Installation guide

Update

To update Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows on a remote machine, perform the

same procedure.

1.7. Unattended installation in Windows

Acronis components, such as Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows, can be installed in

the unattended mode, as opposed to the interactive mode.

You will need the configuration script mst_get.vbs, which is located in the folder where Acronis

Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console is installed—by default, C:\Program

Files\Acronis\BackupAndRecoveryConsole. If the management console is installed on a different

machine, you can copy the script from that machine.

To install a component in the unattended mode

1. Run the setup program.

2. Click Extract installation files.

3. Extract the component's installation package.

4. Create a transform (an .mst file) for the installation package, by running the configuration script.

For example, the following command creates a transform to install the agent for Windows with

the trial license key ABCDE-54321:

mst_gen.vbs /msi_path C:\Acronis\AgentWindows.msi /serial ABCDE-54321

See also the example later in this section. The complete syntax of the configuration script is

described in Configuration script parameters (p. 18).

5. Run Windows Installer (the msiexec program), specifying the names of both the installation

package and the transform as follows:

msiexec /i c:\AcronisAgentWindows.msi TRANSFORMS=AcronisAgentWindows.mst /qb

In an Active Directory domain, another way of performing unattended installation is through Group

Policy—see Installing components using Group Policy (p. 16).

Example

Consider the following command, which creates a transform for the installation package of the agent

for Windows:

mst_gen.vbs /msi_path C:\Acronis\AgentWindows.msi /license_server licensesrv

/product AS /account mydomain\agentuser MyPassWd /ams_address managementsrv

/ams_user adminname AdminPassWd

After unattended installation with that transform:

• The agent will use a license for the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server edition, by

taking it from the license server installed on the licensesrv machine.

• The agent's service will run under the agentuser domain user account (of the mydomain domain)

whose password is MyPassWd.