Acronis True Image Echo™ Enterprise Server User Manuals

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1. Introduction

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• Acronis® True Image Echo Enterprise Server – a complete solution for corporate users

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• Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components

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• New in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server

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• Supported file systems and storage media

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• 1.4.1 Supported file systems

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• 1.4.2 Supported storage media

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• 1.5 License policy

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• 1.6 Technical support

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• 2.1 System requirements

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• 2.1.1 Minimum hardware requirements

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• 2.1.2 Supported operating systems

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• 2.2 Security parameters

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• Credentials

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• Firewall setup

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• Encrypted communication

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• Security parameters in Acronis Administrative Template

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• 2.3 Installing Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components

  17
• True Image Agent for Windows

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• 2.3.2 Installation of Acronis True Image Agent for Linux

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• 2.3.3 Installation of Acronis Group Server

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• 2.3.4 Acronis Backup Server installation and setup

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• 2.3.5 Acronis Universal Restore installation

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• 2.4 Extracting Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components

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• 2.5 Running Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components

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• 2.5.1 Running Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server (local version)

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• 2.5.2 Running Acronis True Image Management Console

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• 2.5.3 Running other Acronis components

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• 2.6 Removing Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server components

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• Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies

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• The difference between file archives and disk/partition images

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• Full, incremental and differential backups

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• Acronis Secure Zone®

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• Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

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• 3.4.1 How it works

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• 3.4.2 How to use

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• 3.5 Acronis Backup Server

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• Backup locations

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• Quotas and time limits for computers and users

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• Administrators and Users

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• Operations with archives

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• 3.6 Acronis Snap Restore

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• 3.6.1 Limitations in using Acronis Snap Restore

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• 3.6.2 How it works

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• 3.6.3 How to use

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• 3.7 Acronis Universal Restore

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• Acronis Universal Restore purpose

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• Acronis Universal Restore general principles

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• Acronis Universal Restore and Microsoft Sysprep

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• Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore

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• 3.7.5 Getting Acronis Universal Restore

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• 3.8.1 Backing up to tape libraries and autoloaders

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• 3.8.2 Backing up to tape drives

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• 3.8.3 Setting up backup to a tape or a tape library in the local network

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• Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Management Console

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• 4.2 Installing/updating Acronis components on remote machines

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• 4.3.1 Connecting to a remote computer

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• 4.3.2 Backup and recovery tasks

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• Group status display

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• Creating new group tasks

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• Group tasks management

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• Acronis Group Server options

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• Default settings

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• Set up Administrator profiles

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• Adding Users and Administrators to the Acronis Backup Server database

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• Changing User profiles

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• Configuring Backup Locations

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• Managing Archives

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• Limiting access to Acronis Backup Server

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• 5.1 Main program window

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• Chapter 6. Creating backup archives

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• 6.2 Backing up disks and partitions (image backup)

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• 6.3.1 Archive protection

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• 6.3.2 Source files exclusion

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• 6.3.3 Pre/post commands

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• 6.3.4 Database support

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• 6.3.5 Compression level

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• 6.3.6 Backup performance

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• 6.3.7 Fast incremental/differential backup

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• 6.3.8 Archive splitting

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• 6.3.9 File-level security settings

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• 6.3.10 Media components

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• 6.3.11 Error handling

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• 6.3.12 Dual destination backup

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• 6.3.13 Wake On LAN

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• 6.3.14 Additional settings

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• Chapter 7. Restoring the backup data

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• 7.1.1 Restore under Windows or boot from CD?

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• 7.1.2 Network settings in rescue mode

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• 7.1.3 Recovering dynamic volumes

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• 7.3 Restoring disks/partitions or files from images

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• 7.3.1 Starting the Restore Data Wizard

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• 7.3.2 Archive selection

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• 7.3.3 Restoration type selection

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• 7.3.4 Selecting a disk/partition to restore

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• 7.3.5 Selecting a target disk/partition

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• 7.3.6 Changing the restored partition type

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• 7.3.7 Changing the restored partition file system

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• 7.3.8 Changing the restored partition size and location

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• 7.3.9 Assigning a letter to the restored partition

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• 7.3.10 Restoring several disks or partitions at once

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• 7.3.11 Using Acronis Universal Restore

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• 7.3.12 Setting restore options

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• 7.3.13 Restoration summary and executing restoration

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• 7.4 Setting restore options

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• Files to exclude from restoration

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• Files overwriting mode

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• Pre/post commands

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• Restoration priority

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• File-level security settings

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• Specifying mass storage drivers

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• Additional settings

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• 7.5 Creating dynamic disks and volumes

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• 7.5.1 Converting disk to dynamic

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• 7.5.2 Creating dynamic volumes

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• Chapter 8. Scheduling tasks

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• 8.1 Creating scheduled tasks

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• Setting up daily execution

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• Setting up weekly execution

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• Setting up monthly execution

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• Setting up one-time execution

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• Setting up event-driven execution

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• 8.2 Managing scheduled tasks

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• Chapter 9. Managing the Acronis Secure Zone

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• Creating Acronis Secure Zone

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• Resizing the Acronis Secure Zone

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• Changing the password for Acronis Secure Zone

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• Deleting Acronis Secure Zone

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• Chapter 10. Creating bootable media

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• 10.1 Creating Acronis rescue media

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• 10.2 Creating a Win PE ISO with Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server

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• Chapter 11. Operations with archives

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• 11.1 Validating backup archives

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• 11.2 Exploring archives and mounting images

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• 11.2.1 Exploring an archive

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• 11.2.2 Mounting an image

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• 11.2.3 Unmounting an image

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• 11.3 Consolidating backups

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• Chapter 12. Notifications and event tracing

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• Email notification

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• WinPopup notification

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• Viewing logs

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• Event tracing

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• 12.4.1 Windows event log

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• 12.4.2 SNMP notifications

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• 12.5 Managing System Restore

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• Chapter 13. Working with a virtual environment

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• 13.2 Recovering data on virtual machines

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• Recover data on the VM

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• Recover both data and the VM

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• Physical to virtual migration

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• Converting workloads

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• Chapter 14. Transferring the system to a new disk

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• 14.2 Security

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• 14.3.1 Selecting Clone mode

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• 14.3.2 Selecting source disk

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• 14.3.3 Selecting destination disk

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• 14.3.4 Partitioned destination disk

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• 14.3.5 Old and new disk partition layout

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• 14.3.6 Old disk data

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• 14.3.7 Destroying the old disk data

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• 14.3.8 Selecting partition transfer method

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• 14.3.9 Partitioning the old disk

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• 14.3.10 Old and new disk partition layouts

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• 14.3.11 Cloning summary

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• 14.4.1 Old and new disk partition layouts

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• Chapter 15. Adding a new hard disk

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• 15.2 Creating new partitions

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• Chapter 16. Command-line mode and scripting

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• Supported commands

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• Common options (options common for most trueimagecmd commands)

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• Specific options (options specific for individual trueimagecmd commands)

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• trueimagecmd.exe usage examples

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• Command-line mode usage under DOS

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• 16.2.1 Script execution parameters

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• 16.2.2 Script structure

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• 16.2.3 Script usage examples

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