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 Linux ...........................................................................................................................................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 ..................................................................................................14
1.6 System requirements ...............................................................................................................15
1.7 Technical support ....................................................................................................................15
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 .............................................................................................................................36
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 ...........................................................................................................39
3 Options .................................................................................................................................. 40
3.1 Console options .......................................................................................................................40
3.1.1 Startup page ...............................................................................................................................................40
3.1.2 Pop-up messages ........................................................................................................................................40
3.1.3 Time-based alerts .......................................................................................................................................41
3.1.4 Number of tasks .........................................................................................................................................41
3.1.5 Fonts ...........................................................................................................................................................41
3.2 Machine options ......................................................................................................................42
3.2.1 Event tracing ...............................................................................................................................................42
3.2.2 Log cleanup rules ........................................................................................................................................43
3.3 Default backup and recovery options ......................................................................................44
3.3.1 Default backup options ..............................................................................................................................44
3.3.2 Default recovery options ............................................................................................................................62