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Table of contents
1 Before installation .................................................................................................................4
1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ............................................................................. 4
1.1.1 Agent for Windows ......................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1.2 Components for centralized management ................................................................................................... 5
1.1.3 Management Console ..................................................................................................................................... 8
1.1.4 Bootable Media Builder .................................................................................................................................. 8
1.1.5 Acronis Wake-on-LAN Proxy .......................................................................................................................... 8
1.2 Supported operating systems .................................................................................................... 8
1.3 System requirements ...............................................................................................................10
1.4 Licensing policy ........................................................................................................................11
1.5 Using Acronis License Server ...................................................................................................11
2 Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 13
2.1 Local installation (Windows) ....................................................................................................13
2.1.1 Preparation .................................................................................................................................................... 13
2.1.2 Installation procedure ................................................................................................................................... 13
2.1.3 Specifying credentials for Acronis services .................................................................................................. 14
2.1.4 Specifying Microsoft SQL servers ................................................................................................................. 15
2.1.5 Registering components on the management server ................................................................................ 16
2.1.6 Specifying users allowed to connect remotely ........................................................................................... 16
2.1.7 Update............................................................................................................................................................ 16
2.2 Remote installation (Windows) ...............................................................................................17
2.3 Unattended installation in Windows .......................................................................................18
2.4 Configuration script parameters..............................................................................................20
2.5 Installing the agent using Group Policy ...................................................................................22
2.5.1 Preparing the agent's deployment .............................................................................................................. 22
2.5.2 Setting up the Group Policy object .............................................................................................................. 24
3 Upgrading from trial to full product version .......................................................................... 25
3.1 Changing a license ...................................................................................................................25
3.2 Upgrading components for Windows ......................................................................................26
4 Upgrading to advanced editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ........................................ 27
4.1 Before the upgrade ..................................................................................................................27
4.2 Installing or upgrading the Acronis License Server ..................................................................28
4.3 Installing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console ............................................28
4.4 Upgrading Acronis Group Server to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server .....28
4.5 Upgrading Acronis Backup Server to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node ..............30
4.6 Upgrading Acronis True Image Echo agents and local versions ..............................................31
4.6.1 Importing a task ............................................................................................................................................. 33
5 Uninstalling advanced editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 .......................................... 34
5.1 Local uninstallation in Windows ..............................................................................................34
5.2 Unattended uninstallation in Windows ...................................................................................35