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Clone Windows Server 2008

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Hello,

I would like to know if that's possible to clone a computer under Windows Server 2008 ?

Thanks in advance.

 

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beegeezzz, more information would be needed to both understand your question and to be able to try to give you an answer?

The Acronis True Image Home range of products are intended for home users with standard Windows OS versions, i.e. XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 - this depends also on the version of Acronis True Image too, for example only the 2015, 2016 & 2017 versions are supported for use with Windows 10.

These home products are not intended for use installed on Server OS systems but the Acronis bootable Rescue Media can be used to make backups of such server systems outside of Windows when the server is booted from that media.

Cloning has a specific meaning when used in context with Acronis True Image, where it is used to made an identical copy of a source disk drive to a target disk in a one to one relationship.  If your server system has a RAID array of disks then you cannot make a clone of that array because you have in essence a many to one relationship, so to make a copy of such an array, you would need to use Backup & Restore not Clone, and this in turn requires that the RAID array presents as a single drive to the Acronis application.

In short, I'm going to say no, because you state clone. You cannot clone any system that uses RAID or dynamic disks. Backup and recovery though, yes. However you would most likely need to build rescue media with WinPE and include your RAID controller drivers. Please be advised server editions are not supported OSes in the home products, but that's usually limited to running the software from within windows, not the rescue media.