ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.1 - SERVER FOR WINDOWS User Manual

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8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007Businesses today are moving to leverage the latest technologies, dual-core 64 bit processorsand 64 bit operating systems. With Acronis True Image Server, you can protect these newmachines, as well as legacy ones, running one solution.Leverages Existing Technology InvestmentsThe product can leverage your current storage infrastructure by supporting a wide variety ofstorage media, so you can avoid costly hardware purchases to implement the solution. Theproduct supports key storage technologies such as: Direct Attached Storage (DAS), NetworkAttached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SAN), Redundant Arrays of IndependentDisks (RAID) devices, tapes, USB and IEEE-1394 (FireWire) compliant storage devices, CDs,DVDs, removable drives (Floppy, Zip, etc.) and shared storage. Moreover, the productensures that you maximize the space on these resources with four levels of compression.Disk cloning and new disk deploymentAcronis True Image Server can be used to clone an image onto multiple servers. Forexample, a company purchased several servers and needs similar environments on each ofthem. Traditionally, an IT manager should install the operating system and programs onevery server. With Acronis True Image Server, the IT manager can create a disk image ofthe first system deployed. That image can then be duplicated onto multiple servers.If you need to upgrade the server hard disk drive, Acronis True Image Server simplifies thetask to few mouse clicks creating the exact copy of your old disk to a new one and adjustingpartitions size to fit a new hard disk.1.2 New in Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Windows• Support for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 x64Editions• Direct backup to DVD and bootable DVD creation• Support for GPT hard disks (disks with GUID partition table)• Backup to/restore from FTP servers• Acronis Snap Restore – A user can start working in seconds while the system is stillbeing restored• Acronis Universal Restore (optional) – Hardware-independent live system restore• File-level backup and recovery, including files opened in exclusive usage mode - Inaddition to an entire partition/system backup• Differential backup – Backup only the changes made since the full backup• Fast incremental/differential backup – Users can choose to compare files with theirarchived copies by date/size (fast process) or by file contents (precise, but time-consuming process)• Files and folders backup/restore filtering – Saves space when creating file backupsby only backing up files of the types the users want to keep. Similarly, a user can tell theprogram not to restore certain files from the file archive• Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support (for Windows 2003 Serverand higher) – Easily backup VSS compatible databases (Exchange, Oracle, SQL Server)without taking databases offline and ensuring data consistency• Pre/post backup/restore commands – Users can specify their own commands whichwill be executed before and after the backup or restore process. For example, one might