Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows - User Guide User Manual

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction ......................................................................................8

1.1 Acronis

True Image Echo Server – a complete solution for corporate users ...........................8

1.2 New in Acronis True Image Echo Server ..............................................................................9

1.3 Supported file systems and storage media .........................................................................10

1.3.1 Supported file systems ..............................................................................................10

1.3.2 Supported storage media...........................................................................................11

1.4 Technical support ............................................................................................................11

Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Echo Server installation and startup ..............12

2.1 System requirements .......................................................................................................12

2.1.1 Minimum hardware requirements ...............................................................................12

2.1.2 Supported operating systems .....................................................................................12

2.2 Installing Acronis True Image Echo Server.........................................................................12

2.2.1 Installation of Acronis True Image Echo Server............................................................13

2.2.2 Acronis Universal Restore installation ..........................................................................13

2.3 Extracting Acronis True Image Echo Server components .....................................................14

2.4 Running Acronis True Image Echo Server ..........................................................................14

2.5 Removing Acronis True Image Echo Server........................................................................14

Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ............15

3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images............................................15

3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups ..........................................................................15

3.3 Acronis Secure Zone

......................................................................................................16

3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager....................................................................................17

3.4.1 How it works ............................................................................................................17

3.4.2 How to use...............................................................................................................17

3.5 Acronis Snap Restore.......................................................................................................18

3.5.1 Limitations in using Acronis Snap Restore....................................................................18

3.5.2 How it works ............................................................................................................18

3.5.3 How to use...............................................................................................................18

3.6 Acronis Universal Restore.................................................................................................19

3.6.1 Acronis Universal Restore purpose..............................................................................19

3.6.2 Acronis Universal Restore general principles ................................................................19

3.6.3 Acronis Universal Restore and Microsoft Sysprep..........................................................20

3.6.4 Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore..............................................................20

3.6.5 Getting Acronis Universal Restore ...............................................................................21

3.7 Backing up to tape libraries and tape drives.......................................................................21

3.7.1 Backing up to tape libraries and autoloaders................................................................21

3.7.2 Backing up to tape drives...........................................................................................21

3.8 Viewing disk and partition information...............................................................................21

Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Echo Server ...........................................23

4.1 Main program window .....................................................................................................23

4.2 Available operations.........................................................................................................25

Chapter 5. Creating backup archives ................................................................28

5.1 Backing up files and folders (file backup)...........................................................................28

5.2 Backing up disks and partitions (image backup) .................................................................32

5.3 Setting backup options.....................................................................................................34

5.3.1 Archive protection .....................................................................................................35

5.3.2 Source files exclusion ................................................................................................35

5.3.3 Pre/post commands ..................................................................................................36

5.3.4 Database support......................................................................................................36

5.3.5 Compression level .....................................................................................................37

5.3.6 Backup performance .................................................................................................37