Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Upgrade Tool; Local Approach: Importing Old Tasks Into New Agents - ACRONIS UPGRADING TO ADVANCED EDITIONS OF BACKUP RECOVERY 10 Installation Manual

When upgrading to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, you have the option to import these tasks by
using any of the following approaches:
 Local approach: Import the local tasks without importing the group tasks. The local tasks become
local backup plans.
 Centralized approach: Import the group tasks without importing the local tasks. The group tasks
become backup policies, which you can then apply to the machines to which the corresponding
group tasks originally applied—as well as to any other machine.
 Combination of both: Import the group tasks and the local tasks. The resulting backup policies
apply to the corresponding machines automatically. The backup plans originating from group
tasks become centralized backup plans. The rest of the backup plans remain local.
This section describes each of these approaches.
2.2.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Upgrade Tool
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 includes a script called Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Upgrade Tool.
When run after upgrading the agents, this tool provides the ability to import Acronis True Image Echo
tasks into Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 and to make archives stored on Acronis Backup Server
accessible from Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. If you do not need these options, you do not need to
use the upgrade tool.

2.2.2 Local approach: Importing old tasks into new agents

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 has the ability to import Acronis True Image Echo backup or validation
tasks into Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agents. The backup tasks are converted into local backup
plans. You can modify them to use, if necessary, new backup schemes and scheduling options offered
by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.
You can import all tasks at once, or import only the tasks you need. Until imported, the old tasks will
not run.
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