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 Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 14
1.3.3 Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 14
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................14
1.5 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................15
1.6 System 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 dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................33
2.9 Tape support ............................................................................................................................35
2.9.1 Tape compatibility table ............................................................................................................................... 35
2.9.2 Using a single tape drive ............................................................................................................................... 36
2.10 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................
37
2.10.1 Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................... 37
2.10.2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ............................................................................................................. 38
2.10.3 Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore)..................................................... 38
2.10.4 Acronis Active Restore .................................................................................................................................. 40
3 Options ............................................................................................................................... 43
3.1 Console options .......................................................................................................................43
3.1.1 Startup page .................................................................................................................................................. 43
3.1.2 Pop-up messages .......................................................................................................................................... 43
3.1.3 Time-based alerts .......................................................................................................................................... 44
3.1.4 Number of tasks ............................................................................................................................................ 44
3.1.5 Fonts ............................................................................................................................................................... 44
3.2 Machine options ......................................................................................................................45
3.2.1 Event tracing .................................................................................................................................................. 45
3.2.2 Log cleanup rules ........................................................................................................................................... 47
3.2.3 Customer Experience Program .................................................................................................................... 47
3.3 Default backup and recovery options ......................................................................................48
3.3.1 Default backup options ................................................................................................................................. 48
3.3.2 Default recovery options .............................................................................................................................. 68