Administrator's Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 Administrator's Guide
- 1.1 About this document
- 1.2 Introduction to Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud
- 1.3 Installing Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud
- 1.3.1 Preparation
- 1.3.2 Installing and configuring RabbitMQ Server
- 1.3.3 Installing Acronis Backup Management Server
- 1.3.4 Using the management console
- 1.3.5 Integrating the management server with vCenter Server
- 1.3.6 Deploying Agent for VMware
- 1.3.7 Installing Acronis Backup Agent for vCloud
- 1.3.8 Configuring Acronis Backup Agent for vCloud
- 1.3.9 Checking network connections
- 1.3.10 Updating to a new version
- 1.3.11 Uninstallation
- 1.4 Logging in to the backup service
- 1.5 Administering organizations
- 1.6 Configuring the backup service
- 1.7 Generating usage reports
- 1.8 Collecting logs
- 1.9 Advanced cases
- 1.10 Security and customization
- 2 User's Guide
- 3 Terminology reference
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No additional licenses are required for the update.
Prerequisites
Before proceeding with the update, make sure that:
You have the setup program of the new version of Acronis Backup Advanced.
You have the update script for Agent for vCloud. The name of the script file is update1.sh.
The machine with Agent for vCloud is connected to the Internet. The update script needs an
Internet connection to download additional packages from a Linux repository.
No backups will run during the update. To ensure this, you can disable backup (p. 30) for all
organizations for the time of the update.
Step 1: Updating the management server
1. On the machine where the management server is installed, log on as an administrator.
2. Start the setup program of the new version of Acronis Backup Advanced.
3. Click Install Acronis Backup.
4. Accept the terms of the license agreement.
5. Click Update.
6. Proceed with updating Acronis Backup.
Step 2: Updating the Agents for VMware
1. Connect the console to the management server as described in "Using the management console"
(p. 16).
2. In the Navigation tree, expand Virtual machines, and then click right-click the IP address or name
of the vCenter Server for the resource group.
3. Click Update Agent for VMware.
4. Select all Agents for VMware in the list, and then click Update Agent for VMware.
Step 3: Updating Agent for vCloud
1. Log in to the machine with Agent for vCloud.
2. Copy the update script to the machine. Make sure to place the script file outside the /opt/acronis
folder. For example, place it in the /root folder.
3. Make the script file executable by running the following command:
chmod 755 update1.sh
4. Run the update script.
5. If you want to enable users to recover files from backups of virtual machines (p. 46), do the
following:
At the Do you want to enable users to recover individual files… prompt, press y.
Specify the path to a network folder that will be used as the temporary storage for the
recovered files. The supported protocols are SMB and NFS. Specify the folder in one of these
formats: //Server/Share/Folder (note the forward slashes) or
nfs://Server/ExportPath:/PathInExportFolder (note the colon before the final slash). If
necessary, provide the access credentials to the folder.
Important When using the NFS protocol, make sure that the export folder is properly configured. For
details, see "Configuring an NFS storage" (p. 9).
If you do not want to make this functionality available, press n at the prompt. You will be able to
enable this functionality later by reconfiguring Agent for vCloud (p. 19).