Can you install ATI 2012 on Windows Home Server 2011?
Can you install ATI 2012 on Windows Home Server 2011?
If so, can you create incremental disk images of your Windows Home Server 2011 and data like you would with Windows 7 and restore them if necessary?
Any other details would be appreciated since the documentation related to ATI 2012 and Windows Home Server 2011 is very limited.
Acronis True Image Home 2012: Supported Operating Systems
http://kb.acronis.com/content/23921
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Hello all,
Thank you for taking time to contact us.
Alan,
Colin is correct, Windows Home Server 2011 is supported by Acronis True Image Home 2012.
Thank you.
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Then let's update this one. http://kb.acronis.com/content/14879 (Windows Home Server is not supported This article applies to: - All Acronis products)
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Hello dev-anon,
Thank you for the hint.
We will update the article.
Thank you.
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It doesn't look like the article was updated, so I would just like to confirm that ATIH 2012 does *not* act like all previous versions when working with Windows Home Server (V1 and/or V2/2011?)
What used to happen was that all versions of TIH would happily create backups of the WHS system disk but would refuse to restore them given that the partition *contained a server operating system*.
This has been a huge problem for me and is the main reason that I have not used or update ATIH since version 2010. Backing up and then refusing to restore has got to be the worst possible thing that a backup / data recovery product could ever do. I switched to a competitor for my imaging needs, but I would like to go back to ATIH if I could.
Can you confirm that ATIH2012 will restore a WHS system partition now?
Thanks
Jon
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I booted ATI 2012 with the Plus Pack from a USB flash drive on my Windows Home Server 2011 box.
I created a single TIB file of the MBR, 100 MB System Reserved Partition, 60 GB OS partition and approximately 238 GB spare partition. My Windows Home Server 2011 data files reside on a separate physical hard drive.
I then restored that TIB file onto another 320 GB hard drive.
I then removed my Windows Home Server 2011 OS drive and replaced it with the newly restored hard drive. Everything worked flawlessly on the new drive.
My next test will be to install ATI 2012 onto the Windows Homer Server 2011 box and repeat the above process.
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So it looks like ATI2012 would be a reasonable (but not integrated into the control panel) replacement for the seriously brain-dead server backup implementation for Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Storage Server 2011 Essentials.
Just in case anyone didn't know, even though you can stick many terabytes of drives into your server box and back up your client PCs to it and keep all your precious data there you can only back up 2TB of that data. And even though MS recommends you swap backup drives out for offsite storage if you do that and run out of space the server backup freaks out and you can lose all your backups.
No matter what RAID level you run on the box there is still theft, fire, and other natural disasters to deal with. The fact that the MS blew the server backup so badly just amazes me.
Any chance Acronis is working on a WHS/SBS2008/WSS2008 control panel add-in?
Jon
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...and Windows Storage Server 2011 Essentials.
Most likely no. ATI2012 will not install on it, and it's not officially supported by Backup & Recovery line either - it's not in the list of supported OSes, and storage server line is said to be untested here http://kb.acronis.com/content/5403
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As stated in the replies (above and elsewhere) from Acronis previously, that KB was supposed to be updated to include this OS. I have verified so far that ATIH2012 does in fact install with no issues on WHS2012 and WSS2008R2 Essentials. I have also verified that it backs up the entire server without issue. It also mounts and recovers individual files within those backups from within WHS2012 and WSS2008R2 Essentials.
I have not yet tried a bare-metal restore. I am going to do that test via a VMWare virtual machine setup to look like the source OS. Real testing takes quite a while.
Jon
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Alan Raul wrote:My next test will be to install ATI 2012 onto the Windows Homer Server 2011 box and repeat the above process.
Presumably since Alan did not return here, the installation/test onto WHS2011 worked? Jonathan, did you try it?
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