Before Installation; Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Components; Agent For Windows - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition Installation Manual

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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.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 includes three main types of components.

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. Agents require a license to perform operations on each

managed machine. Agents have multiple features, or add-ons, that enable additional functionality

and so might require additional licenses.

With bootable media builder, you can create bootable media in order to use the agents and other

rescue utilities in a rescue environment. Availability of the agent add-ons in a rescue environment

depends on whether an add-on is installed on the machine where the media builder is working.

Components for centralized management

These components, delivered with the advanced editions, provide the centralized management

capability. Usage of these components is not licensed.

Console

The console provides Graphical User Interface and remote connection to the agents and other

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components.

1.1.1.

This agent enables disk-level and file-level data protection under Windows.

Disk backup

Disk-level data protection is based on backing up either a disk or a volume file system as a whole,

along with all the information necessary for the operating system to boot; or all the disk sectors using

the sector-by-sector approach (raw mode). A backup that contains a copy of a disk or a volume in a

packaged form is called a disk (volume) backup or a disk (volume) image. It is possible to recover disks

or volumes as a whole from such backup, as well as individual folders or files.

File backup

File-level data protection is based on backing up files and folders residing on the machine where the

agent is installed or on a network share. Files can be recovered to their original location or to another

place. It is possible to recover all files and folders that were backed up or select which of them to

recover.

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