User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE SERVER 8.0

[. . . ] User's Guide Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows 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 any of successive images is missing, restoration is impossible. 5. 2 Checking image integrity before restoration Before an image is restored, Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows can check its integrity. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 31 Restoring a disk (partition) from an image To do this, flag Yes, I want to verify the image archive on the Verify Archive Before the Restoring page of the image restoration wizard. Checking image integrity before restoration This is disabled by default in Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows. 5. 3 Selecting a partition to restore A single file might contain images of several partitions or even disks, as shown in the figure below. 32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Restoring a disk (partition) from an image Select a partition to restore During a single 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. 5. 4 Selecting a location to restore to As a rule you should restore image to the same partition that the image was created from. 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 special reason to restore an image to another partition, restore it only to partition that was used to create the 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. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 33 Restoring a disk (partition) from an image 5. 5 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. 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 server from booting. 5. 6 Selecting a file system Though it is seldom required to change a partition file system, you can change it during its restoration. For partitions with FAT native file systems you can choose between FAT16 and FAT32. For partitions with Ext native file systems you can 34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Restoring a disk (partition) from an image choose between Ext2 and Ext3. For partitions with other native file systems this option is not available. Select a file system Let's imagine you are to restore a partition from an old, low-capacity FAT16 disk to a newer disk. FAT16 wouldn't be effective and might even be impossible to set on the high-capacity hard disk. That's because FAT16 supports partitions up to 4 GB, so you won't be able to restore a 4 GB FAT16 partition to a partition that exceeds that threshold without changing the file system. It would make sense 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. These can be normally restored on a FAT16 partition only. However, you can easily convert a FAT16 partition with newer OS into FAT32. 5. 7 Selecting restored partition size In some cases you might need to change partition configuration and size during the restoration. Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows is flexible enough to do this. You can resize and relocate partition by dragging it or its borders with mouse or by entering corresponding values into the appropriate fields. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 35 Restoring a disk (partition) from an image Select partition size and location You might need to resize and relocate a partition to redistribute the disk space between existing partitions. [. . . ] 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. 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 Server 8. 0 for Windows bootable media using the corresponding wizard in the Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Windows menu. [. . . ]