Specifying Credentials For Acronis Services - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER VIRTUAL EDITION - INSTALLATION UPDATE 3 Installation Manual

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Credentials for the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 component services. By default, the setup
program will create a dedicated user account for each service. See "Specifying credentials for
Acronis services (p. 17)".
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The names of Microsoft SQL servers to be used by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
Management Server. See "Specifying Microsoft SQL servers (p. 18)".
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Whether to register Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows and/or Acronis
Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node on the management server. See "Registering
components on the management server (p. 18)".
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The names of users who will be allowed to connect to the machine remotely. See "Specifying
users allowed to connect remotely (p. 19)".
The summary window displays the list of components that will be installed on the machine.
Note: In Windows, when canceling the installation process, only the last package is removed. Other
components, if any, remain installed.
2.1.3

Specifying credentials for Acronis services

The Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management
Server, and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node components run as services. When installing
any of these components, you need to specify the account under which the component's service will
run.
For each service, you can either create a dedicated user account (recommended in most cases) or
specify an existing account of a local or domain user—for example: .\LocalUser or
DomainName\DomainUser.
If you choose to create dedicated user accounts for the services, the setup program will create the
following user accounts:
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For the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows service, Acronis Agent User
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For the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server service, AMS User
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For the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node service, ASN User
The newly created accounts are given the following privileges:
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All three accounts are assigned the Log on as a service user right.
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The Acronis Agent User user account is assigned the Adjust memory quotas for a process and
Replace a process level token user rights.
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The Acronis Agent User and ASN User user accounts are included in the Backup Operators group.
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The AMS User user account is included in the Acronis Centralized Admins group.
The setup program will assign the above listed user rights to any existing account you specify for a
corresponding service.
If you choose to specify an existing user account for the agent service or the storage node service,
make sure that this account is a member of the Backup Operators group, before proceeding with the
installation.
If you choose to specify an existing user account for the management server service, this account will
be added to the Acronis Centralized Admins group automatically.
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