User`s guide

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First partition on
the first SCSI hard
disk of a Linux
machine
Type or select: /dev/sda1 sda1 is the standard device name for the
first partition of the first SCSI hard disk
drive. For more details, see Note on Linux
machines.
First partition on
the first software
RAID hard disk of a
Linux machine
Type or select: /dev/md1 md1 is the standard device name for the
first partition of the first software RAID
drive. For more details, see Note on Linux
machines.
The names of templates such as [All Volumes] or [System Volume] are case-insensitive: you can type
[All volumes], [all volumes], etc.
Note: When backing up virtual machines by using Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for ESX/ESXi, [All
Volumes] is the only template that can be used.
What does a disk or volume backup store?
For supported file systems, a disk or volume backup stores only those sectors that contain data. This
reduces the resulting backup size and speeds up the backup and recovery operations.
Windows
The swap file (pagefile.sys) and the file that keeps the RAM content when the machine goes into
hibernation (hiberfil.sys) are not backed up. After recovery, the files will be re-created in the
appropriate place with the zero size.
A volume backup stores all other files and folders of the selected volume independent of their
attributes (including hidden and system files), the boot record, the file allocation table (FAT) if it
exists, the root and the zero track of the hard disk with the master boot record (MBR). The boot
code of GPT volumes is not backed up.
A disk backup stores all volumes of the selected disk (including hidden volumes such as the
vendor's maintenance partitions) and the zero track with the master boot record.
Linux
A volume backup stores all files and folders of the selected volume independent of their
attributes, a boot record and the file system super block.
A disk backup stores all disk volumes as well as the zero track with the master boot record.
Volumes with unsupported file systems will be backed up sector-by-sector.
Note on Linux machines
You can include both Windows and Linux volumes (partitions) in one centralized backup policy.
For instance, it is possible to set up a policy to back up volume C: on Windows machines and partition
/dev/hda1 on Linux machines.
Unlike Windows, there is no clear distinction between a volume (partition) and a folder (directory) in
Linux. Linux has the root partition (denoted as /), to which elements of various types—including hard
disks, directories, and system devices—are attached (mounted), forming a tree similar to the file and
folder structure in Windows.
For example, let a Linux machine contain a hard disk which is split into three volumes, or partitions:
the first, second, and third partitions. These partitions are available in the tree as /dev/hda1,