ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SERVER 10 User's Guide

Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Server User's Guide

10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Windows SBS 2003/SBS 2008  Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003/2008 x64 Editions

11 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.2 Installation This section helps answer questions that might arise during the product installation. 3

12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you choose to create a dedicated user account for the service (recommended), the setup program will crea

13 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The procedures below assume that you have an upgrade license key, but you can also use these procedures if

14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.5 Technical Support Maintenance and Support Program If you need assistance with your Acronis product, p

15 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4 Basic concepts This section gives you a clear understanding of basic and dynamic disks and volume types

16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 By using Acronis Disk Director, you can convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk (p. 58). You may need to do

17 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Striped volume A volume that resides on two or more dynamic disks and whose data is evenly distributed acro

18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Active volume This is the volume from which the machine starts after you switch it on. The active volume us

19 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Windows 7 Starter + + + - - Windows 7 Home Premium + + + - - Windows 7 Professional + + + + - W

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010. All rights reserved. “Acronis” and “Acronis Secure Zone” are registered trademarks of Acronis, Inc. "Acro

20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Many hard disk drive manufacturers supply their modern drives with controllers that can shift addressing of

21 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5 Getting started After reading this section, you will know how to run and use Acronis Disk Director, wha

22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5. In the Disk management view, examine how the layout of disks and volumes will look when the pending ope

23 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The Navigation tree lets you navigate across the following product views:  Disk management (p. 23)  Tas

24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Graphical panel The graphical panel at the bottom of the view provides visual information about all the dis

25 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. Click Proceed to execute the operations. You will not be able to undo any operations after you choose t

26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.4.1.3 Disk and volume information In the table and graphical panel—along with the type, size, letter, pa

27 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Here are brief descriptions of the most common volume statuses:  Healthy A basic or dynamic volume is acc

28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Stop a task Click Stop. Stopping the task aborts the running operation. The task enters the "Stopping

29 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 (if the user chooses to stop the task) or Running (on selecting Ignore/Retry or another action, such as Reb

Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced ... 6 2 Acron

30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To Do Select a single log entry Click on it. Select multiple log entries  non-contiguous: hold down CTR

31 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 to filter information messages Sort log entries by date and time; type; message Click the column's he

32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The option defines the fonts to be used in the Graphical User Interface of Acronis Disk Director. The Menu

33 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.4.6 Collecting system information The system information collection tool gathers system information abou

34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 How to work with hard disk drives that use 4-KB sector size? Follow the guidelines described in the Volume

35 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6 Volume operations This section describes all the operations that you can perform with volumes in Acroni

36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To create a new volume 1. Run the Create Volume Wizard by right-clicking any unallocated space, and then c

37 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Letter (by default, the first free letter of the alphabet). Assign a drive letter to the volume to be ab

38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Take free space from other volumes With this option, other volumes on the disk will be reduced so that o

39 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Specify the size of the new volume. This size cannot be less than the size of data on the original volu

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40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Specify the size of the new volume. This size cannot be less than the size of data on the original volu

41 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 At the bottom of the window, you can estimate how the resultant volume will look like after the merging. Th

42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 More about cluster sizes Using the default cluster size is normally the best option. Smaller cluster sizes

43 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Caution: Volumes that contain encrypted files cannot be split. To split a volume 1. Right-click the volume

44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Label characters not allowed in FAT16 and FAT32 The FAT16 and FAT32 file systems do not allow the following

45 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The size of the converted volume might differ slightly from that of the original primary volume, because so

46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To change a partition type 1. Right-click the volume whose partition type you need to change, and then cli

47 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Select the disk on which you want to place the mirror. The disks that do not have enough unallocated sp

48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.17 Breaking a mirrored volume Mirrored volumes provide fault tolerance by storing two exact copies of d

49 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This operation enables you to verify the logical integrity of a file system on a volume (for FAT16/32 and N

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50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To change cluster size 1. Right-click the volume whose cluster size you need to change, and then click Cha

51 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.23 Hiding a volume This operation applies to volumes on basic MBR disks. Hiding a volume means changing

52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To repair RAID-5 volume 1. Click the RAID-5 volume you need to repair, and then click Repair RAID. The RAI

53 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 24). Exiting the program without committing

54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7 Disk operations This section describes all the operations that you can perform with disks using Acronis

55 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.2 Basic disk cloning This operation is available for basic MBR disks. The cloning operation transfers a

56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 24). Exiting the program without committing

57 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To convert a basic MBR disk to basic GPT 1. Right-click the basic MBR disk you want to convert to GPT, and

58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 24). Exiting the program without committing

59 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To convert a dynamic disk to basic 1. Right-click the dynamic disk you need to convert, and then click Con

6 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced is a powerful and ea

60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When taking a dynamic disk whose volumes span across several disks offline, these volumes get statuses with

61 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 whether you are importing all the required disks of the disk group. When importing all the required disks,

62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been performed. To p

63 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8 Tools This section describes Acronis Bootable Media Builder and Acronis Recovery Expert tools. After re

64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 PE-based bootable media PE-based bootable media contains a minimal Windows system called Windows Preinstall

65 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows Vista (PE 2.0): http ://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.as

66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Kernel parameters This window lets you specify one or more parameters of the Linux kernel. They will be aut

67 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 nofw Disables the FireWire (IEEE1394) interface support. nopcmcia Disables detection of PCMCIA hardware. no

68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Adding Acronis Plug-in to WinPE 2.x or 3.0 ISO To add Acronis Plug-in to WinPE 2.x or 3.0 ISO: 1. When add

69 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 system will be used. For bare metal, or if no Windows operating system is found, the disk layout will be us

7 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Disk and volume management operations Experience the vast array of disk and volume management operation

70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 echo iscsiadm parted sh zcat egrep kill pccardctl sleep fdisk kpartx ping ssh fsck ln pktsetup sshd

71 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Click Proceed to start recovering the volumes. Recovering volumes in manual mode The manual recovery mo

72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In this section Starting work with Acronis Disk Editor ...

73 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The list of encodings is used to interpret the hard disk sector content. Selecting the necessary encoding,

74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. In the Write to file window, click Browse and specify the path and file name. 3. Click OK to save the

75 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After the search process is finished, the current position will be moved to where a line was found, or will

76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Step 2. Restoring MBR 1. Create a WinPE-based bootable media in order to be able to restore the system in

77 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.3.6.3 Wiping disk data Hard disks can contain a substantial amount of confidential information. Often us

78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 and ends with something like: ...OLF... Normally, when taking a picture the camera writes information about

79 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 9 Working in the command-line mode Acronis Disk Director supports the command-line mode for the most impo

8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2 Acronis Disk Director components 2.1 Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Management Console The manageme

80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Specifies the volume cluster size (in bytes). If not specified, the default value for the selected file sys

81 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Options [/os:<id>] Specifies the ID of the operating system layout under which the operation will be

82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 10 Glossary A Active volume The volume from which a machine starts. If no operating systems other than Win

83 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Block See Sector (p. 91). Boot sector The first sector (p. 91) of a disk (p. 84) or a volume (p. 93) that

84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 C Cluster The unit of disk space allocation to store files in a file system. Each non-empty file completely

85 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 group is discontinued, though its name is kept in the above registry key. In case a dynamic disk is created

86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Disk 1 MBR LDM database 1 MB Disk 2 Protective MBR GPT Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR) LDM datab

87 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Files are stored in a file system (p. 87) on a volume. In different file systems, files can be stored in di

88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Free space Space on a volume that is not occupied by data such as files and folders. Not to be confused wit

89 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Logical volume A volume which is located on a basic MBR disk (p. 89) and is not a primary volume (p. 91). L

9 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3 Installation and upgrade This section answers questions that might arise before the product installation

90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The operation of converting a simple volume (p. 92) to mirrored is called adding a mirror. Mirrored volume

91 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Physical disk A disk (p. 84) that is physically a separate device. Thus, floppy disks, hard disks and CD-RO

92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 S Sector The smallest information unit on a disk (p. 84) that is transferred in a single read or write oper

93 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Use of the swap files enables more programs to run than would otherwise be allowed by the memory limitation

94 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A disk can store more than one volume. Some volumes, such as spanned volumes (p. 92), can reside on more th