User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ENTERPRISE SERVER 8.0

[. . . ] User's Guide Acronis True Image Enterprise Server 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. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. [. . . ] If you already have a full image, it is recommended that you create incremental images. If you have defragmented your hard disk since the last full image, an incremental image could be as large as the full image. Therefore we recommend you to make a defragmentation of a hard disk before the full image of the given disk will be created. 5. 3. 1 Creating an incremental image To create an incremental disk/partition image, choose your original full disk image file in the directory tree of Image Archive Creation window and press Next button. If you already created the incremental backup, choose the last incremental disk/partition image in the directory tree. If image archive is stored on the removable media, e. g. CD, insert the last CD and then follow instructions of the Create Image Wizard. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 39 Restoring a disk (partition) from an image (Having a policy for creating full and incremental images is recommended. For example, you might consider creating a full image monthly and incremental images weekly. ) If all image files are stored together, if doesn't matter which one you select, as the program will recognize them as a single image. 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 Enterprise Server 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 Enterprise Server will warn you and wait for your decision. You can try to free some additional space and continue or stop Acronis True Image Enterprise Server , 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 Enterprise Server will automatically split image into several files. 40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Creating a partition (disk) image If you need to automatically create an image on CD-R/RW, DVD-RW or DVD+R/RW media or a tape, Acronis True Image Enterprise Server 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. And creating images directly on CD-R/RW, DVD-RW or DVD+R/RW might take considerably longer time then it would on a hard disk. 5. 5 Selecting data compression level On this step you must 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. [. . . ] 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 server: 1. Create Acronis True Image Enterprise Server bootable media using the corresponding wizard in the Acronis True Image Enterprise Server menu. [. . . ]