User Guide

Table of contents
1 Before installation ...................................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .......................................................................... 4
1.1.1 Agent for Windows ................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1.2 Agent for Linux.......................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1.3 Components for centralized management............................................................................................... 6
1.1.4 Management Console .............................................................................................................................. 8
1.1.5 Bootable Media Builder ............................................................................................................................ 8
1.1.6 Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy .................................................................................................................... 9
1.2 Supported operating systems ............................................................................................... 9
1.3 System requirements .......................................................................................................... 11
1.4 Licensing policy ................................................................................................................... 12
1.5 Using Acronis License Server ............................................................................................... 13
2 Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 .......................................................................... 14
2.1 Local installation (Windows) ............................................................................................... 14
2.1.1 Preparation ............................................................................................................................................. 14
2.1.2 Installation procedure ............................................................................................................................ 15
2.1.3 Specifying credentials for Acronis services ............................................................................................. 16
2.1.4 Specifying Microsoft SQL servers ............................................................................................................ 16
2.1.5 Registering components on the management server ............................................................................ 17
2.1.6 Specifying users allowed to connect remotely ....................................................................................... 18
2.1.7 Update .................................................................................................................................................... 18
2.2 Remote installation (Windows) ........................................................................................... 18
2.3 Unattended installation in Windows ................................................................................... 20
2.4 Configuration script parameters ......................................................................................... 21
2.5 Installing the agent using Group Policy ................................................................................ 23
2.5.1 Preparing the agent's deployment ......................................................................................................... 24
2.5.2 Setting up the Group Policy object ......................................................................................................... 25
2.6 Installation in Linux ............................................................................................................. 26
2.6.1 Preparation ............................................................................................................................................. 26
2.6.2 Installation in the interactive mode ........................................................................................................ 27
2.6.3 Installation in the unattended mode ...................................................................................................... 28
2.6.4 Command-line parameters..................................................................................................................... 28
3 Upgrading from trial to full product version ............................................................................. 31
3.1 Changing a license .............................................................................................................. 31
3.2 Upgrading components for Windows .................................................................................. 32
3.3 Upgrading components for Linux ........................................................................................ 32
4 Upgrading to advanced editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 .......................................... 33
4.1 Before the upgrade ............................................................................................................. 33
4.2 Installing or upgrading the Acronis License Server ............................................................... 34
4.3 Installing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console .......................................... 34
4.4 Upgrading Acronis Group Server to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server .... 35
4.5 Upgrading Acronis Backup Server to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node ............. 36