Acronis True Image for MS SBS Server - User Guide User Manual

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1.2 Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server
components

Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server includes the following
components.
1. Acronis True Image Management Console is a tool for remote access to Acronis
components. Administrator uses the console to install, configure and control the
components from remote.
2. Acronis True Image Agent is an application that resides on client computers and
performs Acronis operations such as data backup or restore.
3. Acronis Group Server is a management tool that provides ability to schedule,
monitor and manage group backup tasks. It deploys group tasks to the agents, polls the
agents for the status of running tasks and provides the administrator with the summary
tasks state display over the network.
4. Acronis Backup Server is an application for centralized storage and management of
enterprise backup archives.
The administrator can set space quotas and backup schemes, schedule check tasks that
consolidate backups in case of quota violation, perform one-time backups consolidation.
This ensures optimal usage of the storage capacity. Acronis Backup Server also enables
users to access a tape library, connected to the server.
5. Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server (local version) is a
locally controlled server management tool with additional functionality as compared to
Acronis True Image Agent. The local version supports, besides backup and recovery
operations, exploring archives, mounting images as virtual drives, cloning hard disks data
and formatting partitions on new hard disks, creating dynamic volumes, command-line
mode and scripts execution.
6. Acronis Universal Restore is an add-on to Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small
Business Server that automatically configures Windows drivers in a system, recovered on
dissimilar hardware. This enables the seamless system start and operation.
7. Acronis Bootable Rescue Media Builder - creates bootable media, its ISO image or
the RIS package thus enabling data recovery over bare metal, non-Windows or corrupted
operating systems.

1.3 New in Acronis for Microsoft Small Business Server

Management console
Reconnect (last connect) option
Centralized installation and update of Acronis components on multiple computers
Group server
Import and export computers through txt/csv files
Run, stop, restart, edit, check group tasks
Group validation tasks
Set how often to check the computers state (status refresh rate)
Wake on LAN for backup