Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10; Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Overview; Getting Started - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 SERVER FOR LINUX - UPDATE 3 User Manual

1 Introducing Acronis
1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview
Based on Acronis' patented disk imaging and bare metal restore technologies, Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10 succeeds Acronis True Image Echo as the next generation disaster recovery solution.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Linux inherits the benefits of the Acronis True Image Echo
product family:
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Backup of an entire disk or volume, including the operating system, all applications, and data
 Bare metal recovery to any hardware
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File and folder backup and recovery.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Linux offers new benefits that help organizations meet
challenging Recovery Time Objectives while reducing both capital expense and software
maintenance costs.
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Leveraging existing IT infrastructure
Backward compatibility and an easy upgrade from Acronis True Image Echo
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Highly automated data protection
All-round planning of data protection (backup, retention and validation of backups) within a
backup policy
Built-in Tower of Hanoi and Grandfather-Father-Son backup schemes with customizable
parameters
A variety of events and conditions can be chosen to trigger a backup
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Redesigned GUI
Dashboard for quick operational decision making
Overview of all configured and running operations with color-coding for successful and failed
operations
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Additional bootable media facilities
Linux and Acronis command line utilities are available on bootable media to create the logical
volumes structure before starting recovery.

1.2 Getting started

Direct management
1. Install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
Agent.
2. Start the console.
Linux
Log in as root or log in as an ordinary user and then switch user as required. Start the console
with the command
/usr/sbin/acronis_console
3. Connect the console to the machine where the agent is installed.
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