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1. In Group status or Group tasks management window, select New Group Task
on the toolbar. The Create Group Task Wizard starts to guide you through the task
creation procedure.
2. Select the type of the task: backup or validation.
3. Form a group for the current task: check computers in the list of remote computers.
4. For the backup task only: Select disks/partitions to backup. You can select any
combination of hard disks (by number, according to Windows numeration) and partitions
(by letter); or All hard disks. This setting is applied to every computer in the group, so
having a standard (similar) disks/partitions layout on remote computers would be a plus.
5. Specify the paths for the backup archives. To place every archive on its local computer,
specify Local path or select Acronis Secure Zone, if there is such a zone on every
3.3 Acronis
remote computer. For more information about the Acronis Secure Zone see
Secure Zone
. To place backups on the network, check Network path, select the target
folder and specify the username and password for access to the network drive. When
backing up to a backup server, choose Personal Backup Location or tape drive and
enter backup server administrator's credentials. For more information about backup
3.5 Acronis Backup Server
servers see .
You should also provide the archive name for each computer, unless the archives are
targeted to Acronis Secure Zones or a backup server. Pressing the button to the right of
the name input field will assign to each archive the respective computer's name.
6. For the backup task only: Specify the usual backup settings: backup mode (full,
incremental or differential), a password for the backup archive (if necessary), default or
Chapter 6. Creating
custom backup options and comment. For more information see
backup archives
.
7. Provide a name for the group task. The name will be displayed in the Group Tasks
Management window (see below) to allow quick task identification.
8. Select when you would like the task to be started. The scheduling procedure is almost
Chapter 8. Scheduling tasks
the same for individual and group tasks, see for details.
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