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Bootable media
A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine (p. 236) as a boot
device) that contains the bootable agent (p. 229) or Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE)
(p. 240) with the Acronis Plug-in for WinPE (p. 227). A machine can also be booted into the above
environments using the network boot from Acronis PXE Server or Windows Deployment Service
(WDS). These servers with uploaded bootable components can also be thought of as a kind of
bootable media.
Bootable media is most often used to:
 recover an operating system that cannot start
 access and back up the data that has survived in a corrupted system
 deploy an operating system on bare metal
 create basic or dynamic volumes (p. 234) on bare metal
 back up sector-by-sector a disk that has an unsupported file system
 back up offline any data that cannot be backed up online because of restricted access, being
permanently locked by the running applications or for any other reason.
Built-in group
A group of machines permanently located on a management server (p. 237).
Built-in groups cannot be deleted, moved to other groups or manually modified. Custom groups
cannot be created within built-in groups. There is no way to remove a machine from the built-in
group except by removing the machine from the management server.
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Cataloging
Cataloging a backup (p. 228) adds the contents of the backup to the data catalog (p. 232). Backups
are cataloged automatically by the agent (p. 228) as soon as they are created. A user has the option
to turn off automatic cataloging and start it manually when appropriate. Backups that are stored on a
storage node (p. 239) will be cataloged by the node in this case.
Centralized backup plan
A backup plan (p. 229) that is deployed to a managed machine (p. 237) from the management server
(p. 237). Such plan can be modified only by editing the original backup plan on the management
server.
Centralized management
Management of the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 infrastructure through a central management unit
known as Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Management Server (p. 237). The centralized management
operations include:
 creating centralized backup plans (p. 230) for the registered machines (p. 238) and groups of
machines
 creating and managing static (p. 238) and dynamic groups (p. 234) of machines (p. 236)
 managing the tasks (p. 239) existing on the machines