Introduction; Choosing The Way To Upgrade; Gradual Upgrade; Importing Backup Strategies From Acronis True Image Echo - ACRONIS UPGRADING TO ADVANCED EDITIONS OF BACKUP RECOVERY 10 Installation Manual

1 Introduction

Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 succeeds Acronis True Image Echo as the next generation disaster
recovery solution. To make customers comfortable about migration to the new product, Acronis
gives them the flexibility of performing a gradual upgrade; enables the customers to import backup
strategies they used with Acronis True Image Echo into Acronis Backup & Recovery 10; and provides
documentation that covers all aspects of the upgrade process.

2 Choosing the way to upgrade

This chapter provides an overview about the possible ways of upgrading from Acronis True Image
Echo and describes the options you can choose during the upgrade.
You will also get some general information on how to:
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Perform gradual upgrade in case you want to keep part of your infrastructure protected by
Acronis True Image Echo
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Migrate old tasks from Acronis True Image Echo
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Use the backup archives created with the previous version of Acronis True Image.
Thus, after reading this chapter you should be able to make a decision on which method of upgrading
is most convenient for your infrastructure.

2.1 Gradual upgrade

Components of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 do not interact with Acronis True Image Echo
components. The old console cannot be connected to a new agent; new agents do not back up to
Acronis Backup Server; old agents cannot be registered on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
Management Server.
The new and the old agent cannot run on the same machine, so the old agent is removed when you
install the new one. Apart from this, the products do not interact with each other—they can operate
independently in the same network, each protecting only those machines where the respective agent
resides. This makes possible gradual or partial migration to the new product or deployment of the
new product only on the machines that are not protected with Echo. A sample scenario of gradual
upgrade and the steps to perform are described later in this document.
In fact, the upgrade granularity is a single machine, which implies upgrade on an as-needed basis
with very minimal notice. Also, you can test a new backup strategy on a single machine or on few
machines, while the remaining machines are protected by Echo. Then upgrade the majority of the
Acronis True Image Echo components and apply the proven strategy to them. The minimal steps
required to start using Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 on a single machine are described later in this
document.
2.2 Importing backup strategies from Acronis True Image
Echo
In Acronis True Image Echo, a backup strategy consists of backup tasks—local tasks (tasks residing on
the agents) and group tasks (tasks residing on Acronis Group Server).
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