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User’s Guide Acronis® True Image for Microsoft® Windows Small Business Server Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009. All rights reserved. “Acronis” and “Acronis Secure Zone” are registered trademarks of Acronis, Inc. "Acronis Compute with Confidence", “Acronis Startup Recovery Manager”, “Acronis Active restore” and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Distribution of this work or derivative work in any standard (paper) book form for commercial purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder. DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED «AS IS» AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, ARE DISCLAIMED, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH DISCLAIMERS ARE HELD TO BE LEGALLY INVALID. 2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction .......................................................................................... 7 1.1 Acronis® True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server – a complete solution for corporate users 7 1.2 Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server components ..................................... 9 1.3 New in Acronis for Microsoft Small Business 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 for Microsoft Small Business 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 ......................................................................................................... 13 2.2.1 Credentials ............................................................................................................... 13 2.2.2 Firewall setup ........................................................................................................... 14 2.2.3 Encrypted communication .......................................................................................... 14 2.2.4 Security parameters in Acronis Administrative Template ............................................... 15 2.3 Installing Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server components ..................... 16 2.3.1 Installation of Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server local version and Acronis True Image Agent for Windows ................................................................................ 17 2.3.2 Installation of Acronis Group Server ............................................................................ 18 2.3.3 Acronis Backup Server installation and setup ............................................................... 18 2.3.4 Acronis Universal Restore installation .......................................................................... 22 2.4 Extracting Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server components .................... 22 2.5 Running Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server components ...................... 22 2.5.1 Running Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business 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 for Microsoft Small Business 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 ........................................................................................... 29 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 ............................................................................................................ 30 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 3.7.4 Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore .............................................................. 32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 3 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 ........................... 35 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 ................................................... 37 3.9 Viewing disk and partition information ............................................................................... 37 Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Management Console ................................ 39 4.1 General information ......................................................................................................... 39 4.2 Installing/updating Acronis components on remote machines .............................................. 39 4.3 Managing a single remote computer .................................................................................. 42 4.3.1 Connecting to a remote computer .............................................................................. 42 4.3.2 Backup and recovery tasks ......................................................................................... 43 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 ....................................................................................

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