Table of contents
1
Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ......................................................................... 8
1.1
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview .................................................................................. 8
1.2
Getting started ........................................................................................................................... 9
1.2.1
Using the management console ................................................................................................................11
1.3
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ...........................................................................18
1.3.1
Agent for Windows .....................................................................................................................................18
1.3.2
Agent for Linux ...........................................................................................................................................19
1.3.3
Components for centralized management ...............................................................................................20
1.3.4
Management Console ................................................................................................................................22
1.3.5
Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................22
1.3.6
Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy......................................................................................................................23
1.4
Supported file systems ............................................................................................................23
1.5
Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................23
1.6
System requirements ...............................................................................................................25
1.7
Technical Support ....................................................................................................................26
2
Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 27
2.1
Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................27
2.2
User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................31
2.3
Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................32
2.4
Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................33
2.5
GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................35
2.6
Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................38
2.7
Retention rules ........................................................................................................................41
2.8
Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................43
2.9
Backing up LVM volumes and MD devices (Linux) ..................................................................45
2.9.1
Backing up logical volumes ........................................................................................................................45
2.9.2
Backing up MD devices ..............................................................................................................................46
2.9.3
Saving the volume structure information ..................................................................................................47
2.9.4
Selecting logical volumes and MD devices in command line ....................................................................47
2.10 Backing up hardware RAID arrays (Linux) ................................................................................48
2.11 Tape support ............................................................................................................................49
2.11.1
Tape compatibility table .............................................................................................................................49
2.11.2
Using a single tape drive .............................................................................................................................49
2.12 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................50
2.13 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................51
2.13.1
Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................51
2.13.2
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...........................................................................................................52
2.13.3
Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ....................................................53
2.13.4
Acronis Active Restore ...............................................................................................................................55
2.14 Understanding centralized management ................................................................................56
2.14.1
Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................57
2.14.2
Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network ......................................................58
2.14.3
Grouping the registered machines ............................................................................................................61
