User guide

Machine

A physical or virtual computer uniquely identified by an operating system installation. Machines with

multiple operating systems (multi-boot systems) are considered as multiple machines.

Managed machine

A machine (p. 236), either physical or virtual, where at least one Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Agent

(p. 228) is installed.

Managed vault

A centralized vault (p. 231) managed by a storage node (p. 239). Archives (p. 228) in a managed vault

can be accessed as follows:

bsp://node_address/vault_name/archive_name/

Physically, managed vaults can reside on a network share, SAN, NAS, on a hard drive local to the

storage node or on a tape library locally attached to the storage node. The storage node performs

cleanup (p. 231) and validation (p. 239) for each archive stored in the managed vault. An

administrator can specify additional operations that the storage node will perform (deduplication (p.

232), encryption).

Management server (Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Management Server)

A central server that drives data protection within the enterprise network. Acronis Backup &

Recovery 11 Management Server provides the administrator with:

 a single entry point to the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 infrastructure

 an easy way to protect data on numerous machines (p. 236) using centralized backup plans (p.

230) and grouping

 enterprise-wide monitoring and reporting functionality

 the ability to create centralized vaults (p. 231) for storing enterprise backup archives (p. 228)

 the ability to manage storage nodes (p. 239)

 the centralized catalog (p. 232) of all data stored on the storage nodes.

If there are multiple management servers on the network, they operate independently, manage

different machines and use different centralized vaults for storing archives.

Media builder

A dedicated tool for creating bootable media (p. 229).