Specifications
Industrial PC
Expansion components
SIMATIC PC Image Creator
3/75
Siemens ST PC · November 2008
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Function
Basic functionality
• High-speed and accurate backup and restoring of hard disk
contents. This restoration requires considerably less time
compared to a reinstallation.
• Consistently integrated menus allow easy operation so that
the user does not require specialist knowledge.
• SIMATIC PC Image Creator backs up the hard disk image op-
tionally on :
- Second partition
- Second hard disk
- CD/DVD burner drive
- USB-CD/DVD burner drive or USB hard drive
- A server or directly connected PC
• Image Creator can be started directly from the CD, with its full
scope of functions, without the need for installation (exception:
"1ClickImage" backup). In this case there is no change to the
target system to be backed up, which rules out from the start
the possibility of unwanted conflicts with the existing installa-
tion.
• Can be used on all SIMATIC PCs, regardless of the processor,
memory or hard drive equipment
• SIMATIC PCs are supported automatically by integration of
the correct drivers.
• The CD can also be booted from an external USB-CD/DVD
drive (if supported by the device).
• If no CD/DVD drive is available, boot diskettes or a bootable
USB flash drive (if supported by the device) can be set up as
alternative execution media.
• Image Creator is based on Symantec Norton Ghost 2003.
Special product features
• Installation of Image Creator is possible in hidden area on the
hard disk (requirement for "1ClickImage"). This means that Im-
age Creator is always on board (--> no Image Creator CD or
USB Flash Drive required). The following functions are then
possible:
• Image Creator can be started in Windows (even if Ghost is
not installed). In this case, Windows is shut down and Image
Creator is booted from the hidden area of the hard disk.
• Complete backup via mouse double-click with "1ClickImage"
after one-time setup of backup path.
- This makes for an extremely simple backup procedure
- The behavior of the PC after backup (e.g.: shut down, reboot
Windows) can be determined when configuring the backup.
- Log of backup procedure is maintained in a log file. This
means you can check later whether an unsupervised
backup has been performed correctly.
- Versioning of the "1ClickImage" backups (administration of
up to nine backups). This reliably protects older backup
states from inadvertent overwriting.
• Time-controlled backup: The start of a previously configured
complete backup via the Windows Task Planner enables regu-
lar, unsupervised backups at any times
• Creation of an "Image Creator Stick"
• When menu-driven, a USB FlashDrive can be set up as an
execution medium for Image Creator. If BIOS Manager is in-
stalled on the USB FlashDrive, it is integrated into the operat-
ing menu.
• Generation of a "Tool Stick"
• Image Creator can be added onto an USB Flash Drive with
BIOS Manager and/or Partition Creator. After booting the USB
Flash Drive, you can then call Image Creator or Partition
Creator or BIOS-Manager from a selection menu.
• Menu-driven generation of a Windows boot menu entry for the
USB FlashDrive makes the migration of the booting sequence
in favor of the USB FlashDrive in the BIOS unnecessary.
System requirements
:
Can run on a SIMATIC PC with Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Note:
The standard installation of Ghost 2003 is not possible in
Windows Vista. The backup and restoration of Vista systems
from the Image Creator runtime environment is possible, how-
ever, without restrictions (also "1ClickImage").
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Ordering data Order No.
SIMATIC PC
Image Creator V2.1
Can be ordered using the
SIMATIC PC Configurator
with SIMATIC Rack PC
547B/847B and SIMATIC
Box PC 627B/827B
SIMATIC PC
Image Creator V 2.1
6ES7 648-6BA02-1YX0
Software tool for preventive data
backup for SIMATIC PCs, incl.
manual on CD ROM (English,
German, French, Spanish, Italian)
© Siemens AG 2009