User 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 Linux ........................................................................................................................................... 13
1.3.2. Bootable components and media builder ............................................................................................... 14
1.3.3. Management Console ............................................................................................................................... 14
1.4. Supported operating systems ........................................................................................... 14
1.5. Supported file systems ...................................................................................................... 15
1.6. Hardware requirements .................................................................................................... 15
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 .......................................................................................................... 24
2.6. Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ........................................................................................ 28
2.7. Retention rules .................................................................................................................. 30
2.8. Backing up LVM volumes (Linux) ...................................................................................... 33
2.9. Backing up RAID arrays (Linux) .......................................................................................... 35
2.10. Tape support ..................................................................................................................... 36
2.10.1. Tape compatibility table ............................................................................................................................ 37
2.10.2. Using a single tape drive ............................................................................................................................ 37
2.11. Proprietary Acronis technologies ...................................................................................... 38
2.11.1. Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................................. 38
2.11.2. Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .......................................................................................................... 40
3. Options ................................................................................................................ 41
3.1. Console options ................................................................................................................. 41
3.1.1. Startup page ............................................................................................................................................... 41
3.1.2. Pop-up messages ....................................................................................................................................... 41
3.1.3. Time-based alerts ...................................................................................................................................... 42
3.1.4. Number of tasks ......................................................................................................................................... 42
3.1.5. Fonts ........................................................................................................................................................... 43
3.2. Machine options ............................................................................................................... 43
3.2.1. Event tracing .............................................................................................................................................. 43
3.2.2. Log cleanup rules ....................................................................................................................................... 45
3.3. Default backup and recovery options ............................................................................... 45
3.3.1. Default backup options ............................................................................................................................. 45
3.3.2. Default recovery options ........................................................................................................................... 64