User Guide

6.7.1 Task credentials ....................................................................................................................................... 253
6.7.2 Archive selection ..................................................................................................................................... 254
6.7.3 Backup selection ...................................................................................................................................... 255
6.7.4 Access credentials for source .................................................................................................................. 255
6.7.5 Location selection .................................................................................................................................... 255
6.7.6 Access credentials for destination .......................................................................................................... 257
6.8 Acronis Secure Zone ............................................................................................................. 257
6.8.1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone ................................................................................................................. 257
6.8.2 Managing Acronis Secure Zone ............................................................................................................... 259
6.9 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...................................................................................... 260
6.10 Bootable media ..................................................................................................................... 261
6.10.1 How to create bootable media ............................................................................................................... 262
6.10.2 Connecting to a machine booted from media ....................................................................................... 270
6.10.3 Working under bootable media .............................................................................................................. 270
6.10.4 List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media ............................................. 272
6.10.5 Recovering MD devices and logical volumes .......................................................................................... 273
6.10.6 Acronis PXE Server ................................................................................................................................... 277
6.11 Disk management ................................................................................................................. 279
6.11.1 Basic precautions ..................................................................................................................................... 279
6.11.2 Running Acronis Disk Director Lite .......................................................................................................... 279
6.11.3 Choosing the operating system for disk management .......................................................................... 280
6.11.4 "Disk management" view ........................................................................................................................ 280
6.11.5 Disk operations ........................................................................................................................................ 281
6.11.6 Volume operations .................................................................................................................................. 287
6.11.7 Pending operations ................................................................................................................................. 293
6.12 Collecting system information .............................................................................................. 294
7 Centralized management ..................................................................................................... 295
7.1 Administering Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server .................................... 295
7.1.1 Dashboard ............................................................................................................................................... 295
7.1.2 Backup policies ........................................................................................................................................ 297
7.1.3 Physical machines .................................................................................................................................... 302
7.1.4 Virtual machines ...................................................................................................................................... 319
7.1.5 Storage nodes .......................................................................................................................................... 324
7.1.6 Tasks ......................................................................................................................................................... 328
7.1.7 Log ............................................................................................................................................................ 330
7.1.8 Reporting ................................................................................................................................................. 334
7.2 Configuring Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .................................................... 339
7.2.1 Parameters set through administrative template .................................................................................. 340
7.2.2 Parameters set through GUI ................................................................................................................... 354
7.2.3 Parameters set through Windows registry ............................................................................................ 355
7.3 Creating a backup policy ....................................................................................................... 356
7.3.1 Policy credentials ..................................................................................................................................... 358
7.3.2 Items to back up ...................................................................................................................................... 359
7.3.3 Access credentials for source .................................................................................................................. 364
7.3.4 Exclusions ................................................................................................................................................. 364
7.3.5 Archive ..................................................................................................................................................... 365
7.3.6 Access credentials for location ................................................................................................................ 367
7.3.7 Backup scheme selection ........................................................................................................................ 367
7.3.8 Archive validation .................................................................................................................................... 377
8 Online backup ..................................................................................................................... 377
8.1 Introduction to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online ........................................................ 378