User`s guide

6.8.2 Managing Acronis Secure Zone ............................................................................................................... 249
6.9 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...................................................................................... 250
6.10 Bootable media ..................................................................................................................... 251
6.10.1 How to create bootable media ............................................................................................................... 252
6.10.2 Connecting to a machine booted from media ....................................................................................... 260
6.10.3 Working under bootable media .............................................................................................................. 260
6.10.4 List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media ............................................. 262
6.10.5 Recovering MD devices and logical volumes .......................................................................................... 263
6.10.6 Acronis PXE Server ................................................................................................................................... 267
6.11 Disk management ................................................................................................................. 268
6.11.1 Basic precautions ..................................................................................................................................... 269
6.11.2 Running Acronis Disk Director Lite .......................................................................................................... 269
6.11.3 Choosing the operating system for disk management .......................................................................... 270
6.11.4 "Disk management" view ........................................................................................................................ 270
6.11.5 Disk operations ........................................................................................................................................ 271
6.11.6 Volume operations .................................................................................................................................. 277
6.11.7 Pending operations ................................................................................................................................. 283
6.12 Collecting system information .............................................................................................. 284
7 Centralized management ..................................................................................................... 285
7.1 Administering Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server .................................... 285
7.1.1 Dashboard ............................................................................................................................................... 285
7.1.2 Backup policies ........................................................................................................................................ 287
7.1.3 Physical machines .................................................................................................................................... 292
7.1.4 Virtual machines ...................................................................................................................................... 309
7.1.5 Storage nodes .......................................................................................................................................... 314
7.1.6 Tasks ......................................................................................................................................................... 318
7.1.7 Log ............................................................................................................................................................ 320
7.1.8 Reporting ................................................................................................................................................. 324
7.2 Configuring Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .................................................... 329
7.2.1 Parameters set through administrative template .................................................................................. 330
7.2.2 Parameters set through GUI ................................................................................................................... 344
7.2.3 Parameters set through Windows registry ............................................................................................ 345
7.3 Creating a backup policy ....................................................................................................... 346
7.3.1 Policy credentials ..................................................................................................................................... 348
7.3.2 Items to back up ...................................................................................................................................... 349
7.3.3 Access credentials for source .................................................................................................................. 354
7.3.4 Exclusions ................................................................................................................................................. 354
7.3.5 Archive ..................................................................................................................................................... 355
7.3.6 Access credentials for location ................................................................................................................ 357
7.3.7 Backup scheme selection ........................................................................................................................ 357
7.3.8 Archive validation .................................................................................................................................... 367
8 Online backup ..................................................................................................................... 367
8.1 Introduction to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online ........................................................ 368
8.1.1 What is Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online? .................................................................................... 368
8.1.2 What data can I back up and recover? ................................................................................................... 368
8.1.3 How long will my backups be kept in the online storage? ..................................................................... 369
8.1.4 How to secure my data? ......................................................................................................................... 369
8.1.5 How to back up virtual machines to the online storage? ...................................................................... 369
8.1.6 Backup and recovery FAQ ....................................................................................................................... 370
8.1.7 Initial Seeding FAQ ................................................................................................................................... 371
8.1.8 Large Scale Recovery FAQ ....................................................................................................................... 376
8.1.9 Subscription lifecycle FAQ ....................................................................................................................... 378