User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Acronis® True Image Server – a complete solution for corporate users
- 1.2 New in Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Windows
- 1.3 System requirements and supported media
- 1.4 Technical support
- Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Server installation and starting
- 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 Snap Restore
- 3.6 Acronis Universal Restore
- 3.7 Using dynamic disks and volumes
- 3.8 Backing up to tape drive
- 3.9 Viewing disk and partition information
- Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Server
- Chapter 5. Creating backup archives
- Chapter 6. Restoring the backup data
- 6.1 Restore under Windows or boot from CD?
- 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 Assigning a letter to the restored partition
- 6.3.10 Restoring several disks or partitions at once
- 6.3.11 Using Acronis Universal Restore
- 6.3.12 Setting restore options
- 6.3.13 Restoration summary and executing restoration
- 6.4 Setting restore options
- Chapter 7. Scheduling tasks
- Chapter 8. Managing Acronis Secure Zone
- Chapter 9. Creating bootable media
- Chapter 10. Other operations
- Chapter 11. Mounting an image as a virtual drive
- Chapter 12. Transferring the system to a new disk
- 12.1 General information
- 12.2 Security
- 12.3 Executing transfers
- 12.3.1 Selecting Clone mode
- 12.3.2 Selecting source disk
- 12.3.3 Selecting destination disk
- 12.3.4 Partitioned destination disk
- 12.3.5 Old and new disk partition layout
- 12.3.6 Old disk data
- 12.3.7 Destroying the old disk data
- 12.3.8 Selecting partition transfer method
- 12.3.9 Partitioning the old disk
- 12.3.10 Old and new disk partition layouts
- 12.3.11 Cloning summary
- 12.4 Cloning with manual partitioning
- Chapter 13. Adding a new hard disk
- Chapter 14. Command-line mode and scripting
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Source. Specifies the partitions or disks to be imaged. Letters assigned to partitions must be
used without colon. Disk numbers correspond to their system numbers. To create images of
several partitions or disks, use the SOURCE tag for each of them, e.g.:
<source letter =”C” />
<source letter =”D” />
<source disk =”1” />
<source disk =”2” />
Target. Specifies the name and the location of an image file, e.g.:
<target file=“E:\Mybackup2.tib” username=”username”
password=”password” />
username
and
password
parameters are optional. They are used to access networked
resources.
As a target for the image files you can indicate CD-R/RW or tape drive.
Options. This tag can be used with a number of additional parameters:
Compression:
specifies the backup compression level. Can be
None, Low, Normal, High
.
Incremental:
specifies whether you need to create an incremental image file. If equal to
”false” (or “0”), a full image file will be created. If there is already a file with the name
specified, it will be replaced without warnings. If equal to “true” (or “1”) and there is already
a file with the name specified, an incremental image will be created. Otherwise the program
will create a full image file. The default value for this parameter is “true”.
Description:
adds a description to an image file. The comment must be a single string
(though its length is not limited.)
Split:
splits a large image file into a number of smaller files of the specified size, which can
be provided in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, etc.
Password:
adds password protection to an image file.
14.2.3 Script usage examples
The following example illustrates the usage of a script to backup two partitions (logical
drives), C and F.
mybackup2.tib
is specified as an incremental image file. High compression
level is selected and the image is to be split into 650MB parts for recording to CD-R/RW
media. Password protection will also be added. The entire script must be located between
the
<backup>
and
</backup>
tags.
<? xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<backup>
<source letter ="c" />
<source letter ="f" />
<target file="e:\mybackup2.tib" />
<options compression="high" incremental="true"
description="this is my backup" split="650 Mb" password="" />
</backup>
The script for backing up to tape (tapeN specifies the tapes numbers):