User Guide

Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ......................................................................... 6
1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview .................................................................................. 6
1.2 Getting started ........................................................................................................................... 6
1.2.1 Using the management console .................................................................................................................. 7
1.3 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ...........................................................................13
1.3.1 Agent for Linux ...........................................................................................................................................13
1.3.2 Management Console ................................................................................................................................14
1.3.3 Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................14
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................14
1.5 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................14
1.6 System requirements ...............................................................................................................15
1.7 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................15
2 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 16
2.1 Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................16
2.2 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................20
2.3 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................22
2.4 Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................22
2.5 GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................23
2.6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................27
2.7 Retention rules ........................................................................................................................29
2.8 Backing up LVM volumes and MD devices (Linux) ..................................................................32
2.8.1 Backing up logical volumes ........................................................................................................................32
2.8.2 Backing up MD devices ..............................................................................................................................33
2.8.3 Saving the volume structure information ..................................................................................................33
2.8.4 Selecting logical volumes and MD devices in command line ....................................................................34
2.9 Backing up hardware RAID arrays (Linux) ................................................................................35
2.10 Tape support ............................................................................................................................35
2.10.1 Tape compatibility table .............................................................................................................................35
2.10.2 Using a single tape drive .............................................................................................................................36
2.11 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................37
2.12 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................38
2.12.1 Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................38
2.12.2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...........................................................................................................39
3 Options .................................................................................................................................. 40
3.1 Console options .......................................................................................................................40
3.1.1 Startup page ...............................................................................................................................................40
3.1.2 Pop-up messages ........................................................................................................................................40
3.1.3 Time-based alerts .......................................................................................................................................41
3.1.4 Number of tasks .........................................................................................................................................41
3.1.5 Fonts ...........................................................................................................................................................41
3.2 Machine options ......................................................................................................................42
3.2.1 Event tracing ...............................................................................................................................................42
3.2.2 Log cleanup rules ........................................................................................................................................43