ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Windows User's Guide Page 1

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 User Guide Applies to the following editions:  Advanced Server  Virtual Edition  Advanced Server SBS Editi

10 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1 Introducing Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 1.1 What's new in Acronis Backup &

100 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Software - Acronis VSS Provider VSS will use Acronis VSS Provider for taking snapshots.

101 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5 Recovery When it comes to data recovery, first consider the most functional method: connec

102 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Disks (p. 107) Volumes (p. 109) Files (p. 113) Acronis Active Restore [Optional] The Acronis

103 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5.1.1 What to recover 1. Specifying the archive location In the Data path field, specify the

104 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5.1.1.1 Selecting archive location Location Details Online backup storage If the archive i

105 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 may upload data catalog files from a vault to a local cach

106 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The data is not supported by the catalog The following data cannot be displayed in the catalo

107 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Password. The password for the account. 2. Click OK. 5.1.4 Where to recover Specify the

108 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 attempts to map the selected disks to the target disks as

109 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 schedules tasks using the signature of the source hard

11 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Disk backup Disk-level data protection is based on backing up either a disk or a volume file s

110 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The selected volumes will be recovered to the physical disks of the machine the console is co

111 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Recover [Volume] [Letter] to: Disk # /Volume Sequentially map each of the source volumes to a

112 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Primary. Information about primary volumes is contained in the MBR partition table. Most o

113 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Use the following options only if you absolutely need to.  CHS (63 sectors) - select this o

114 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Do not overwrite existing file - this will give the file on the hard disk priority over th

115 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To specify credentials 1. Select one of the following:  Run under the current user The tas

116 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5.2.2 Using Universal Restore During recovery Universal Restore is available when configurin

117 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 What if you do not have drivers Windows 7 includes more drivers than the older Windows operat

118 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Once Windows boots, it will initialize the standard procedure for installing new hardware. Th

119 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Tape device  Optical discs (CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs) When transferring a system betw

12 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1.3 About the trial product version Before buying an Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 licen

120 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Original system Target hardware BIOS Disk: MBR BIOS Disk: GPT UEFI Disk: MBR UEFI Disk: GPT B

121 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The following table summarizes all cases of recovering disks of a BIOS-based system to UEFI-b

122 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 and then performing the recovery. The disk is initialized as GPT. The 2-TB limitation for GPT

123 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Some machines are being used as storage facilities, where the operating system claims a small

124 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Recovery 11.5 automatically updates Windows loaders after recovery. Other loaders might also

125 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Solution: Modification of the boot.ini or the boot\bcd files fixes this for Windows loaders.

126 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  The path to the kernel on that device and the root partitionin this example, the path is

127 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5.6 Reverting a Windows system to its factory settings If your Windows operating system was

128 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The following table summarizes the availability of the recovery options. Agent for Windows B

129 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5.7.1 Additional settings Specify the additional settings for the recovery operation by sele

13 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Product Updates You can download the latest updates for all your registered Acronis software p

130 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 With the silent mode enabled, the program will automatically handle situations requiring user

131 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Do not send SNMP notifications  to disable sending the log events of the recovery operati

132 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 This option is effective only when you select for backup a folder that is higher in the folde

133 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 c. Some Internet service providers require authentication on the incoming mail server before

134 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The program does not support interactive commands, i.e. commands that require user input (for

135 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 2. In the Working directory field, specify a path to a directory where the command/batch fil

136 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  If you want the backup and the conversion to be executed on a schedule. This helps you mai

137 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Parallels Workstation  Kernel-based Virtual Machine  Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

138 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 6.2.2 Setting up regular conversion to a virtual machine When creating a backup plan (p. 34)

139 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If the management server is integrated with vCenter Server, the resultant virtual machines wi

14 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 2 Getting started Step 1. Installation These brief installation instructions enable you t

140 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 What storage will be used for the virtual machines? Network usage As opposed to ordinary ba

141 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Intermediate snapshots To be able to update the virtual machine, the software stores a few in

142 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4. In Recover to, select New virtual machine. 5. Click Browse. In the VM/VS Selection (p. 1

143 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 [Only if the console is connected to the management server] You can select the machine that w

144 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 This is the number of processors of the new virtual machine. In most cases, it is set to one.

145 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 2. Create a bootable media (p. 172) with the Universal Restore functionality by using Acroni

146 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7 Storing the backed up data 7.1 Vaults A vault is a location for storing backup archives.

147 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7.1.1 Working with vaults This section briefly describes the main GUI elements of the select

148 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 A personal vault can be organized on a network share, FTP server, detachable media or removab

149 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Validate a vault Click Validate. You will be taken to the Validation (p. 155) page, where

15 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Create a backup plan if you need a long-term backup strategy including backup schemes, schedul

150 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1. Make sure that none of the backup plans uses vault A while merging, or disable the given

151 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 After you configure the required settings, click OK. In the Result confirmation (p. 152) wind

152 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7.2.1.4 Result confirmation The Result confirmation window displays the expected partition l

153 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  If there is not enough unallocated space, the program will take free space from the select

154 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Vaults created on removable devices do not have the Data view (p. 104) tab. Usage modes of

155 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8 Operations with archives and backups 8.1 Validating archives and backups Validation is an

156 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Vault (p. 156) - select a vault (or other location), to validate archives from. Credentials (

157 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  To select a local folder (CD/DVD drive, or locally attached tape device), expand the Lo

158 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Choose one of the following:  Now - to start the validation task right after its creation,

159 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Your choice of backups belonging to the same archive - the resulting archive will contain

16 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Console - Welcome screen Key elements of the co

160 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 When the console is connected to a management server, two export methods are available:  Ex

161 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Select the Archive (p. 161) or the Backups (p. 161). Show access credentials (p. 161) [Opti

162 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To specify credentials 1. Select one of the following:  Use the current user credentials T

163 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  To export data to a locally attached tape device, expand the Tape drives group, then click

164 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.3 Mounting an image Mounting volumes from a disk backup (image) lets you access the volume

165 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  If the archive is stored in a local folder on the machine, expand the Local folders group

166 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1. Select the check box for each volume you need to mount. 2. Click on the selected volume

167 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.4.1 Operations with archives To perform any operation with an archive 1. In the Navigatio

168 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 a separate window In the Backup Content window, examine the backup content. Recover Click

169 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 You have the following backup chain in your archive: F1 I2 I3 I4 D5 I6 I7 I8 F9 I10 I11 D12

17 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Backup plans and tasks. Use this view to manage backup plans and tasks on the managed mac

170 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 9 Bootable media Bootable media Bootable media is physical media (CD, DVD, USB drive or othe

171 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 PE-based bootable media does not support UEFI. 9.1 How to create bootable media To enable c

172 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94bb6e34-d890-4932-81a5-5b50c657de08

173 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  create CD, DVD or other bootable media such as removable USB flash drives if the hardware

174 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 nousb Disables loading of the USB (Universal Serial Bus) subsystem. nousb2 Disables USB 2.0 s

175 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Once the bootable ag

176 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 You will be able to configure the Universal Restore:  to search the media for the drivers t

177 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Adding Acronis Plug-in to WinPE 2.x or 3.x ISO To add Acronis Plug-in to WinPE 2.x or 3.x ISO

178 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 9.2 Connecting to a machine booted from media Once a machine boots from bootable media, the

179 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1. In the boot menu, press F11. 2. Add to the command prompt the following command: vga=ask

18 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 2.1.2.1 Views A view appears on the main area when clicking any item in the Navigation tree i

180 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Acronis command-line utilities  acrocmd  acronis  asamba  lash Linux commands and uti

181 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 hotplug reboot 9.5 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is a

182 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 10 Disk management Acronis Disk Director Lite is a tool for preparing a machine disk/volume c

183 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1. Back up the disk on which volumes will be created or managed. Having your most important

184 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The top part of the view contains a disks and volumes table enabling data sorting and columns

185 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Acronis Disk Director Lite will detect that the disk is unusable by the system and needs to b

186 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 

187 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If you need to copy the NT signature: 1. Select the Copy NT signature 

188 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1. MBR disk conversion: dynamic to basic (p. 189) using the Convert to basic operation. 2

189 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 System disk conversion Acronis Disk Director Lite does not require an operating system reboot

19 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Filter items by predefined column value In a field below the corresponding column's heade

190 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  safe conversion of a dynamic disk to basic when it contains volumes with data for simple a

191 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Store collections of similar files separately  for example, an MP3 collection or video fi

192 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 data itself. If a physical disk fails, the portion of the RAID-5 volume that was on that fail

193 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To create a Striped volume:  Select two or more destination disks to create the volume on.

194 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 In setting the cluster size you can choose between any number in the preset amount for eac

195 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 10.7.3 Set active volume If you have several primary volumes, you must specify one to be the

196 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 10.7.5 Change volume label The volume label is an optional attribute. It is a name assigned

197 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If you set a 64K cluster size for FAT16/FAT32 or an 8KB-64KB cluster size for NTFS, Windows c

198 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 11 Protecting applications with disk-level backup This section describes how to use a disk-le

199 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If the application databases are located on a number of machines, back up all of the machines

20 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Using controls and specifying settings Use active controls to specify a backup plan or recover

200 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1. Truncating the logs manually or by using a script. 2. For Microsoft SQL Server, tempor

201 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Determining locations of database files by using SQL Server Management Studio Default locatio

202 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Exchange 2003 1. Start Exchange System Manager. 2. Click Administrative Groups. Note: If Ad

203 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4. Selecta database. In the opened page you will see the database server and database name.

204 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 d. In the Recovery Model list box, select the Simple model list. 2. The transaction log fil

205 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3. In the Post-backup command, specify the path to the batch file. 11.1.2.2 Transaction lo

206 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 a. Execute the eseutil /mk <path to checkpoint file> command, where the <path to ch

207 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 a. Dismount the databases. b. Run Eseutil /K and review the verification results. c. If

208 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  The tombstone lifetime was changed administratively. The reason for this additional backup

209 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5. On the recovery page under What to recover section: a. In Data paths, select Custom. b.

21 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 2.1.3.2 Credentials cache The option specifies whether to store the credentials entered while

210 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 11.2.3 Attaching SQL Server databases This section describes how to attach a database in SQL

211 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To recover Exchange Server databases 1. Connect the console to the machine on which you ar

212 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Exchange 2007: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997694(v=exchg.80)  Exchange

213 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Recovery vs. re-creation Recreation does not require having a backup. Recovery is normally fa

214 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3. Restart the domain controller. Make sure that the Active Directory service has started su

215 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7. Restart the domain controller in normal mode. Make sure that the Active Directory service

216 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 USN rollback After you perform a nonauthoritative restore of a domain controller or of its da

217 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 11.5 Recovering SharePoint data Different SharePoint servers and databases are recovered in

218 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 2. Recover the database files as described in "Recovering SQL Server database files fro

219 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Office Document Conversions Launcher Service  Office Document Conversions Load Balancer

22 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Notify when the management console is connected to a component of a different version This opt

220 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 2. Attach the content database to a non-original SharePoint farm. To do this: a. Make sure

221 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 12 Administering a managed machine This section describes the views that are available throug

222 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To Do View details of a plan/task Click Details. In the respective Plan Details (p. 230) o

223 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To Do Edit a plan/task Click Edit. Backup plan editing is performed in the same way as cre

224 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1 Need interaction At least one task needs user interaction. Otherwise, see 2. Identify the t

225 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 12.1.2.3 Task states A task can be in one of the following states: Idle; Waiting; Running; N

226 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 12.1.3 Export and import of backup plans The export operation creates a file with complete c

227 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 How to modify credentials In the export file, the <login> tags include the user name an

228 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 How to change items to back up Replacing a directly specified item with another directly spec

229 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 <specific> <backup_type> disks </backup_type> <disk_level

23 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 This section attempts to give its readers

230 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The default path to the dedicated folder is %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Acronis\BackupAndRecovery\impor

231 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Last start time - how much time has passed since the last plan or task start.  Deploymen

232 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 When a task or activity requires user interaction, a message and action buttons appear above

233 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Save all the log entries to a file 1. Make sure, that the filters are not set. 2. Click

234 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Active and inactive alerts An alert can be either in an active, or inactive state. The active

235 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 trial > backing up to the online storage** After trying the product, you decided to back u

236 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If you select Wait for task completion, all of the running Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5

237 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The alert is displayed in the Alerts view of the Navigation pane. 12.6.4 E-mail settings Th

238 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 When using this option, make sure that the e-mail settings are properly configured in Machine

239 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To set up sending SNMP messages 1. Select the Send messages to SNMP server check box. 2. Sp

24 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Backup plan's credentials Any backup plan running on a machine runs on behalf of a user.

240 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 You can override the settings set here, exclusively for the events that occur during backup o

241 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If you do not know the proxy server settings, contact your network administrator or Internet

242 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 13 Online backup This section provides details about using the Acronis Backup & Recovery

243 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 13.1.3 How long will my backups be kept in the online storage? Your backups remain in the on

244 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Recovering disks or files by using Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 GUI or command line

245 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To continue backing up the machine to the same subscription, reassign (p. 256) the subscripti

246 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 13.1.6.7 How to buy an Initial Seeding license? You can buy an Initial Seeding license from

247 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Hard drive types Acronis accepts hard disk drives of the following interface types: IDE, ATA,

248 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Step 4 Choose the transport company that you will use for shipping. On that company's

249 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Step 5 Securely seal the box with a sturdy tape. Then, stick the shipping label for sending y

25 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3.3 User privileges on a managed machine When managing a machine running Windows, the scope

250 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  The order has been completed. The media has been returned (or: Returning the media was not

251 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 13.1.7.6 Can I obtain backups taken from a number of machines on a single hard drive? No. A

252 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 13.1.8 Subscription lifecycle FAQ This section explains a subscription lifecycle and subscri

253 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 An expired subscription can be renewed within five days after expiration. In such cases, the

254 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Qo  old subscription storage quota  Qn  new subscription storage quota. Example. You h

255 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Windows 2000 SP4  all editions except for the Datacenter and Professional editions.  Wi

256 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  As soon as a subscription is activated, its subscription period starts. To avoid losing su

257 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Depending on your settings, this backup will be either full or incremental. But its size is n

258 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 13.6 Retrieving files from the online storage by using a Web browser By using a Web browser,

259 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Operations The following operations are not possible. Backup operations:  Backing up from b

26 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Service name Purpose Account used by the service Privileges added to the account User rights G

260 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Assign a subscription to a machine Reserve a subscription for a particular machine. Subscript

261 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Renew a subscription Assign a subscription that has the same storage quota as the current, ac

262 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 14 Glossary A Acronis Active Restore The Acronis proprietary technology that brings a system

263 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Limitation: requires re-activation of loaders other than Windows loaders and GRUB. Acronis U

264 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Backup operation An operation that creates a copy of the data that exists on a machine's

265 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Bootable agent A bootable rescue utility that includes most of the functionality of the Acron

266 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Centralized management Management of the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 infrastructure th

267 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Having connected the console to the management server, the administrator sets up centralized

268 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Direct management An operation that is performed on a managed machine (p. 272) using the dire

269 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 and the foreign disks so that they form a single entity. A foreign group is imported as is (w

27 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Dependencies on other services Acronis Managed Machine Service depends on the following standa

270 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  IP address range  Listed in txt/csv file. A machine remains in a dynamic group as long a

271 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 G GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) A popular backup scheme (p. 264) aimed to maintain the optima

272 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  A volume, information about which is stored in the extended partition table. (In contrast

273 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 P Personal vault A local or networked vault (p. 275) created using direct management (p. 267

274 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 S Static group A group of machines which a management server (p. 272) administrator populates

275 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Validation of a file backup imitates recovery of all files from the backup to a dummy destina

28 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  you need the possibility to roll back to any one of multiple saved states  the data chang

29 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The following items are not included in a disk or volume backup (as well as in a file-level ba

3 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Copyright Statement Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012. All rights reserved. 

30 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Over any type of existing volume.  To unallocated space of a disk group.  To unallocate

31 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Preparing disk groups and volumes Before recovering dynamic volumes to bare metal you should c

32 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Common installation rule The strong recommendation is to install the encryption software bef

33 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Syntax: OctetString The value contains the text description of the event (it looks identical t

34 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4 Backup 4.1 Back up now Use the Back up now feature to configure and run a one-time backup

35 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 plan. The default archive name is Archive(N) where N is the sequence number of the archive in

36 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Plan parameters Plan name [Optional] Enter a unique name for the backup plan. A conscious name

37 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Available if Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Windows or Acronis Backup & Reco

38 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Note: Exclusions override selection of data items to back up. For example, if you select to ba

39 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Exclusion examples Criterion Example Description Windows and Linux By name F.log F Excludes al

4 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 ...

40 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Backing up to an existing archive You can configure the backup plan to back up to an existing

41 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Destination Details RDX, USB To back up data to an RDX drive or USB flash drive, expand

42 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 2. Click OK. Warning: According to the original FTP specification, credentials required for a

43 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Backup type To access this setting, click Show backup type, 2nd location, validation, convert

44 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Weekly/Monthly Specifies which of the days selected in the Back up on field you want to reserv

45 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 available through next Sunday, January 8; the first weekly backup, the one of Saturday, Januar

46 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Monthly: 5 years Here, daily incremental backups will be created on Tuesdays and Thursdays,

47 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Clean up archive Specifies how to get rid of old backups: either to apply retention rules (p.

48 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Here, all parameters except Schedule in Full backup are left empty. All backups in the archive

49 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 By default, a backup is not deleted as long as it has dependent backups that must be kept. For

5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4.4 Scheduling ...

50 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 4 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 4 1 2 1 3 1 Backups of different levels have

51 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 On day 14, the interval is five days. It increases on subsequent days before decreasing again,

52 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 not corrupted and can be successfully recovered, think of starting the validation right after

53 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Let's assume you migrate your office or datacenter to a virtual environment. By using thi

54 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Other Operating System (64 bit) otherGuest64 Example 

55 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Setting up full, incremental and differential backups within a single backup plan. You need

56 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4.3.2 Backup splitting and simplified file naming When a backup is split according to backup

57 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  You want to perform hourly backups of your server's critical files every day.  You w

58 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  You want to swap the drives each Monday so that one drive contains backups of the current w

59 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  The 10 differential backups of January 31, 2012, will be stored as ServerFiles[2012-01-31]2

6 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5.5 Bootability troubleshooting ...

60 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 User is idle (a screen saver is running or the machine is locked) Location's host is avai

61 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Examples "Simple" daily schedule Run the task every day at 6PM. The schedule's

62 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 task's recurrences is 4 hours, and between the third, fourth and fifth is 2 hours. In thi

63 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Run the task every Friday at 10PM, starting from a certain date (say 05/14/2009) and ending af

64 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Sunday: once at 9 PM Combining the identical times, the following three schedules can be ad

65 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 From: <...> Set up a date when this schedule will be enabled (an effective date). If thi

66 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Suppose that the task goes into effect on 11/01/2009.  During northern winter, the task runs

67 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Event source Specifies the event source, which typically indicates the program or the system c

68 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Tip: To set up a similar backup plan for machines running Microsoft Windows XP, replace the te

69 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Set the schedule, conditions and the Task start conditions backup option as follows:  Schedu

7 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.3.4 Volume selection ...

70 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 (2) If 9:00 PM comes but the host is unavailable at the moment, the backup task will start on

71 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4.4.5.4 User logged off Applies to: Windows Enables to put a backup task run on hold until al

72 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Replicate (copy) each backup to a second location immediately after creation.  Retain the

73 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Initial seeding (p. 51) No No No Notes:  Setting up both copying and moving backups from the

74 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If allowed by the backup scheme, you can also specify when to automatically delete the backups

75 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 You can choose to apply the retention rules before creating a backup, after creating a backup,

76 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The outdated backup (marked with the icon) will be kept until all backups that depend on it

77 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4.5.6 Usage examples This section provides examples of how you can replicate backups and set

78 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Consider the following scenario:  You want to occasionally back up your machine to a local f

79 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 You can also customize a default option itself by changing its value against the pre-defined o

8 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 11.2.2 Accessing SQL Server databases from a disk backup ...

80 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Agent for Windows Bootable media (Linux-based or PE-based) Disk backup File backup Disk back

81 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Agent for Windows Bootable media (Linux-based or PE-based) Disk backup File backup Disk back

82 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 For example, if the machine boots from a hard disk drive by default and you select this check

83 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If you select Full cataloging, the backup contents are cataloged to the highest possible level

84 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Normal  to run the backup process with normal speed, allocating resources on a par with ot

85 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 This option is not effective when the backup destination is a managed vault or Acronis Online

86 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The option defines the level of compression applied to the data being backed up. The preset is

87 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 2. Enter the e-mail address in the E-mail Address field. You can enter several e-mail address

88 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 This option is not available when operating under the bootable media. The option defines wheth

89 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Errors only  Do not log - to disable logging events of the backup operations in the Appli

9 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 13.3 Choosing a subscription ...

90 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Simply ignore this option if you do not use the encryption. Enable the option if encrypted fil

91 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 you are planning to use Acronis One-Click Restore, include all the volumes in the backup. Any

92 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 When this option is set to Enable, snapshots of all volumes being backed up will be created si

93 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 b. Use encryption  you can opt for encrypted connection to the mail server. SSL and TLS encr

94 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Pre-backup command Backup Post-backup command Examples of how you can use the pre/post command

95 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4.6.17.2 Post-backup command To specify a command/executable file to be executed after the ba

96 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4.6.18.1 Pre-data capture command To specify a command/batch file to be executed before data

97 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Result Preset Continue the backup only after the command is successfully executed. Delete the

98 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 This option determines the program behavior when any of the backup plan's tasks fails. Th

99 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Time diagram: Wait until conditions are met Skip the task execution Delaying a backup might b