User`s guide

Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ......................................................................... 8
1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview .................................................................................. 8
1.2 Getting started ........................................................................................................................... 9
1.2.1 Using the management console ................................................................................................................11
1.3 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ...........................................................................17
1.3.1 Agent for Windows .....................................................................................................................................18
1.3.2 Components for centralized management ...............................................................................................19
1.3.3 Management Console ................................................................................................................................21
1.3.4 Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................21
1.3.5 Acronis WOL Proxy .....................................................................................................................................22
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................22
1.5 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................23
1.6 System requirements ...............................................................................................................24
1.7 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................25
2 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 26
2.1 Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................26
2.2 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................30
2.3 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................32
2.4 Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................32
2.5 GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................33
2.6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................37
2.7 Retention rules ........................................................................................................................39
2.8 Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................42
2.9 Tape support ............................................................................................................................44
2.9.1 Tape compatibility table .............................................................................................................................44
2.9.2 Using a single tape drive .............................................................................................................................45
2.10 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................46
2.11 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................47
2.11.1 Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................47
2.11.2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...........................................................................................................48
2.11.3 Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ....................................................49
2.11.4 Acronis Active Restore ...............................................................................................................................50
2.12 Understanding centralized management ................................................................................52
2.12.1 Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................52
2.12.2 Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network ......................................................53
2.12.3 Grouping the registered machines ............................................................................................................57
2.12.4 Policies on machines and groups ...............................................................................................................57
2.12.5 Backup policy's state and statuses .............................................................................................................61
2.12.6 Deduplication .............................................................................................................................................64
2.12.7 Privileges for centralized management .....................................................................................................69
2.12.8 Communication between Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ..................................................73
3 Options .................................................................................................................................. 80
3.1 Console options .......................................................................................................................80