Table Of Contents - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS 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 ...........................................................................16
1.3.1 Agent for Windows .....................................................................................................................................16
1.3.2 Components for centralized management ...............................................................................................17
1.3.3 Management Console ................................................................................................................................20
1.3.4 Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................20
1.3.5 Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy......................................................................................................................20
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................20
1.5 Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................21
1.6 System requirements ...............................................................................................................22
1.7 Technical support ....................................................................................................................22
2 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 24
2.1 Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................24
2.2 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................28
2.3 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................30
2.4 Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................30
2.5 GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................31
2.6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................35
2.7 Retention rules ........................................................................................................................37
2.8 Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................40
2.9 Tape support ............................................................................................................................42
2.9.1 Tape compatibility table .............................................................................................................................42
2.9.2 Using a single tape drive .............................................................................................................................43
2.10 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................44
2.10.1 Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................44
2.10.2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...........................................................................................................45
2.10.3 Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ....................................................45
2.10.4 Acronis Active Restore ...............................................................................................................................47
2.11 Understanding centralized management ................................................................................49
2.11.1 Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................49
2.11.2 Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network ......................................................50
2.11.3 Grouping the registered machines ............................................................................................................53
2.11.4 Policies on machines and groups ...............................................................................................................53
2.11.5 Backup policy's state and statuses .............................................................................................................58
2.11.6 Deduplication .............................................................................................................................................61
2.11.7 Privileges for centralized management .....................................................................................................65
2.11.8 Communication between Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ..................................................70
3 Options .................................................................................................................................. 76
3.1 Console options .......................................................................................................................76
3.1.1 Startup page ...............................................................................................................................................76
3.1.2 Pop-up messages ........................................................................................................................................76