2 new in acronis true image 9.1 server for windows – Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Windows - User Guide User Manual

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Businesses today are moving to leverage the latest technologies, dual-core 64 bit processors
and 64 bit operating systems. With Acronis True Image Server for Windows, you can protect
these new machines, as well as legacy ones, running one solution.
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 Server for Windows can be used to clone an image onto multiple
servers. For example, a company purchased several servers and needs similar environments
on each of them. Traditionally, an IT manager should install the operating system and
programs on every server. With Acronis True Image Server for Windows, the IT manager
can create a disk image of the first system deployed. That image can then be duplicated
onto multiple servers.
If you need to upgrade the server hard disk drive, Acronis True Image Server for Windows
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 New in Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Windows

• Support for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 x64

Editions

• Direct backup to DVD and bootable DVD creation
• Support for GPT hard disks (disks with GUID partition table)
• Backup to/restore from FTP servers
• Acronis Snap Restore – A user can start working in seconds while the system is still

being restored

• Acronis Universal Restore (optional) – Hardware-independent live system restore
• File-level backup and recovery, including files opened in exclusive usage mode - In

addition to an entire partition/system backup

• Differential backup – Backup only the changes made since the full backup
• Fast incremental/differential backup – Users can choose to compare files with their

archived copies by date/size (fast process) or by file contents (precise, but time-
consuming process)

• Files and folders backup/restore filtering – Saves space when creating file backups

by only backing up files of the types the users want to keep. Similarly, a user can tell the
program not to restore certain files from the file archive

• Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support (for Windows 2003 Server

and higher) – Easily backup VSS compatible databases (Exchange, Oracle, SQL Server)
without taking databases offline and ensuring data consistency