User guide

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Centralized management
Management of the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 infrastructure through a central management
unit known as Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Server (p. 247). The centralized
management operations include:
 creating centralized backup plans (p. 240) for the registered machines (p. 248) and groups of
machines
 creating and managing static (p. 248) and dynamic groups (p. 244) of machines (p. 247)
 managing the tasks (p. 249) existing on the machines
 creating and managing centralized vaults (p. 241) for storing archives
 managing storage nodes (p. 249)
 monitoring activities of the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 components, creating reports,
viewing the centralized log and more.
Centralized task
A task (p. 249) propagated to a machine from the management server (p. 247). Such task can be
modified only by editing the original task or centralized backup plan (p. 240) on the management
server.
Centralized vault
A networked location allotted by the management server (p. 247) administrator to serve as storage
for the backup archives (p. 238). A centralized vault can be managed by a storage node (p. 249) or be
unmanaged. The total number and size of archives stored in a centralized vault are limited by the
storage size only.
As soon as the management server administrator creates a centralized vault, the vault name and
path to the vault are distributed to all machines registered (p. 248) on the server. The shortcut to the
vault appears on the machines in the Vaults list. Any backup plan (p. 239) existing on the machines,
including local plans, can use the centralized vault.
On a machine that is not registered on the management server, a user having the privilege to back up
to the centralized vault can do so by specifying the full path to the vault. If the vault is managed, the
user's archives will be managed by the storage node as well as other archives stored in the vault.
Cleanup
Deleting backups (p. 238) from a backup archive (p. 238) or moving them to a different location in
order to get rid of outdated backups or prevent the archive from exceeding the desired size.
Cleanup consists ofapplying retention rules (p. 248) to an archive. The retention rules are set by the
backup plan (p. 239) that produces the archive. Cleanup may or may not result in deleting or moving
backups depending on whether the retention rules are violated or not.
Console (Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Console)
A tool for remote or local access to Acronis agents (p. 238) and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5
Management Server (p. 247).