User Guide

6.8.1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone ................................................................................................................. 243
6.8.2 Managing Acronis Secure Zone ............................................................................................................... 245
6.9 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...................................................................................... 247
6.10 Bootable media ..................................................................................................................... 247
6.10.1 How to create bootable media ............................................................................................................... 248
6.10.2 Connecting to a machine booted from media ....................................................................................... 256
6.10.3 Working under bootable media .............................................................................................................. 256
6.10.4 List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media ............................................. 257
6.10.5 Recovering MD devices and logical volumes .......................................................................................... 259
6.10.6 Acronis PXE Server ................................................................................................................................... 262
6.11 Disk management ................................................................................................................. 264
6.11.1 Basic precautions ..................................................................................................................................... 264
6.11.2 Running Acronis Disk Director Lite .......................................................................................................... 265
6.11.3 Choosing the operating system for disk management .......................................................................... 265
6.11.4 "Disk management" view ........................................................................................................................ 265
6.11.5 Disk operations ........................................................................................................................................ 266
6.11.6 Volume operations .................................................................................................................................. 272
6.11.7 Pending operations ................................................................................................................................. 278
6.12 Collecting system information .............................................................................................. 279
7 Centralized management ..................................................................................................... 280
7.1 Administering Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server .................................... 280
7.1.1 Dashboard ............................................................................................................................................... 280
7.1.2 Backup policies ........................................................................................................................................ 282
7.1.3 Physical machines .................................................................................................................................... 287
7.1.4 Virtual machines ...................................................................................................................................... 304
7.1.5 Storage nodes .......................................................................................................................................... 309
7.1.6 Tasks ......................................................................................................................................................... 312
7.1.7 Log ............................................................................................................................................................ 315
7.1.8 Reporting ................................................................................................................................................. 318
7.2 Configuring Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .................................................... 323
7.2.1 Parameters set through administrative template .................................................................................. 324
7.2.2 Parameters set through GUI ................................................................................................................... 338
7.2.3 Parameters set through Windows registry ............................................................................................ 338
7.3 Creating a backup policy ....................................................................................................... 339
7.3.1 Policy credentials ..................................................................................................................................... 341
7.3.2 Items to back up ...................................................................................................................................... 342
7.3.3 Access credentials for source .................................................................................................................. 346
7.3.4 Exclusions ................................................................................................................................................. 347
7.3.5 Archive ..................................................................................................................................................... 347
7.3.6 Access credentials for location ................................................................................................................ 348
7.3.7 Backup scheme selection ........................................................................................................................ 349
7.3.8 Archive validation .................................................................................................................................... 358
8 Glossary ............................................................................................................................... 360
9 Index ................................................................................................................................... 375