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4. Complete the installation procedure.

Troubleshooting information is provided in the file:

/usr/lib/Acronis/BackupAndRecovery/HOWTO.INSTALL.

2.6 Accessing the backup management console

Administrators can access the backup management console from the account management console.

End users log in directly to the backup management console.

To access the backup management console as an administrator

1. Log in to the account management console.

2. [Optional] Select the group that contains the machines you want to back up.

3. Click Manage backups.

To log in to the backup management console as an end user

1. Go to the backup management console login page. The login page address was included in the

activation email message.

2. Type the user name (email address) and password of the backup account.

3. Click Log in.

2.7 Backup

This section describes how to create a backup plan for a machine. Using a similar procedure, you can

create a backup plan for individual files or folders.

A backup plan can be applied to multiple machines at the time of its creation or later.

2.7.1 Selecting machines

1. In the backup management console, select the machines to back up.

2. Click Backup.

A list of available backup plans is shown.

3. If you want to apply an existing backup plan to the selected machines, enable it by clicking the

on/off switch next to the backup plan name. Otherwise, skip this step.

4. Click New backup plan.

2.7.2 Selecting data to back up

1. Under What to back up, keep the default Disks setting.

By default, all disks will be backed up. If you want to select the disks to back up:

a. Click Select disks.

b. Manually specify the disks to back up (for example, C:\ or /dev/hda1) or use the selection

rules described below.

Selection rule for both Windows and Linux:

 [All volumes] Refers to all volumes on machines running Windows and all mounted

volumes on machines running Linux.

Selection rules for Windows:

 [Fixed Volumes] Refers to all volumes other than removable media. Fixed volumes

include volumes on SCSI, ATAPI, ATA, SSA, SAS, and SATA devices, and on RAID arrays.