User`s guide

6.8.1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................... 247
6.8.2 Managing Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................. 249
6.9 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .......................................................................................250
6.10 Bootable media ......................................................................................................................251
6.10.1 How to create bootable media .................................................................................................................. 252
6.10.2 Connecting to a machine booted from media .......................................................................................... 260
6.10.3 Working under bootable media ................................................................................................................. 260
6.10.4 List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media ............................................... 262
6.10.5 Recovering MD devices and logical volumes ............................................................................................ 263
6.10.6 Acronis PXE Server ...................................................................................................................................... 267
6.11 Disk management ..................................................................................................................268
6.11.1 Basic precautions......................................................................................................................................... 269
6.11.2 Running Acronis Disk Director Lite ............................................................................................................. 269
6.11.3 Choosing the operating system for disk management ............................................................................ 270
6.11.4 "Disk management" view ........................................................................................................................... 270
6.11.5 Disk operations ............................................................................................................................................ 271
6.11.6 Volume operations ...................................................................................................................................... 277
6.11.7 Pending operations ..................................................................................................................................... 283
6.12 Collecting system information ...............................................................................................284
7 Centralized management ................................................................................................... 285
7.1 Administering Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server .....................................285
7.1.1 Dashboard .................................................................................................................................................... 285
7.1.2 Backup policies ............................................................................................................................................ 287
7.1.3 Physical machines ....................................................................................................................................... 292
7.1.4 Virtual machines .......................................................................................................................................... 310
7.1.5 Storage nodes .............................................................................................................................................. 315
7.1.6 Tasks ............................................................................................................................................................. 318
7.1.7 Log ................................................................................................................................................................ 321
7.1.8 Reporting ..................................................................................................................................................... 324
7.2 Configuring Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .....................................................330
7.2.1 Parameters set through administrative template .................................................................................... 330
7.2.2 Parameters set through GUI....................................................................................................................... 345
7.2.3 Parameters set through Windows registry ............................................................................................... 345
7.3 Creating a backup policy ........................................................................................................346
7.3.1 Policy credentials ......................................................................................................................................... 349
7.3.2 Items to back up .......................................................................................................................................... 349
7.3.3 Access credentials for source ..................................................................................................................... 354
7.3.4 Exclusions ..................................................................................................................................................... 355
7.3.5 Archive ......................................................................................................................................................... 356
7.3.6 Access credentials for location ................................................................................................................... 357
7.3.7 Backup scheme selection ........................................................................................................................... 357
7.3.8 Archive validation ........................................................................................................................................ 367
8 Online backup .................................................................................................................... 369
8.1 Introduction to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online .........................................................369
8.1.1 What is Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online? ....................................................................................... 369
8.1.2 What data can I back up and recover? ...................................................................................................... 370
8.1.3 How long will my backups be kept in the online storage? ....................................................................... 370
8.1.4 How to secure my data? ............................................................................................................................. 370
8.1.5 How to back up virtual machines to the online storage?......................................................................... 370
8.1.6 Backup and recovery FAQ .......................................................................................................................... 371
8.1.7 Initial Seeding FAQ ...................................................................................................................................... 372
8.1.8 Large Scale Recovery FAQ .......................................................................................................................... 377