Acronis True Image Echo - Enterprise Server User's Guide
User’s Guide
Acronis®
True Image Echo
Enterprise Server
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction ...................................................................................... 7
1.1 Acronis® True Image Echo Enterprise Server – a complete solution for corporate users ........... 7
1.2 Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components ....................................................... 9
1.3 New in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server .............................................................. 9
1.4 Supported file systems and storage media ......................................................................... 11
1.4.1 Supported file systems .............................................................................................. 11
1.4.2 Supported storage media ........................................................................................... 11
1.5 License policy .................................................................................................................. 12
1.6 Technical support ............................................................................................................ 12
Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server installation and startup
............................................................................................................................ 13
2.1 System requirements ....................................................................................................... 13
2.1.1 Minimum hardware requirements ............................................................................... 13
2.1.2 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................... 13
2.2 Security parameters ......................................................................................................... 14
2.2.1 Credentials ............................................................................................................... 14
2.2.2 Firewall setup ........................................................................................................... 14
2.2.3 Encrypted communication ........................................................................................... 15
2.2.4 Security parameters in Acronis Administrative Template ............................................... 15
2.3 Installing Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components ....................................... 16
2.3.1 Installation of Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server local version and Acronis
True Image Agent for Windows ........................................................................................... 17
2.3.2 Installation of Acronis True Image Agent for Linux ....................................................... 18
2.3.3 Installation of Acronis Group Server ............................................................................ 18
2.3.4 Acronis Backup Server installation and setup ............................................................... 18
2.3.5 Acronis Universal Restore installation .......................................................................... 22
2.4 Extracting Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components ..................................... 22
2.5 Running Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components ........................................ 22
2.5.1 Running Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server (local version) ............................... 22
2.5.2 Running Acronis True Image Management Console ...................................................... 23
2.5.3 Running other Acronis components ............................................................................. 23
2.6 Removing Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components ...................................... 23
Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ............ 24
3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ............................................ 24
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups .......................................................................... 24
3.3 Acronis Secure Zone® ...................................................................................................... 25
3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .................................................................................... 26
3.4.1 How it works ............................................................................................................ 26
3.4.2 How to use ............................................................................................................... 26
3.5 Acronis Backup Server ..................................................................................................... 27
3.5.1 Backup locations ....................................................................................................... 27
3.5.2 Quotas and time limits for computers and users ........................................................... 28
3.5.3 Administrators and Users ........................................................................................... 28
3.5.4 Operations with archives ............................................................................................ 29
3.6 Acronis Active Restore ..................................................................................................... 29
3.6.1 Limitations in using Acronis Active Restore .................................................................. 29
3.6.2 How it works ............................................................................................................ 29
3.6.3 How to use ............................................................................................................... 30
3.7 Acronis Universal Restore ................................................................................................. 31
3.7.1 Acronis Universal Restore purpose .............................................................................. 31
3.7.2 Acronis Universal Restore general principles ................................................................ 31
3.7.3 Acronis Universal Restore and Microsoft Sysprep .......................................................... 32
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3.7.4 Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore .............................................................. 32
3.7.5 Getting Acronis Universal Restore ............................................................................... 32
3.8 Backing up to tape libraries and tape drives ....................................................................... 33
3.8.1 Backing up to a locally attached tape device ................................................................ 34
3.8.2 Understanding backup to tape devices attached to the Backup Server ........................... 34
3.8.3 Backing up to a tape device through Acronis Backup Server .......................................... 36
3.8.4 Restoring data from archives located on tape devices ................................................... 36
3.9 Viewing disk and partition information ............................................................................... 37
3.10 Changing Acronis temporary folder path .......................................................................... 37
Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Management Console ............................ 38
4.1 General information ......................................................................................................... 38
4.2 Installing/updating Acronis components on remote machines .............................................. 38
4.3 Managing a single remote computer .................................................................................. 41
4.3.1 Connecting to a remote computer .............................................................................. 41
4.3.2 Backup and recovery tasks ......................................................................................... 42
4.4 Managing groups of computers ......................................................................................... 46
4.4.1 Group status display .................................................................................................. 46
4.4.2 Creating new group tasks .......................................................................................... 48
4.4.3 Group tasks management .......................................................................................... 50
4.4.4 Acronis Group Server options ..................................................................................... 51
4.5 Managing backup server .................................................................................................. 52
4.5.1 Default settings ......................................................................................................... 53
4.5.2 Set up Administrator profiles ...................................................................................... 54
4.5.3 Adding Users and Administrators to the Acronis Backup Server database ....................... 55
4.5.4 Changing User profiles ............................................................................................... 57
4.5.5 Configuring Backup Locations ..................................................................................... 58
4.5.6 Managing Archives .................................................................................................... 59
4.5.7 Limiting access to Acronis Backup Server .................................................................... 60
Chapter 5. Using Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server (local version) . 61
5.1 Main program window ..................................................................................................... 61
5.2 Managing a local computer ............................................................................................... 63
Chapter 6. Creating backup archives ................................................................ 66
6.1 Backing up files and folders (file backup) ........................................................................... 66
6.2 Backing up disks and partitions (image backup) ................................................................. 70
6.3 Setting backup options ..................................................................................................... 72
6.3.1 Archive protection ..................................................................................................... 73
6.3.2 Source files exclusion ................................................................................................ 73
6.3.3 Pre/post commands .................................................................................................. 74
6.3.4 Database support ...................................................................................................... 74
6.3.5 Compression level ..................................................................................................... 75
6.3.6 Backup performance ................................................................................................. 75
6.3.7 Fast incremental/differential backup ............................................................................ 76
6.3.8 Archive splitting ........................................................................................................ 77
6.3.9 File-level security settings .......................................................................................... 77
6.3.10 Media components .................................................................................................. 78
6.3.11 Error handling ......................................................................................................... 78
6.3.12 Dual destination backup ........................................................................................... 79
6.3.13 Wake On LAN ......................................................................................................... 79
6.3.14 Additional settings ................................................................................................... 80
Chapter 7. Restoring the backup data .............................................................. 82
7.1 Considerations before recovery ......................................................................................... 82
7.1.1 Restore under Windows or boot from CD? ................................................................... 82
7.1.2 Network settings in rescue mode ................................................................................ 82
7.1.3 Recovering dynamic volumes ..................................................................................... 83
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