Acronis® Backup & Recovery ® 10 Server for Windows 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 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.
Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation, Citrix XenServer Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) or Red Hat KVM. Files of the fully configured and operational machine will be placed in the folder you select. You can start the machine using the respective virtualization software or prepare the machine files for further usage. Disk management Agent for Windows includes Acronis Disk Director Lite - a handy disk management utility.
Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 Remote connection to the agent is not possible. Acronis products do not support systems with Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). Although it is possible to restore a GPT partition with Acronis if Windows is installed on it, the restored system will not be bootable. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can back up and recover operating systems if they are installed in BIOS/MBR mode, even if they run on EFI-capable servers.
2.1 Local installation (Windows) You have a choice between downloading a full installation package and a small executable package that will download only those components that you select to install, from the Acronis Web site. 2.1.1 Preparation Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 uses TCP port 9876 for local installation and for communication between components. The setup program automatically opens this port through Windows Firewall.
If you choose to specify an existing local or domain user account—for example, .\LocalUser or DomainName\DomainUser—make sure that the account is a member of the Backup Operators group, before proceeding with the installation. The setup program will assign the above listed user rights to such account. If the machine is part of an Active Directory domain, make sure that the domain's security policies do not prevent the account from having the above listed user rights.
For example, the following command creates a transform to install Agent for Windows with the license key ABCDE-54321: mst_gen.vbs /msi_path C:\AcronisAgentWindows.msi /serial ABCDE-54321 The complete syntax of the configuration script is described in "Configuration script parameters (p. 8)". 5.
/current_user Specifies that the component will be installed for the current user only, rather than for all users on a machine. This parameter is not effective for Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows, which runs as a service. Avoid using this parameter when installing the component through Group Policy, because the “current user” in such installation is typically a system account. /target_dir Installation_Folder Specifies the folder where to install the component.
Additional limitations for bootable media: The disk management functionality is available, but there is no option to commit the changes Besides disk management, only the recovery functionality is available. To upgrade from the trial version to the standard product you do not need to re-download the software. When the trial period is over, the product GUI displays a notification requesting you specify a standard license key.
5. If you selected the first option, proceed with installing Universal Restore. If you selected the second option, click Close to exit the setup program. 4 Upgrading to stand-alone editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 This section describes how to upgrade Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Windows. Preparation Before proceeding with the upgrade, make sure that: You have a license key for Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows.
Result: Tasks that were present in Acronis True Image Echo are converted to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 tasks and appear in the Backup plans and tasks view. 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.
Note: The tasks that back up data to Acronis Backup Server or validate archives stored on it cannot be imported. Acronis True Image Echo stores each task as a .tis file. By default, these files are located in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\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.
3. Run the following commands: msiexec msiexec msiexec /qb msiexec msiexec 5.3 /uninstall \\myserver\share\AcronisTrayMonitor.msi /qb /uninstall \\myserver\share\AcronisAgentWindows.msi /qb /uninstall \\myserver\share\AcronisBootableComponentsMediaBuilder.msi /uninstall \\myserver\share\AcronisUpgradeTool.msi /qb /uninstall \\myserver\share\AcronisStandaloneManagementConsole.
