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Using Acronis True Image with Virtual Machines

I would like to create a scheduled cloning of a hard disk with Acronis. There will be multiple virtual machines running off the hard disk being cloned (using Xen). Does the virtualisation have any implications for the backup, or will everything…
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Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5 for Citrix XenServer 6.5 installation issues

We are trying to deploy Acronis Backup Advanced for Citrix XenServer on a running pool of XenServer's. The documentation of the product isn't quite clear about the procedure of the installation and the support of the vendor wasn't able to help on…
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Windows Server Backup vs. Acronis Backup & Recovery?

I need to back up a single server (Windows 2008 R2) onto an external drive. Because the server has millions of small files, block-level backup, not filesystem, is a requirement. I can use Acronis Backup & Recovery, or Windows Server Backup. Is…
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Hyper-V Boot failure on VHD made with Acronis?

hoping someone can advise on my problem, I am running Hyper-V core and trying to create my first VM for testing purposes. Using Acronis True Image echo server with UR I converted a Seerver 2000 tib to VHD. I then copied this across to the Hyper-V…
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Low Cost Image Based Backup of SBS

I have a small business customer who needs a solution similar to Acronis's SBS Server backup. Essentially, I would like image based differential backups to be performed nightly to the external drive connected to their PowerEdge server. If anything…
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Backing Up Windows Server 2016 - Acroins Server 12 - Web GUI ONLY?

first of all i used Acronis since Version 9. V10 was okay. But did they really completely change from Windows-GUI to Web-GUI in V12? Is there any way to get the Windows-GUI back, where i can make more detailed settings? While i am not against…
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RAID 1 fault " Status Ready for Rebuild : Rebuild Percentage Complete 0%"

Our RAID 1 system partition failed on our Windows 2008 SBS (physical environment). We still have disc 1 running but the 2nd disc in the raid is a failure. To add to the complication, disc 1 has bad sectors but in a partition that is not required. …
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An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine

I got an backup issue on one of my VM. Here is the current situation: Using Acronis backup to backup my VM vmProtect 9 Server I want to get backup is Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition Service Pack2 Using vSphere client to manage my VMs…
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Has anyone switched from Netbackup to Acronis?

We're a site with over 100 servers and we're considering a switch from traditional file-level backups (using Netbackup) to block-level (using Acronis). Of course, with this, we're also considering a switch from the traditional tape based system…
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Acronis True Image failing to backup

I have Acronis True Image 9.5 on Windows 2003 standard edition and it started failing to backup. Firstly it gave the error that it was unable to make a backup because of bad sectors on the disk. This prevented me from making full disc image…
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Clone a windows server volume over a network -- NOT make an image

I have a 5TB volume (non-bootable) on a Windows Server 2008 box. I need to copy it to another server over the network. Because the volume has 30 million files, filesystem copy tools like robocopy will take forever; I need a block-level copy. The…
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Help starting to design a VAR's backup strategy for many independent customers?

Is there any particular backup / imaging software which seems to be a good fit for our situation, or is there some other direction I should be looking in to meet our requirements? I realize this is a strangely-written question. Please comment if…
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Can I image-backup an exchange server?

I would like to have an disk image backup of Exchange, before doing some significant upgrades and expanding a too-small C-Drive. Can I use something like Acronis Backup & Recover 10 Server (price on 11/11/2010 $860) and not use Acronis Backup for…
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Exclude folders from TrueImage backups

Acronis TrueImage 11 Home is advertised to be able to exclude Files and Folders from the backup. But when creating a scheduled backup task it seems to only allow to exclude Files (by extension or name). How and where do I specify to exclude whole…
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Clone RAID5 from one controller to another?

i have a question concerning cloning a Raid5. System: HP ML350 with a RAID controller, 2 Bays. Bay 1 Raid5 3x2TB Bay 2 RAID5 3x600 SAS The 3 SAS Disks in Bay 2 need to be swapped, it is predicted that they all fall out soon. I have 3 new 600 SAS…
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