Server for Linux
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Echo Server installation and startup
- 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 Working from a rescue CD
- 3.5 Working from a remote terminal
- 3.6 Backing up software and hardware RAID arrays
- 3.7 Support for LVM volumes
- 3.8 Backing up to tape drive
- Chapter 4. The program interface under X Window System
- Chapter 5. Creating backup archives
- Chapter 6. Restoring the backup data under X Window system
- 6.1 Considerations before recovery
- 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 disks or 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. Creating bootable media
- Chapter 10. Operations with archives
- Chapter 11. Notifications and event tracing
- Chapter 12. Console mode
- 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
- 14.3.7 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 2. Acronis True Image Echo Server
installation and startup
2.1 System requirements
2.1.1 Minimum hardware requirements
Acronis True Image Echo Server requires the following hardware:
• Pentium processor or higher
• 256MB RAM
• CD-RW drive for bootable media creation
• Mouse (recommended).
2.1.2 Supported operating systems
• Linux 2.4.18 or later kernel (including 2.6.x kernels).
• SuSE 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, RedHat 9.0, Advanced Server 2.1, Advanced
Server 3.0, Advanced Server 4.0, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2, Fedora Core 3,
Fedora Core 4, Enterprise Server 3.0, Mandrake 8.0, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, Slackware 10,
Debian stable and unstable (sarge), ASPLinux 9.2, ASPLinux 10, ASPLinux 11,
ASPLinux Server II, ASPLinux Server IV, Virtuozzo 2.6.x, Gentoo, UnitedLinux 1.0,
Ubuntu 4.10, TurboLinux 8.0, TurboLinux 10.0
• x64 versions of the above Linux distributions and some others Linux distributions are
also supported
To obtain the up-to-date information about distributions, supported by your copy of
Acronis True Image Echo Server, see the readme.txt file supplied with the program.
Acronis True Image Echo Server bootable version enables disk-level backup and recovery
on a computer running any PC-based operating system.
2.2 Installing Acronis True Image Echo Server
To install Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux:
• Assign to the setup file the attribute Executable
• Run the setup process
• Follow setup program instructions.
If the setup could not compile the necessary module for your Linux distribution, please
refer to the file HOWTO.INSTALL:
/usr/lib/Acronis/TrueImageServer/HOWTO.INSTALL
You can choose to install, besides Acronis True Image Echo Server, the Rescue Media
Builder tool. With Rescue Media Builder you can create bootable rescue disks or their ISO
images.
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