User guide

Bootable agent

A bootable rescue utility that includes most of the functionality of the Acronis Backup & Recovery

11.5 Agent (p. 238). Bootable agent is based on Linux kernel. A machine (p. 247) can be booted into a

bootable agent using either bootable media (p. 240) or Acronis PXE Server. Operations can be

configured and controlled either locally through the GUI or remotely using the console (p. 241).

Bootable media

A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine (p. 247) as a boot

device) that contains the bootable agent (p. 239) or Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE)

(p. 250) with the Acronis Plug-in for WinPE (p. 237). A machine can also be booted into the above

environments using the network boot from Acronis PXE Server or Windows Deployment Service

(WDS). These servers with uploaded bootable components can also be thought of as a kind of

bootable media.

Bootable media is most often used to:

 recover an operating system that cannot start

 access and back up the data that has survived in a corrupted system

 deploy an operating system on bare metal

 create basic or dynamic volumes (p. 245) on bare metal

 back up sector-by-sector a disk that has an unsupported file system

 back up offline any data that cannot be backed up online because of restricted access, being

permanently locked by the running applications or for any other reason.

Built-in group

A group of machines permanently located on a management server (p. 247).

Built-in groups cannot be deleted, moved to other groups or manually modified. Custom groups

cannot be created within built-in groups. There is no way to remove a machine from the built-in

group except by removing the machine from the management server.

Cataloging

Cataloging a backup (p. 238) adds the contents of the backup to the data catalog (p. 242). Backups

are cataloged automatically as soon as they are created. Backups stored on a storage node (p. 249)

are cataloged by the node. Backups stored anywhere else are cataloged by the agent (p. 238). In the

backup options (p. 239), a user can choose between full and fast cataloging. Full cataloging can also

be started manually.

Centralized backup plan

A backup plan (p. 239) that is deployed to a managed machine (p. 247) from the management server

(p. 247). Such plan can be modified only by editing the original backup plan on the management

server.