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1.3.1.2. Deduplication

This add-on enables the agent to back up data to deduplicating vaults managed by Acronis Backup &

Recovery 10 Storage Node.

1.3.1.3. Agent for Hyper-V

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V protects virtual machines residing on a Hyper-V

virtualization server. The agent allows for backing up virtual machines from the host without having

to install agents on each virtual machine. The agent installs on Windows 2008 Server x64 (any edition)

or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 as an add-on to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows.

Integration services (p. 53) have to be installed on the guest systems.

1.3.2. Agent for Linux

This agent enables disk-level and file-level data protection under Linux.

Disk backup

Disk-level data protection is based on backing up either a disk or a volume file system as a whole,

along with all information necessary for the operating system to boot; or all the disk sectors using the

sector-by-sector approach (raw mode.) A backup that contains a copy of a disk or a volume in a

packaged form is called a disk (volume) backup or a disk (volume) image. It is possible to recover disks

or volumes as a whole from such backup, as well as individual folders or files.

File backup

File-level data protection is based on backing up files and directories residing on the machine where

the agent is installed or on a network share accessed using the smb or nfs protocol. Files can be

recovered to their original location or to another place. It is possible to recover all files and

directories that were backed up or select which of them to recover.

1.3.2.1. Deduplication

This add-on enables the agent to back up data to deduplicating vaults managed by Acronis Backup &

Recovery 10 Storage Node.

1.3.3. Agent for ESX/ESXi

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for ESX/ESXi protects virtual machines residing on a VMware

ESX or ESXi virtualization server. The agent allows for backing up virtual machines from the host

without having to install agents on each virtual machine.

The agent is delivered as a virtual appliance.

1.3.4. Bootable components and media builder

Bootable components of the agent enable operations with reboot, such as recovery of the volume

containing the currently active operating system. Once the operations are completed, the machine

boots into the operating system again. The bootable components are based on the Linux kernel. You