Installation guide

1.5.3. Specifying credentials for Acronis services

The Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management

Server, and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node components run as services. When installing

any of these components, you need to specify the account under which the component's service will

run.

For each service, you can either create a dedicated user account (recommended in most cases) or

specify an existing account of a local or domain user—for example: .\LocalUser or

DomainName\DomainUser. If you are planning to use Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management

Server in an Active Directory domain, we recommend using an existing domain user account for the

management server service.

If you choose to create dedicated user accounts for the services, the setup program will create the

following user accounts:

• For the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows service, Acronis Agent User

• For the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server service, AMS User

• For the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node service, ASN User

For security purposes, each of the newly created accounts will be assigned only the user rights that

are necessary to run the corresponding service:

• All three accounts are assigned the Log on as a service right.

• The Acronis Agent User account is additionally assigned the Log on locally, Back up files and

directories, Restore files and directories, and Shut down the system user rights.

If you choose to specify an existing user account for the agent service, make sure that the account

has the user rights listed above.

If the machine is part of an Active Directory domain, make sure that the domain's security policies do

not prevent the accounts (whether existing or newly created) from having these user rights. The

same applies to the __acro_subst_user__ account—an auxiliary account which has the Log on as a

service right.

Important: After the installation, you cannot specify a different user account for a component's service.

1.5.4. Specifying Microsoft SQL servers

When installing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server, you need to specify the

Microsoft SQL servers for the management server's databases:

• The operational SQL server ensures synchronization of the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

components and stores the policies configuration.

• The reporting SQL server stores the operation log and statistics. The database stored on this

server may become considerably large over time.

For each SQL server, select one of the following:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express that comes with the installation package and installs on the

same machine. In this case, an SQL server instance will be created on the machine.

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (any edition) previously installed on any machine.

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (any edition) previously installed on any machine.