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Table Of Contents
- Before installation
- Types of licenses (stand-alone and advanced editions)
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 components
- Licensing of advanced editions
- Supported operating systems
- System requirements
- Installing Acronis Backup & Recovery 11
- Installation in Windows
- Installation in Linux
- Installation of Agent for ESX(i)
- Installation of Agent for Hyper-V
- Upgrading from trial to full product version
- Checking for software updates
- Uninstalling Acronis Backup & Recovery 11
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Interactive installation (p. 17)
In this way of installation, you run a self-contained setup program and follow the on-screen
instructions.
Advantages: The setup program includes all components for Windows.
Disadvantages: Large size of the setup program.
Usage examples:
Installing the management console, management server and storage nodes.
Installing agents on a small number of machines.
Web-based installation (p. 21)
In this way of installation, you run a lightweight setup program and follow the on-screen instructions.
The setup program downloads from the Acronis Web site only the components that you selected to
install.
Advantages: Small size of the setup program.
Disadvantages: Large amounts of the same data may be transferred over the Internet (for example,
when installing the agent on many machines). To overcome this disadvantage, save the downloaded
installation files (p. 21) to a network folder.
Usage examples: Installing agents in a small network with slow Internet access (you do not need to
download the large setup program from the Acronis Web site).
Remote installation (p. 24)
Prerequisite: the management console must be already installed.
In this way of installation, you install the software remotely on a number of machines. You can do
this from the management console’s welcome screen or when adding machines to the management
server.
Advantages: Installation can be performed centrally by an administrator and is transparent to end
users.
Disadvantages: Several preparatory steps (p. 24) must be performed on the target machines before
installation.
Usage examples:
Installing agents on a large number of machines in a local network.
Adding a machine without an agent to the management server.
Unattended installation (p. 22)
In this way of installation, you run installation packages (.msi files) with command-line parameters.
Advantages: Installation can be performed by a script.
Disadvantages: Installation is harder to configure (you may need to create a transform, or an .mst
file).
Usage examples: Installing agents on a large number of machines running Windows.