User`s guide
Table of Contents
1. Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ......................................................... 7
1.1. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview ............................................................................ 7
1.2. Getting started .................................................................................................................... 8
1.2.1. Using the management console ............................................................................................................... 10
1.3. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .................................................................... 17
1.3.1. Agent for Windows .................................................................................................................................... 17
1.3.2. Bootable components and media builder ............................................................................................... 18
1.3.3. Components for centralized management .............................................................................................. 19
1.3.4. Management Console ............................................................................................................................... 21
1.3.5. Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy .................................................................................................................... 22
1.4. Supported operating systems ........................................................................................... 22
1.5. Supported file systems ...................................................................................................... 23
1.6. Hardware requirements .................................................................................................... 23
1.7. Technical support .............................................................................................................. 24
2. Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................... 25
2.1. Basic concepts ................................................................................................................... 25
2.2. Full, incremental and differential backups ....................................................................... 29
2.3. User privileges on a managed machine ............................................................................ 31
2.4. Owners and credentials .................................................................................................... 31
2.5. GFS backup scheme .......................................................................................................... 33
2.6. Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ........................................................................................ 37
2.7. Retention rules .................................................................................................................. 39
2.8. Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows).......................................................................... 41
2.9. Tape support ..................................................................................................................... 44
2.9.1. Tape compatibility table ............................................................................................................................ 44
2.9.2. Using a single tape drive ............................................................................................................................ 45
2.10. Proprietary Acronis technologies ...................................................................................... 46
2.10.1. Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................................. 46
2.10.2. Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .......................................................................................................... 47
2.10.3. Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ................................................. 48
2.10.4. Acronis Active Restore ............................................................................................................................... 49
2.11. Understanding centralized management ......................................................................... 51
2.11.1. Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................ 51
2.11.2. Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network .................................................... 52
2.11.3. Grouping the registered machines ........................................................................................................... 56
2.11.4. Policies on machines and groups .............................................................................................................. 56
2.11.5. Backup policy's state and statuses ........................................................................................................... 61
2.11.6. Deduplication ............................................................................................................................................. 64
2.11.7. Privileges for centralized management.................................................................................................... 69
2.11.8. Communication between Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ............................................... 74
3. Options ................................................................................................................ 81
3.1. Console options ................................................................................................................. 81
3.1.1. Startup page ............................................................................................................................................... 81
3.1.2. Pop-up messages ....................................................................................................................................... 81