User`s guide

Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ........................................................................8
1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview .................................................................................. 8
1.2 Getting started ........................................................................................................................... 9
1.2.1 Using the management console .................................................................................................................. 11
1.3 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ...........................................................................18
1.3.1 Agent for Windows ....................................................................................................................................... 18
1.3.2 Agent for Linux .............................................................................................................................................. 19
1.3.3 Agent for ESX/ESXi ........................................................................................................................................ 20
1.3.4 Components for centralized management ................................................................................................. 20
1.3.5 Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 23
1.3.6 Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 23
1.3.7 Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy ........................................................................................................................ 23
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................23
1.5 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................24
1.6 System requirements ...............................................................................................................26
1.7 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................27
2 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ...................................................................... 28
2.1 Basic concepts..........................................................................................................................28
2.2 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................32
2.3 Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................33
2.4 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................34
2.5 GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................36
2.6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................40
2.7 Retention rules ........................................................................................................................42
2.8 Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................44
2.9 Backing up LVM volumes and MD devices (Linux) ..................................................................46
2.9.1 Backing up logical volumes ........................................................................................................................... 46
2.9.2 Backing up MD devices ................................................................................................................................. 47
2.9.3 Saving the volume structure information ................................................................................................... 48
2.9.4 Selecting logical volumes and MD devices in command line ..................................................................... 48
2.10 Backing up hardware RAID arrays (Linux) ................................................................................49
2.11 Backing up virtual machines ....................................................................................................50
2.11.1 How to install Hyper-V Integration Services................................................................................................ 52
2.11.2 How to install VMware Tools ....................................................................................................................... 52
2.12 Tape support ............................................................................................................................52
2.12.1 Tape compatibility table ............................................................................................................................... 53
2.12.2 Using a single tape drive ............................................................................................................................... 53
2.13 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................54
2.14 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................55
2.14.1 Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................... 55
2.14.2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ............................................................................................................. 56
2.14.3 Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore)..................................................... 57
2.14.4 Acronis Active Restore .................................................................................................................................. 58