring backup archives, cloning hard disks data and formatting partitions on new hard
disks, command-line mode and scripts execution.
6. Acronis Bootable Rescue Media Builder - creates bootable media, its ISO image or
RIS packages enabling data recovery in case of non-Windows or corrupted operating system.
1.3 New in Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation
• Support for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• Support for GPT hard disks (disks with GUID partition table)
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