Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows is intended for hard disk/partition image creation, and partition and/or whole PC disk content restoration. Creating disk/partition images guarantee s personal data safety and allows a user to deploy identical systems on another computer.
A disk/partition image contains encoded disk (partition) sector contents that are contained in an archive file. An archive file can simultaneously contain images of several disks and/or disk partitions. It can be located on a hard disk drive or any removable media that is connected to the computer.
Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows allows a user to restore both data and system partitions, even in the most serious system failures, through a wide range of tools, including:
Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows also allows users to restore separate files and folders from a hard disk drive image.
There are several exclusive features of Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows software that distinguish it from similar products:
Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows Allows You To:
Restore separate files and folders even if there is no need to restore a whole partition or disk.
Restore a data partition under Windows, as well as unplugging and re-connecting a logical drive when/where necessary.
Restore a system partition under Windows, rebooting the PC when necessary or booting with a bootable diskette or CD-R(W) before the operating system loads.
These features in Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows guarantee that your valuable data will not be lost — under any circumstance — while allowing you you to restore your system even under the most serious system failure or disk malfunction.
The answer to this question can be divided in two parts.
Yes, you do. Windows does not allow you to run an application while this application completely rewrites the partition Windows is installed on. Therefore, Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows will prompt you to reboot the computer to restore the system partition. Once the partition has been restored, you will be able to boot Windows in the usual way.
Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows works with the most popular Linux file systems: Ext2, Ext3, and ReiserFS.
Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows can run from a bootable diskette or CD-R(W) on any server, independent of the operating system installed.
Having been run from a bootable diskette or CD-R(W) under Linux operating system, Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows lets you perform any operations of disk/partition image creation and/or restoration.
Partition back-ups can be created on both hard disks, and any removable media devices (including tape drives), working within the Windows operating system.
Acronis True Image 8.0 recognizes all hard disks connected to the server, along with a wide variety of removable media drives with P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, USB, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and PCMCIA interfaces including: CD-ROM / DVD-ROM and CD-R(W)recorders and burners, magneto-optical drives, tape drives, Zip and Jaz devices, and many others.
Yes, Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows support Windows LDM (also called Dynamic Disks). You can create an image of a volume of any type and later restore the imaged volume back to dynamic or basic disk. There is one restriction however — if you want to restore a system volume (that is a volume where operating system files reside), then the archive must not reside on a dynamic volume. Non-system volume images can be restored from anywhere.
No. You can install the latest update or the full version of Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows over the existing version. To do this, run the installation program and select "Repair/Upgrade Acronis True Image" option.
After installing Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows in Windows NT / 2000 / XP, you receive the following error messages:
"Not enough server storage is available to process this command."
or
"Not enough memory to complete transaction. Close some applications and retry."
Clients are unable to access network shares.
The problem is that Microsoft Lanman Server has a fixed limit on how many filters it will support. Since Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows installs some filters to support backups, the total number of filters can exceed the server's limit.
More information about this problem and possible solutions could be found in Microsoft Knowledge base article 177078.
Version 4.X and version 5.0 of Easy CD Creator auto-installs a faulty DOS-based backup utility called Take Two(r). This faulty program was removed from Easy CD Creator 5.1 and higher and is no longer supported by Roxio. If this utility is installed, Acronis True Image 8.0 shows the following message when you start the back-up imaging process:
"Cannot create the image of the logical drive because it is currently in use by running applications. Please close all other applications and try again."
We recommend that you either upgrade your Easy CD Creator to version 5.1 or higher and/or uninstall Take Two(r) completely.
The current version of Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows can explore an image archive only if all its volumes reside in the same folder. If your archive spans over several CD-R(W) discs and you wish to explore the image(s), you should copy all volumes to a hard disk drive or to a network drive. Future versions of Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows will allow you to view each image on each CD-R(W). We apologize in advance for the current inconvenience.
The most common reason why you might run into this error message, even if you are using a computer with the same user name, is that the user profile and permissions could be different from those on your original system. Different permissions and profiles might make you unable to view certain files and/or folders. The only workaround is to restore the image archive (at least the necessary partition) and take ownership over the files and/or folders you need in your new profile and permissions. You then will be able to access, view and change these files and/or folders.
Microsoft provides instructions on how to perform this task. You can find them in Microsoft Knowlegde Base — article 308421.
If at least one
computer is visible in "Computers near me", then try to specify
the UNC path to the desired computer in "file name edit box,"
e.g. \\server\share.
If no computers are visible on network, but the "Computers
near me" icon is found in "My Computer" on the Image
Archive Selection screen, then please ensure that a DHCP server
is running on your network. If you don't use DHCP server, then
please ensure that network settings accessible via Options item
in the Tools menu are correct.
If the "Computers near me" icon is not available in "My Computer", then there are problems either with your network card or with the card driver shipped with Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows.
In some cases, especially when a domain controller is present on the network, you should specify an authorizing server name or domain name along with a user name. The user name should be specified in the form of SERVER\USER or DOMAIN\USER.
If you are trying to access a server in a domain that is controlled by Windows Server 2003 and still can not login to a server , please try the following:
In order to clone your
Windows system or migrate it to different hardware, you should
first prepare Windows using Microsoft System Preparation Tool
(sysprep). According to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article —
298491: "One problem from duplicating an
installation of Windows 2000 is that each cloned computer
has the same security identifier (SID) and computer name. This
may prevent the cloned computers from functioning correctly in
a workgroup or a domain. To work around this problem,
administrators use the System Preparation Tool
(Sysprep.exe) to remove configuration settings
that are unique to the computer such as the computer name and
SID. The resulting image can then be safely reused for
installation on other computers." This issue also exists in
Windows NT 4.0 and Windows XP, and thus
computers running those operating systems must be prepared as
well.
To download Microsoft System Preparation tool, click on your operating system: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP. Microsoft System Preparation tool for Windows Server 2003 is available in the Deploy.cab archive that resides in the \Support\Tools\ folder of Windows Server 2003 installation CD.
In brief, here is how you prepare your disk drive to create a master clone image or to migrate data:
Create Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows bootable rescue media with Rescue Media Builder available in the Tools menu of Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows.
We recommend you to read Microsoft articles regarding using sysprep on your operating system, available at the following links: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows
Although Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows takes care of hard disk and filesystem-level consistency via snapshot technology, it could not guarantee application-level consistency. We recommend you to suspend complex servers such as Microsoft SQL, Oracle or Microsoft Exchange before pressing the Proceed button on the last page of the Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows Create Image wizard, or before starting a scheduled task. Once the imaging process starts, you can resume server operations. It is not necessary to suspend the applications for the duration of the imaging process.
Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows is capable of writing to a DVD disk in Windows if UDF packet DVD-writing software is installed, and the DVD disk is formatted. We currently support the following packet DVD-writing software:
In general we also support other UDF packet DVD-writing software, but the three above are most popular and they have been tested and approved by Acronis.
To make the DVD disk writeable in Acronis True Image, the user should do the following:
There is also a two-step method for writing to DVDs. Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows can create an image of the hard disk as a single file on the hard disk itself, and then you can copy the file using your own DVD-writing software to the DVD. We recommend you to set the image archive splitting size to 2,000 MBytes on the Image Archive Splitting screen, as generally the maximum size of a file stored on DVD is 2 GBytes. The Acronis rescue disk will also be able to restore this file from the DVD if necessary.
It is not recommended that you create Acronis Secure Zone on a detachable drive. If you activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and then for some reason disconnect the drive Acronis Secure Zone reside on, your computer may boot with a long delay or not boot at all. You will need either connect the drive with the Acronis Secure Zone back or fix the master boot record (MBR) if the MBR becomes corrupted or the drive is unavailable.