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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To apply a backup plan to virtual machines
1. Select one or more virtual machines in the All virtual machines list, or select an entire vApp in
the vApps list. If you select an entire vApp, the backup plan will be applied to all machines in the
vApp and to any new machines that appear in the future.
2. Click Apply backup plan.
3. Select the backup plan that you want to apply to the machines. For example, select Daily.
A backup plan contains the following instructions for the backup service:
Schedule: When and how often to do backups.
Retention rules: How long to store the backups.
Backup options: Whether to exclude specific files and folders (Exclusions); to send
notifications about backup operation results (Notifications); and to encrypt backups
(Encryption).
4. Click OK.
The name of the applied backup plan appears in the Backup plan column. If another backup plan
was previously applied to the machine, that backup plan is revoked.
Tips on usage
The Protection status column shows whether the latest backup has completed successfully (OK)
or failed (Error).
Should you need to restart a failed backup, select a machine and click Back up now. The machine
will be backed up according to the backup plan settings. However, the retention rules will not be
applied this time.
Change a backup plan to one with a different Encryption setting (including different password)
only if it is really necessary. This operation is allowed, but it may cause some inconveniences. For
details, refer to "Consequences of changing encryption" in "Editing a backup plan" (p. 52).
2.4.4 Overwriting a virtual machine with its backed-up version
This recovery procedure can be easily run directly from the organization tab.