One time backups

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Hi, I am not yet a customer but I'm looking into tthe product for some unique reasons. I need to automate 1 time bare metal backups of 50-100 machines at a time. Once these backups are done, the product will no longer be needed on the machine (and we would no longer want to pay for the licensing.)

The reason we need this is to prepare machines for encryption. During the encryption process we lose about 3% of our machines. (the disks just fail or the encryption process fails)

So we're looking for something that will automate 1 time bare metal backup. Perhaps we could script the install, the backup and the uninstall (without a reboot?). I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts on how best to make this happen.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Justin

Tue, 02/07/2012 - 12:57
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You may try Snap Deploy 4 - "14. Command-line mode and scripting under WinPE" part of userguide. You can prepare custom-built WinPE image with your script that will ask user to provide the name of the system being imaged and then invoke Snap Deploy command line tool that will create 'master image ' (in the terms of Snap Deploy) of the computer and place it on a network share. Moreover, apparently, creating master image doesn't require a license ( http://kb.acronis.com/content/25215 ) , only deployment does, so the you need about 3 licenses for the given failure rate.
Wait.. If you need a live imaging, I vaguely remember that ASD 3 required a license for each machine being imaged live (with Master Image Creator installed under Windows) but I can't find any reference neither for it nor for ASD 4. But in this case it can be installed from .msi file in unattended mode, image the system ad then be uninstalled.

Tue, 02/07/2012 - 17:16