Table Of Contents - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition 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 ...........................................................................17
1.3.1 Agent for Windows .....................................................................................................................................17
1.3.2 Agent for Linux ...........................................................................................................................................18
1.3.3 Agent for ESX/ESXi ......................................................................................................................................19
1.3.4 Components for centralized management ...............................................................................................19
1.3.5 Management Console ................................................................................................................................21
1.3.6 Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................22
1.3.7 Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy......................................................................................................................22
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................22
1.5 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................23
1.6 System requirements ...............................................................................................................24
1.7 Technical support ....................................................................................................................25
2 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 27
2.1 Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................27
2.2 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................31
2.3 Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................32
2.4 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................33
2.5 GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................35
2.6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................38
2.7 Retention rules ........................................................................................................................40
2.8 Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................43
2.9 Backing up LVM volumes (Linux) .............................................................................................45
2.10 Backing up RAID arrays (Linux) ................................................................................................47
2.11 Backing up virtual machines ....................................................................................................48
2.11.1 How to install Hyper-V Integration Services ..............................................................................................50
2.11.2 How to install VMware Tools .....................................................................................................................50
2.12 Tape support ............................................................................................................................51
2.12.1 Tape compatibility table .............................................................................................................................51
2.12.2 Using a single tape drive .............................................................................................................................51
2.13 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................52
2.13.1 Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................52
2.13.2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...........................................................................................................53
2.13.3 Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ....................................................54
2.13.4 Acronis Active Restore ...............................................................................................................................56
2.14 Understanding centralized management ................................................................................57
2.14.1 Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................57
2.14.2 Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network ......................................................59
2.14.3 Grouping the registered machines ............................................................................................................62
2.14.4 Policies on machines and groups ...............................................................................................................64
2.14.5 Backup policy's state and statuses .............................................................................................................69