ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.1 - FOR LINUX Guide de l'utilisateur

User’s Guide Acronis®True Image 9.1 Server for Linux

Installation and operation 10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Chapter 2. Installation and operation 2.1 System requirements Acronis True Ima

Installation and operation Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 11 2.3 Running Acronis True Image Server for Linux • To run the program under the

General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acr

General information and proprietary Acronis technologies Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 13 full archive. Generally, a differential backup will

General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 backups, it will be a good practice to periodically

General information and proprietary Acronis technologies Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 15 3.6 Working from a remote terminal You can control

General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 In rescue mode (when booted with Bootable Rescue me

General information and proprietary Acronis technologies Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 17 3.9 Backing up to tape drive Acronis True Image Se

Main program interface under X Window System 18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Chapter 4. Main program interface under X Window System Acroni

Main program interface under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 19 • Manage Acronis Secure Zone – used to create, delete and res

2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Acronis True Image Server for Linux. All rights reserved. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. U

Main program interface under X Window System 20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Disk and partition information In all disk configurations prov

Creating backup archives under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 21 Chapter 5. Creating backup archives under X Window System To

Creating backup archives under X Window System 22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 If you select a partition, disk or computer, and archive all

Creating backup archives under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 23 The “farther” you store the archive from the original folder

Creating backup archives under X Window System 24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 11. Click Next. 12. Select the backup options (that is, back

Creating backup archives under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 25 If you burn an archive to several removable media, be sure

Creating backup archives under X Window System 26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 5. Click Next. 6. Select the name and location of the archiv

Creating backup archives under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 27 The “farther” you store the archive from the original partit

Creating backup archives under X Window System 28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 creation date are automatically appended to the description,

Creating backup archives under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 29 once the backup archive is ready. If you prepare some more ba

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 3 END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT BY ACCEPTING, YOU (ORIGINAL PURCHASER) INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS.

Creating backup archives under X Window System 30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 5.3.3 5.3.4 You can set the default filters for not to back

Creating backup archives under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 31 5.3.5 5.3.6 Compression level The default setting – Normal.

Creating backup archives under X Window System 32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 If you frequently backup data to network drives, think of li

Creating backup archives under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 33 If you do not have enough space to store the image on your ha

Creating backup archives under X Window System 34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 The default setting – disabled. A full backup, when created

Restoring the backup data under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 35 Chapter 6. Restoring the backup data under X Window System

Restoring the backup data under X Window System 36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 3. Select the archive. If the archive is located in Acronis

Restoring the backup data under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 37 8. Click Next. 9. Select files and folders to restore. You

Restoring the backup data under X Window System 38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 12. Click Next. 13. Set filters for not to restore files of

Restoring the backup data under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 39 Overwrite existing file – this will give the archived file

Contents 4 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION...

Restoring the backup data under X Window System 40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 17. The task will appear on the Active tasks pane of the ma

Restoring the backup data under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 41 it. The partitions layout, the comment and the Next button w

Restoring the backup data under X Window System 42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Disks and partitions images contain a copy of track 0 alon

Restoring the backup data under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 43 All the data stored on the restored partition will be repla

Restoring the backup data under X Window System 44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 2. Click Next. 6.3.8 Changing the restored partition size

Restoring the backup data under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 45 2. Click Next. 6.3.9 6.3.10 6.3.11 Restoring several partit

Restoring the backup data under X Window System 46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel. However, it

Restoring the backup data under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 47 Selecting an archive when booted from a rescue CD In rescu

Restoring the backup data under X Window System 48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 6.5.1 6.5.2 6.5.3 Files to restore exclusion The default s

Restoring the backup data under X Window System Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 49 Unchecking the Do not perform operations until the commands

Contents Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 5 6.5 SETTING RESTORE OPTIONS ...

Scheduling tasks 50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Chapter 7. Scheduling tasks Acronis True Image Server for Linux allows you to schedule per

Scheduling tasks Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 51 • Weekly – the task will be executed once a week or once in several weeks on selected day

Scheduling tasks 52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 9. At the final step, the task configuration is displayed. Up to this point, you can click

Scheduling tasks Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 53 If the computer is off when the scheduled time comes, the task won’t be performed, but you

Scheduling tasks 54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 If the computer is off when the scheduled time comes, the task won’t be performed, but you

Managing Acronis Secure Zone Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 55 Chapter 8. Managing Acronis Secure Zone The Acronis Secure Zone is a special p

Managing Acronis Secure Zone 56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 5. After this, you will be prompted to activate Acronis Recovery Manager, to b

Managing Acronis Secure Zone Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 57 Acronis Secure Zone creation might take several minutes or more. Please wait un

Managing Acronis Secure Zone 58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 4. Enter the new size of the zone or drag the slider. 5. Next you will see a l

Mounting partition images Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 59 Chapter 9. Mounting partition images Acronis True Image Server for Linux can moun

Contents 6 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 13.3.11 Cloning script...

Mounting partition images 60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 5. If you are to mount an incremental image, Acronis True Image Server for Linux w

Mounting partition images Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 61 9.2 Unmounting an image We recommend that you unmount image after all necessary

Creating bootable media 62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Chapter 10. Creating bootable media You can run Acronis True Image Server for Linux

Creating bootable media Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 63 Does not include USB, PC Card, or SCSI drivers. Recommended for use in case of probl

Console mode 64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 11.1.1 Chapter 11. Console mode Console is a natural part of Linux OS. Acronis True Image Ser

Console mode Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 65 filerestore Restores files / folders from a file archive /filename:[filename] /password:[passw

Console mode 66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 asz:[number of archive] Addresses to Acronis Secure Zone and selects the archive (a full backu

Console mode Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 67 11.1.3 To get Samba network access, specify the image file name as follows: smb://hostname/sha

Console mode 68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 harddisk:[disk number] Specifies the hard disks to restore by numbers. partition:[partition n

Console mode Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 69 whether it be in the archive or on the disk. never – this will give the file on the hard disk

Introduction Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 7 Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Acronis® True Image Server for Linux– a complete solution for cor

Console mode 70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 11.1.4 Trueimagecmd usage examples • This will list available partitions: trueimagecmd --lis

Console mode Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 71 #!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/trueimagecmd --create --partition:2-1 --filename:/mnt/backups/my_host/bac

Console mode 72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Unmounts the device mounted at mountpoint, destroys kernel space block device and stops user s

Console mode Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 73 Specifies explicit filesytem type to be passed to the standard "mount" command. This

Other operations 74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Chapter 12. Other operations 12.1 Validating backup archives To be certain that your arch

Other operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 75 also duplicate messages issued during the operation or send you the full operation log afte

Other operations 76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Provide the name of the Windows computer to which notifications will be sent. Below in thi

Other operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 77 The left panel can contain up to 50 logs. If there are more, you can browse the list using

Transferring the system to a new disk 78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Chapter 13. Transferring the system to a new disk 13.1 General infor

Transferring the system to a new disk Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 79 On program screens, damaged partitions are marked with a red circle w

Introduction 8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 For correct backup of mission critical databases, Acronis True Image Server for Linux will exec

Transferring the system to a new disk 80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 You can determine the source and destination using the information pr

Transferring the system to a new disk Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 81 13.3.4 Partitioned destination disk At this point, the program check

Transferring the system to a new disk 82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 13.3.6 Old disk data If you selected the manual mode, the program wi

Transferring the system to a new disk Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 83 The second method takes more time, but makes it impossible to recover

Transferring the system to a new disk 84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 If you decide to transfer information "as is," a new partiti

Transferring the system to a new disk Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 85 After you click Proceed, Acronis True Image Server for Linux will star

Adding a new hard disk 86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 Chapter 14. Adding a new hard disk If you don't have enough space for your data

Adding a new hard disk Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 87 To create a partition in the unallocated space, select Create new partition in unallo

Introduction Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2007 9 • Restore of individual files and directories (by mounting image archives as if they were kern