ACRONIS DRIVE MONITOR User manual

Acronis® Drive Monitor™
Free tool alerts you about the safety of your data
Features and benefits
Automatically checks for disk problems
Works on any Windows PC, workstation
or server.
Monitors event los
Flags events that may indicate that data
is in danger so you can back it up.
Receive alerts immediately
Sends an email, and displays a message
on the Windows taskbar when it uncovers
a disk-related problem.
Weekly status reports
Shows the electromechanical health of
all your drives in one report.
Can support RAID drives too
Scripting allows you to monitor RAID
controllers not using S.M.A.R.T.
monitoring technology. An Acronis forum
acts as a clearinghouse for users to share
scripts.
Three kinds of support
An Acronis forum, a knowledge base with
dozens of articles and a built-in help
function are available for this easy-to-use
software application.
We all depend on instant access to data stored on our hard drives – buried
inside PC laptops, workstations and servers – but those disks are vulnerable
to severe failures that can cause you to lose business and personal data.
With so much riding on the reliability of hard disks, Acronis provides an early
warning system – Acronis Drive Monitor – that can make all the difference
between the data you have and the data you could potentially lose. This free,
downloadable software application comes to you from Acronis, the leader in
affordable, scalable, backup, disaster recovery and security solutions.
Monitors disk health
Acronis Drive Monitor checks three categories:
State and health of physical drive (including temperature, seek error
rate, spin-up time and more than 20 other indicators) via a disk-resident
monitoring function called S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and
Reporting Technology) is presented in a understable form. Acronis Drive
Monitor also supports other storage, such as non-S.M.A.R.T.-compatible
RAID systems, via scripts (see Figure 1).
Critical events may indicate increased risk of unexpected data loss. Unlike
most disk monitoring utilities that depend wholly on S.M.A.R.T. monitoring,
Acronis Drive Monitor also monitors certain events that may indicate an
increased risk for data safety, even when S.M.A.R.T. output data shows no
abnormalities. These events include: (1) logical file system corruptions on
NTFS and FAT file systems, (2) Corruption of dynamic disk logical structure,
(3) Failed read or write operations that might indicate faulty hardware or
drivers, (4) Volume Shadow Copy service failures and (5) Other similar
events (see Figure 2, next page). Unless noticed early, these problems may
become more severe and lead to partial or complete data loss. Acronis Drive
Monitor checks for such messages and can provide early warnings in order
that preventive actions can be taken.
State of disk backups – for Acronis Drive Monitor users who also already
use Acronis home or business products, such as Acronis® True Image Home,
Acronis® Backup and Security 2010 and Acronis® Backup & Recovery™
10, Acronis Drive Monitor will alert the user if the latest backup has failed
or if a backup has not been created for a while. Otherwise, users will be
automatically reminded of the need for a backup whenever a potential hard
drive problem is detected.
Figure 1
Disk health monitors SMART parameters and displays
status.
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Supported Operatin Systems
Acronis Drive Monitor can help you now
Acronis Drive Monitor reminds commercial IT administrators
and home PC users how much they depend on disk-resident
data and encourages them to secure it by backing it up.
Acronis Drive Monitor reports any deviations from normal
operation to users in the form of a notification message
on the task bar or email, enabling users to check that data
contained on suspect devices is safely backed up (see
Figure 3). Moreover, it gives them an opportunity to replace
affected drives prior to a potential total failure.
The tool displays the status of recent backups for all disks
being monitored and notifies users if a backup has not been
performed for a while (see Figure 4).
Interated with Acronis Home and Business products for
reater data safety
Users of Acronis True Image Home and Acronis® Backup and
Security 2010 home PC backup and recovery software and
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 business software can take
advantage of Acronis Drive Monitor’s ability to trigger an
immediate, automated backup if any disk shows signs of
imminent failure.
• Windows XP SP2+ x32 and x64 Editions
• Windows Vista all SP x32 and x64 Editions
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2003 SP 2+ x32 and x64 Editions
• Windows Server 2008 all SP x32 and x64 Editions
Partners
Fiure 3: Summary screen provides complete dianostic status.
Fiure 4: Acronis Disk Monitor checks if backup is current.
Fiure 2: Critical events monitorin creates lo and send alerts.
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