User`s guide

6.7.1 Task credentials ........................................................................................................................................... 254
6.7.2 Archive selection ......................................................................................................................................... 255
6.7.3 Backup selection .......................................................................................................................................... 256
6.7.4 Access credentials for source ..................................................................................................................... 256
6.7.5 Location selection........................................................................................................................................ 256
6.7.6 Access credentials for destination ............................................................................................................. 258
6.8 Acronis Secure Zone ..............................................................................................................258
6.8.1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................... 258
6.8.2 Managing Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................. 260
6.9 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .......................................................................................261
6.10 Bootable media ......................................................................................................................262
6.10.1 How to create bootable media .................................................................................................................. 263
6.10.2 Connecting to a machine booted from media .......................................................................................... 271
6.10.3 Working under bootable media ................................................................................................................. 271
6.10.4 List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media ............................................... 273
6.10.5 Recovering MD devices and logical volumes ............................................................................................ 274
6.10.6 Acronis PXE Server ...................................................................................................................................... 278
6.11 Disk management ..................................................................................................................280
6.11.1 Basic precautions......................................................................................................................................... 280
6.11.2 Running Acronis Disk Director Lite ............................................................................................................. 280
6.11.3 Choosing the operating system for disk management ............................................................................ 281
6.11.4 "Disk management" view ........................................................................................................................... 281
6.11.5 Disk operations ............................................................................................................................................ 282
6.11.6 Volume operations ...................................................................................................................................... 288
6.11.7 Pending operations ..................................................................................................................................... 294
6.12 Collecting system information ...............................................................................................295
7 Centralized management ................................................................................................... 296
7.1 Administering Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server .....................................296
7.1.1 Dashboard .................................................................................................................................................... 296
7.1.2 Backup policies ............................................................................................................................................ 298
7.1.3 Physical machines ....................................................................................................................................... 303
7.1.4 Virtual machines .......................................................................................................................................... 320
7.1.5 Storage nodes .............................................................................................................................................. 326
7.1.6 Tasks ............................................................................................................................................................. 329
7.1.7 Log ................................................................................................................................................................ 331
7.1.8 Reporting ..................................................................................................................................................... 335
7.2 Configuring Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .....................................................340
7.2.1 Parameters set through administrative template .................................................................................... 341
7.2.2 Parameters set through GUI....................................................................................................................... 355
7.2.3 Parameters set through Windows registry ............................................................................................... 356
7.3 Creating a backup policy ........................................................................................................357
7.3.1 Policy credentials ......................................................................................................................................... 359
7.3.2 Items to back up .......................................................................................................................................... 360
7.3.3 Access credentials for source ..................................................................................................................... 365
7.3.4 Exclusions ..................................................................................................................................................... 365
7.3.5 Archive ......................................................................................................................................................... 366
7.3.6 Access credentials for location ................................................................................................................... 368
7.3.7 Backup scheme selection ........................................................................................................................... 368
7.3.8 Archive validation ........................................................................................................................................ 378
8 Online backup .................................................................................................................... 379
8.1 Introduction to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online .........................................................379