User guide

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Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 ................................................................................ 8
1.1 What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 ....................................................................... 8
1.2 Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 components .......................................................................... 9
1.2.1 Agent for Windows ................................................................................................................................... 9
1.2.2 Management Console ............................................................................................................................ 10
1.2.3 Bootable Media Builder .......................................................................................................................... 10
1.3 Supported file systems ........................................................................................................ 10
1.4 Technical Support ............................................................................................................... 11
2 Getting started ......................................................................................................................... 12
2.1 Using the management console .......................................................................................... 13
2.1.1 "Navigation" pane................................................................................................................................... 14
2.1.2 Main area, views and action pages......................................................................................................... 15
2.1.3 Console options ...................................................................................................................................... 18
3 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 ......................................................................... 21
3.1 Owners and credentials ...................................................................................................... 21
3.2 User privileges on a managed machine ............................................................................... 22
3.3 Full, incremental and differential backups ........................................................................... 22
3.4 What does a disk or volume backup store? ......................................................................... 24
3.5 Backup and recovery of dynamic volumes (Windows) ......................................................... 25
3.6 Compatibility with encryption software .............................................................................. 26
3.7 Support for SNMP ............................................................................................................... 28
4 Backup ...................................................................................................................................... 29
4.1 Back up now ....................................................................................................................... 29
4.2 Creating a backup plan........................................................................................................ 29
4.2.1 Selecting data to back up ........................................................................................................................ 31
4.2.2 Access credentials for source ................................................................................................................. 32
4.2.3 Source files exclusion .............................................................................................................................. 32
4.2.4 Access credentials for archive location ................................................................................................... 34
4.2.5 Backup schemes ..................................................................................................................................... 34
4.2.6 Backup location selection ....................................................................................................................... 44
4.2.7 Archive validation ................................................................................................................................... 46
4.2.8 Backup plan's credentials ....................................................................................................................... 46
4.2.9 Label (Preserving machine properties in a backup) ................................................................................ 47
4.2.10 Why is the program asking for the password? ....................................................................................... 48
4.3 Simplified naming of backup files ........................................................................................ 48
4.3.1 Usage examples ...................................................................................................................................... 49
4.3.2 The [DATE] variable ................................................................................................................................ 52
4.3.3 Backup splitting and simplified file naming ............................................................................................ 52
4.4 Scheduling .......................................................................................................................... 53
4.4.1 Daily schedule ......................................................................................................................................... 54
4.4.2 Weekly schedule ..................................................................................................................................... 56
4.4.3 Monthly schedule ................................................................................................................................... 58
4.4.4 At Windows Event Log event .................................................................................................................. 60