User guide

Installing the product

Perform these steps on each machine that you will back up.

1. Log on as an administrator and start the setup program.

2. Click Install Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.

3. Accept the terms of the license agreement, and then click Next.

4. Click Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 for online backup only.

5. Leave the default setting in Install to. Click Next to continue.

6. When prompted about credentials for the Acronis service, leave the default setting: Create a

new account. Click Next to continue.

Details. This account is needed to run the service that backs up and recovers data.

7. Specify whether the machine will participate in the Acronis Customer Experience Program (CEP).

Click Next to continue.

8. Click Install to proceed with installation.

9. On successful installation, click Finish to close the wizard window.

Creating a bootable media

By using bootable media, you can recover a corrupted operating system or an entire machine from a

disk or volume backup. Accordingly, we highly recommend creating a bootable media at this point. If

you are planning to do only file-level backups, you need not create bootable media.

1. Start Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.

2. In the welcome screen, under Tools, click Create bootable media. The Acronis Bootable Media

Builder wizard will open.

3. Follow the on-screen instructions.

4.4 Configuring proxy settings

If the machine connects to the Internet through a proxy server, configure Acronis Backup & Recovery

11 to use the proxy server.

1. Start Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.

2. On the Options menu, click Machine options.

3. Click Online backup proxy.

4. Enter the proxy server settings. For detailed information about the settings please refer to the

context-sensitive help.

5 Activating online backup subscriptions

To be able to back up a machine to the online storage, you need to purchase and activate a

subscription to the Acronis Backup & Recovery Online service. You can purchase subscriptions on the

Acronis Web site or from an Acronis reseller.

Before activating a subscription, please take into account the following considerations:

 As soon as a subscription is activated, its subscription period starts. To avoid losing subscription

time, activate the subscription only when you are ready to back up the machine.