Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ........................................................................7
1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview .................................................................................. 7
1.2 Getting started ........................................................................................................................... 8
1.2.1 Using the management console .................................................................................................................. 10
1.3 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ...........................................................................16
1.3.1 Agent for Windows ....................................................................................................................................... 17
1.3.2 Agent for Linux .............................................................................................................................................. 18
1.3.3 Agent for ESX/ESXi ........................................................................................................................................ 18
1.3.4 Components for centralized management ................................................................................................. 18
1.3.5 Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 21
1.3.6 Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 21
1.3.7 Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy ........................................................................................................................ 22
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................22
1.5 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................22
1.6 System requirements ...............................................................................................................24
1.7 Technical support ....................................................................................................................25
2 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ...................................................................... 26
2.1 Basic concepts..........................................................................................................................26
2.2 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................30
2.3 Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................31
2.4 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................32
2.5 GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................34
2.6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................37
2.7 Retention rules ........................................................................................................................
39
2.8 Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................42
2.9 Backing up LVM volumes (Linux) .............................................................................................44
2.10 Backing up RAID arrays (Linux) ................................................................................................46
2.11 Backing up virtual machines ....................................................................................................47
2.11.1 How to install Hyper-V Integration Services................................................................................................ 49
2.11.2 How to install VMware Tools ....................................................................................................................... 49
2.12 Tape support ............................................................................................................................50
2.12.1 Tape compatibility table ............................................................................................................................... 50
2.12.2 Using a single tape drive ............................................................................................................................... 50
2.13 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................51
2.13.1 Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................... 51
2.13.2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ............................................................................................................. 52
2.13.3 Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore)..................................................... 53
2.13.4 Acronis Active Restore .................................................................................................................................. 55
2.14 Understanding centralized management ................................................................................56
2.14.1 Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................... 56
2.14.2 Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network ....................................................... 58
2.14.3 Grouping the registered machines .............................................................................................................. 61
2.14.4 Policies on machines and groups ................................................................................................................. 63
2.14.5 Backup policy's state and statuses ............................................................................................................... 68
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