Quick Start
Table Of Contents
- 1 What is Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud?
- 2 Software requirements
- 3 Components
- 4 What you need to start
- 5 Step-by-step instructions
- 5.1 Installing and configuring RabbitMQ Server
- 5.2 Installing Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud
- 5.3 Enabling backup for an organization
- 5.4 Backing up virtual machines
- 5.5 Applying a backup plan
- 5.6 Overwriting a virtual machine with its backed-up version
- 5.7 Recovering a virtual machine
- 5.8 Recovering files from a virtual machine backup
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2. On the machine with Agent for vCloud, in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory, find the file that
corresponds to your region and time zone.
For example, for the Eastern Time Zone of the United States, the time zone file is:
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
3. Delete the old time zone settings:
rm -f /etc/localtime
4. Specify the new time zone settings:
ln -s <time_zone_file> /etc/localtime
For example:
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime
Configuring connection parameters
1. Go to the /opt/acronis/vcd-agent/bin folder and run the configure.sh command.
All available configuration scenarios are shown.
2. Choose the Initial agent configuration scenario.
3. Provide the vCloud Director connection parameters:
vCloud Director host name or IP address
vCloud Director system administrator credentials
4. Provide the credentials of a RabbitMQ Server user. The default credentials are:
User name: guest
Password: guest
5. Provide the management server connection parameters:
Host name or IP address of the management server machine
The administrator credentials under which you installed the management server
6. Provide the connection parameters for the SQL Server instance that stores the management
server databases:
Host name/IP address: Host name or IP address of the management server
Port [1433]: The port that was defined when running the configuration script on the
management server
User name, Password: The credentials you entered when running the configuration script on
the management server
7. Do the following to enable users to recover files from backups of virtual machines (p. 22):
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, and the access credentials to that folder.
We recommend that you use a shared folder on the management server's machine. Specify
the folder in the following format: //Server/Share/Folder (note the forward slashes). Allow