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Available if the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows (or for Linux) is installed.
Select this option to back up specific files and folders.
If you are not concerned about recovery of the operating system along with all the settings and
applications, but plan to keep safe only certain data (the current project, for example), choose file
backup. This will reduce the archive size, thus saving storage space.
Disks/volumes
Available if the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows (or for Linux) is installed.
Select this option to back up disks and/or volumes. To be able to back up disks or volumes, you must
have Administrator or Backup operator privileges.
Backing up disks and volumes enables you to recover the entire system in case of severe data
damage or hardware failure. The backup procedure is faster than copying files, and may significantly
speed up the backup process when it comes to backing up large volumes of data.
Note for Linux users:
We recommend that you unmount any volumes that contain non-journaling file systems—
such as the ext2 file system—before backing them up. Otherwise, these volumes might contain corrupted files
upon recovery; recovery of these volumes with resize might fail.
6.2.4
Items to back up
The items to backup depend on the source type (p. 201) selected previously.
6.2.4.1
Selecting disks and volumes
To specify disks/volumes to back up
1.
Select the check boxes for the disks and/or volumes to back up. You can select a random set of
disks and volumes.
If your operating system and its loader reside on different volumes, always include both volumes in the
backup. The volumes must also be recovered together; otherwise there is a high risk that the operating
system will not start.
In Linux, logical volumes and MD devices are shown under
Dynamic and GPT
. For more
information about backing up such volumes and devices, see “Backing up LVM volumes and MD
devices (Linux) (p. 45)”.
2.
[Optional] To create an exact copy of a disk or volume on a physical level, select the
Back up
sector-by-sector
check box. The resulting backup will be equal in size to the disk being backed up
(if the
Compression level
option is set to
None
). Use the sector-by-sector backup for backing up
drives with unrecognized or unsupported file systems and other proprietary data formats.
3.
Click
OK
.
What does a disk or volume backup store?
For supported file systems, with the sector-by-sector option turned off, a disk or volume backup
stores only those sectors that contain data. This reduces the resulting backup size and speeds up the
backup and recovery operations.
Windows
