Installation guide

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Table of contents

1 Before installation ................................................................................................................... 3

1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ............................................................................. 3

1.1.1 Agent for Windows ....................................................................................................................................... 3

1.1.2 Components for centralized management ................................................................................................. 4

1.1.3 Management Console .................................................................................................................................. 7

1.1.4 Bootable Media Builder ............................................................................................................................... 7

1.1.5 Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy........................................................................................................................ 7

1.2 Supported operating systems .................................................................................................... 7

1.3 System requirements ................................................................................................................. 8

1.4 License policy ............................................................................................................................. 9

1.5 Using Acronis License Server ..................................................................................................... 9

2 Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ........................................................................ 12

2.1 Local installation (Windows) ....................................................................................................12

2.1.1 Preparation .................................................................................................................................................12

2.1.2 Installation procedure ................................................................................................................................12

2.1.3 Specifying credentials for Acronis services ................................................................................................13

2.1.4 Specifying Microsoft SQL servers ...............................................................................................................13

2.1.5 Registering components on the management server ..............................................................................14

2.1.6 Specifying users allowed to connect remotely ..........................................................................................14

2.1.7 Update ........................................................................................................................................................15

2.2 Remote installation (Windows) ...............................................................................................15

2.3 Unattended installation in Windows .......................................................................................16

2.4 Configuration script parameters ..............................................................................................17

2.5 Installing components using Group Policy ...............................................................................19

2.5.1 Preparing the agent's deployment ............................................................................................................19

2.5.2 Setting up the Group Policy object ............................................................................................................21

3 Upgrading from trial to full product version ........................................................................... 23

3.1 Changing a license ...................................................................................................................23

3.2 Upgrading components for Windows ......................................................................................24

4 Upgrading to advanced editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ........................................ 25

4.1 Before the upgrade ..................................................................................................................25

4.2 Installing or upgrading the Acronis License Server ..................................................................25

4.3 Installing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console ............................................26

4.4 Upgrading Acronis Group Server to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server .....26

4.5 Upgrading Acronis Backup Server to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node ..............28

4.6 Upgrading Acronis True Image Echo agents and local versions ..............................................29

4.6.1 Importing a task ..........................................................................................................................................31

5 Index ..................................................................................................................................... 32