User manual

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Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis Backup ..............................................................................................9
1.1 What's new in Acronis Backup 11.7 ........................................................................................... 9
1.2 Acronis Backup components ..................................................................................................... 9
1.2.1 Agent for Windows ......................................................................................................................................... 9
1.2.2 Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 10
1.2.3 Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 10
1.3 About using the product in the trial mode ..............................................................................10
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................11
1.5 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................11
2 Getting started .............................................................................................................. 12
2.1 Using the management console ..............................................................................................13
2.1.1 "Navigation" pane ......................................................................................................................................... 14
2.1.2 Main area, views and action pages .............................................................................................................. 15
2.1.3 Console options ............................................................................................................................................. 17
3 Understanding Acronis Backup ....................................................................................... 20
3.1 Owners .....................................................................................................................................20
3.2 Credentials used in backup plans and tasks ............................................................................20
3.3 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................22
3.4 List of Acronis services .............................................................................................................22
3.5 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................24
3.6 What does a disk or volume backup store? .............................................................................25
3.7 Backup and recovery of dynamic volumes (Windows) ............................................................26
3.8 Support for Advanced Format (4K-sector) hard disks .............................................................28
3.9 Compatibility with encryption software ..................................................................................28
3.10 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................29
3.11 Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 ................................................................30
3.12 Support for UEFI-based machines ...........................................................................................32
4 Backup .......................................................................................................................... 33
4.1 Back up now .............................................................................................................................33
4.2 Creating a backup plan ............................................................................................................33
4.2.1 Selecting data to back up .............................................................................................................................. 35
4.2.2 Access credentials for source ....................................................................................................................... 36
4.2.3 Source files exclusion .................................................................................................................................... 36
4.2.4 Backup location selection ............................................................................................................................. 38
4.2.5 Access credentials for archive location ........................................................................................................ 40
4.2.6 Backup schemes ............................................................................................................................................ 40
4.2.7 Archive validation .......................................................................................................................................... 50
4.2.8 Backup plan's credentials ............................................................................................................................. 51
4.2.9 Label (Preserving machine properties in a backup) .................................................................................... 51
4.2.10 Sequence of operations in a backup plan ................................................................................................... 53
4.2.11 Why is the program asking for the password? ........................................................................................... 53
4.3 Simplified naming of backup files ............................................................................................53