The Acronis True Image Echo server for Windows allows you to completely manage all backup and restoration tasks including product installation, backup, recovery, optimization of storage resources, and a view of the status of remote systems throughout your network, increasing your IT department's productivity and reducing costs. Acronis True Image can also create a copy of Acronis Rescue Media, a bootable DVD that contains a copy of Acronis True Image and can restore backups to a computer not bootable in the normal way, so long as a good boot drive (existing or new) is available. The Acronis True Image Cloud version allows cloud users to also back up their mobile devices. Acronis True Image is a disk imaging software, developed by Acronis, that creates backups and recovers PC systems. The software allows a user to create an image of a disk while it is running Microsoft Windows or offline by booting from CD/DVD, USB flash drives, PXE, or other bootable media.
I'm running True Image Echo with Universal Restore (build 8,203). It has the option to turn a TIB file into VHD but in our version it can't do so for a 64bit OS. Traditionally VHD file types were used with Virtual Server and Virtual PC which were limited to 32bit guests, but we want to try our Windows Server 2008 64bit under Hyper-V Standalone (also 64 bit) and wanted to use the features of Acronis to make the transition smoother (Worked fine for other O/S's - kudos to the developers!)
Is there a different build/version that would let us do this? We are under the maintenance program so we qualify for the latest and greatest version, I just want to know if upgrading would let us do this.
Hello Aaron,
Thank you for using Acronis Products
The issue with x64 editions should be fixed in current version Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. Use the following KB article for instructions on how to get free upgrade licenses.
Acronis True Image Echo Download
I'm running True Image Echo with Universal Restore (build 8,203). It has the option to turn a TIB file into VHD but in our version it can't do so for a 64bit OS. Traditionally VHD file types were used with Virtual Server and Virtual PC which were limited to 32bit guests, but we want to try our Windows Server 2008 64bit under Hyper-V Standalone (also 64 bit) and wanted to use the features of Acronis to make the transition smoother (Worked fine for other O/S's - kudos to the developers!)
Is there a different build/version that would let us do this? We are under the maintenance program so we qualify for the latest and greatest version, I just want to know if upgrading would let us do this.
Hello Aaron,
Thank you for using Acronis Products
The issue with x64 editions should be fixed in current version Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. Use the following KB article for instructions on how to get free upgrade licenses.
Acronis True Image Echo Download
Acronis True Image Echo Workstation Download
Dmitry,
I got the free upgrade to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 but I was greatly disappointed. It won't do a simple conversion like the True-Echo, instead forcing me to create a new virtual machine (and not allowing me to use an exisiting one without further upgrading to Advanced Virtual Edition).
The new machine creator limited my drives to IDE so I couldn't change to SCSI emulation to fit my data.
Finally, the options limited me to Virtual PC 2007, VMWare and a couple of others. The only mention of Hyper-V was for the Advanced Virtual Edition where I'm expected to install a Hyper-V agent to restore through an existing VM.
We had no problems using True-Echo to convert a TIB to VHD for use with Windows Server 2005 R2 in a 32 Bit environment and we were able to take take that VM's hardware counterpart offline.
Is there a more simple process like that for the new product and Hyper-V or did I miss something?
