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. Bootable components and media builder ............................................................................................... 19
1.3.4. Components for centralized management .............................................................................................. 19
1.3.5. Management Console ............................................................................................................................... 22
1.3.6. Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy .................................................................................................................... 22
1.4. Supported operating systems ........................................................................................... 23
1.5. Supported file systems ...................................................................................................... 24
1.6. Hardware requirements .................................................................................................... 24
1.7. Technical support .............................................................................................................. 26
2. Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................... 27
2.1. Basic concepts ................................................................................................................... 27
2.2. User privileges on a managed machine ............................................................................ 31
2.3. Owners and credentials .................................................................................................... 32
2.4. Full, incremental and differential backups ....................................................................... 33
2.5. GFS backup scheme .......................................................................................................... 35
2.6. Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ........................................................................................ 39
2.7. Retention rules .................................................................................................................. 41
2.8. Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows)..........................................................................
44
2.9. Backing up LVM volumes (Linux) ...................................................................................... 46
2.10. Backing up RAID arrays (Linux) .......................................................................................... 48
2.11. Tape support ..................................................................................................................... 50
2.11.1. Tape compatibility table ............................................................................................................................ 50
2.11.2. Using a single tape drive ............................................................................................................................ 51
2.12. Proprietary Acronis technologies ...................................................................................... 52
2.12.1. Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................................. 52
2.12.2. Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .......................................................................................................... 53
2.12.3. Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ................................................. 54
2.12.4. Acronis Active Restore ............................................................................................................................... 55
2.13. Understanding centralized management ......................................................................... 57
2.13.1. Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................ 57
2.13.2. Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network .................................................... 58
2.13.3. Grouping the registered machines ........................................................................................................... 62
2.13.4. Policies on machines and groups .............................................................................................................. 65
2.13.5. Backup policy's state and statuses ........................................................................................................... 70
2.13.6. Deduplication ............................................................................................................................................. 73
2.13.7. Privileges for centralized management.................................................................................................... 78
2.13.8. Communication between Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ............................................... 85