User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE CORPORATE WORKSTATION 8.0

[. . . ] User's Guide Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation Compute with confidence www. acronis. com Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. OS/2 is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] If you stored these files on several removable discs, you must provide the latest image file, otherwise, restoration problems might occur. 5. 4 Selecting image file size At this step you can specify if the program should create a single file or split it into equal smaller images. If you select Automatic, Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation will try to decide this for every particular case. If there's enough space on the selected disk, the program will create a single image file. If there's not enough space, Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation will warn you and wait for your decision. You can try to free some additional space and continue or stop Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation , free some space and re-execute the procedure. Image file size selection If You work with removable media, the size of a file of an image is set automatically only. FAT16 and FAT32 file systems have a limit for maximum file sizes. In particular, FAT16 limit is 2Gb, FAT32 limit ­ 4Gb. FAT32 is currently the most popular end user file system. At the same time, existing hard drives have capacities of 160Gb and above!Therefore, an image file might easily exceed this limit. In this case Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation will automatically split image into several files. Creating a partition (disk) image If you need to automatically create an image on CD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW, DVD-RW media or a tape, Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation will ask you to insert a new disc (tape), when the previous is full. You can also fix image file size by selecting Fixed size and entering the desired size or selecting it from the drop-down list. By default, the value is in bytes, but you can also use kilobytes and megabytes by adding needed units. You can also split image file into several volumes, when storing it on a hard drive as well, because in the future you'll be able to easily transfer these files onto CD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW, DVD-RW discs. And creating images directly on CD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW might take considerably longer time then it would on a hard disk. 5. 5 Selecting data compression level Now select the data compression level for image to be created. If you select None, all data will be transferred into an image file as they are, increasing the image size. The maximum compression might prolong image creation. Image data compression level selection The optimal data compression level depends on disk (partition) files types and can only be understood empirically. Usually, it is recommended to leave the switch in the Normal position. If you need to burn image to removable media, you can select Maximum compression. Creating a partition (disk) image 5. 6 Protecting images with passwords An archive file with a partition (disk) image can be protected with a password. If you think a partition (disk), you create an image of, shouldn't be restored by anybody except you, enter a password and its confirmation into the text fields of the wizard page Image Archive Protection. A password should consist of at least 8 symbols and contain both letters (in the upper and lower cases desirably), and numbers. (So it would be harder to hack it). Image password protection If you try to restore data from a password protected image, Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation will ask for password in a special window, allowing access only to authorized users. 5. 7 Providing comments On the wizard page Image Archive Comments you'll be able to provide an archive file with any comment that may include any information on the workstation and its user, the hard disk, partition data, image creation time, and any peculiarities and conditions. Creating a partition (disk) image An image comment The more details are provided in the comment, the more assured you would be. If you don't provide comments, you might mistake images and restore another system partition, for example. 5. 8 Image creation script In the next window, you will see disk(s) or partition(s) image creation script containing a list of briefly described operations to be performed. Image creation script All operations of a partition (disk) image creation in an archive file are delayed in Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation. A partition (disk) image creation script is created first, and then it's executed. Creating a partition (disk) image After you click Proceed, Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation will start creating an image indicating the progress in the special window. [. . . ] 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. " This problem also relates to Windows NT 4. 0 SP6 and Windows XP, so you should prepare these OS in a similar way. You can download Microsoft System Preparation Tool from www. microsoft. com or extract from deploy. cab located on Windows XP installation CD. Below is a brief instruction on how to prepare your hard disk for cloning or transferring to another workstation: 1. [. . . ]