User`s guide

Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ......................................................................... 7
1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview .................................................................................. 7
1.2 Getting started ........................................................................................................................... 7
1.2.1 Using the management console .................................................................................................................. 8
1.3 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ...........................................................................14
1.3.1 Agent for Windows .....................................................................................................................................14
1.3.2 Management Console ................................................................................................................................15
1.3.3 Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................15
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................15
1.5 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................16
1.6 System requirements ...............................................................................................................16
1.7 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................17
2 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 18
2.1 Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................18
2.2 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................22
2.3 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................24
2.4 Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................24
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) ................................................................................34
2.9 Tape support ............................................................................................................................36
2.9.1 Tape compatibility table .............................................................................................................................36
2.9.2 Using a single tape drive .............................................................................................................................37
2.10 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................38
2.11 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................39
2.11.1 Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................39
2.11.2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...........................................................................................................40
2.11.3 Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ....................................................41
2.11.4 Acronis Active Restore ...............................................................................................................................42
3 Options .................................................................................................................................. 45
3.1 Console options .......................................................................................................................45
3.1.1 Startup page ...............................................................................................................................................45
3.1.2 Pop-up messages ........................................................................................................................................45
3.1.3 Time-based alerts .......................................................................................................................................46
3.1.4 Number of tasks .........................................................................................................................................46
3.1.5 Fonts ...........................................................................................................................................................46
3.2 Machine options ......................................................................................................................47
3.2.1 Event tracing ...............................................................................................................................................47
3.2.2 Log cleanup rules ........................................................................................................................................49
3.2.3 Online backup proxy ...................................................................................................................................49
3.2.4 Customer Experience Program ..................................................................................................................50
3.3 Default backup and recovery options ......................................................................................50