User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE SERVER 8.0-LINUX

[. . . ] User's Guide Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Linux Compute with confidence www. acronis. com Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Linux. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] If you are to restore a disk (partition) from an incremental image, Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Linux will suggest you to select one of successive incremental files by Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 21 Restoring disks (partitions) from images under X Window System date/time of its creation. Thus, you can return the disk (partition) state to a certain moment, often called "a point of restore". To restore data from an incremental image, you must have all previous incremental images and the initial full image. If any of successive images is missing, restoration is impossible. If you are to restore an image from removable media, e. g. CD, first insert the last CD and then follow instructions of the Restore Image Wizard. 5. 2 Selecting a partition to restore A single file might contain images of several partitions or even disks. 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. 3 Selecting a location to restore to As a rule, you should restore an image to the same partition from which it was created. You can restore an image to another partition, but this is not often necessary. However, 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 the partition that was used to create the image. 22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Restoring disks (partitions) from images under X Window System Select partition to which the image will be restored All the data stored on the restored partition will be replaced by the image data, so be careful and do not overwrite data that you might need but haven't backed up yet. 5. 4 Selecting partition type When restoring a partition, you can change its type, though it is not required in most cases. To illustrate why you might need to do this, let's imagine that both the operating system and data were stored on the same primary partition on a damaged disk. You are forced to restore the partition from a backup to another hard disk with its own partitions and OS. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 23 Restoring disks (partitions) from images under X Window System 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 an operating system from it, select Active as well. Selecting Active for a partition without an installed an operating system might prevent your server from booting. 5. 5 Selecting a file system Though seldom required, you can change the partition file system during its restoration. 24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Restoring disks (partitions) from images under X Window System Selecting a file system Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Linux can make the following file system conversions: FAT 16 FAT 32, Ext2 Ext3. 5. 6 Selecting restored partition size In some cases, you might need to change the partition configuration and size during the restoration. Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Linux is flexible enough to do it. You can resize and relocate a partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse or by entering corresponding values in the appropriate fields on the screen. Select partition size and location Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 25 Restoring disks (partitions) from images under X Window System You might need to resize and relocate a partition to redistribute the disk space among existing partitions. In this case, you will have to restore the partition to be reduced first. These changes might be useful if you are to clone a hard disk by creating its image and restoring it to a new disk with larger partitions. Such cloning is used if it's impossible to connect the second hard disk to the server. 5. 7 Restoring several partitions at once You can restore several partitions during a single session. To do this, select Yes, I want to restore another partition or hard disk drive in the Next Selection window and click Next. You can restore another partition during this operation After this, you will see the partition selection window again and will have to repeat the actions mentioned above. If you want to restore only one disk (partition) or have already selected all the partitions you need, do not set this switch and click Next. 5. 8 Restoration script In the next window, you will see a disk(s) or partition(s) image restoration script containing a list of briefly described operations to be performed. 26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Restoring disks (partitions) from images under X Window System Restoration scenario After you click Proceed, Acronis True Image Server 8. 0 for Linux will start image restoration, indicating the progress in the special window. If you click Cancel, no changes will be made to the disk(s). [. . . ] In that case, you will immediately proceed to the New partition creation. If there are any partitions on the new disk, they must be deleted first. Select Delete partitions on the destination hard disk and click Next to continue. 9. 2 Creating a new partition At this step, you will see the current partition layout. Initially, all disk space will be unallocated. This will change after you add partitions. 46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2005 Adding a new hard disk To create a partition in the unallocated space, select Create new partition in unallocated space and click Next to perform steps required by the partition creation wizard. [. . . ]