Acronis® Backup & Recovery ® 10 Server for Linux Update 5 Installation Guide
Table of contents 1 Before installation .................................................................................................................3 1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .............................................................................3 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 2 3 4 1.2 Supported operating systems ....................................................................................................4 1.3 System requirements...........................................
1 Before installation This section answers questions that might arise before the product installation. 1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components This section contains a list of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components with a brief description of their functionality. Components for a managed machine (agents) These are applications that perform data backup, recovery and other operations on the machines managed with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.
1.1.3 Bootable Media Builder Acronis Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media. The media builder that installs on Linux creates bootable media based on Linux kernel. 1.2 Supported operating systems Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Linux Linux with kernel 2.4.18 or later (including 2.6.x kernels) and glibc 2.3.
Bootable media Media type Memory ISO image size Linux-based 256 MB 130 MB 1.4 Additional Licensing policy Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 licensing is based on the number of machines managed and protected by the product. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Linux requires a license to perform operations on each managed machine. The license key has to be entered during the agent installation.
2.3 Installation in the unattended mode To install the product or any of its components in the unattended mode (without asking for confirmations), run the installation file with the -a command-line parameter. You may need to use other parameters (p. 6) to specify how to perform the installation.
Specifies the license key for the component. -v or --version Displays the product version and then exits. -? or --help Displays help and then exits. --usage Displays a brief usage message and then exits. 3 Upgrading from trial to full product version The trial key required at installation can be obtained on the Acronis Web site.
3.2 Upgrading components for Linux To specify the full license key, run the AcronisBackupRecoveryServerLinux.i686 installation file and proceed as described in the Installation procedure (p. 5) section. When asked for the license key, enter the full license key. 4 Upgrading to stand-alone editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 This section describes how to upgrade Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Linux.
Each backup task's schedule, items to back up, and backup destination are the same as before, but the task will create a new archive to perform further backups. Each backup task is part of a backup plan. You can edit the backup plan to change the task's schedule or other parameters.
Acronis True Image Echo stores each task as a .tis file. By default, these files are located in the directory /etc/Acronis/TrueImage/Scripts. The names of the .tis files are Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs), such as 6AED5F49-7EED-4E3E939E-19360A44137F.tib.tis. Each file has the XML format. The tag in the file specifies the task name as it appears in the list of tasks. To import a task 1.
To delete Acronis Secure Zone: 1. In the Acronis Secure Zone Actions bar (on the Actions and tools pane), select Delete. 2. In the Delete Acronis Secure Zone window, select volumes to which you want to add the space freed from the zone and then click OK. If you select several volumes, the space will be distributed proportionally to each partition. If you do not select any volume, the freed space becomes unallocated. After you click OK, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will start deleting the zone.
