Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 273)

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and is able to overcome the physical disk size limitations with a higher than mirrored
disk-to-volume size ratio.
10.7.1.2 Create volume wizard
The Create volume wizard lets you create any type of volume (including system and active), select a
file system, label, assign a letter, and also provides other disk management functions.
Its pages will enable you to enter operation parameters, proceeding step-by-step further on and
return to any previous step if necessary to change any previously selected options. To help you with
your choices, each parameter is supplemented with detailed instructions.
If you want to create a volume:
Run the Create volume wizard by selecting Create volume on the Wizards bar, or right-click any
unallocated space and select Create volume in the appearing context menu.
Select the type of volume being created
At the first step you have to specify the type of volume you want to create. The following types of
volume are available:
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Basic
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Simple/Spanned
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Striped
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Mirrored
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RAID-5
You will obtain a brief description of every type of volume for better understanding of the
advantages and limitations of each possible volume architecture.
If the current operating system, installed on this machine, does not support the selected type of volume , you
will receive the appropriate warning. In this case the Next button will be disabled and you will have to select
another type of volume to proceed with the new volume creation.
After you click the Next button, you will proceed forward to the next wizard page: Select destination
disks (p. 273).
Select destination disks
The next wizard page will prompt you to choose the disks, whose space will be used for the volume
creation.
To create a basic volume:
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Select a destination disk and specify the unallocated space to create the basic volume on.
To create a Simple/Spanned volume:
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Select one or more destination disks to create the volume on.
To create a Mirrored volume:
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Select two destination disks to create the volume on.
To create a Striped volume:
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Select two or more destination disks to create the volume on.