Table Of Contents - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server User Manual

Table of contents

1 Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ......................................................................... 7
1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview .................................................................................. 7
1.2 Getting started ........................................................................................................................... 8
1.2.1 Using the management console ................................................................................................................10
1.3 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ...........................................................................16
1.3.1 Agent for Windows .....................................................................................................................................17
1.3.2 Agent for Linux ...........................................................................................................................................18
1.3.3 Components for centralized management ...............................................................................................18
1.3.4 Management Console ................................................................................................................................21
1.3.5 Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................21
1.3.6 Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy......................................................................................................................21
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................21
1.5 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................22
1.6 System requirements ...............................................................................................................23
1.7 Technical support ....................................................................................................................24
2 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 26
2.1 Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................26
2.2 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................30
2.3 Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................31
2.4 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................32
2.5 GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................34
2.6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................37
2.7 Retention rules ........................................................................................................................39
2.8 Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................42
2.9 Backing up LVM volumes (Linux) .............................................................................................44
2.10 Backing up RAID arrays (Linux) ................................................................................................46
2.11 Tape support ............................................................................................................................47
2.11.1 Tape compatibility table .............................................................................................................................47
2.11.2 Using a single tape drive .............................................................................................................................48
2.12 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................49
2.12.1 Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................49
2.12.2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...........................................................................................................50
2.12.3 Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ....................................................51
2.12.4 Acronis Active Restore ...............................................................................................................................52
2.13 Understanding centralized management ................................................................................54
2.13.1 Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................54
2.13.2 Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network ......................................................55
2.13.3 Grouping the registered machines ............................................................................................................59
2.13.4 Policies on machines and groups ...............................................................................................................61
2.13.5 Backup policy's state and statuses .............................................................................................................66
2.13.6 Deduplication .............................................................................................................................................69
2.13.7 Privileges for centralized management .....................................................................................................73
2.13.8 Communication between Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ..................................................79