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Chapter 10. Creating bootable media
10.1 Creating Acronis rescue media
You can run Acronis True Image Enterprise Server on a bare metal or on a crashed computer
that cannot boot. You can also back up disks on a non-Windows computer, copying all its
data sector-by-sector into the backup archive. To do so, you will need bootable media with
the standalone Acronis True Image Enterprise Server version.
If you purchased the boxed product, you already have such a bootable CD, because the
installation CD contains, besides the program installation files, the Acronis True Image
Enterprise Server standalone bootable version.
If you purchased Acronis True Image Enterprise Server on the Web, you can create bootable
media using the Bootable Media Builder. For this, you will need a CD-R/RW blank,
DVD+R/RW blank, several formatted diskettes (the wizard will tell you the exact number), or
any other media your server can boot from, such as a Zip drive.
Acronis True Image Enterprise Server also provides the ability to create an ISO image of a
bootable disk on the hard disk. If there is a Microsoft RIS server in your local network, an IT
administrator can save the bootable data on this server as well. Then any networked
computer will be able to boot Acronis True Image Enterprise Server from the RIS package.
If you have other Acronis products, such as Acronis Disk Director Server, installed on your
computer, you can include standalone versions of these programs on the same bootable disk
as well.
This feature is available both in Acronis True Image Enterprise Server local version and
Acronis True Image Management Console. However, Acronis True Image Management
Console does not contain Rescue Media Builder in its own installation. Therefore, to be able
to create bootable media/RIS package from Acronis True Image Management Console, you
must have Acronis True Image Enterprise Server local version or another Acronis product
including Rescue Media Builder installed on the same computer.
If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Acronis True Image
Enterprise Server installation, you will not be able to use this feature.
1. Click
Create Bootable Rescue Media
on the toolbar or the sidebar, or select
Create
Bootable Rescue Media
from the
Tools
menu. You can also run the Bootable Rescue
Media Builder without loading Acronis True Image Enterprise Server by selecting
Programs
-> Acronis -> True Image -> Bootable Rescue Media Builder
from the
Start menu
.
2. Select which components of Acronis programs you want to place on the bootable media.
Acronis True Image Enterprise Server offers the following components:
•
Acronis True Image Enterprise Server full version
Includes support of USB, PC Card and SCSI interfaces along with the storage devices
connected via them, and therefore is highly recommended.
•
Acronis True Image Enterprise Server safe version
Does not include USB, PC Card, or SCSI drivers. Recommended for use in case of problems
with running Full version
•
Acronis Bootable Agent full version
