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I just purchased True Image and am a little confused as to how to get things set up. We have a server with a 1GB drive. I purchased a second 1GB internal drive to use as the emergency backup drive.

Ideally what I want is to "clone" the first drive so that in the event that the disk goes bad we can simply go into the BIOS and Boot from the 2nd drive like nothing happened. That also means that every night it would update the latest files, data, etc.

So I not only want to recover the data but we want to be able to be up and running without having to get a new drive, install windows, install apps, set up a database, etc.

We already back up the data to an external drive so I want more of a clone/ghost setup that updates nightly.

Can anyone help me get started?

Thanks!

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Ohmylord,

YOu need to create an image, not a clone. A cloning operation is an imaging operation and a restore operation at the same time. An image stores all the cloned data to a temporary file, a TIB file, so that the information can be restored on demand: partitions, OS, apps, content, etc.

To do that, choose "disk and partition backup", and choose where you want to store these TIB files, and how often you want to backup, the type of backup (full, incremental, differential). Include all partitions in that backup.

Then boot the computer on the Acronis recovery CD and make sure you can restore a couple of files from that backup, just to make sure you can use that CD, access the backup, etc.

In a real case, you would simply select the TIB file created the day you want to restore to, and restore the entire disk or partitions you want.

If you purchased True Image 2013 for use on a Windows server (Running a Windows server product) you have purchased the wrong product, as Windows Server (except Windows Home Server 2011) products are not support by True Image 2013. Also backing up a live database is not supported as True Image 2013 does not use VSS to process open database files. You should take a look at the business products offered by Acronis to see if any meet your needs.

The server we has runs Windows 7. I was wondering about the database backup. One of the applications we run on that machine is Sage's Act. It uses a SQL Server database. The db is backed up every night then copied to a remote site. In the event of a disk failure it wouldn't be the end of the world to have to restore the database from the backup. What I'm really trying to do is minimize the downtime. I'd hate to have to reinstall windows, reinstall all the apps, copy back all the data, etc.

It's sounds like True Image will work if I create an image then do a nightly backup we would lose at most a day's worth of changes. We can probably live with that.

Ohmylord,
You should be fine with your plans. There are ways using "pre" and "post" task commands to temporarily stop the SQL Server before/during backup, and restart it after backup completes to have a vaild backup of all your data.