User`s guide

Table of Contents
1. Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ......................................................... 7
1.1. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview ............................................................................ 7
1.2. Getting started .................................................................................................................... 8
1.2.1. Using the management console ............................................................................................................... 10
1.3. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .................................................................... 17
1.3.1. Agent for Windows .................................................................................................................................... 18
1.3.2. Agent for Linux ........................................................................................................................................... 19
1.3.3. Agent for ESX/ESXi ..................................................................................................................................... 19
1.3.4. Bootable components and media builder ............................................................................................... 19
1.3.5. Components for centralized management .............................................................................................. 20
1.3.6. Management Console ............................................................................................................................... 23
1.3.7. Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy .................................................................................................................... 23
1.4. Supported operating systems ........................................................................................... 23
1.5. Supported file systems ...................................................................................................... 25
1.6. Hardware requirements .................................................................................................... 25
1.7. Technical support .............................................................................................................. 26
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 ........................................................................................ 40
2.7. Retention rules ..................................................................................................................
42
2.8. Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows).......................................................................... 45
2.9. Backing up LVM volumes (Linux) ...................................................................................... 47
2.10. Backing up RAID arrays (Linux) .......................................................................................... 49
2.11. Backing up virtual machines.............................................................................................. 51
2.11.1. How to install Hyper-V Integration Services ............................................................................................ 53
2.11.2. How to install VMware Tools .................................................................................................................... 53
2.12. Tape support ..................................................................................................................... 54
2.12.1. Tape compatibility table ............................................................................................................................ 54
2.12.2. Using a single tape drive ............................................................................................................................ 55
2.13. Proprietary Acronis technologies ...................................................................................... 56
2.13.1. Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................................. 56
2.13.2. Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .......................................................................................................... 57
2.13.3. Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ................................................. 58
2.13.4. Acronis Active Restore ............................................................................................................................... 59
2.14. Understanding centralized management ......................................................................... 61
2.14.1. Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................ 61
2.14.2. Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network .................................................... 62
2.14.3. Grouping the registered machines ........................................................................................................... 66
2.14.4. Policies on machines and groups .............................................................................................................. 69
2.14.5. Backup policy's state and statuses ........................................................................................................... 74