Acronis® Backup & Recovery ™ 10 Workstation Update 3 Installation Guide
Table of contents 1 Before installation ...................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .......................................................................... 3 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 2 1.2 Supported operating systems ............................................................................................... 4 1.3 System requirements ................................................
1 Before installation This section answers questions that might arise before the product installation. 1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components This section contains a list of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components with a brief description of their functionality. Components for a managed machine (agents) These are applications that perform data backup, recovery and other operations on the machines managed with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.
Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation or Citrix XenServer Open Virtual Appliance (OVA). Files of the fully configured and operational machine will be placed in the folder you select. You can start the machine using the respective virtualization software or prepare the machine files for further usage. Disk management Agent for Windows includes Acronis Disk Director Lite - a handy disk management utility.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows Windows 2000 Professional SP4 Windows XP Professional SP2+ (x86, x64) Windows Vista - all editions (x86, x64) Windows 7 - all editions (x86, x64) Remote connection to the agent is not possible. 1.
2.1 Local installation (Windows) You have a choice between downloading a full installation package and a small executable package that will download only those components that you select to install, from the Acronis Web site. 2.1.1 Preparation Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 uses TCP port 9876 for local installation and for communication between components. The setup program automatically opens this port through Windows Firewall.
If you choose to specify an existing local or domain user account—for example, .\LocalUser or DomainName\DomainUser—make sure that the account is a member of the Backup Operators group, before proceeding with the installation. The setup program will assign the above listed user rights to such account. If the machine is part of an Active Directory domain, make sure that the domain's security policies do not prevent the account from having the above listed user rights.
For example, the following command creates a transform to install Agent for Windows with the license key ABCDE-54321: mst_gen.vbs /msi_path C:\AcronisAgentWindows.msi /serial ABCDE-54321 The complete syntax of the configuration script is described in "Configuration script parameters (p. 8)". 5.
Specifies that the component will be installed for the current user only, rather than for all users on a machine. This parameter is not effective for Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows, which runs as a service. Avoid using this parameter when installing the component through Group Policy, because the “current user” in such installation is typically a system account. /target_dir Installation_Folder Specifies the folder where to install the component.
The disk management functionality is available, but there is no option to commit the changes Besides disk management, only the recovery functionality is available. To upgrade from the trial version to the standard product you do not need to re-download the software. When the trial period is over, the product GUI displays a notification requesting you specify a standard license key.
5. If you selected the first option, proceed with installing Universal Restore. If you selected the second option, click Close to exit the setup program. 4 Uninstallation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 This section describes uninstallation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. 4.1 Local uninstallation in Windows To uninstall Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, use the product uninstallation program (and not the Add or Remove Programs tool of Windows). To uninstall Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 1.
2. In the Delete Acronis Secure Zone window, select volumes to which you want to add the space freed from the zone and then click OK. If you select several volumes, the space will be distributed proportionally to each partition. If you do not select any volume, the freed space becomes unallocated. After you click OK, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will start deleting the zone. 12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
