User`s guide

Table of Contents
1. Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ......................................................... 6
1.1. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview ............................................................................ 6
1.2. Getting started .................................................................................................................... 6
1.2.1. Using the management console ................................................................................................................. 7
1.3. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .................................................................... 13
1.3.1. Agent for Windows .................................................................................................................................... 13
1.3.2. Bootable components and media builder ............................................................................................... 14
1.3.3. Management Console ............................................................................................................................... 15
1.4. Supported operating systems ........................................................................................... 15
1.5. Supported file systems ...................................................................................................... 15
1.6. Hardware requirements .................................................................................................... 16
1.7. Technical support .............................................................................................................. 16
2. Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................... 17
2.1. Basic concepts ................................................................................................................... 17
2.2. Full, incremental and differential backups ....................................................................... 21
2.3. User privileges on a managed machine ............................................................................ 23
2.4. Owners and credentials .................................................................................................... 23
2.5. GFS backup scheme .......................................................................................................... 25
2.6. Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ........................................................................................ 29
2.7. Retention rules .................................................................................................................. 31
2.8. Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows).......................................................................... 33
2.9. Tape support ..................................................................................................................... 36
2.9.1. Tape compatibility table ............................................................................................................................ 36
2.9.2. Using a single tape drive ............................................................................................................................ 37
2.10. Proprietary Acronis technologies ...................................................................................... 38
2.10.1. Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................................. 38
2.10.2. Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .......................................................................................................... 39
2.10.3. Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ................................................. 40
2.10.4. Acronis Active Restore ............................................................................................................................... 41
3. Options ................................................................................................................ 44
3.1. Console options ................................................................................................................. 44
3.1.1. Startup page ............................................................................................................................................... 44
3.1.2. Pop-up messages ....................................................................................................................................... 44
3.1.3. Time-based alerts ...................................................................................................................................... 45
3.1.4. Number of tasks ......................................................................................................................................... 45
3.1.5. Fonts ........................................................................................................................................................... 46
3.2. Machine options ............................................................................................................... 46
3.2.1. Event tracing .............................................................................................................................................. 46
3.2.2. Log cleanup rules ....................................................................................................................................... 48
3.3. Default backup and recovery options ............................................................................... 49
3.3.1. Default backup options ............................................................................................................................. 49
3.3.2. Default recovery options ........................................................................................................................... 70