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Table of contents

1 Introducing Acronis Backup ............................................................................................ 11

1.1 What's new in Update 5 ..........................................................................................................11

1.2 What's new in Update 4 ..........................................................................................................11

1.3 What's new in Update 3 ..........................................................................................................11

1.4 What's new in Update 2 ..........................................................................................................12

1.5 What's new in Update 1 ..........................................................................................................12

1.6 What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 .....................................................................13

1.7 Acronis Backup components ...................................................................................................15

1.7.1 Agent for Windows ....................................................................................................................................... 16

1.7.2 Agent for Linux .............................................................................................................................................. 16

1.7.3 Agent for VMware ......................................................................................................................................... 17

1.7.4 Agent for Hyper-V ......................................................................................................................................... 17

1.7.5 Agent for SQL ................................................................................................................................................. 17

1.7.6 Agent for Active Directory ............................................................................................................................ 18

1.7.7 Components for centralized management ................................................................................................. 18

1.7.8 Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 19

1.7.9 Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 20

1.7.10 Acronis Wake-on-LAN Proxy ........................................................................................................................ 20

1.8 About using the product in the trial mode ..............................................................................20

1.9 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................20

1.10 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................21

2 Getting started .............................................................................................................. 22

2.1 Using the management console ..............................................................................................25

2.1.1 "Navigation" pane ......................................................................................................................................... 26

2.1.2 Main area, views and action pages .............................................................................................................. 28

2.1.3 Console options ............................................................................................................................................. 30

3 Understanding Acronis Backup ....................................................................................... 33

3.1 Owners .....................................................................................................................................33

3.2 Credentials used in backup plans and tasks ............................................................................33

3.3 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................35

3.4 List of Acronis services .............................................................................................................35

3.5 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................38

3.6 What does a disk or volume backup store? .............................................................................39

3.7 About dynamic and logical volumes ........................................................................................40

3.7.1 Backup and recovery of dynamic volumes (Windows) .............................................................................. 40

3.7.2 Backup and recovery of logical volumes and MD devices (Linux) ............................................................. 42

3.8 Support for Advanced Format (4K-sector) hard disks .............................................................48

3.9 Support for UEFI-based machines ...........................................................................................49

3.10 Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 ................................................................49

3.11 Compatibility with encryption software ..................................................................................51

3.12 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................52