Installation guide

Table of Contents
1. Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 .......................................................... 3
1.1. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ...................................................................... 3
1.1.1. Agent for Windows ...................................................................................................................................... 3
1.1.2. Bootable components and media builder ................................................................................................. 4
1.1.3. WinPE ISO Builder ........................................................................................................................................ 4
1.1.4. Components for centralized management ................................................................................................ 5
1.1.5. Management Console ................................................................................................................................. 7
1.2. Supported operating systems ............................................................................................. 7
1.3. Hardware requirements ...................................................................................................... 8
1.4. License policy ...................................................................................................................... 9
1.5. Local installation (Windows) ............................................................................................. 10
1.5.1. Preparation ................................................................................................................................................. 10
1.5.2. Installation procedure ............................................................................................................................... 10
1.5.3. Specifying credentials for Acronis services .............................................................................................. 11
1.5.4. Specifying Microsoft SQL servers .............................................................................................................. 12
1.5.5. Registering components on the management server ............................................................................ 12
1.5.6. Specifying users allowed to connect remotely ........................................................................................ 13
1.5.7. Update ........................................................................................................................................................ 13
1.6. Remote installation (Windows)......................................................................................... 13
1.7. Unattended installation in Windows ................................................................................ 15
1.8. Installing components using Group Policy ........................................................................ 16
1.8.1. Preparing the agent's deployment ........................................................................................................... 16
1.8.2. Setting up the Group Policy object ........................................................................................................... 17
1.9. Configuration script parameters .......................................................................................
18
1.10. Using Acronis License Server ............................................................................................. 20
1.11. Trial product version ......................................................................................................... 22
1.12. Upgrading to advanced editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ................................. 23
1.12.1. Before the upgrade .................................................................................................................................... 23
1.12.2. Installing or upgrading the Acronis License Server.................................................................................. 23
1.12.3. Installing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console ........................................................... 24
1.12.4. Upgrading Acronis Group Server to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server ................. 24
1.12.5. Upgrading Acronis Backup Server to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node ........................... 26
1.12.6. Upgrading Acronis True Image Echo agents and local versions ............................................................. 27
2. Index .................................................................................................................... 30