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 ...........................................................................17
1.3.1
Agent for Windows .....................................................................................................................................18
1.3.2
Components for centralized management ...............................................................................................19
1.3.3
Management Console ................................................................................................................................21
1.3.4
Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................21
1.3.5
Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy......................................................................................................................22
1.4
Supported file systems ............................................................................................................22
1.5
Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................22
1.6
System requirements ...............................................................................................................23
1.7
Technical Support ....................................................................................................................24
2
Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 25
2.1
Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................25
2.2
Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................29
2.3
User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................31
2.4
Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................31
2.5
GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................32
2.6
Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................36
2.7
Retention rules ........................................................................................................................38
2.8
Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................41
2.9
Tape support ............................................................................................................................43
2.9.1
Tape compatibility table .............................................................................................................................43
2.9.2
Using a single tape drive .............................................................................................................................44
2.10 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................45
2.11 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................46
2.11.1
Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................46
2.11.2
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...........................................................................................................47
2.11.3
Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ....................................................48
2.11.4
Acronis Active Restore ...............................................................................................................................49
2.12 Understanding centralized management ................................................................................51
2.12.1
Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................51
2.12.2
Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network ......................................................52
2.12.3
Grouping the registered machines ............................................................................................................56
2.12.4
Policies on machines and groups ...............................................................................................................56
2.12.5
Backup policy's state and statuses .............................................................................................................60
2.12.6
Deduplication .............................................................................................................................................63
2.12.7
Privileges for centralized management .....................................................................................................68
2.12.8
Communication between Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ..................................................72
3
Options .................................................................................................................................. 79
3.1
Console options .......................................................................................................................79
