Page 1 Acronis® Backup & Recovery ™ 10 Server for Linux Update 3 User's Guide...
Page 2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010. All rights reserved. “Acronis” and “Acronis Secure Zone” are registered trademarks of Acronis, Inc. "Acronis Compute with Confidence", “Acronis Startup Recovery Manager”, “Acronis Active Restore” and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of contents Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ................. 6 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview .................. 6 Getting started ........................... 6 1.2.1 Using the management console ........................7 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ................13 1.3.1 Agent for Linux ............................13 1.3.2...
Page 4 Default backup and recovery options ..................44 3.3.1 Default backup options ..........................44 3.3.2 Default recovery options ..........................62 Vaults ............................ 70 Personal vaults .........................71 4.1.1 Working with the "Personal vault" view ....................71 4.1.2 Actions on personal vaults .........................72 Common operations ........................74 4.2.1 Operations with archives stored in a vault ....................74 4.2.2 Operations with backups ...........................74...
Page 5 Location selection ............................ 149 6.7.6 Access credentials for destination ......................150 Acronis Secure Zone ......................151 6.8.1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone ......................... 151 6.8.2 Managing Acronis Secure Zone ....................... 153 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ..................154 6.10 Bootable media ........................155 6.10.1...
Page 6: Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10
Based on Acronis’ patented disk imaging and bare metal restore technologies, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 succeeds Acronis True Image Echo as the next generation disaster recovery solution. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Linux inherits the benefits of the Acronis True Image Echo product family: ...
Page 7: Using The Management Console
(in the menu, in the main area with the Welcome screen, the Navigation pane, the Actions and tools pane) enabling you to perform agent- specific or server-specific operations. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console - Welcome screen Key elements of the console workspace Name...
Page 8 1.2.1.2 "Actions and tools" pane The Actions and tools pane enables you to easily and efficiently work with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. The pane's bars provide quick access to program's operations and tools. All items of the Actions and tools bar are duplicated in the program menu.
Page 9 "Actions" bar on a managed machine and on a management server Tools Contains a list of the Acronis tools. Always the same across all the program views. All the tools can also be accessed in the Tools menu. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 10: Operations With Panes
"Tools" bar Help Contains a list of help topics. Different views and action pages of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 provided with lists of specific help topics. 1.2.1.3 Operations with panes How to expand/minimize panes By default, the Navigation pane appears expanded and the Actions and Tools - minimized. You might need to minimize the pane in order to free some additional workspace.
Page 11: Action Pages
An action page appears in the main area when clicking any action item in the Actions menu, or in the Actions bar on the Actions and tools pane. It contains steps you need to perform in order to create and launch any task, or a backup plan, or backup policy. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 12 Action page - Controls Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 remembers the changes you made on the action pages. For example, if you started to create a backup plan, and then for any reason switched to another view without accomplishing the plan creation, you can click the Back navigation button on the menu.
Page 13: Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Components
Navigation buttons 1.3 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 &...
Page 14: Management Console
Acronis Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media (p. 171). The media builder that installs on Linux creates bootable media based on Linux kernel. 1.4 Supported file systems Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can back up and recover the following file systems with the following limitations: ...
Page 15: System Requirements
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Page 16: Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
The details can be found in the context help. Backup under operating system 1. To protect data on a machine, install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent (p. 169) on the machine which becomes a managed machine (p. 177) from this point on.
Page 18 You also specify the destination where to recover the data. You can customize the recovery operation using recovery options, such as pre/post recovery commands, error handling or notification options. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 19 If required, you can connect the console to another machine and configure a recovery operation on that machine. This ability (remote parallel recovery) first appeared in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10; the previous Acronis products do not provide it.
Page 20: Full, Incremental And Differential Backups
2.2 Full, incremental and differential backups Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 provides the capability to use popular backup schemes, such as Grandfather-Father-Son and Tower of Hanoi, as well as to create custom backup schemes. All backup schemes are based on full, incremental and differential backup methods.
Page 21 It is widely accepted that a full backup is the slowest to do but the fastest to restore. With Acronis technologies, recovery from an incremental backup may be not slower than recovery from a full one. A full backup is most useful when: ...
Page 22: User Privileges On A Managed Machine
When managing a machine running Linux, the user has or obtains the root privileges, and so can:  Back up and recover any data or the entire machine, having full control over all Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent operations and log files on the machine.
Page 23: Gfs Backup Scheme
It is sufficient that the machine be on (that is, not in standby or hibernate) at the scheduled task start time. That's why the Acronis scheduler needs the explicitly specified credentials to be able to start the task.
Page 24 GFS by Acronis With Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, you can easily set up a backup plan that will regularly back up data and clean up the resulting archive according to the GFS scheme. Create the backup plan as usual. For the backup destination, choose any storage device where automatic cleanup can be performed, such as an HDD-based storage device or robotic tape library.
Page 25 Assume you select Friday for Weekly/Monthly backup. Here is the real schedule of the backup tasks that will be created. Backup tasks created according to the GFS scheme by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. Schedule: Workdays at 8:00 PM Weekly/Monthly: Friday Keep backups: Daily This step defines the retention rule for daily backups.
Page 26 “Dif” stands for differential backup. “I” stands for incremental backup. The backups that outlive their nominal lifetime because of dependencies are marked pink. The initial full backup will be deleted as soon as all differential and incremental backups based on this backup are deleted. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 27: Tower Of Hanoi Backup Scheme
An archive created according to the GFS scheme by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. Schedule: Workdays at 8:00 PM Weekly/Monthly: Friday Keep daily backups: 7 days Keep weekly backups: 2 weeks Keep monthly backups: 6 months 2.6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme The need to have frequent backups always conflicts with the cost of keeping such backups for a long time.
Page 28 The Tower of Hanoi backup scheme is generally too complex to mentally calculate the next media to be used. But Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 provides you with automation of the scheme usage. You can set up the backup scheme while creating a backup plan.
Page 29: Retention Rules
Differential backup (D) created at session 9 will be deleted at session 25 after creation of a new differential backup is completed. This way, a backup archive created in accordance with the Tower of Hanoi scheme by Acronis sometimes includes up to two additional backups over the classical implementation of the scheme.
Page 30 (too small) or a regular backup turns out to be too large. To protect the recent backups from deletion, select the Never delete backups younger than check box and specify the maximum age of backups that must be retained. The diagram below illustrates the resulting rule. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 31 The consolidation, however, may take a lot of time and system resources. And you still need some extra space in the vault for temporary files created during consolidation. What you need to know about consolidation Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 32: Backing Up Lvm Volumes And Md Devices (Linux)
Manager (LVM), called logical volumes; and multiple-disk (MD) devices, called Linux Software RAID. 2.8.1 Backing up logical volumes Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Linux can access, back up and recover such volumes when running in Linux with 2.6.x kernel or a Linux-based bootable media. Backup (GUI) In Acronis Backup &...
Page 33: Backing Up Md Devices
Save software RAID and LVM metadata along with backups check box. (It is selected by default.)  Before performing the first disk backup on a source machine, run the following command: trueimagecmd --dumpraidinfo Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 34: Selecting Logical Volumes And Md Devices In Command Line
Either operation saves the machine’s logical volume structure to the /etc/Acronis directory. Make sure that the volume with this directory is selected for backup. 2.8.4 Selecting logical volumes and MD devices in command line Let's assume that the system has four physical disks: Disk 1, Disk 2, Disk 3 and Disk 4.
Page 35: Backing Up Hardware Raid Arrays (Linux)
A tape device can be locally attached to a managed machine (in this case, the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent writes and reads the tapes) or accessed through the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node. Storage nodes ensure fully automatic operation of tape libraries and autoloaders.
Page 36: Using A Single Tape Drive
5. Because the presence of an operating system cannot be detected in a backup located on a tape, Acronis Universal Restore (p. 180) is proposed at every disk or volume recovery, even when recovering a Linux or non-system Windows volume.
Page 37: Support For Snmp
1.3.6.1.4.1.24769.100.200.2.0:I0064000B Supported operations Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 supports only TRAP operations. It is not possible to manage Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 using GET- and SET- requests. This means that you need to use an SNMP Trap receiver to receive TRAP-messages.
Page 38: Proprietary Acronis Technologies
Should the disk experience a physical failure, the zone and the archives located there will be lost. That's why Acronis Secure Zone should not be the only location where a backup is stored. In enterprise environments, Acronis Secure Zone can be thought of as an intermediate location used for backup when an ordinary location is temporarily unavailable or connected through a slow or busy channel.
Page 39: Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
This feature has the trade name "Acronis Startup Recovery Manager". Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is especially useful for mobile users. If a failure occurs, the user reboots the machine, hits F11 on prompt "Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager…" and performs data recovery in the same way as with ordinary bootable media.
Page 40: Options
3 Options This section covers Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 options that can be configured using Graphical User Interface. The content of this section is applicable to both stand-alone and advanced editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. 3.1 Console options The console options define the way information is represented in the Graphical User Interface of Acronis Backup &...
Page 41: Time-Based Alerts
To make a selection, choose the desired value from the Number of tasks drop-down menu. 3.1.5 Fonts This option is effective when the console is connected to a managed machine or to the management server. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 42: Machine Options
The option defines the fonts to be used in the Graphical User Interface of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. The Menu setting affects the drop-down and context menus. The Application setting affects the other GUI elements. The preset is: System Default font for both the menus and the application interface items.
Page 43: Log Cleanup Rules
/etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf - configuration file for the Net-SNMP trap daemon. 3.2.2 Log cleanup rules This option specifies how to clean up the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent log. This option defines the maximum size of the agent log folder (in Windows XP/2003 Server, %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Acronis\BackupAndRecovery\MMS\LogEvents).
Page 44: Default Backup And Recovery Options
3.3.1 Default backup options Each Acronis agent has its own default backup options. Once an agent is installed, the default options have pre-defined values, which are referred to as presets in the documentation. When creating a backup plan, you can either use a default option, or override the default option with the custom value that will be specific for this plan only.
Page 45 Restart the machine automatically after backup is finished Save software RAID and LVM metadata along with backups Notifications: E-mail (p. 53) Win Pop-up (p. 54) Event tracing: SNMP (p. 55) Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 46: Archive Protection
This option is effective only for file systems that are supported by Windows. Select this check box to skip files and folders with the System attribute. If a folder is System, all of its contents — including files that are not System — will be excluded. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 47 .tmp files. In this case, all .tmp files in the folder MyFolder will be skipped during the backup process, but the file MyFile.tmp will not be skipped. 3.3.1.3 Pre/Post commands This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and PE-based bootable media. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 48 Do not back up until the command execution is complete Result Preset Perform the Perform the backup backup after the concurrently with Perform the backup command is the command only after the executed despite execution and command is Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 49 This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems. The option enables you to define the commands to be automatically executed before and after data capture (that is, taking the data snapshot) performed by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 at the beginning of the backup procedure.
Page 50 5. Click Test command to check if the command is correct. Check box Selection Selected Cleared Selected Cleared Fail the task if the command execution fails Selected Selected Cleared Cleared Do not back up until the Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 51: Compression Level
The optimal data compression level depends on the type of data being backed up. For example, even maximum compression will not significantly reduce the archive size if the archive contains essentially compressed files, such as .jpg, .pdf or .mp3. However, formats such as .doc or .xls will be compressed well. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 52: Backup Performance
This option is available when an internal (fixed) hard disk of the machine being backed up is selected as the backup destination Backing up to a fixed hard disk (for example, to Acronis Secure Zone) may slow performance of the operating system and applications because of the large amounts of data that needs to be written to the disk.
Page 53: Network Connection Speed
3.3.1.8 Notifications Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 provides the ability of notifying users about backup completion through e-mail or the messaging service. E-mail This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems.
Page 54 The Messenger service is not started by default in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family. Change the service Startup mode to Automatic and start the service. To configure WinPopup notifications: 1. Select the Send WinPopup notifications check box. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 55: Snmp Notifications
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) managers. You can choose the types of events to be sent. For detailed information about using SNMP with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, please see "Support for SNMP (p. 37)".
Page 56: Backup Splitting
The preset is: Automatic. The following settings are available. Automatic With this setting, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will act as follows.  When backing up to a hard disk: A single backup file will be created if the destination disk's file system allows the estimated file size.
Page 57: Media Components
One-Click Restore is the minimal addition to a disk backup stored on removable media, allowing for easy recovery from this backup. If you boot a machine from the media and click Run Acronis One-click Restore, the disk will be immediately recovered from the backup contained on the same media.
Page 58: Dual Destination
If you select the password-protected Acronis Secure Zone as the primary destination, keep in mind that the archive in the secondary destination will not be protected with a password.
Page 59: Task Failure Handling
Then it makes sense to skip the backup rather than wait for the conditions, especially if the events occur relatively often. 3.3.1.16 Task failure handling This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems. This option is not available when operating under the bootable media. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 60: Additional Settings
The destination CD/DVD can be ejected or the tape can be dismounted after the backup is completed. Ask for the first media while backing up to removable media This option is effective only when backing up to removable media. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 61 When the Reset archive bit check box is selected, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will reset the archive bits of all files being backed up. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 itself does not use the archive bit value. When performing incremental or differential backup, it determines whether a file has changed by the file size and the date/time when the file was last saved.
Page 62: Default Recovery Options
This option is effective only for disk-level backups of machines running Linux. The preset is: Enabled. When this option is enabled, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will save information about the structure of logical volumes (known as LVM volumes) and of Linux Software RAID devices (known as MD devices) to the /etc/Acronis directory before creating the backup.
Page 63 3.3.2.1 Pre/Post commands This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and PE-based bootable media. The option enables you to define the commands to be automatically executed before and after the data recovery. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 65: Recovery Priority
The preset is: Recover files with their security settings. If the file NTFS permissions were preserved during backup, you can choose whether to recover the permissions or let the files inherit the NTFS permissions from the folder to which they are recovered. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 66 3.3.2.4 Notifications Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 provides the ability of notifying users about recovery completion through e-mail or the messaging service. E-mail This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems. This option is not available when operating under the bootable media.
Page 67 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) managers. You can choose the types of events to be sent. For detailed information about using SNMP with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, please see "Support for SNMP (p. 37)".
Page 68: Error Handling
This option is effective only when recovering files. The preset is Enabled. This option defines whether to recover the files’ date and time from the archive or assign the files the current date and time. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 69 Change SID after the recovery is finished This option is not effective when recovery to a virtual machine is performed by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for ESX/ESXi or Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V. The preset is Disabled.
Page 70: Vaults
A vault can be organized on a local or networked drive, detachable media or a tape device attached to the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node. There are no settings for limiting a vault size or number of backups in a vault. You can limit the size of each archive using cleanup, but the total size of archives stored in the vault is limited by the storage size only.
Page 71: Personal Vaults
A personal vault can be organized on detachable or removable media. Acronis Secure Zone is considered as a personal vault available to all users that can log on the system.
Page 72: Actions On Personal Vaults
In the appearing dialog box, provide the credentials required for accessing the vault. Create Acronis Secure Create Acronis Secure Zone. Click Zone The procedure of creating the Acronis Secure Zone is described in-depth in the Creating Acronis Secure Zone (p. 151) section. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 73: Creating A Personal Vault
B, moving all the archives from vault A there. To do this, proceed as follows 1. Make sure that none of the backup plans uses vault A while merging, or temporarily disable (p. 97) schedules of the given plans. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 74: Common Operations
To perform any operation with a backup, you have to select it first. To select a backup, expand the archive, then click the backup. If the archive is protected with a password, you will be asked to provide it. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 75: Deleting Archives And Backups
The filters in this window are from the archives list of the vault view. Thus, if some filters have been applied to the archives list, only the archives and backups corresponding to these filters are displayed here. To see all content, clean all the filter fields. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 76: Filtering And Sorting Archives
1. Right-click any column header to open the context menu. The menu items that are ticked off correspond to the column headers presented in the table. 2. Click the items you want to be displayed/hidden. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 77: Scheduling
5 Scheduling Acronis scheduler helps the administrator adapt backup plans to the company’s daily routine and each employee’s work style. The plans’ tasks will be launched systematically keeping the critical data safely protected. The scheduler uses local time of the machine the backup plan exists on. Before creating a schedule, be sure the machine’s date and time settings are correct.
Page 78: Daily Schedule
Set up a date when this schedule will be disabled. If this check box is cleared, the task will be run for an indefinite number of days. Advanced scheduling settings are available only for machines registered on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server. To specify these settings, click Change in the Advanced settings area.
Page 79 From: 08:00:00 AM Until: 12:00:00 PM. 3. Effective: From: 09/20/2009. To: not set. Second daily schedule 1. Every: 3 day(s). 2. Every: 2 hour(s). From: 03:00:00 PM Until: 07:00:00 PM. 3. Effective: From: 09/20/2009. To: not set. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 80: Weekly Schedule
Set up a date when this schedule will be disabled. If this check box is cleared, the task will be run for an indefinite number of weeks. Advanced scheduling settings are available only for machines registered on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server. To specify these settings, click Change in the Advanced settings area.
Page 81 From: 12:00:00 PM Until: 09:00:00 PM. 3. Effective: From: not set. To: not set. Second schedule 1. Every 1 week(s) on: Tue, Wed, Thu. 2. Every 3 hours From 09:00:00 AM until 09:00:00 PM. 3. Effective: Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 82: Monthly Schedule
Set up a date when this schedule will be disabled. If this check box is cleared, the task will be run for an indefinite number of months. Advanced scheduling settings are available only for machines registered on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server. To specify these settings, click Change in the Advanced settings area.
Page 83 During northern summer, the task runs every first and fifteenth of every month at 10 PM. Thus, the following three schedules are added to the task. First schedule 1. Months: December, January, February. 2. On: <All> <All workdays> 3. Once at: 10:00:00 PM. 4. Effective: From: 11/01/2009. To: not set. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 84: Conditions
Multiple conditions must be met simultaneously to enable task execution. 5.4.1 Location's host is available Applies to: Windows, Linux "Location's host is available" means that the machine hosting the destination for storing archives on a networked drive is available. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 85: Fits Time Interval
What if... What if a task is scheduled to be executed at a certain time and this time is outside the specified time interval? For example:  Event: Daily, Every 1 day(s); Once at 03:00:00 PM. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 86: Time Since Last Backup
(3) if the machine is never restarted, the task will never start. You can start the backup manually, if need be, in the Backup plans and tasks view. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 87: Direct Management
Use the Dashboard to estimate at a glance whether the data is successfully protected on the machine. The dashboard shows the summary of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent's activities and enables you to rapidly identify and resolve any issues.
Page 88 Activities The calendar lets you explore the history of the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent's activities on the machine. Right-click on any highlighted date and select View log to see the list of log entries filtered by date.
Page 89: Backup Plans And Tasks
You can also hide the unneeded columns and show the hidden ones. See the Filtering and sorting backup plans and tasks (p. 96) section for details.  In the backup table, select the backup plan (task). Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 90: Understanding States And Statuses
-> Stop the tasks or enable the tasks to run (change media; provide additional space on Otherwise, see 2. the vault; ignore the read error; create the missing Acronis Secure Zone). Running At least one task is No action is required.
Page 91: Task States
A task may also change to the Waiting state when the event specified by the schedule occurs but the condition set in the backup plan is not met. See Task start conditions (p. 58) for details. Need interaction Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 92: Task Statuses
Edit the failed task to prevent its future failure  Edit the local plan to prevent its future failure in case a local plan has failed  Edit the backup policy on the management server in case a centralized plan has failed Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 93: Working With Backup Plans And Tasks
You will be taken to the Log (p. 100) view containing the list of the plan-related log entries. Task Click View log. You will be taken to the Log (p. 100) view containing the list of the task-related log entries. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 94 Some files may be recovered, but some not, depending on the moment when you stopped the task. To recover all the files, you will have to run the task once again. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 95 Only the management server administrator can do so.  Do not have the appropriate privilege Without the Administrator privileges on the machine, a user cannot modify tasks owned by other users. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 96: Filtering And Sorting Backup Plans And Tasks
As a result you will see the list of tasks, whose names/owners' names fully or just partly coincide with the entered value. Filter plans and tasks by state, In the field below the corresponding header, select the required value from the status, type, origin, last result, list. schedule. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 97: Run Backup Plan
Types of tasks The following table summarizes all types of tasks that exist in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. The actual types of tasks you might observe depend on the product edition and the product component the console is connected to.
Page 98 Deleting backups from a backup archive in accordance with retention rules ASZ creation Creating Acronis Secure Zone ASZ management Resizing, changing password, deleting Acronis Secure Zone Disk management Disk management operations Compacting Service task performed on a storage node Indexing...
Page 99: Backup Plan Details
Archive name - name of the archive.  Archive comments - comments on the archive (if provided). Settings The Settings tab displays the following information:  Backup scheme - the selected backup scheme and all its settings with schedules. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 100: Log
Backup options - backup options changed against the default values. 6.1.3 The Log stores the history of operations performed by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 on the machine, or actions a user takes on the machine using the program. For instance, when a user edits a task, the respective entry is added to the log.
Page 101: Filtering And Sorting Log Entries
As a result you will see that the list of log entries fully or just partly coincide with the entered value. Sort log entries by date Click the column's header to sort the log entries in ascending order. Click it once again to and time sort the log entries in descending order. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 102: Creating A Backup Plan
 Code - the program code of the event. Every type of event in the program has its own code. A code is an integer number that may be used by Acronis support service to solve the problem.  Module - number of the program module where the event has occurred. It is an integer number that may be used by Acronis support service to solve the problem.
Page 103 Archive(N) where N is the sequence number of the archive in the location you have selected. Name backup files using the archive name, as in Acronis True Image Echo, rather than auto- generated names (p. 110) Not available when backing up to a tape or to Acronis Secure Zone.
Page 104: Why Is The Program Asking For The Password
Enter your password, specify another account or change the scheduled start to manual. 6.2.2 Backup plan's credentials Provide the credentials for the account under which the plan's tasks will run. To specify credentials 1. Select one of the following:  Run under the current user Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 105: Source Type
Files Available if the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows (or for Linux) is installed. Select this option to back up specific files and folders. If you are not concerned about recovery of the operating system along with all the settings and applications, but plan to keep safe only certain data (the current project, for example), choose file backup.
Page 106: Selecting Disks And Volumes
(files and folders) will be backed up. That is also the case for new files that will appear there in the future. A file-based backup is not sufficient for recovery of the operating system. In order to recover your operating system, you have to perform a disk backup. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 107: Access Credentials For Source
— in the list; use the Add, Edit, Remove and Remove All buttons to create the list of file masks. You can use one or more wildcard characters * and ? in a file mask: Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 108: Archive
 To back up data to Acronis Online Backup Storage, click Log in and specify the credentials to log in to the online storage. Then, expand the Online backup storage group and select the account. Prior to backing up to the online storage, you need to buy a subscription to the online backup service and activate the subscription on the machine(s) you want to back up.
Page 109 1. Backing up different sources to the same archive makes using the archive difficult from the usability standpoint. When it comes to recovery, every second counts, but you might be lost in the archive content. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 110: Simplified Naming Of Backup Files
Setting up full, incremental and differential backups within a single backup plan. You need to create separate backup plans for each type of backup  Backup to a managed vault, tape, Acronis Secure Zone or Acronis Online Backup Storage  Setting up retention rules ...
Page 111 ServerFiles(1.1.2011)2.tib, and so on up to ServerFiles(1.1.2011)24.tib.  The following day, the backups will start with the full backup ServerFiles(1.2.2011).tib. See also "The [Date] variable" (p. 113). Example 4. Daily full backups with daily drive swaps Consider the following scenario: Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 112 You want the backups during working hours to be differential and to run every hour from 8:00 AM through 5:00 PM.  You want to include a creation date in the name of each backup file. In this scenario, you need to create two backup plans as follows: Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 113 Example 2. Suppose that you perform full backups, with the same schedule and archive name as in the previous example. Then, the list of backup files after day two is the following: MyArchive-1.31.2011-.tib (full, created on January 31 at noon) MyArchive-2.1.2011-.tib (full, created on February 1 at noon) Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 114: Access Credentials For Archive Location
You set the days of week when the daily backup will be performed and select from these days the day of weekly/monthly backup. Then you set the retention periods for the daily (referred to as "sons"), weekly (referred to as Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 115: Simple Scheme
 Initial seeding - to save locally a full backup whose final destination is Acronis Online Backup Storage. 6.2.10.1 Back up now scheme With the Back up now scheme, the backup will be performed immediately, right after you click the OK button at the bottom of the page.
Page 116 Specifies which of the days selected in the Back up on field you want to reserve for weekly and monthly backups. A monthly backup will be performed every fourth such day. The default value is Friday. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 117 If you do not want to arrange a vast amount of space to store a huge archive, you may set up a GFS scheme so as to make your backups more short-lived, at the same time ensuring that your information can be recovered in case of an accidental data loss. Suppose that you need to: Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 118 Back up on field. Such an archive would allow you to compare your financial documents as of the first and the last day of work, and have a five-year history of all documents, etc. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 119: Tower Of Hanoi Scheme
Calculated automatically, depending on the schedule parameters and the numbers of levels you select. See the example below for details. Example Schedule parameters are set as follows  Recur: Every 1 day  Frequency: Once at 6 PM Number of levels: 4 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 120 Since it depends on the full backup of day one, that backup is available as well. This enables us to go as far back as 11 days, which is the best-case scenario. The following day, however, a new third-level differential backup is created, and the old full backup is deleted. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 121: Custom Backup Scheme
In this case, the program will act as follows:  Delete the oldest full backup with all dependent incremental/differential backups  If there is only one full backup left and a full backup is in progress, then Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 122 If there is only one full backup left, and an incremental or differential backup is in progress, an error occurs saying there is a lack of available space This setting is recommended when backing up to a USB drive or Acronis Secure Zone. This setting is not applicable to managed vaults.
Page 123 In the first of the previous examples, we set up a schedule only for full backups. However, the scheme will still result in three backup tasks, enabling you to manually start a backup of any type:  Full backup, runs every Friday at 10:00 PM  Incremental backup, runs manually Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 124: Archive Validation
If the managed machine's operating system fails to start or you need to recover data to bare metal, boot the machine from the bootable media (p. 171) or using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (p. 39). Then, create a recovery task.
Page 125: Task Credentials
Clicking Reset to default resets all the settings to default values. After you complete all the required steps, click OK to create the commit creating of the recovery task. 6.3.1 Task credentials Provide credentials for the account under which the task will run. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 126: Archive Selection
Password. The password for the account. 2. Click OK. To learn more about using credentials in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, see the Owners and credentials (p. 22) section. To learn more about operations available depending on the user privileges, see the User privileges on a managed machine (p.
Page 127: Data Type
You will usually select the disk's MBR if:  The operating system cannot boot  The disk is new and does not have an MBR  Recovering custom or non-Windows boot loaders (such as LILO and GRUB) Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 128: Access Credentials For Location
There are probably other times when you may need to recover the MBR, but the above are the most common. When recovering the MBR of one disk to another Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 recovers Track 0, which does not affect the target disk’s partition table and partition layout. Acronis Backup &...
Page 129: Disk Destination
The program will generate a new NT signature for the target hard disk drive.  Recover from backup The program will replace the NT signature of the target hard disk with one from the disk backup. Recovering the disk signature may be desirable due to the following reasons: Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 130: Mbr Destination
 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 creates scheduled tasks using the signature of the source hard disk. If you recover the same disk signature, you don't need to re-create or edit the tasks created previously.  Some installed applications use disk signature for licensing and other purposes ...
Page 131: Volume Properties
Change the volume file system, if required. By default, the program selects the original volume's file system. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can make the following file system conversions: FAT 16 -> FAT 32 and Ext2 -> Ext3. For volumes with other native file systems, this option is not available.
Page 132: File Destination
Excludes all folders named "F" By mask (*) *.log Excludes all files with the .log extension Excludes all files and folders with names starting with "F" (such as folders F, F1 and files F.log, F1.log) Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 133: Access Credentials For Destination
Specify:  User name. When entering the name of an Active Directory user account, be sure to also specify the domain name (DOMAIN\Username or Username@domain)  Password. The password for the account. 2. Click OK. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 134: When To Recover
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 automatically updates Windows loaders after recovery. Other loaders might also be fixed, but there are cases when you have to re-activate the loaders.
Page 135 OS Selector, which uses the MBR, might become inoperable. If this happens, reactivate Acronis OS Selector as follows. Solution: Boot the machine from the Acronis Disk Director's bootable media and select in the menu Tools -> Activate OS Selector. ...
Page 136 Generally, you should refer to the boot loader manual pages for the appropriate procedure. There is also the corresponding Knowledge Base article on the Acronis Web site. The following is an example of how to reactivate GRUB in case the system disk (volume) is recovered to identical hardware.
Page 137: Validating Vaults, Archives And Backups
(archive, backup or vault) and select Validate from the context menu. The Validation page will be opened with the pre-selected object as a source. All you need to do is to select when to validate and (optionally) provide a name for the task. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 138: Task Credentials
(DOMAIN\Username or Username@domain)  Password. The password for the account. 2. Click OK. To learn more about using credentials in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, see the Owners and credentials (p. 22) section. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 139: Archive Selection
1. Enter the full path to the location in the Path field, or select the desired folder in the folders tree.  If the archive is stored in Acronis Online Backup Storage, click Log in and specify the credentials to log in to the online storage. Then expand the Online backup storage group and select the account.
Page 140: Backup Selection
To specify credentials 1. Select one of the following:  Use the task credentials The program will access the location using the credentials of the task account specified in the General section.  Use the following credentials Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 141: When To Validate
Mounting volumes in the read/write mode enables you to modify the backup content, that is, save, move, create, delete files or folders, and run executables consisting of one file. Limitation: Mounting of volume backups stored on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node is not possible. Usage scenarios: ...
Page 142: Archive Selection
1. Enter the full path to the location in the Path field, or select the desired folder in the folders tree.  If the archive is stored in Acronis Online Backup Storage, click Log in and specify the credentials to log in to the online storage. Then expand the Online backup storage group and select the account.
Page 143: Backup Selection
Specify:  User name. When entering the name of an Active Directory user account, be sure to also specify the domain name (DOMAIN\Username or Username@domain)  Password. The password for the account. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 144: Volume Selection
 Assign letter (in Windows) - Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will assign an unused letter to the mounted volume. If required, select another letter to assign from the drop-down list.
Page 145: Exporting Archives And Backups
In any of the above cases, provide an archive name that is unique to the destination folder or vault. If you need to redo the export using the same archive name, first delete the archive that resulted from the previous export operation. The resulting archive's options Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 146 Task credentials (p. 147) [Optional] The export task will run on behalf of the user who is creating the task. You can change the task credentials if necessary. To access this option, select the Advanced view check box. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 147: Task Credentials
Password. The password for the account. 2. Click OK. To learn more about using credentials in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, see the Owners and credentials (p. 22) section. To learn more about operations available depending on the user privileges, see the User privileges on a managed machine (p.
Page 148: Archive Selection
1. Enter the full path to the location in the Path field, or select the desired folder in the folders tree.  If the archive is stored in Acronis Online Backup Storage, click Log in and specify the credentials to log in to the online storage. Then expand the Online backup storage group and select the account.
Page 149: Backup Selection
To export data to a personal vault, expand the Personal vaults group and click the vault.  To export data to a local folder on the machine, expand the Local folders group and click the required folder. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 150: Access Credentials For Destination
Specify credentials required for access to the location where the resulting archive will be stored. The user whose name is specified will be considered as the archive owner. To specify credentials 1. Select one of the following:  Use the task credentials Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 151: Acronis Secure Zone
To create Acronis Secure Zone, perform the following steps. Space Disk (p. 152) Choose a hard disk (if several) on which to create the zone. Acronis Secure Zone is created using unallocated space, if available, or at the expense of the volume's free space. Size (p. 152) Specify the exact size of the zone.
Page 152: Acronis Secure Zone Disk
Secure Zone is created using unallocated space, if available, or at the expense of the volumes' free space. The Acronis Secure Zone cannot be organized on a dynamic disk or a disk using the GPT partitioning style. To allocate space for Acronis Secure Zone 1.
Page 153: Managing Acronis Secure Zone
Result confirmation The Result confirmation window displays the expected partition layout according to the settings you have chosen. Click OK, if you are satisfied with the layout and the Acronis Secure Zone creation will start. How the settings you make will be processed This helps you to understand how creating the Acronis Secure Zone will transform a disk containing multiple volumes.
Page 154: Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
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.
Page 155: Bootable Media
(if you have GRUB). If the system fails to boot, you will be able to start the bootable rescue utility, by pressing F11 or by selecting it from the menu, respectively. The system disk (or, the /boot partition in Linux) should have at least 70 MB of free space to activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.
Page 156: Linux-Based Bootable Media
Using Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 in Windows Preinstallation Environment provides more functionality than using Linux-based bootable media. Having booted PC-compatible hardware into WinPE, you can use not only Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent, but also PE commands and scripts and other plug-ins you've added to the PE.
Page 157: Kernel Parameters
WDS/RIS. 8. [optional] Windows system drivers to be used by Acronis Universal Restore. This window appears only if the Acronis Universal Restore add-on is installed and a media other than PXE or WDS/RIS is selected.
Page 158: Network Settings
These calls might not work properly on some machines. But this may be the only way to get the interrupt routing table. 6.10.1.2 Network settings While creating Acronis bootable media, you have an option to pre-configure network connections that will be used by the bootable agent. The following parameters can be pre-configured:  IP address ...
Page 159: Connecting To A Machine Booted From Media
(enter the port number). If the port has not been pre-configured, the agent uses the default port number (9876.) This port is also used as default by the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console. 6.10.2 Connecting to a machine booted from media Once a machine boots from bootable media, the machine terminal displays a startup window with the IP address(es) obtained from DHCP or set according to the pre-configured values.
Page 160: Working Under Bootable Media
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console is always present on the bootable media. Anyone who has physical access to the machine terminal can run the console and connect. Just click Run management console in the bootable agent startup window.
Page 161: List Of Commands And Utilities Available In Linux-Based Bootable Media
To start the command shell, press CTRL+ALT+F2 while in the bootable media's management console. Acronis command line utilities  acronis  asamba  lash  restoreraids  trueimagecmd  trueimagemnt Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 162: Recovering Md Devices And Logical Volumes
6.10.5 Recovering MD devices and logical volumes To recover MD devices, known as Linux Software RAID, and/or devices created by Logical Volume Manager (LVM), known as logical volumes, you need to create the corresponding volume structure before starting the recovery. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 163 6. Click Recover, then specify the path to the archive and any other required parameters, and then click OK. If Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 could not create the volume structure (or if it is not present in the archive), create the structure manually.
Page 164: Creating The Volume Structure Manually
8. Click Recover, then specify the path to the archive and any other required parameters, and then click OK. Note: This procedure does not work when connected to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Bootable Agent remotely, because the command shell is not available in this case.
Page 165 6. Activate the volume group by running the following command: lvm vgchange -a y my_volgroup 7. Press CTRL+ALT+F1 to return to the management console. Step 2: Starting the recovery 1. In the management console, click Recover. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 166: Collecting System Information
For a complete list of commands and utilities that you can use in the bootable media environment, see List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media (p. 161). For detailed descriptions of the trueimagecmd and trueimagemnt utilities, see the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 command line reference.
Page 167 To collect system information 1. In the management console, select from the top menu Help > Collect system information from 'machine name'. 2. Specify where to save the file with system information. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 168: Glossary
Limitations: Acronis Secure Zone cannot be organized on a dynamic disk (p. 175) or a disk using the GPT partitioning style. Backup to Acronis Secure Zone is not possible when working under bootable media or Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.
Page 169: Backup Operation
(p. 177), such as task management and operations with hard disks. The type of data that can be backed up depends on the agent type. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 includes the agents for backing up disks and files and the agents for backing up virtual machines residing on virtualization servers.
Page 170: Backup Options
The workflow when using policies is as follows. 1. The administrator creates a backup policy. 2. The administrator applies the policy to a group of machines or a single machine (p. 177). 3. The management server deploys the policy to the machines. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 171: Backup Scheme
(p. 171) or Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) (p. 182) with the Acronis Plug-in for WinPE (p. 168). A machine can also be booted into the above environments using the network boot from Acronis PXE Server or Microsoft Remote Installation Service (RIS).
Page 172: Centralized Management
(p. 170) from the management server (p. 178). Such plan can be modified only by editing the backup policy. Centralized management Management of the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 infrastructure through a central management unit known as Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server (p. 178). The centralized management operations include: ...
Page 173: Deduplicating Vault
For more information please refer to Retention rules (p. 29). Console (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console) A tool for remote or local access to Acronis agents (p. 169) and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server (p. 178).
Page 174: Disk Group
A backup (p. 169) that contains a sector-based copy of a disk or a volume in a packaged form. Normally, only sectors that contain data are copied. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 provides an option to take a raw image, that is, copy all the disk sectors, which enables imaging of unsupported file systems.
Page 175: Dynamic Disk
Dynamic group A group of machines (p. 177) which is populated automatically by the management server (p. 178) according to membership criteria specified by the administrator. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 offers the following membership criteria:  Operating system ...
Page 176: Dynamic Volume
The export operation can be applied to a single archive, a single backup (p. 169) or to your choice of backups belonging to the same archive. An entire vault (p. 181) can be exported by using the command line interface. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 177: Full Backup
A physical or virtual computer uniquely identified by an operating system installation. Machines with multiple operating systems (multi-boot systems) are considered as multiple machines. Managed machine A machine (p. 177), either physical or virtual, where at least one Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent (p. 169) is installed. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010...
Page 178: Managed Vault
Physical machine On Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server, a physical machine is the same as a registered machine (p. 179). A virtual machine is considered physical if an Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent is installed on the machine and the machine is registered on the management server.
Page 179: Recovery Point
A machine remains in a static group until the administrator removes it from the group or from the management server. Storage node (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node) A server aimed to optimize usage of various resources required for protection of enterprise data. This goal is achieved by organizing managed vaults (p.
Page 180: Tower Of Hanoi
CPU load. Task In Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, a task is a set of sequential actions to be performed on a managed machine (p. 177) when a certain time comes or a certain event occurs. The actions are described in an xml script file.
Page 181: Unmanaged Vault
Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) The Acronis proprietary technology that helps boot up Windows on dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine. The Universal Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for the operating system start-up, such as storage controllers, motherboard or chipset.
Page 182: Virtual Machine
Virtual machine On Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server, a machine (p. 177) is considered virtual if it can be backed up from the virtualization host without installing an agent (p. 169) on the machine. A virtual machine appears on the management server after registration of the virtualization server that hosts the machine, provided that Acronis Backup &...

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