User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE SERVER 7.0

[. . . ] Acronis True Image Server 7. 0 User's Guide www. acronis. com Copyright © SWsoft, 2000-2003. All rights reserved. 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. [. . . ] The File Name field will reflect its name and the Next will become available. If this image is located in Acronis Secure Zone, select it to select the image on the next step. Image selection for restoration 26 Copyright © SWsoft, 2000­2003 Acronis True Image Server User's Guide Restoring a disk (partition) from an image If you are to restore an image from removable media, e. g. CD, first insert the latest burnt CD and then insert them in order starting from the one created first. If you provided a comment to the image, it would help you understand if you selected the right image. The comment is displayed in the right part of the window. Note that it can be seen without entering a password for a protected image. However, the contents of such image will still require a password. If an image was protected with a password, Acronis True Image Server will ask for it. In this case the Next button will be disabled until you enter the right password. If you are to restore a disk (partition) from an incremental image, you must have the current image as well as at least one or even all previous incremental images and the initial full image. The exact number of images depends on how disk contents changed between image creation procedures. Selecting a partition to restore A single file might contain images of several partitions or even disks, as shown in the figure below. Select a partition to restore During a single restoration session you can restore several partitions or disks one by one by selecting one disk and setting its parameters first, and then repeating these actions for every partition or disk to be restored. Select the necessary partition and click Next. Selecting a location to restore to As a rule you should restore image to the same partition that the image was created from. Restoring a disk (partition) from an image Acronis True Image Server User's Guide You can restore an image to another partition, but this is needed rather seldom. At that a partition should be of at least the same size as uncompressed image data. If you don't have a serious reason to restore an image to another partition, restore it only to partition that was used to create this image. Select partition to restore image to All the data stored on the restored partition will be replaced by the image data, so be careful and watch for non-backed up data that you might need. Selecting partition type When restoring a partition you can change its type though it's not required in most cases. To explain why you might need to do this, let's imagine that both OS, and data were stored on the same primary partition on the damaged disk. You are forced to restore the partition from a backup to another hard disk with its own partitions and OS. 28 Copyright © SWsoft, 2000­2003 Acronis True Image Server User's Guide Restoring a disk (partition) from an image Select partition type If you need only the data, you don't have to create another primary partition. In this case, you can restore the partition as logical to access the data only. But if you are to restore a system partition, you should select the Primary type for it. Finally, if you want to load operating system from it, select Active as well. Selecting Active for a partition without an installed operating system might prevent your PC from booting. Selecting a file system Though this is required rather seldom, you can change partition file system during its restoration. Restoring a disk (partition) from an image Acronis True Image Server User's Guide Select a file system Let's imagine you are to restore a partition from the old low-capacity FAT16 disk to a newer one. FAT16 wouldn't be effective and might even be impossible to set on the high-capacity hard disk. The thing is that FAT16 supports files up to 2Gb in size, so you won't be able to restore a 2Gb FAT16 partition to a disk that exceeds 2Gb without changing the file system. It would be logical here to change the file system from FAT16 to FAT32 by setting the appropriate switch. But you must also have in mind that not all operating systems support FAT32. Windows 4. x doesn't support FAT32 and won't be operable after you restore a partition and change its file system. [. . . ] 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 and Windows XP, so you should prepare these OS in a similar way. Scripting and scheduling Acronis True Image Server User's Guide 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 PC: 1. Create Acronis True Image Server bootable media using the corresponding wizard in the Acronis True Image Server menu. You can specify the following as command line parameters: -nosidgen -- if you plan to delete all data from the old disk and/or don't plan to use the old and new disks in different PCs simultaneously; -mini -- if you plan to transfer your OS to a PC with different hardware. [. . . ]