User guide

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Direct management
An operation that is performed on a managed machine (p. 247) using the direct console (p. 241)-
agent (p. 238) connection (as opposed to centralized management (p. 240) when the operations are
configured on the management server (p. 247) and propagated by the server to the managed
machines).
The direct management operations include:
 creating and managing local backup plans (p. 246)
 creating and managing local tasks (p. 246) such as recovery tasks
 creating and managing personal vaults (p. 248) and archives stored there
 viewing the state, progress and properties of the centralized tasks (p. 241) existing on the
machine
 viewing and managing the log of the agent's operations
 disk management operations, such as clone a disk, create volume, convert volume.
A kind of direct management is performed when using bootable media (p. 240).
Disaster recovery plan (DRP)
An e-mail message that contains a list of backed up data items and detailed instructions on how to
recover these items from a backup.
If the corresponding backup option (p. 239) is enabled, a DRP is sent to the specified e-mail addresses
after the first successful backup performed by the backup plan, and also after any change to the list
of data items or the DRP parameters.
Disk backup (Image)
A backup (p. 238) that contains a sector-based copy of a disk or a volume in a packaged form.
Normally, only sectors that contain data are copied. Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 provides an
option to take a raw image, that is, copy all the disk sectors, which enables imaging of unsupported
file systems.
Disk group
A number of dynamic disks (p. 244) that store the common configuration data in their LDM
databases and therefore can be managed as a whole. Normally, all dynamic disks created within the
same machine (p. 247) are members of the same disk group.
As soon as the first dynamic disk is created by the LDM or another disk management tool, the disk
group name can be found in the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dmio\Boot Info\Primary Disk
Group\Name.
The next created or imported disks are added to the same disk group. The group exists until at least
one of its members exists. Once the last dynamic disk is disconnected or converted to basic, the
group is discontinued, though its name is kept in the above registry key. In case a dynamic disk is
created or connected again, a disk group with an incremental name is created.
When moved to another machine, a disk group is considered as ‘foreign’ and cannot be used until
imported into the existing disk group. The import updates the configuration data on both the local