Customizing Acronis Linux LiveCD

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Hello.

I wish to use Acronis Workstation 11 to backup several PCs. However, the users are not very tech-savy, and the technical director wants to simplify the process even further than the wizards available (since the backups will require changing different default options, amongst other things).

One options discussed was to write custom scripts, using the Acronis Command Line documentation, and add the scripts to the ISO file. Once burned to CD, the user would go to the command line and simply type in the name of the backup or recovery script (for example : #backup or #recovery).

I would like to know if this is a viable solution.
Do any stipulations exist? Are there any guidelines as to modifying the ABR LiveCD?

Thanks in advance for the answers.

Anton

Mon, 11/07/2011 - 11:08
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Do you intent to create 'bootable media' CD and perform backups using it, not from live OS?
Other options you may consider - if users have local admin rights and can select 'what to backup' on their own without ruining the system (or it is the same on all machines, e.g. backup of the whole system disk and nothing else?), you may export a backup plan with necessary default settings (options, schedule, what else?) and then import it on each PC and edit the rest. Or in case of Advanced edition, simply deploy a centralized backup plan on all computers and not let users change anything.

Mon, 11/07/2011 - 18:09
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> Do you intent to create 'bootable media' CD and perform backups using it, not from live OS?
This is exactly what I wish to do. However, I do wish to customize the bootable media, so that the users can use a custom script to automate the backups using the shell provided by the Linux version of the bootable media.

> Other options you may consider ...
This is also being considered, but not a solution for some of the machines we will be running.

Any help is very much welcome.

Anton

Thu, 11/10/2011 - 15:58
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Is it maybe possible to add the scripts to the bootable CD, then use commands such as 'mount' to access the CD, before starting the script ?

Anton

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 09:25