Using The Management Console - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER VIRTUAL EDITION - UPDATE 3 User Manual

3. Install the Acronis Deduplication add-on to the agent on all machines that will back up to the
deduplicating vault.
4. Ensure that the backup plans you create use the managed vault as destination for the backup
archives.
 Creating a backup policy rather than backup plans
Set up a centralized backup policy and apply it to the All machines group. This way you will deploy
backup plans on each machine with a single action. Select Actions > Create backup policy from the
top menu and then refer to the context help.
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Grouping the machines registered on the management server
Group the registered machines by appropriate parameters, create several policies and apply each
policy to the appropriate group of machines. For more information please refer to "Grouping the
registered machines (p. 65)".
The comprehensive example of advanced centralized management is provided in the "Setting up
centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network (p. 61)" section.
1.2.1

Using the management console

As soon as the console connects to a managed machine (p. 417) or to a management server (p. 418),
the respective items appear across the console's workspace (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
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