Installation guide

The Universal Restore add-on enables you to use the restore to dissimilar hardware functionality on

the machine where the agent is installed, and create bootable media with this functionality. Universal

Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for Windows start-up, such as storage

controllers, motherboard or chipset.

1.1.3. WinPE ISO Builder

Acronis WinPE ISO Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media based on Windows

preinstallation environment. This tool can be installed only on machines running Windows.

1.1.4. Agent for Linux

This agent enables disk-level and file-level data protection under Linux.

Disk backup

Disk-level data protection is based on backing up either a disk or a volume file system as a whole,

along with all information necessary for the operating system to boot; or all the disk sectors using the

sector-by-sector approach (raw mode.) A backup that contains a copy of a disk or a volume in a

packaged form is called a disk (volume) backup or a disk (volume) image. It is possible to recover disks

or volumes as a whole from such backup, as well as individual folders or files.

File backup

File-level data protection is based on backing up files and directories residing on the machine where

the agent is installed or on a network share accessed using the smb or nfs protocol. Files can be

recovered to their original location or to another place. It is possible to recover all files and

directories that were backed up or select which of them to recover.

1.1.4.1. Bootable components and media builder

Bootable components of the agent enable operations with reboot, such as recovery of the volume

containing the currently active operating system. Once the operations are completed, the machine

boots into the operating system again. The bootable components are based on the Linux kernel. You

can choose not to install the bootable components and perform operations that require reboot using

bootable media.

Acronis Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media containing the

bootable components. The media builder, delivered with Agent for Linux, creates bootable media

that represents volumes and network in the Linux-like style (hda1, sdb2, smb://server/share).

1.1.4.2. Deduplication

This add-on enables the agent to back up data to deduplicating vaults managed by Acronis Backup &

Recovery 10 Storage Node.

1.1.5. Agent for ESX/ESXi

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for ESX/ESXi protects virtual machines residing on a VMware

ESX or ESXi virtualization server. The agent allows for backing up virtual machines from the host

without having to install agents on each virtual machine.