User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE SERVER 9.1

[. . . ] User's Guide Acronis True Image 9. 1 Server for Windows Compute with confidence www. acronis. com Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2006. "Acronis", "Acronis Compute with Confidence", "Acronis Snap Restore", "Acronis Recovery Manager, "Acronis Secure Zone" and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis, Inc. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. [. . . ] You might want to select Maximum compression for removable media to reduce the number of blank disks required. 5. 3. 6 Backup performance The three options below might have a more or less noticeable effect on the backup process speed. This depends on overall system configuration and physical characteristics of devices. The priority of any process, running in a system, determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process. Decreasing the backup priority will free more resources for other CPU tasks. Increasing of backup priority may speed up the backup process due to taking resources from the other currently running processes. Backing up in the background to an internal hard disk (for example, to Acronis Secure Zone) may slow other programs performance because of large amounts of data transferred to the disk. You can limit the hard disk usage by Acronis True Image Server for Windows to a desired level. To set the desired HDD writing speed for data being backed up, drag the slider or enter the writing speed in kilobytes per second. Network connection speed The default setting ­ Maximum. 34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2006 If you frequently backup data to network drives, think of limiting the network usage used by Acronis True Image Server for Windows. To set the desired data transfer speed, drag the slider or enter the bandwidth limit for transferring backup data in kilobytes per second. 5. 3. 7 Fast incremental/differential backup The default setting ­ Use fast incremental/differential backup. Incremental/differential backup captures only changes in data occurred since the last backup. To speed up the backup process, Acronis True Image Server for Windows determines whether the file has changed by file size and the date/time when the file was last saved. Disabling this feature will make the program compare the entire file contents to that stored in the archive. This option relates only to disk/partition (image) backup. 5. 3. 8 Archive splitting Sizeable backups can be split into several files that together make the original backup. A backup file can be split for burning to removable media or saving on ftp-server (data recovery directly from ftp-server requires the archive to be split into files no more than 2 Gb in size). With this setting, Acronis True Image Server for Windows will act as follows. When backing up to the hard disk: If the selected disk has enough space and its file system allows the estimated file size, the program will create a single archive file. If the storage disk has enough space, but its file system does not allow the estimated file size, Acronis True Image Server for Windows will automatically split the backup into several files. FAT16 and FAT32 file systems have a 4 GB file size limit. At the same time, the existing hard drives capacity may reach as much as 160GB. Therefore, an archive file might easily exceed this limit, if you are going to back up the entire disk. If you do not have enough space to store the image on your hard disk, the program will warn you and wait for your decision as to how you plan to fix the problem. You can try to free some additional space and continue or click Back and select another disk. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2006 35 When backing up to a diskette, CD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW: Acronis True Image Server for Windows will ask you to insert a new disk when the previous one is full. Alternatively, you can select Fixed size and enter the desired file size or select it from the drop-down list. The backup will then be split into multiple files of the specified size. [. . . ] The restored partition will be of active type. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2006 85 3. List trueimagecmd /list · This will list available partitions. Clone trueimagecmd /clone /harddisk:2 /target_harddisk:3 · Clone hard disk 2 to hard disk 3. Explore image trueimagecmd /explore /filename:\\myserver\backup\mybackup. tib /net_user:john /net_password:qwerty · This will connect all images, stored in file mybackup. tib on the network drive, as virtual drives. 14. 1. 3 Command-line mode usage under DOS For use in the MS-DOS compatible environments Acronis True Image Server for Windows includes the TrueImageCmdDos. exe utility. [. . . ]