Backing Up Volumes By Using A Backup Policy; Recovering Files From A Volume Backup - ACRONIS BACKUP RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER Quick Start Manual

6. Under Where to back up, click Change. In Path, type the path to the network shared folder
where to save the archives. Or you can select this folder from the folder tree. Provide access
credentials for the specified folder.
7. Click OK to create the backup plan. The backup starts immediately.
Details. You are taken to the All physical machines view with the machine you are backing up
pre-selected. The Information pane displays the plan's execution state: Running. To view the
backup task progress, expand the backup plan in the Information pane.

6.4. Backing up volumes by using a backup policy

In this step, you will create and run a backup policy to back up the system volume on all machines
registered on the management server—regardless of what disk letter is assigned to this volume on the
particular machine.
1. Connect the management console to the management server.
2. In the Navigation tree, right-click Backup policies, and then click Create backup policy.
3. Under What to back up, in Items to back up selection rules, leave the default choice
Disks/Volumes: [SYSTEM].
Details. The system volume contains files that are necessary to start Windows. The [SYSTEM]
selection rule means backing up the system volume no matter what disk letter it has on a
machine. You can add more selection rules to the same policy—such as D: or [BOOT].
4. Under Where to back up, click Change. Select Store all machines' archives in a single location. In
Path, type the path to the network shared folder where to save the archives. Or you can select
this folder from the folder tree. Provide access credentials for the specified folder.
5. Click OK to create the policy. It appears in the Backup policies view.
6. Right-click the policy, and then click Apply.
7. In the Machine Selection window, select the All physical machines check box, and then click OK
to deploy the policy.
Result. For each registered machine, the policy will immediately back up the system volume and
save the archive to the specified network share.

6.5. Recovering files from a volume backup

In this step, you will recover files and folders from the volume backup you previously created. Using a
similar procedure, you can recover an entire volume from a disk or a volume backup.
1. Connect the management console to the management server.
2. In the Navigation pane, click All physical machines and then select the machine where you want
to recover data to.
3. Right click on the machine and select Recovery from the context menu.
4. Under What to recover, in Archive, click Change and specify the path to the archive.
5. In Data type, select Files.
6. In Content, click Change, and then browse the contents of the backup to select the files and
folders that you want to recover.
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