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 ..............................................................................................39
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