Acronis Snap Deploy 4 - User Guide - Manual (Page 22)

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 Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Master Image Creator is a bootable, locally controlled component that
creates an image of the master system.
There are two ways to load Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Master Image Creator on a master machine:
directly from bootable media or remotely by using Acronis PXE Server.
 Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Standalone Utility is a bootable component that enables fully-functional
deployment with a GUI on a stand-alone machine (a machine isolated from the network or
included in a network without Acronis Snap Deploy 4 infrastructure).
The only way to load Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Standalone Utility is from an Acronis bootable media.
 Acronis System Report is a bootable component that collects information about the machine
and saves this information to a locally-attached USB drive.
There are two ways to load Acronis System Report: directly from an Acronis bootable media or
remotely by using Acronis PXE Server.
2.3 Support for file systems and storage media
2.3.1 Supported file systems
Acronis Snap Deploy 4 provides full-featured imaging and deployment of the following file systems:
 FAT16
 FAT32
 NTFS
 Ext2
 Ext3
 Ext4
 ReiserFS
 Reiser4
 Linux SWAP
 XFS
 JFS
Acronis Snap Deploy 4 can perform imaging and deployment of corrupted or unsupported file
systems by using a sector-by-sector approach. This approach usually leads to a bigger size of the
master image and makes the imaging or deployment process longer. A volume with an unsupported
file system cannot be resized during deployment.
2.3.2 Supported media
Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Master Image Creator and Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Management Agent can
save an image:
 In a network folder.
 On an internal hard disk of the master machine.
 On USB and FireWire (IEEE-1394) storage devices (hard drives, flash drives) attached to the
master machine.
 On DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, or recordable Blu-ray Discs (BD-R, BD-RE) loaded in the
media drive of the master machine.