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Adding a new hard disk

To create a new partition in the unallocated space, select

Create new partition in

unallocated space

and click

Next

to perform steps required by the partition

creation wizard.

If you made a mistake at partitioning, click

Back

to redo.

After you create the necessary partition layout, uncheck the

Create new partition

in unallocated space

box and click

Next

9.3 Disk

adding

script

In the next window you will see the disk add script containing a list of briefly described
operations to be performed.

Disk add script

After you click

Proceed

, Acronis True Image Enterprise Server will start creating

and formatting new partitions indicating the progress in the special window. You
can stop this procedure by clicking

Cancel

. In this case you will have to re-partition

and format the new disk or repeat the disk add procedure.

After the operation is complete, you will see the results message.

Summary of Contents for TRUE IMAGE 8.0

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Page 4: ...Image 17 2 7 2 Running Acronis True Image Management Console 17 2 8 REMOVING ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ENTERPRISE SERVER COMPONENTS 17 CHAPTER 3 USING ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE MANAGEMENT CONSOLE 18 3 1 GENERAL INFORMATION 18 3 2 INSTALLING ACRONIS COMPONENTS ONTO A REMOTE MACHINE 19 3 3 CONNECTING TO A REMOTE PC 20 3 4 CREATING PARTITION DISK IMAGES ON A REMOTE PC 21 3 5 CHECKING IMAGE INTEGRITY 22 3 6 REMOTE ...

Page 5: ... 6 9 CHECKING FILE SYSTEM INTEGRITY 54 6 10 RESTORING SEVERAL PARTITIONS AT ONCE 55 6 11 RESTORATION SCRIPT 55 CHAPTER 7 BROWSING AND RESTORING PARTICULAR FILES 57 7 1 CONNECTING A VIRTUAL DISK 57 7 1 1 Selecting an image 57 7 1 2 Selecting partitions to connect and letter assignment 58 7 2 UNPLUGGING A VIRTUAL DISK 59 CHAPTER 8 TRANSFERRING SYSTEM TO A NEW DISK 60 8 1 GENERAL INFORMATION 60 8 2 S...

Page 6: ...PTING 79 11 1 WORKING IN THE COMMAND LINE MODE 79 11 1 1 Supported commands 79 11 1 2 TrueImageCmd exe usage examples 87 11 1 1 Command line mode usage under DOS 88 11 2 SCRIPTING 88 11 2 1 Script execution parameters 88 11 2 2 Script structure 89 11 2 3 Script usage examples 90 CHAPTER 12 OTHER OPERATIONS 91 12 1 CHECKING IMAGES 91 12 1 1 Selecting image for checking 91 12 2 CREATING BOOTABLE MED...

Page 7: ...n a server and interrupting server operations With the Acronis True Image Management Console you can manage image archives creation both locally and remotely irrespective of the location of the server you want to image Acronis True Image Storage Server provides disk image creation on the tape drives connected to workstations and servers where the Storage Server component has been installed Fastest...

Page 8: ... new hard disk 1 2 Acronis True Image Enterprise Server key features Acronis True Image Enterprise Server offers the following features Image creation and restoration without reboot in most cases Acronis True Image Enterprise Server images only the sectors that contain data so images are created in just a few minutes Acronis True Image Enterprise Server supports a variety of IDE SCSI USB FireWire ...

Page 9: ...ration Partition disk file system integrity check after restoration E mail or Windows Popup notification when backup is finished or if backup fails The ability to migrate data from one drive to another The ability to take an existing drive and prepare it to be redeployed as a new system drive or a data drive The ability to recover an entire disk a specific partition an individual folder or an indi...

Page 10: ...a command line mode and for scripts creation and performance 1 4 Supported security standards Acronis True Image Enterprise Server fully supports all security standards used in both local and server versions of the Windows Operating System For more information on setting up security parameters for Acronis True Image Enterprise Server in your enterprise network read section 2 7 of this Guide 1 5 So...

Page 11: ...is True Image Agent Windows 98 Me Windows NT SP6 2000 XP Windows NT 4 0 Server SP6 2000 Server 2000 Advanced Server 2003 Server Acronis True Image Storage Server Windows NT SP6 2000 XP Windows NT 4 0 Server SP6 2000 Server 2000 Advanced Server 2003 Server Acronis True Image Management Console Windows 98 Me Windows NT SP6 2000 XP Windows NT 4 0 Server SP6 2000 Server 2000 Advanced Server 2003 Serve...

Page 12: ...rts any local network and removable media including Local and networked hard drives Tape drives Tape drives connected to the remote PC IDE and SCSI RAID controllers of any level CD R RW drives DVD R RW DVD RW DVD burning software required USB and FireWire IEEE 1394 storage devices Magneto optical media Iomega ZIP Jaz etc 2 4 License policy Acronis True Image Enterprise Server licensing is based on...

Page 13: ...ts run the Acronis True Image Enterprise Server setup file in the Install Menu select the program to install Acronis True Image Management Console Acronis License Server Acronis True Image Agent Acronis True Image Storage Server or Acronis True Image Enterprise Server here a standalone component for a local server called in this guide local console or Acronis True Image follow the Install Wizard i...

Page 14: ... Acronis Secure Zone manager for Acronis True Image Agent With Rescue Media Builder you can create bootable rescue disks see 12 2 Well known Bart PE utility is used to boot Windows like environment from CD Applications are installed into Bart PE in the form of plug ins Choosing Bart PE plug in installation disabled by default provides the ability to include Acronis True Image Enterprise Server int...

Page 15: ...onis True Image Enterprise Server setup file in the Install Menu right click on the component name and select Extract select location for setup file and click Save 2 6 Using License Server Management Tool Acronis License Server includes special command line utility LicenseServerCmdLine exe for managing license information Using this tool you can look through and add information on available licens...

Page 16: ...emote access to the Acronis True Image Agent 2 If a remote PC has Windows 98 Me installed without its own security system you will need to provide a username and password during installation of the Acronis True Image Agent that will be used by Acronis True Image Management Console 2 7 2 Firewall setup Acronis True Image Enterprise Server uses the following ports and IP addresses for remote operati...

Page 17: ...ue Image Acronis True Image Enterprise Server or click on the appropriate shortcut on the desktop 2 7 2 Running Acronis True Image Management Console To run Acronis True Image Management Console select Start Programs Acronis True Image Acronis True Image Management Console 2 8 Removing Acronis True Image Enterprise Server components You can remove any Acronis True Image Enterprise Server component...

Page 18: ...any software or hardware failures Restore remote partition disk except system partitions Manage Acronis Secure Zone on a remote PC Setup notifications receiving about results of backup operations on the remote computer Stop and Launch Windows NT SP6 2000 XP services during an image file creation Check image integrity independently wherever they reside be it local network or removable media Schedul...

Page 19: ...y Acronis component to a remote machine using the Acronis True Image Management Console you will need administrator rights on the target machine To install Acronis components Select the Install Acronis components item in the central part of Acronis True Image Management Console main window or a similar item on the Tools sidebar or the main menu Select the installer location from the list Registere...

Page 20: ...Windows NT SP6 2000 XP including server versions Windows 98 Me machines will require local installation of Acronis True Image Agent If the remote PC runs under Windows XP make sure the option Use simple file sharing in the Control panel Folder options View is disabled before the remote installation starts If the remote PC runs under Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed make sure that the optio...

Page 21: ...dow of Acronis True Image Management Console when connected to a remote PC If Windows 98 Me is running on a remote PC while the PC user has not logged in the network tasks requiring network access cannot be selected for this PC For example it is not possible to create the PC disk image on a network drive After you perform all necessary operations on the remote PC click Disconnect in the Remote man...

Page 22: ...is tape will be erased 3 5 Checking image integrity Having created an image you can use Acronis True Image Agent to check its integrity Here is the procedure 1 Connect to a remote PC with Acronis True Image Agent installed 2 Run Check Image Wizard by selecting the respective item in the main application window 3 Follow Wizard instructions For more information on checking image integrity see sectio...

Page 23: ...mote PC using Acronis True Image Management Console Select View Active tasks in the main menu You will see a new window with all scheduled backup tasks If no tasks have been created the list will be empty Click Schedule Task in the Active Tasks section to invoke Schedule Task Wizard Follow Wizard instructions to create and set up new partition disk backup task You can edit newly created tasks late...

Page 24: ...n level and comments Select when you would like this task to be started The scheduling procedure is almost the same for individual and group tasks see Chapter 10 Scheduling for details If on any reason traffic limitation for example you do not want the task to start on all computers simultaneously set Start time shift parameter The task will start on all computers in turn with time shift you speci...

Page 25: ...completed you may connect to any computer to see its individual task based on the group task you successfully created You can see the group task list edit or delete group tasks using Edit Group Task and Delete Group Task options When editing or deleting a group task enter the same username and password you entered when created the task 3 10 Browsing logs Using Acronis True Image Agent on a remote ...

Page 26: ...operations that can be flexibly adjusted for your taste You can filter messages columns or sort operations by any column To sort messages by a column click its header click again to reverse order or click Arrange icons by button and select the desired column To filter columns right click column header line or left click Choose Details button and select columns to view or deselect those to filter o...

Page 27: ...e this problem you have to create the batch files Batch files help you to stop the chosen services and then automatically launch them again directly in the Acronis True Image Enterprise Server For more information on stopping and launching services see section 5 11 of this Guide 3 13 Updating Acronis True Image Agent Acronis True Image Management Console enables you to update Acronis True Image Ag...

Page 28: ...ilder In the process you will be prompted to select the full or safe loader version The latter does not include USB PC Card PCMCIA or SCSI drivers and is meant for situations when the full version does not work Having created a bootable disc or diskettes identify it and keep in a safe place Acronis Bootable Rescue Media Builder ...

Page 29: ...ed two or even three times in different window areas providing several ways of their selection for more convenience For example you can execute the necessary operation by clicking its icon in the main area or by selecting the same item from the Operations or the Tools menu The main window contains operation icons divided into two groups The Task for Local Computer group contains disk image operati...

Page 30: ...u contains items for managing the program window look Toolbars contains commands that control toolbar icons Common Task Bar enables disables common task panel in the left area Active Tasks shows hides scheduled tasks window The Tools menu contains the following items Manage Acronis Secure Zone creates Acronis secure zone on a disk that is a special hidden partition for storing disk partition image...

Page 31: ...ns by button and select the column To select columns to view right click the headers line or left click the Choose Details button Then flag the columns you want to display If you click the Display the properties of the selected item button you will see the selected partition or disk properties window This window contains two panels The left one contains the properties tree and the right describes ...

Page 32: ...must first delete the existing zone When you click Manage Acronis Secure Zone in the menu the program searches for such zone on all local drives If a zone is found the wizard will offer you to delete or resize it If such zone is absent you ll be prompted to create it Before you create the Acronis Secure Zone estimate its size To do this start image creation and select disks and partitions to image...

Page 33: ...ick Proceed Acronis True Image Enterprise Server will start resizing the secure zone Progress will be reflected in the opened window If needed you can stop zone creation by clicking Cancel However the script will be cancelled only after the current operation is finished Secure zone resizing might take several minutes or more Please wait until the whole procedure is finished 4 2 3 Deleting the imag...

Page 34: ...However the script will be cancelled only after the current operation is finished Acronis Secure Zone deletion might take several minutes or more Please wait until the whole procedure is finished Acronis Secure Zone deletion will automatically disable Acronis Startup Recovery Manager if it s activated and destroy all images stored in the zone Acronis Secure Zone can be located on basic disks only ...

Page 35: ...ng on the hard disk If you have not created this Zone before you will be prompted to do it see section 4 2 1 above then Acronis Startup Recovery Manager will be activated Otherwise Acronis Startup Recovery Manager will be activated immediately When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated it overwrites the Master Boot Record MBR with its own boot code If you have any third party boot managers...

Page 36: ...SCSI tape drives It can store images on and restore them from tape store large images to multiple tapes and append incremental images on to a tape with the existing images If you have a SCSI tape drive connected to your server the list of devices available for image storage and restoration will be extended with a name corresponding to the drive type Images are created on and restored from tapes in...

Page 37: ...t of your server Flag a partition to select it Flag a whole disk to select all its partitions You can select one or more hard disks or any combination of partitions and hard disks Disk and partition layout Having selected partitions and or disks click Next Note that this button is disabled as far as no partitions or disks are selected 5 2 Selecting image location Specify image file location on a s...

Page 38: ...you can t append images to a file The program can generate an unique filename Just click Generate file name for a new file button at the right You can create a disk partition image on the same disk partition if there is enough space for it but do not leave it there Better burn images to removable media such as a CD DVD or Zip disks move to another hard disk or a network drive The only reason to pl...

Page 39: ...fore if you create the first disk partition image you should select the complete mode 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 di...

Page 40: ...r 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 fi...

Page 41: ...ause 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...

Page 42: ...nsist 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 Enterprise Server will ask for password in a special window allowing access only for authorized users 5 7 Providing comments On the wizard page Image Archive C...

Page 43: ...ent 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 ...

Page 44: ...epare some more image creation operations they ll be queued after the current Icons of the current and queued operations will be shown in the bottom of the main program window in due time If you are to burn an image to removable media be sure to enumerate them as you will have to insert them in order during the restoration 5 9 Selecting image creation priority After image creation is started an ic...

Page 45: ... as the outgoing SMTP server name Your user name and password might also be needed if the SMTP server requires authentication 5 10 2 WinPopup notification To set up the WinPopup notification enable the respective parameter in Tools Options Notification WinPopup At that point you will need to provide the network name of the PC to which you want the notification sent ...

Page 46: ...ch file in any text editor for example name it stop_services bat and write commands for stopping the necessary services in it for example net stop msexchangesa y y net stop Microsoft Exchange Routing Engine create a batch file for subsequently launching of the suspended services for example name it start_services bat net start Microsoft Exchange System Attendant net start Microsoft Exchange Event ...

Page 47: ...ootable CD to insert an image disc To restore a partition disk from an image Acronis True Image Enterprise Server must obtain exclusive access to this partition disk This means no other applications can access it at that time If you receive a message stating that the partition disk can not be blocked close applications that use this partition disk and start over If you can not determine which appl...

Page 48: ...e Next button will be disabled until you enter the right password If you are to restore a disk partition from an incremental image Acronis True Image Enterprise Server will suggest you to select one of successive incremental files by date time of its creation Thus you can return the disk partition state to a certain moment often called a point of restore Image date selection To restore data from a...

Page 49: ...king image integrity before restoration This is disabled by default in Acronis True Image Enterprise Server 6 3 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 disk or partition to restore ...

Page 50: ...at 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 ne...

Page 51: ...lly 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 6 6 Selecting a file system Though this is required rather seldom you can change partition file system during its restoration For partitions with FAT native file systems you can choose between FAT16 and FAT32 For partit...

Page 52: ...stem 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 6 7 Selecting restore...

Page 53: ...ger partitions This way of cloning is used if it is impossible to connect the second hard disk to the computer for more details about cloning see 8 1 6 8 Assigning a letter to a partition Windows utilizes letters of Roman alphabet to identify disks and partitions automatically assigning them letters at loading Under Windows NT SP6 2000 XP OS Acronis True Image Enterprise Server enables you to assi...

Page 54: ...ent from FAT and NTFS 6 9 Checking file system integrity Having restored a disk partition from an image under Windows NT SP6 2000 XP Acronis True Image Enterprise Server can check the integrity of its file system To do this flag Yes I want to check file system after the restoring on the Check File System After the Restoring page of the image restoration wizard Checking file system integrity after ...

Page 55: ...e 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 partition selection window again and will have to repeat actions mentioned above If you want to restore only one disk partition or have already selected all partitions you need don t set this switch and click Next 6 11 Restoration script...

Page 56: ... you click Cancel no changes will be made to disk s You can also stop the procedure by clicking Cancel But note that the partition that should have been restored from the image will be deleted and its space unallocated The same result you will get if the restoration is unsuccessful To recover the lost partition you will have to restore it from the image again After the restoration is finished you ...

Page 57: ...orer and other file managers you will be able to see image files as if they are located on a usual disk or partition You ll be able to find necessary files or folders to copy them from the virtual disk to the real one The connected virtual drive will be read only and you won t be able to change anything within it 7 1 Connecting a virtual disk Use Explore Image in the Tools section to connect an im...

Page 58: ...remental images and the initial complete image If any of successive images is missing connecting is impossible 7 1 2 Selecting partitions to connect and letter assignment On this step you must select a partition to connect as a virtual disk Note that you can t connect the entire disk Select partition to connect Besides you can also select a letter to be assigned to the connected disk from the Part...

Page 59: ...mmend you to unplug a virtual disk after all necessary files and folders are copied However the virtual disk will disappear anyway after your server is turned off To disconnect the virtual disk select Unplug You can also unplug the disk by clicking Unplug Image in Acronis True Image Enterprise Server main window ...

Page 60: ...tomatic and manual In the automatic mode you will just have to make several simple actions to transfer all the data including partitions folders and files to a newer disk making it bootable if the older was bootable as well There will be only one difference between these disks partitions on the newer disk will be larger Everything else including the installed operating systems data disk labels etc...

Page 61: ...e to partition and format or clone the hard disk again No data will be lost because the original disk is only being read no partitions are changed or resized until data transfer is completed Nevertheless we don t recommend you to delete data from the old disk until you are sure it is correctly transferred to the new disk server boots up from it and all applications work 8 3 Executing transfers 8 3...

Page 62: ...ps will be bypassed 8 3 2 Selecting source disk If the program finds several partitioned disks it will ask you what is the source i e the older data disk You can determine the source and destination using the information provided in this window disk number capacity label partition and file system information 8 3 3 Selecting destination disk After you select the source disk you have to select the d...

Page 63: ...n Delete partitions on the destination hard disk all existing partitions will be deleted during cloning and all their data will be lost No I do not want to delete partitions no existing partition will be deleted making the cloning impossible You will only be able to cancel this operation and return to select another disk To continue select the first choice and click Next Note that no real changes ...

Page 64: ...ate a new partition layout All existing partitions and their data will be deleted but they will also be cloned to the new disk so you won t lose them Keep data leave the old disk partitions and data intact Destroy data delete partitions and data from the old disk If you are going to sell present etc your old disk we recommend you to clean it from any information to avoid it getting into wrong hand...

Page 65: ...estruction takes more time The second method takes more time but makes it impossible to recover data afterwards even with special equipment The first method is less secure but is still suitable for most cases 8 3 8 Selecting partition transfer method Acronis True Image Enterprise Server will offer you the following data transfer methods As is Proportional the new disk space will be proportionally ...

Page 66: ...ed according to the old and new disk capacities proportion In some cases some partitions may still be transferred as is or be enlarged to the less extent comparing to other As is Acronis True Image Enterprise Server transfers unsupported and damaged file systems FAT16 partitions are enlarged less than other as they have 4 Gb size limit Depending on the selected combination you will proceed to eith...

Page 67: ... rectangles indicating the source hard disk including its partitions and unallocated space as well as the new disk layout Along with the hard disk number you will see its capacity label partition and file system information Different partition types including primary logical and unallocated space are marked with different colors If you have selected manual partition creation before the partition l...

Page 68: ... stop this procedure by clicking Cancel In that case you will have to repartition and format the new disk or repeat the cloning procedure After the operation is complete you will see the results message 8 4 Cloning with manual partitioning 8 4 1 Old and new disk partition layouts The manual transfer method enables you to resize partitions on the new disk By default the program resizes them proport...

Page 69: ...ize and relocate it on the next step You can do this by both entering values to Unallocated space before Partition size Unallocated space after fields by dragging partition borders or partition itself If the cursor turns to two vertical lines with left and right arrows it s pointed at the partition border so you can drag it If the cursor turns to four arrows it s pointed at the partition so you ca...

Page 70: ...en clone To add a new disk you must first install it into your server 9 1 Selecting a hard disk Select the disk you ve added to the server This window might be bypassed if the program detects the new disk itself In this 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 h...

Page 71: ...on in unallocated space box and click Next 9 3 Disk adding script In the next window you will see the disk add script containing a list of briefly described operations to be performed Disk add script After you click Proceed Acronis True Image Enterprise Server will start creating and formatting new partitions indicating the progress in the special window You can stop this procedure by clicking Can...

Page 72: ...reate scheduled tasks use Acronis True Image Enterprise Server scheduler Select View Active tasks in the main menu You will see a new window with all scheduled backup tasks If no tasks have been created the list will be empty Click Schedule Task in the Active Tasks section to invoke Schedule Task Wizard Follow Wizard instructions to create and set up new partition disk backup task 10 1 Creating sc...

Page 73: ...leave it disabled Daily a task will be executed daily at the specified time selected on the next step Weekly a task will be executed weekly or in some weeks at the specified time and day selected on the next step Monthly a task will be executed monthly at the specified time and day selected on the next step One time only a task will be executed once at the specified time and day selected on the ne...

Page 74: ...o execute tasks on Every day Weekdays Every x days once in several days specify the interval You can execute the task even if your server is turned off at the specified time To do this select Perform this task when the computer restarts only if the computer was turned off at the selected time In this case the task will be executed at the nearest startup 10 1 4 Setting up weekly execution If you se...

Page 75: ...puter restarts only if the computer was turned off at the selected time In this case the task will be executed at the nearest startup 10 1 5 Setting up monthly execution If you select the monthly execution you will have to specify some additional parameters First the Start time hours and minutes In the Perform this task group select time to execute tasks on Day on the specified date The on the spe...

Page 76: ...erform this task when the computer restarts only if the computer was turned off at the selected time In this case the task will be executed at the nearest startup 10 1 6 Setting up one time execution If you select the weekly execution you will have to specify some additional parameters First the Start time hours and minutes Second the Start date ...

Page 77: ...ailable In the upper field enter user name Enter password twice in two fields below 10 1 8 Task scheduled successfully You have finished scheduling a task The wizard will again remind you the details of the task provided To close the wizard and return to the main window click Finish The task created will be named New task You can rename it appropriately 10 2 Managing scheduled tasks If you select ...

Page 78: ...lt so you won t have to enter them again Second after you make changes you will be asked about execution order I e you will be able to change image creation parameters like location without touching its execution periodicity and time though you can change it as well If you want to change only periodicity and time select Schedule At that you will have to perform only scheduling steps leaving image ...

Page 79: ...nis TrueImage 11 1 1 Supported commands TrueImageCmd has the following format TrueImageCmd command option1 option2 The following commands are supported each command may be accompanied by additional options 1 create Creates an image file with the specified file name A complete image is created by default Use the incremental option to create an incremental image Options progress on off Shows hides t...

Page 80: ...is used with filename file_name In that case the file name must be specified without drive letter or root folder For example file_partition D filename 1 tib raw Use this option to create an image of a disk partition with unrecognized or unsupported file system This will copy all disk partition contents sector by sector Without this option only the sectors containing useful system and user data are...

Page 81: ...is option is used with filename file_name In this case the file name must be specified without drive letter or root folder For example file_partition D filename 1 tib password password Specifies the password for the image file if required harddisk disk number Specifies the hard disks to restore by numbers partition partition number Specifies the partitions to restore by numbers target_harddisk dis...

Page 82: ...fied with the partition option reboot Reboots the server after the operation is completed log file name Creates a log file of the current operation with the specified file name 3 list Lists the available drives and partitions Options filename filename Lists the image file contents password password Specifies the password for the image file if required 4 clone Clones a hard disk Options harddisk di...

Page 83: ...ves This option is used with partition option only net_user username Specifies a user name when exploring an image from a network drive net_password password Specifies a user password when exploring an image from a network drive log file name Creates a log file of the current operation with the specified file name 6 unplug Unplugs image file connected as virtual drive Options letter X Specifies th...

Page 84: ...d logic partitions on other disks start start sector Sets the start sector for the new partition size partition size in sectors Sets the new partition size in sectors reboot Reboots the server after the partition is created 8 delete_partition Deletes a partition Options partition partition number Specifies the number of partition to delete reboot Reboots the server after deleting the partition log...

Page 85: ...e created partition partitions list Specifies partitions from which free space will be taken for Acronis Secure Zone creation size ASZ size in sectors Sets the Acronis Secure Zone size in sectors If this size is not specified it will be set as average between maximal and minimal values including unallocated spaces on the all listed partitions asz_activate Activates Acronis Secure Zone after creati...

Page 86: ...on with the specified file name 12 asz_activate Activates Acronis Secure Zone or rather activates Acronis Startup Recovery Manager This command may also be used as an option with asz_create command 13 verify Verifies image archive data integrity Options filename filename Specifies the name of the image file to verify password image password Specifies the password for image file if required net_use...

Page 87: ... level is 5 The server will be rebooted after the operation is completed 2 Restore image TrueImageCmd deploy filename C Test 1 tib partition 2 1 This will restore partition 2 1 from image 1 tib TrueImageCmd deploy filename C Test 1 tib password qwerty harddisk 2 This will restore hard disk 2 from image 1 tib protected with password qwerty TrueImageCmd deploy filename C Test 1 tib partition 2 1 tar...

Page 88: ...onments Acronis True Image Enterprise Server includes TrueImageCmdDos exe utility It is located in a folder where Acronis True Image has been installed by default it is C Program Files Acronis TrueImage 11 2 Scripting 11 2 1 Script execution parameters Scripts are executed by the TrueImageTerminal exe utility located in the Acronis True Image installation folder i e C Program Files Acronis TrueIma...

Page 89: ... to their system numbers To create images of several partitions or disks use the SOURCE tag for each of them e g source letter C source letter D source disk 1 source disk 2 Target Specifies name and location of an image file e g target file E Mybackup2 tib username username password password username and password parameters are optional They are used to access networked resources As a target for i...

Page 90: ... partitions logical drives C and F mybackup2 tib is specified as an incremental image file The High compression level is selected and the image is to be split into 650MB parts for recording to CD R RW media Password protection will also be added The entire script must be located between the backup and backup tags xml version 1 0 encoding utf 8 backup source letter C source letter F target file e m...

Page 91: ...k Next to continue 12 1 1 Selecting image for checking In this window you will see the complete list of connected storage devices including hard disks and any other drives Using the standard Windows Explorer locate the image file to be checked and select it Its name will appear in the File Name field and the Next button will be enabled Click Proceed to continue The checking progress will be indica...

Page 92: ...e Æ Bootable Rescue Media Builder from the Start menu You will see the bootable media wizard that will ask you to select either complete or safe loader version The latter doesn t have USB PC card PCMCIA SCSI drivers and is useful only in case the complete version doesn t work After you create a boot disk identify it and keep it in a safe place 12 3 Viewing logs Acronis True Image Enterprise Server...

Page 93: ...ing order To sort messages by a particular column click its header click again to reverse order or the Arrange Icons by button the second from the right and select the desired column To select columns to display right click the headers line or left click the Choose Details button and check columns to display The three buttons to the left control message filters the white cross in the red circle fi...

Page 94: ...bly faster than any other device e g CD RW Having specified image volume size equal to about 650 700Mb you can quickly create image files on your hard disk to burn them to CD R RW afterwards This allows doing the whole task much faster What devices can a system partition be restored from if Acronis True Image Enterprise Server is loaded from its bootable diskette of CD Acronis True Image Enterpris...

Page 95: ...ge Enterprise Server from a bootable disk to restore a partition disk from an image located on the network drive but couldn t find the necessary computer If there s at least one computer shown in the Network Neighborhood try to access the required computer by typing its address in the Filename line like computer folder If there s no Network icon in the My Computer it means either network problems ...

Page 96: ...ard 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 2 Run sysprep exe 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 servers sim...

Page 97: ...loaded from its bootable media Besides there s another way to burn an image to a DVD disc Using Acronis True Image Enterprise Server you can create a hard disk image on your hard disk to burn it using the installed DVD recording application to a DVD disc afterwards You will be able to restore images from such discs from both under Windows and when Acronis True Image Enterprise Server is loaded fro...

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