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Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Acronis True Image Enterprise Server – a complete solution for corporate users You have come to rely on your servers to run your business and retain key enterprise data. Acronis True Image Enterprise Server provides comprehensive, reliable, and cost-effective system protection and recovery for systems and entire networks. With Acronis True Image Enterprise Server you have peace of mind knowing you are protected and can recover from any situation. Minimize
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Supports Cutting Edge Technology Businesses today are moving to leverage the latest technologies, dual-core 64 bit processors and 64 bit operating systems. With Acronis True Image Enterprise Server, 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 th
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6. Acronis Bootable Rescue Media Builder - creates bootable media, its ISO image or RIS packages enabling data recovery in case of non-Windows or corrupted operating system. 1.3 New in Acronis True Image 9.1 Enterprise Server • Support for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions • Support for GPT hard disks (disks with GUID partition table) • Acronis Backup Server – This software application, when installed on a networked computer, automatically manages ba
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• Bootable backup media – When backing up to removable media, users can make this media bootable in the same manner as rescue CD, so separate recover media is not required • Bootable disks ISOs and RIS packages – In addition to burning a bootable rescue disk, users can save its ISO image for burning later, or create a RIS package for remote boot of Acronis True Image Enterprise Server • Acronis Bootable Agent – Adding this Agent to the rescue disk or RIS package will enable the administ
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• SuSE 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, Advanced Server 2.1, Advanced Server 3.0, Advanced Server 4.0, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2, Fedora Core 3, Fedora Core 4, Enterprise Server 3.0, Mandrake 8.0, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, Slackware 10, Debian stable and unstable (sarge), ASPLinux 9.2, ASPLinux 10, ASPLinux 11, ASPLinux Server II, ASPLinux Server IV, Virtuozzo 2.6.x, Gentoo, UnitedLinux 1.0, Ubuntu 4.10, TurboLinux 8.0, TurboLinux 10.0 and some others Linux distributions
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products that you can’t solve yourself by using this guide, then please contact Acronis Technical Support. More information about contacting Acronis Technical Support is available at the following link: http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/support/ 12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006
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Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Enterprise Server installation and starting 2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Enterprise Server components To install Acronis True Image Enterprise Server components: • run the Acronis True Image Enterprise Server setup file • in the Install Menu, select the program to install: Acronis True Image Management Console, Acronis True Image Agent for Windows, Acronis Backup Server, Acronis True Image Group Server or Acronis True Image Enterprise Server (local
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(disabled by default) provides the ability to include Acronis True Image Enterprise Server into Bart PE plug-in tab. The plug-in files will be placed into the component installation folder along with other program files. Acronis Secure Zone manager lets you create, delete and resize a special hidden 3.3 Acronis Secure Zone). partition for storing backup archives (see When installing Acronis True Image Group Server, you will have to enter credentials, i.e. user account that will be use
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2.3.2 Firewall setup Acronis True Image Enterprise Server uses the following ports and IP addresses for remote operation: • server (Acronis True Image Agent) UDP port: 9876 • server (Acronis True Image Agent) TCP port: 9876, if busy chose port at random • client (Acronis True Image Management Console) UDP port: 9877, if busy chose port at random • IPv4 multicast address: 239.255.219.45 • IPv6 multicast address: FF05::fAA5:741E. You might have to set the appropriate firewall access o
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Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images A backup archive is a file or a group of files (also called in this Guide “backups”), that contains a copy of selected files/folders data or a copy of all information stored on selected disks/partitions. When you back up files and folders, only the data, along with the folder tree, are compressed and stored. Backing up disks and partitions is perfor
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this case, you need not to re-create the initial full image, so the backup time is not crucial, and the restore time will be minimal. Alternatively, if you are interested in saving only the last data state to be able to restore it in case of system failure, consider the differential backup. It is particularly effective if your data changes tend to be little as compared to the full data volume. The same is true for incremental backup. In addition, it is most useful when you need frequent
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3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager 3.4.1 How it works The Acronis Startup Recovery Manager enables starting Acronis True Image Enterprise Server on a local computer without loading the operating system. With this feature, if the operating system won't load for some reason, you can run Acronis True Image Enterprise Server by itself to restore damaged partitions. As opposed to booting from Acronis removable media or RIS server, you will not need a separate media or network connection t
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3.5.1 Backup locations, their quotas and time limits Backup server is a networked computer where Acronis Backup Server is installed. A backup location is an automatically managed storage area for backups on a backup server. An administrator can organize one or more backup locations and set the overall limitations to size/storage time for every location, i.e. quotas and time limits. An administrator can Move, Clear or Delete existing backup locations or edit their Quotas and time limits.
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Administrator profiles are used for managing backups, created by backup tasks, remotely controlled from Acronis True Image Management Console. An administrator assigns a backup location and sets quotas and time limits for each computer running Acronis True Image Agent. After that, when creating an individual or group backup task, he will specify the backup server as the target storage place, and every computer’s backup will be directed to the assigned location, which may differ from other
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User's Guide
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True Image 9.1
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Compute with confidence
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Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006. All rights reserved. “Acronis”, "Acronis Compute with Confidence", “Acronis Snap Restore”, “Acronis Recovery Manager, “Acronis Secure Zone” and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Distribution of substantively modified version
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END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT BY ACCEPTING, YOU (ORIGINAL PURCHASER) INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO ACCEPT THE PRODUCT UNDER THESE TERMS, YOU CAN CHOOSE NOT TO ACCEPT BY SELECTING "I decline..." AND NOT INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE. Acronis True Image Enterprise Server (the Software) is Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006. All rights are reserved. The ORIGINAL PURCHASER is granted a LICENSE to use the software only, subject to the following restrictions and limit
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Table of Contents CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 7 1.1 ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ENTERPRISE SERVER – A COMPLETE SOLUTION FOR CORPORATE USERS ................... 7 1.2 ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ENTERPRISE SERVER ARCHITECTURE....................................................................... 8 1.3 NEW IN ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.1 ENTERPRISE SERVER...........................................
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4.5 MANAGING BACKUP SERVER ...................................................................................................................... 33 4.5.1 Default settings................................................................................................................................... 34 4.5.2 Set up Administrator profiles.............................................................................................................. 35 4.5.3 Adding Users and Administrator
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8.1.4 Setting up one-time execution............................................................................................................. 75 8.2 MANAGING SCHEDULED TASKS................................................................................................................... 76 CHAPTER 9. MANAGING ACRONIS SECURE ZONE ............................................................................. 77 9.1 CREATING ACRONIS SECURE ZONE ..........................................
