User`s guide

1 Introducing Acronis

Backup & Recovery™ 10

1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview

Based on Acronis’ patented disk imaging and bare metal restore technologies, Acronis Backup &

Recovery 10 succeeds Acronis True Image Echo as the next generation disaster recovery solution.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation inherits the benefits of the Acronis True Image Echo

product family:

 Backup of an entire disk or volume, including the operating system, all applications, and data

 Bare metal recovery to any hardware

 File and folder backup and recovery.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation offers new benefits that help organizations meet

challenging Recovery Time Objectives while reducing both capital expense and software

maintenance costs.

 Leveraging existing IT infrastructure

Backward compatibility and an easy upgrade from Acronis True Image Echo

 Highly automated data protection

All-round planning of data protection (backup, retention and validation of backups) within a

backup policy

Built-in Tower of Hanoi and Grandfather-Father-Son backup schemes with customizable

parameters

A variety of events and conditions can be chosen to trigger a backup

 Easy work with virtual environments

Conversion of a backup to a fully configured VMware, Microsoft, Parallels, or Citrix virtual

machine

 Redesigned GUI

Dashboard for quick operational decision making

Overview of all configured and running operations with color-coding for successful and failed

operations

 Enterprise level of security

Controlling user rights to perform operations and access backups

Running services with minimal user rights.

1.2 Getting started

Direct management

1. Install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

Agent.

2. Start the console.

Windows

Start the console by selecting it from the start menu.