is ICP Vortex 9014RO supported?

[mgeiss]

Hello all,

i'm planing to get TI9, but i have two questions left before i make the purchase:
As my system-drives (set up as a Raid 1) are connected to a ICP-Vortex 9014RO U320-SCSI controller, i wanted to know if this device is supported when booting from the TI recovery-CD (current build)?
I want to use TI mainly for backing up and restoring my sys-partition, so a positive answer would be highly appreciated ;)
The ICP controller is nearly identical to the Adaptec 2130slp and uses the same driver under windows, if this helps.

My second question is:
Let's say my system-partition has a size of 20 GB, but only 4 GB are used by Windows, the rest is empty.
If i want to backup this partition in order to make a system-restore in case of a desaster, does the backup medium need to have 20GB of free space or is it sufficient to have ~4GB of free space for the "real" data?

Thanks in advance,
Matthias

[Unit01]

-{ Quote: " i wanted to know if this device is supported when booting from the TI recovery-CD (current build)?" }-

Depending on which version of the software you're actually talking about. I'm assuming 9.0 here. Then the answer is probably no. I don't believe the Home version has support for SCSI devices. As always suggested to questions like this, download the trial and see if it works for you.

-{ Quote: "If i want to backup this partition in order to make a system-restore in case of a desaster, does the backup medium need to have 20GB of free space or is it sufficient to have ~4GB of free space for the "real" data?" }-

You will need equal to or greater then the restored image size of free space available on the destination partition if you're not changing its size. Typically you can re-size as needed but it'd be a good idea to keep a gig or two greater then the bare minimum partition size required for the restore.

[mgeiss]

I believe, that there's a good chance for the controller to be supported, because under Linux and Windows as well it uses a very common driver, which also covers many SATA-RAID devices. But as you said, i will check thar with the trial-version.

-{ Quote: "You will need equal to or greater then the restored image size of free space available on the destination partition if you're not changing its size. Typically you can re-size as needed but it'd be a good idea to keep a gig or two greater then the bare minimum partition size required for the restore." }-
Just to be sure, when you say destination partition, do you refer to the Partition the image is saved to, or the partition it is restored to?
I meant the medium, where the image is stored to (DVD etc.). If it is true, that i need to have more or less the same amount of free space for storing the image, id would be rather unfavorable when using DVDs. Taken the example above, i would need some DVD-Rs for storing an image with an amount of data that would easily fit on one disc

[Acronis Support]

Hello Matthias,

Thank you for your interest in Acronis Disk Backup Software (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/).

We are very sorry for the delay with the response.

-{ Quote: "As my system-drives (set up as a Raid 1) are connected to a ICP-Vortex 9014RO U320-SCSI controller, i wanted to know if this device is supported when booting from the TI recovery-CD (current build)?" }-

First of all, please note that all of the currently available Acronis True Image versions, including Home version, support SCSI hard drives as well as all levels of RAID arrays. As for your particular RAID controller, we do not expect any problems with Acronis True Image 9.0 Home recognizing it when the program is operating in Linux based Acronis Rescue Environment, i.e. when using the 'Full' version of Bootable Rescue CD or Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. However, we recommend that you follow Unit01's advice and try the free trial version of Acronis True Image 9.0 Home (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/) to be completely sure that the software works fine on your particular hardware\software configuration.

You can find the detailed instructions on how to use Acronis True Image 9.0 Home in the respective User's Guide (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/docs/).

You may also find Acronis True Image 9.0 Home FAQ page (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/faq.html) helpful.

If you are satisfied with the work of the free trial version of Acronis True Image 9.0 Home then please visit Acronis online store (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/sales/online/) to purchase the full version of the product.

-{ Quote: "Let's say my system-partition has a size of 20 GB, but only 4 GB are used by Windows, the rest is empty.
If i want to backup this partition in order to make a system-restore in case of a desaster, does the backup medium need to have 20GB of free space or is it sufficient to have ~4GB of free space for the "real" data?" }-

Please be aware that if the file system of the backed up disk\partition is supported by Acronis True Image and not corrupted\damaged in any way then only the used sectors are included into the resulting image archive. The free space is not being backed up in this case. Thus your storage media should have the capacity of at least 4 GB in order to hold the resulting image archive. Please also note that depending on the type of data that is being backed up and level of compression selected the resulting image archive may be even smaller than the size of the actual data backed up disk\partition contains. In case of the unsupported or corrupted file system Acronis True Image creates a raw sector-by-sector image containing every sector of the backed up disk\partition in this case. The resulting image archive will be of the same size as the source disk\partition. Please see this previous thread (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=112864) for further details.

If you have any further questions concerning Acronis software, please feel free to submit a request for technical support (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/my/support/) or post any of them on this forum. We will certainly try to help you in resolving any issues.

Thank you.
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Alexey Popov