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6.10.3

 

Working under bootable media .............................................................................................................. 244

 

6.10.4

 

List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media ............................................. 246

 

6.10.5

 

Recovering MD devices and logical volumes .......................................................................................... 247

 

6.10.6

 

Acronis PXE Server ................................................................................................................................... 251

 

6.11  Disk management ................................................................................................................. 252 

6.11.1

 

Basic precautions ..................................................................................................................................... 253

 

6.11.2

 

Running Acronis Disk Director Lite .......................................................................................................... 253

 

6.11.3

 

Choosing the operating system for disk management .......................................................................... 254

 

6.11.4

 

"Disk management" view ........................................................................................................................ 254

 

6.11.5

 

Disk operations ........................................................................................................................................ 255

 

6.11.6

 

Volume operations .................................................................................................................................. 260

 

6.11.7

 

Pending operations ................................................................................................................................. 267

 

6.12  Collecting system information .............................................................................................. 267 

7

 

Centralized management ..................................................................................................... 268

 

7.1 

Administering Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server .................................... 268 

7.1.1

 

Dashboard ............................................................................................................................................... 268

 

7.1.2

 

Backup policies ........................................................................................................................................ 270

 

7.1.3

 

Physical machines .................................................................................................................................... 275

 

7.1.4

 

Virtual machines ...................................................................................................................................... 292

 

7.1.5

 

Storage nodes .......................................................................................................................................... 297

 

7.1.6

 

Tasks ......................................................................................................................................................... 300

 

7.1.7

 

Log ............................................................................................................................................................ 302

 

7.1.8

 

Reporting ................................................................................................................................................. 305

 

7.2 

Configuring Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .................................................... 311 

7.2.1

 

Parameters set through administrative template .................................................................................. 311

 

7.2.2

 

Parameters set through GUI ................................................................................................................... 325

 

7.2.3

 

Parameters set through Windows registry ............................................................................................ 326

 

7.3 

Creating a backup policy ....................................................................................................... 326 

7.3.1

 

Policy credentials ..................................................................................................................................... 328

 

7.3.2

 

Items to back up ...................................................................................................................................... 329

 

7.3.3

 

Access credentials for source .................................................................................................................. 333

 

7.3.4

 

Exclusions ................................................................................................................................................. 334

 

7.3.5

 

Archive ..................................................................................................................................................... 335

 

7.3.6

 

Access credentials for location ................................................................................................................ 336

 

7.3.7

 

Backup scheme selection ........................................................................................................................ 336

 

7.3.8

 

Archive validation .................................................................................................................................... 345

 

8

 

Glossary ............................................................................................................................... 347

 

9

 

Index ................................................................................................................................... 362

 

  

Summary of Contents for BACKUP RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER SBS EDITION

Page 1: ...User s Guide Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition ...

Page 2: ...thout the explicit permission of the copyright holder Distribution of this work or derivative work in any standard paper book form for commercial purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED AS IS AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PART...

Page 3: ... 2 6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme 35 2 7 Retention rules 37 2 8 Backing up dynamic volumes Windows 40 2 9 Tape support 42 2 9 1 Tape compatibility table 42 2 9 2 Using a single tape drive 43 2 10 Proprietary Acronis technologies 44 2 10 1 Acronis Secure Zone 44 2 10 2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager 45 2 10 3 Universal Restore Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Universal Restore 45 2 10 4 Acronis Active ...

Page 4: ...ns on centralized vaults 118 4 1 3 Tape libraries 123 4 2 Personal vaults 145 4 2 1 Working with the Personal vault view 145 4 2 2 Actions on personal vaults 146 4 3 Common operations 148 4 3 1 Operations with archives stored in a vault 148 4 3 2 Operations with backups 149 4 3 3 Deleting archives and backups 150 4 3 4 Filtering and sorting archives 150 5 Scheduling 152 5 1 Daily schedule 153 5 2 ...

Page 5: ...ooting 214 6 3 12 Recovering a vast number of files from a file backup 217 6 3 13 Recovering the storage node 218 6 4 Validating vaults archives and backups 219 6 4 1 Task credentials 220 6 4 2 Archive selection 220 6 4 3 Backup selection 221 6 4 4 Location selection 221 6 4 5 Access credentials for source 222 6 4 6 When to validate 222 6 5 Mounting an image 222 6 5 1 Archive selection 223 6 5 2 B...

Page 6: ... 268 7 1 Administering Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Management Server 268 7 1 1 Dashboard 268 7 1 2 Backup policies 270 7 1 3 Physical machines 275 7 1 4 Virtual machines 292 7 1 5 Storage nodes 297 7 1 6 Tasks 300 7 1 7 Log 302 7 1 8 Reporting 305 7 2 Configuring Acronis Backup Recovery 10 components 311 7 2 1 Parameters set through administrative template 311 7 2 2 Parameters set through GUI 325 7...

Page 7: ... Leveraging existing IT infrastructure Data deduplication to reduce storage consumption and network bandwidth utilization Flexible deduplication mechanism allowing deduplication of backup data both at the source and at the storage Improved support for robotic tape libraries Backward compatibility and an easy upgrade from Acronis True Image Echo Highly automated data protection All round planning o...

Page 8: ...ent 1 Install Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Management Server p 17 2 Install Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agents on the machines that need data protection When installing the agents register each of the machines on the management server To do so enter the server s IP or name and the centralized administrator s credentials in one of the installation wizard s windows 3 Install Acronis Backup Recovery 10 ...

Page 9: ...lecting Vaults Centralized Vault name in the Navigation tree The shortcut to the vault will be deployed to all the registered machines The vault can be specified as a backup destination in any backup plan created by you or by the registered machines users The advanced way of centralized management To make the best use of the centralized management capabilities offered by Acronis Backup Recovery 10...

Page 10: ...and the Shortcuts bar and lets you navigate to the different views see the Navigation pane p 11 section Actions and tools pane Contains bars with a set of actions that can be performed and tools see the Actions and Tools pane p 12 section Main area The main place of working where you create edit and manage backup plans policies tasks and perform other operations Displays the different views and ac...

Page 11: ...performed by the program on the managed machine Disk management Use this view to perform operations on the machine s hard disk drives Views for a management server When the console is connected to a management server the following views are available in the navigation tree Management server name Root of the tree also called a Welcome view Displays the name of the management server the console is c...

Page 12: ...onis Backup Recovery 10 The pane s bars provide quick access to program s operations and tools All items of the Actions and tools bar are duplicated in the program menu Bars Item s name actions Contains a set of actions that can be performed on the items selected in any of the navigation views Clicking the action opens the respective action page p 14 Items of different navigation views have their ...

Page 13: ...e the pane in order to free some additional workspace To do this click the chevron for the Navigation pane for the Actions and tools pane The pane will be minimized and the chevron changes its direction Click the chevron once again to expand the pane How to change the panes borders 1 Point to the pane s border 2 When the pointer becomes a double headed arrow drag the pointer to move the border The...

Page 14: ...he desired item In the Information panel collapsed by default view the item s details Perform actions on the selected item There are several ways of performing the same action on selected items By clicking the buttons on the table toolbar By clicking in the items in the Item s name Actions bar on the Actions and Tools pane By selecting the items in the Actions menu By right clicking the item and s...

Page 15: ...onfigured by clicking the respective Change links to the right Others are selected from the drop down list or typed manually in the page s fields Action page Controls Acronis Backup Recovery 10 remembers the changes you made on the action pages For example if you started to create a backup plan and then for any reason switched to another view without accomplishing the plan creation you can click t...

Page 16: ...ole provides Graphical User Interface and remote connection to the agents and other Acronis Backup Recovery 10 components Usage of the console is not licensed Bootable media builder With bootable media builder you can create bootable media in order to use the agents and other rescue utilities in a rescue environment Availability of the agent add ons in a rescue environment depends on whether an ad...

Page 17: ...en MBR and GPT or changing a disk label can be performed either in the operating system or using bootable media 1 3 1 1 Universal Restore The Universal Restore add on enables you to use the restore to dissimilar hardware functionality on the machine where the agent is installed and create bootable media with this functionality Universal Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for ...

Page 18: ... created on the machine 2 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 any edition previously installed on any machine 3 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 any edition previously installed on any machine VMware vCenter integration This feature provides the capability to view virtual machines managed by a VMware vCenter Server in the management server GUI view the backup status of these machines in the vCenter and automatical...

Page 19: ...events the agent has to initiate the storage node side cleanup p 358 and the storage node side validation p 359 according to the schedule To do so the agent must be online Further processing is performed by the storage node This functionality cannot be disabled in a managed vault The next two operations are optional Deduplication A managed vault can be configured as a deduplicating vault This mean...

Page 20: ...mponents is not available the Active Directory related features such as browsing the AD are not available 1 3 4 Bootable Media Builder Acronis Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media p 350 The media builder that installs on Windows can create bootable media based on either Windows Preinstallation Environment or Linux kernel The Universal Restore p 17 add on enables y...

Page 21: ... editions except for the Starter and Home editions Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Management Console Windows 2000 Professional SP4 XP Home Editions XP Professional SP2 Windows 2000 Server 2000 Advanced Server Server 2003 Server 2008 Windows SBS 2003 SBS 2008 Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Windows Server 2003 2008 x64 Editions Windows Vista all editions Windows 7 all editions Acronis Backup Recove...

Page 22: ...RAM High speed storage such as hardware RAID License Server Negligible 25 MB 25 MB PXE Server 5 MB 80 MB 15 MB Network interface card or virtual network adapter is a common requirement for all the components Bootable media Media type Memory ISO image size Additional Based on Windows PE 512 MB 300 MB Linux based 256 MB 130 MB 1 7 Technical support As part of a purchased annual Support charge you ar...

Page 23: ...olled in Support Upon mutual agreement by both parties Acronis shall i supply code corrections to you to correct Software malfunctions in order to bring such Software into substantial conformity with the published operating specifications for the most current version of the Software unless your unauthorized modifications prohibit or hamper such corrections or cause the malfunction or ii supply cod...

Page 24: ...eate bootable media p 350 4 Connect the console to the managed machine 5 Create a backup plan p 349 To do so you have to specify at the very least the data to be protected and the location where the backup archive p 348 will be stored This will create a minimal backup plan consisting of one task p 359 that will create a full backup p 348 of your data every time the task is manually started A compl...

Page 25: ...Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 25 The following diagram illustrates the notions discussed above For more definitions please refer to the Glossary ...

Page 26: ...ive and then select the backup referring to the date and time of the backup creation or more precisely to the time when the creation has started In most cases the data will be reverted to that moment Examples of exceptions to this rule Recovering a database from a backup that contains the transaction log a single backup provides multiple recovery points and so you can make additional selections Re...

Page 27: ...e a recovery operation on that machine This ability remote parallel recovery first appeared in Acronis Backup Recovery 10 the previous Acronis products do not provide it Recovery using bootable media Recovery over a volume locked by the operating system such as the volume where the operating system resides requires a reboot to the bootable environment which is a part of the agent After the recover...

Page 28: ... with each other does not make much sense because the methods work as a team in a backup scheme Each method should play its specific role according to its advantages A competent backup scheme will benefit from the advantages of all backup methods and lessen the influence of all the methods shortcomings For example weekly differential backup facilitates archive cleanup because it can be easily dele...

Page 29: ... of your data because reliability of an oversized archive is even more questionable Example Backing up a database transaction log Differential backup A differential backup stores changes to the data against the latest full backup You need access to the corresponding full backup to recover the data from a differential backup A differential backup is most useful when you are interested in saving onl...

Page 30: ...tire machine or any data on the machine with or without using a disk snapshot Members of the Administrators group also can View and manage backup plans and tasks owned by any user on the machine 2 4 Owners and credentials This section explains the concept of owner and the meaning of a backup plan s or task s credentials Plan task owner A local backup plan owner is the user who created or last modi...

Page 31: ...credentials regardless of the user who actually starts the task if you specify the task credentials explicitly To do so on the plan task creation page 1 Select the Advanced view check box 2 Select General Plan s Task credentials Change 3 Enter the credentials under which the plan task will run Scheduled or postponed start The plan task credentials are mandatory If you skip the credentials step you...

Page 32: ...the space freed on the tape after cleanup cannot be reused until all the tape becomes free take into account additional considerations when using GFS on a tape library p 133 The following is an explanation of the settings that are specific for the GFS backup scheme GFS related settings of the backup plan Start backup at Back up on This step creates the total backup schedule that is defines all the...

Page 33: ...ckups The cleanup task will run after each weekly backup and delete all weekly backups that are older than you specify The weekly backups retention period cannot be less than the daily backups retention period It is usually set several times longer Keep backups Monthly This step defines the retention rule for monthly backups The cleanup task will run after each monthly backup and delete all monthl...

Page 34: ...hen using the incremental and differential backup methods you cannot delete a backup as soon as the scheme requires if later backups are based on this backup Regular consolidation is unacceptable because it takes too much system resources The program has to wait until the scheme requires the deletion of all the dependent backups and then deletes the entire chain Here is how the first month of your...

Page 35: ...H backup scheme is a useful compromise Tower of Hanoi overview The Tower of Hanoi scheme is based on a mathematical puzzle of the same name In the puzzle a series of rings are stacked in size order the largest on the bottom on one of three pegs The goal is to move the ring series to the third peg You are only allowed to move one ring at a time and are prohibited from placing a larger ring above a ...

Page 36: ...erday half a week ago or a week ago For the five level scheme you can also recover data backed up two weeks ago So every additional backup level doubles the maximal roll back period for your data Tower of Hanoi by Acronis The Tower of Hanoi backup scheme is generally too complex to mentally calculate the next media to be used But Acronis Backup Recovery 10 provides you with automation of the schem...

Page 37: ...p is completed This way a backup archive created in accordance with the Tower of Hanoi scheme by Acronis sometimes includes up to two additional backups over the classical implementation of the scheme For information about using Tower of Hanoi for tape libraries see Using the Tower of Hanoi tape rotation scheme p 139 2 7 Retention rules The backups produced by a backup plan make an archive The two...

Page 38: ...ue you set and deletes the oldest backups to keep the archive size within this value The diagram below shows the archive content before and after the deletion There is a certain risk that all but one backup will be deleted if the maximum archive size is set improperly too small or a regular backup turns out to be too large To protect the recent backups from deletion select the Never delete backups...

Page 39: ...other backups one of the following rules is applied Retain the backup until all dependent backups become subject to deletion The outdated backup will be kept until all backups that depend on it also become outdated Then all the chain will be deleted at once during the regular cleanup This mode helps to avoid the potentially time consuming consolidation but requires extra space for storing backups ...

Page 40: ...ime If the free space which in fact is the storage device free space approaches zero you might need to toughen the restrictions for some or all archives residing in this vault 2 8 Backing up dynamic volumes Windows This section explains in brief how to back up and recover dynamic volumes p 355 using Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Basic disks that use the GUID Partition Table GPT are also discussed Dyn...

Page 41: ...space The total size of unallocated space is 40GB The recovery will always result in a striped volume if the unallocated space is distributed evenly among the disks 20GB and 20GB If one of the disks has 10GB and the other has 30GB of unallocated space then the recovery result depends on the size of the data being recovered If the data size is less than 20GB then one disk can hold say 10GB the othe...

Page 42: ...ape libraries autoloaders SCSI and USB tape drives as storage devices A tape device can be locally attached to a managed machine in this case the Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agent writes and reads the tapes or accessed through the Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Storage Node p 18 Storage nodes ensure fully automatic operation of tape libraries and autoloaders p 123 Backup archives created using differen...

Page 43: ...written on prompt You have an option to disable prompts see Additional settings p 105 Workaround In case you want to keep more than one archive on the tape for example back up volume C and volume D separately choose incremental backup mode instead of a full backup when you create an initial backup of the second volume In other situations incremental backup is used for appending changes to the prev...

Page 44: ...location is temporarily unavailable or connected through a slow or busy channel Advantages Acronis Secure Zone Enables recovery of a disk to the same disk where the disk s backup resides Offers a cost effective and handy method for protecting data from software malfunction virus attack operator error Being an internal archive storage eliminates the need for a separate media or network connection t...

Page 45: ...user selects the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager from the boot menu instead of pressing F11 Activation and deactivation of the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager The operation that enables using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is called activation To activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager select Actions Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager from the program menu You can activate or deactiva...

Page 46: ...t driver storage folders of the system being recovered Universal Restore analyzes the compatibility level of all found drivers and installs HAL and mass storage drivers that better fit the target hardware Drivers for network adapters are also searched and passed to the operating system which installs them automatically when first started The Windows default driver storage folder is determined in t...

Page 47: ...hange can note that this product uses Active Restore to achieve immediate availability of an Exchange information store after starting the recovery While based on the same technology recovery of the Information Store proceeds in quite a different way than the operating system recovery described in this section Supported operating systems Acronis Active Restore is available when recovering Windows ...

Page 48: ... not start 2 Create bootable media 3 If a system failure occurs boot the machine using the bootable media Start the console and connect to the bootable agent 4 Configure the system recovery select the system disk or volume and select the Use Acronis Active Restore check box Acronis Active Restore will choose for the boot up and subsequent recovery the first operating system found during the backup...

Page 49: ... machine plan or task to see their status and log entries The management server also enables you to monitor and manage the agent s locally originated activities Since you connect the console to the management server rather than to each machine and perform all management operations through the central management unit this way of management is called centralized management p 351 Centralized manageme...

Page 50: ...re includes servers 1 2 9 and workstations 3 5 8 running Windows and Linux You also have a VMware ESX server 4 that hosts two guest systems You have to protect each server as a whole the users data on the workstations and the virtual machines You want to be able to track the health of the data protection be sure that the backup archives do not store duplicated information and that the obsolete bac...

Page 51: ... vaults Multiple Acronis Backup Recovery 10 components can be installed on a machine with a single installation procedure In an Active Directory domain you can deploy the components using the Group Policy Setting up the storage node Before using the storage node make sure that all users that will back up to the node s vaults have Windows accounts on the node If the node is included in an Active Di...

Page 52: ...XP Choose the Custom backup scheme a Schedule full backup as follows Weekly Every 1 week on Sunday Execute the task once at 12 00 00 AM Advanced settings Wake on LAN On You may also want to distribute the backup start time within the time window to optimize the network usage and the storage node CPU load b Schedule incremental backup as follows Weekly Every 1 week on Workdays Execute the task once...

Page 53: ...350 By applying a backup policy to this group you protect all the registered machines The thing is that a single policy may not be satisfactory because of the different roles of the machines The backed up data is specific for each department some data has to be backed up frequently other twice a year so you may want to create various policies applicable to different sets of machines In this case c...

Page 54: ...diagrams below each numbered scheme illustrates the result of the respectively numbered action The container stands for a group the colored circle stands for a machine with applied policy the dark colored circle stands for a machine with two applications of the same policy the white circle stands for a machine to which no policy is applied Policy on a machine 1 A policy can be applied to a machine...

Page 55: ...olor circle stands for a machine with two applied policies the white circle stands for a machine with no policy applied 1 Here is the initial state two custom groups contain different machines A policy is applied to one group another policy is applied to another group The next schemes illustrate results of the specified actions 2 Move to another group Machine 3 is moved from one group to another T...

Page 56: ... that a machine can be a member of only one group besides the All machines group Let s start from this simplified approach In the diagram below the container stands for a group the two color circle stands for a machine with two applied policies the three color circle stands for a machine with three applied policies and so on ...

Page 57: ... both orange and green policies in spite of the fact that G3 has nothing to do with the orange policy That s why it is difficult to track the policies inheritance from the top of the hierarchy if the same machine is included in multiple groups In real life it s much easier to view the inheritance from the machine s side To do so navigate to any group that contains the machine select the machine an...

Page 58: ...ate on the machine is Deploying Once the backup plan is successfully created the policy state on the machine becomes Deployed You may need to modify the policy for some reason Once you confirm the changes the management server updates the policy on all machines the policy was deployed to While the changes are transferred to the machine and the agent updates the backup plan the policy state on the ...

Page 59: ... changed to Deployed If no data to back up is found at the time when the backup task starts the task will fail and the policy status will turn to Error If at least one of the data items is found the backup task will succeed with a warning The policy status will change accordingly The backup tasks will start on schedule as specified by the policy and produce a similar result until all data items ap...

Page 60: ...te and status as related to a specific machine the backup policy has the deployment state and status on a group of machines and the cumulative deployment state and status of the policy 2 11 5 3 Policy deployment state on a group To see this parameter select Machines in the tree then select the group and then select the Backup policies tab on the Information pane This state is defined as a combinat...

Page 61: ...plays the cumulative status for each policy This status is defined as the most severe status of the policy on all machines the policy is applied to If the policy is not applied to any machine its status is OK 2 11 6 Deduplication This section describes deduplication a mechanism designed to eliminate data repetition by storing identical data in archives only once 2 11 6 1 Overview Deduplication is ...

Page 62: ...t 10 GB to the database In case the database is corrupted or the storage node is lost while the vault retains archives and the service folder containing metadata the new storage node rescans the vault and re creates the database 2 11 6 2 How deduplication works Deduplication at source When performing a backup to a deduplicating vault Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agent reads items being backed up dis...

Page 63: ... sources Such is the case when you back up operating systems and applications deployed from a single source over the network When performing incremental backups of similar data from different sources provided that the changes to the data are also similar Such is the case when you deploy updates to these systems and apply the incremental backup Again it is recommended that you first back up one mac...

Page 64: ...s size will be just about 1 GB in a deduplicating vault This gives a deduplication ratio of 2 1 or 50 Conversely if the two files had different content the backup sizes in non deduplicating and duplicating vaults would be the same 2 GB and the deduplication ratio would be 1 1 or 100 What ratio to expect Although in some situations the deduplication ratio may be very high in the previous example in...

Page 65: ...ns is cleared it is cleared by default If the file is less than 4 KB in size If you protected the archive with a password Files that were not deduplicated are stored in the archive as they would be in a non deduplicating vault Deduplication and NTFS data streams In the NTFS file system a file may have one or more additional sets of data associated with it often called alternate data streams When s...

Page 66: ...r remote connection in Windows To establish a remote connection to a machine running Windows the user must be a member of the Acronis Remote Users security group on that machine After remote connection is established the user has management rights on the remote machine as described in User rights on a managed machine p 30 Note On a remote machine running Windows Vista with enabled User Account Con...

Page 67: ...erver remotely by using Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Management Console provided that the user is also a member of the Acronis Centralized Admins group By default this group includes all members of the Administrators group On a domain controller If a machine is a domain controller in an Active Directory domain the names and default contents of Acronis security groups are different Instead of Acronis...

Page 68: ...sers are able to access only the archives they own When creating the accounts follow these guidelines For users whom you want to act as storage node administrators add their accounts to the Administrators group For other users add their user accounts to the Users group Additional right of machine administrators A user who is a member of the Administrators group on a machine can view and manage any...

Page 69: ...orage Node service ASN User The newly created accounts are given the following privileges All three accounts are assigned the Log on as a service user right The Acronis Agent User user account is assigned the Adjust memory quotas for a process and Replace a process level token user rights The Acronis Agent User and ASN User user accounts are included in the Backup Operators group The setup program...

Page 70: ...on between any two components for example between Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agent and Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Storage Node by encrypting the data being transferred For instructions on how to set up secure authentication and data encryption settings see Configuring communication options p 71 For instructions on how to manage SSL certificates used for secure authentication see SSL certificates p...

Page 71: ...t then click Run and then type gpedit msc 2 In the Group Policy console expand Computer Configuration then expand Administrative Templates and then click Acronis 3 In the Acronis pane to the right double click a communication option that you want to configure The Administrative Template contains the following options each option is explained later in this topic Remote Agent ports Client Encryption...

Page 72: ...will not be established Required Data transfer will be performed only if encryption is enabled on the server application see Server Encryption options it will be encrypted Authentication parameters Selecting the Trust self signed certificates check box allows the client to connect to the server applications that use self signed SSL certificates such as certificates created during the installation ...

Page 73: ...ossible The use of SSL certificates is enabled The server will use SSL certificates if their use is enabled on the client application and will not use them otherwise Always use The use of SSL certificates is enabled The connection will be established only if the use of SSL certificates is enabled on the client application Disabled The same as Not configured 2 11 8 4 Network port configuration Acro...

Page 74: ...ertificates issued by a third party Certificate Authority CA for example by a public CA such as VeriSign or Thawte or by your organization s CA Certificate path All Acronis components installed on a machine when acting as a server application use an SSL certificate called the server certificate In Windows the certificate path and the server certificate s file name are specified in the registry key...

Page 75: ...ertificate 1 Log on as a member of the Administrators group 2 In the Start menu click Run and then type cmd 3 Run the following command note quotation marks CommonProgramFiles Acronis Utils acroniscert reinstall 4 Restart Windows or restart the running Acronis services Non self signed certificates You have the option to use trusted third party certificates or certificates created by your organizat...

Page 76: ...ntioned above will be updated accordingly 3 1 2 Pop up messages About tasks that need interaction This option is effective when the console is connected to a managed machine or to the management server The option defines whether to display the pop up window when one or more tasks require user interaction This window enables you to specify your decision such as to confirm reboot or to retry after f...

Page 77: ... The option defines whether to alert if no connection was established between a registered machine and the management server for a period of time so indicating that the machine might not be centrally managed for instance in the case of network connection failure to that machine You can configure the length of time that is considered critical The preset is alert if the machine s last connection to ...

Page 78: ... the Types of events to log combo box to specify the types of events that will be collected All events all events information warnings and errors occurred on all the machines registered on the management server will be recorded to the centralized log Errors and warnings warnings and errors will be recorded to the centralized log Errors only only errors will be recorded to the centralized log To di...

Page 79: ...ent server has to send its own log events to the specified Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP managers You can choose the types of events to be sent Acronis Backup Recovery 10 provides the following Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP objects to SNMP management applications 1 3 6 1 4 1 24769 100 200 1 0 string identifying the type of event Information Warning Error 1 3 6 1 4 1 24769 100 2...

Page 80: ... in the other subnet transfers the packets to machines located in that subnet The preset is Disabled To bring this option into use 1 Install Acronis WOL Proxy on any server in the subnet where the machines to be woken are located The server has to provide continuous services availability With multiple subnets install Acronis WOL Proxy in every subnet where you need to use the Wake On LAN functiona...

Page 81: ...p 294 to the virtual machine s host Such machines appear as not manageable grayed out Once the agent is deployed to an ESX ESXi host this requires a license for Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition the virtual machines from this host are ready for applying a backup policy or individual backup Such machines appear as manageable If Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux is instal...

Page 82: ...e Management Server IP Name 3 Specify the user name and password of the management server administrator on prompt 4 In the Machine s registration address select how the machine will be registered on the management server by its name recommended or by its IP address 5 Click OK and the machine will be registered on the management server To disable centralized management select Stand alone management...

Page 83: ...ffective for both Windows and Linux operating systems This option is not available when operating under the bootable media The option defines whether the agent s operating on the managed machine have to send the log events to the specified Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP managers You can choose the types of events to be sent You can override the settings set here exclusively for the events...

Page 84: ...n the installation disc of your operating system Linux To receive SNMP messages on a machine running Linux the net snmp for RHEL and SUSE or the snmpd for Debian package has to be installed SNMP can be configured using the snmpconf command The default configuration files are located in the etc snmp directory etc snmp snmpd conf configuration file for the Net SNMP SNMP agent etc snmp snmptrapd conf...

Page 85: ...ne 3 4 Default backup and recovery options 3 4 1 Default backup options Each Acronis agent has its own default backup options Once an agent is installed the default options have pre defined values which are referred to as presets in the documentation When creating a backup plan you can either use a default option or override the default option with the custom value that will be specific for this p...

Page 86: ...l differential backup p 98 Backup splitting p 98 File level security p 99 Preserve files security settings in archives In archives store encrypted files in decrypted state Media components p 100 Dest removable media Dest removable media Error handling p 100 Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode Re attempt if an error occurs Ignore bad sectors Dual destination p 101 Dest loc...

Page 87: ...ord field type a password 3 In the Confirm the password field re type the password 4 Select one of the following Do not encrypt the archive will be protected with the password only AES 128 the archive will be encrypted using the Advanced Standard Encryption AES algorithm with a 128 bit key AES 192 the archive will be encrypted using the AES algorithm with a 192 bit key AES 256 the archive will be ...

Page 88: ...ter in Windows Exclude files matching the following criteria Select this check box to skip files whose names match any of the criteria called file masks in the list use the Add Edit Remove and Remove All buttons to create the list of file masks You can use one or more wildcard characters and in a file mask The asterisk substitutes for zero or more characters in a file name for example the file mas...

Page 89: ...Do any of the following Click Edit to specify a new command or a batch file Select the existing command or the batch file from the drop down list 3 Click OK Pre backup command To specify a command batch file to be executed before the backup process starts 1 In the Command field type a command or browse to a batch file The program does not support interactive commands i e commands that require user...

Page 90: ...ds This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems The option enables you to define the commands to be automatically executed before and after data capture that is taking the data snapshot performed by Acronis Backup Recovery 10 at the beginning of the backup procedure The following scheme illustrates when the pre post data capture commands are executed Backup Pre backup comm...

Page 91: ...e Selected Selected Cleared Cleared Result Preset Perform the data capture only after the command is successfully executed Fail the task if the command execution fails Perform the data capture after the command is executed despite execution failure or success N A Perform the data capture concurrently with the command and irrespective of the command execution result Post data capture command To spe...

Page 92: ...d up at the same point in time Choose this setting only if these factors are critical that is backing up files without a snapshot does not make sense To use a snapshot the backup plan has to run under the account with the Administrator or Backup Operator privileges If a snapshot cannot be taken the backup will fail Create a snapshot if it is possible Back up files directly if taking a snapshot is ...

Page 93: ...e taken by Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Backup process is fastest but data consistency of the applications whose transactions are not completed at the time of taking a snapshot cannot be guaranteed You may use Pre Post data capture commands p 90 to indicate which commands should be performed before and after taking the snapshot to ensure that the data is being backed up in a consistent state For ins...

Page 94: ...r to Backup priority This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems The priority of a process running in a system determines the amount of CPU and system resources allocated to that process Decreasing the backup priority will free more resources for other applications Increasing the backup priority might speed up the backup process by requesting the operating system to alloc...

Page 95: ...up data By default the speed is set to maximum i e the software uses all the network bandwidth it can get when transferring the backup data Use this option to reserve a part of the network bandwidth to other network activities The preset is Maximum To set the network connection speed for backup Do any of the following Click Transferring speed stated as a percentage of the estimated maximum speed o...

Page 96: ... server check box to enable a POP server and to set up its settings Incoming mail server POP enter the name of the POP server Port set the port of the POP server By default the port is set to 110 User name enter the user name Password enter the password Select the Use the specified outgoing mail server check box to enable an SMTP server and to set up its settings Outgoing mail server SMTP enter th...

Page 97: ...achine have to log events of the backup operations in the Application Event Log of Windows to see this log run eventvwr exe or select Control Panel Administrative tools Event Viewer You can filter the events to be logged The preset is Use the setting set in the Machine options To select whether to log the backup operations events in the Application Event Log of Windows Choose one of the following ...

Page 98: ... will be sent to Community type the name of the SNMP community to which both the host running the SNMP management application and the sending machine belong The typical community is public Click Send test message to check if the settings are correct Do not send SNMP notifications to disable sending the log events of the backup operations to SNMP managers 3 4 1 12 Fast incremental differential back...

Page 99: ...tined to an FTP server since data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the backup to be split into files no more than 2GB in size 3 4 1 14 File level security These options are effective only for file level backup in Windows operating systems In archives store encrypted files in a decrypted state This option defines whether to decrypt files before saving them to a backup archive The prese...

Page 100: ... the one click approach does not presume user selections such as selecting volumes to recover Acronis One Click Restore always recovers the entire disk If your disk contains several volumes and you are planning to use Acronis One Click Restore include all the volumes in the backup Any volumes missing from the backup will be lost Bootable agent is a bootable rescue utility based on Linux kernel tha...

Page 101: ...r or network share Managed vaults and FTP servers are not supported as secondary destinations The preset is Disabled When dual destination is enabled the agent will automatically copy each backup being created locally to the secondary destination such as a network share Once the backup to the primary destination is completed the agent compares the updated archive contents to the secondary archive ...

Page 102: ... please see Scheduling p 152 and Conditions p 162 The preset is Wait until the conditions are met Wait until the conditions are met With this setting the scheduler starts monitoring the conditions and launches the task as soon as the conditions are met If the conditions are never met the task will never start To handle the situation when the conditions are not met for too long and further delaying...

Page 103: ...on as an attempt completes successfully OR the specified number of attempts is performed depending on which comes first If the task fails because of a mistake in the backup plan you can edit the plan while the task is in the Idle state While the task is running you have to stop it prior to editing the backup plan 3 4 1 20 Tape support These options are effective when the backup destination is a ma...

Page 104: ...cific machine off site When the Use a separate tape set option is enabled there might be a case when the backup has to be written onto a tape that is currently out of the tape library device Define what to do in this case Ask for user interaction the backup task will enter the Need Interaction state and wait for the tape with the required label to be loaded into the tape library device Use a free ...

Page 105: ...hen the option is enabled backing up to removable media may be not possible if the user is away because the program will wait for someone to press OK in the prompt box Hence you should disable the prompt when scheduling a backup to removable media Then if the removable media is available for example a DVD is inserted the task can run unattended Reset archive bit The option is effective only for fi...

Page 106: ...lled deduplication at target Turning off deduplication at source may lead to faster backup processes but greater network traffic and heavier load of the storage node The eventual size of the backup in the vault is independent of whether deduplication at source is turned on Deduplication at source and deduplication at target are described in Deduplication overview p 61 Save software RAID and LVM me...

Page 107: ...ault backup and recovery options Default recovery options from the top menu Availability of the recovery options The set of available recovery options depends on The environment the agent operates in Windows bootable media The type of data being recovered disk file The operating system being recovered from the disk backup The following table summarizes the availability of the recovery options Agen...

Page 108: ...am does not support interactive commands i e commands that require user input for example pause A post recovery command will not be executed if the recovery proceeds with reboot To specify pre post commands 1 Enable pre post commands execution by checking the following options Execute before the recovery Execute after the recovery 2 Do any of the following Click Edit to specify a new command or a ...

Page 109: ...ed 4 If successful execution of the command is critical for you select the Fail the task if the command execution fails check box In case the command execution fails the task run result will be set to Failed When the check box is not selected the command execution result does not affect the task execution failure or success You can track the command execution result by exploring the log or the err...

Page 110: ... and Linux operating systems This option is not available when operating under the bootable media The option enables you to receive e mail notifications about the recovery task s successful completion failure or need for interaction along with the full log of the task The preset is Disabled To configure e mail notification 1 Select the Send e mail notifications check box to activate notifications ...

Page 111: ... WinPopup notifications about about the recovery task s successful completion failure or need for interaction The preset is Disabled Before configuring WinPopup notifications make sure the Messenger service is started on both the machine executing the task and the machine that will receive messages The Messenger service is not started by default in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family Change t...

Page 112: ...ery operations in the Application Event Log SNMP notifications This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems This option is not available when operating under the bootable media The option defines whether the agent s operating on the managed machine have to send the log events of the recovery operations to the specified Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP managers You c...

Page 113: ...teraction it will fail Details of the operation including errors if any can be found in the operation log Re attempt if an error occurs The preset is Enabled Number of attempts 5 Interval between attempts 30 seconds When a recoverable error occurs the program re attempts to perform the unsuccessful operation You can set the time interval and the number of attempts The attempts will be stopped as s...

Page 114: ...perating system has to be recovered Reboot machine after recovery This option is effective when operating under bootable media The preset is Disabled This option enables booting the machine into the recovered operating system without user interaction Change SID after the recovery is finished This option is not effective when recovery to a virtual machine is performed by Acronis Backup Recovery 10 ...

Page 115: ...n through the folders tree Easy archive management A vault is available for access from the Navigation pane Having selected the vault you can browse the archives stored there and perform the following archive management operations get a list of backups included in each archive recover data from a backup examine backup content validate all archives in the vault or individual archives or backups mou...

Page 116: ...n the machines including local plans can use the centralized vault On a machine that is not registered on the management server a user having the privilege to back up to the centralized vault can do so by specifying the full path to the vault If the vault is managed the user s archives as well as other archives stored in the vault will be managed by the storage node Managed vaults The managed vaul...

Page 117: ... the vault is located on a tape library free space space on the storage device where the vault is located For example if the vault is located on a hard disk the vault free space is free space of the appropriate volume occupied space total size of backup archives and their metadata if it is located in the vault The legend displays the following information about the vault for managed vaults only th...

Page 118: ...t the vault type Managed or Unmanaged The procedure of creating centralized vaults is described in depth in the following sections Create a managed centralized vault p 119 Create an unmanaged centralized vault p 121 Edit a managed or an unmanaged vault 1 Select the vault 2 Click Edit Depending on the vault you select managed or unmanaged the respective Edit page will be opened The Edit managed vau...

Page 119: ...f a tape library on a managed vault Click Manage tapes In the Tape Management window define labels for tapes and refresh the inventory For more details see the Managing tape library p 128 section Rescan tapes in a managed vaults Click Rescan tapes Rescan reads information about the content of user selected tapes and updates the storage node database This operation is described in depth in the Resc...

Page 120: ...naged vault will be created 1 Enter the full path to the folder in the Path field or select the desired folder in the folders tree Managed vaults can be organized on the hard drives local to the storage node on a network share on a Storage Area Network SAN on a Network Attached Storage NAS on a tape library locally attached to the storage node To create a new folder for the vault in the selected l...

Page 121: ...e password field re type the password 4 Select one of the following AES 128 the vault contents will be encrypted using the Advanced Standard Encryption AES algorithm with a 128 bit key AES 192 the vault contents will be encrypted using the AES algorithm with a 192 bit key AES 256 the vault contents will be encrypted using the AES algorithm with a 256 bit key 5 Click OK The AES cryptographic algori...

Page 122: ...ancing loads between storage nodes As a result the first node stops managing the vault The second node scans archives in the vault creates and fills up the database corresponding to the vault and starts managing the vault When deleting a managed vault you have the option to retain archives contained in the vault The location resulting from such deletion can also be attached to the same or another ...

Page 123: ...loading mounting rewinding and reading a tape with the full data backup However a tape should be read for example to validate p 360 a backup or to recover data from a backup A tape library can be locally attached to a machine the agent is installed on but only in the case the library is considered as a single tape drive The agent can use such device to write and read data backups but the backup s ...

Page 124: ... on a tape However after this operation all the incremental and differential backups stored on other tapes and based on the deleted backups cannot be used for data recovery In a Custom backup plan s retention rules the If deletion of a backup affects other backups Consolidate the backup option is disabled Only the Postpone the deletion option is available 2 Deduplication p 352 is not available for...

Page 125: ...e storage snap in Control panel Administrative tools Computer management Removable storage Media pools If a tape has moved into the Free pool it is considered as free and will be accessible to write by any application So the tape data will be lost If all the backups are deleted from a tape it will not return to the Free pool It remains in the Acronis pool as a free tape to be reused So if a storag...

Page 126: ...reating only one vault per tape device If all cartridges in a tape library have barcodes and the RSM Free pool contains enough tapes for a chosen backup scheme the library is ready to fully work automatically You can start working with the vault even though all the tape library slots are empty If there are no available tapes in the tape library slots during the backup operation the Tasks Need Inte...

Page 127: ...e same way as with other storage devices The only difference is the additional Tape support p 103 options that can be set up during the backup policy plan creation These options enable you to specify how the created backup policy plan should use tapes from the tape library however the options presets increase usage efficiency of both whole tape library and each tape To view and change the tape opt...

Page 128: ... 3 6 Managing a tape library To manage a tape library the following tasks procedures are in the product Inventory p 128 Rescan p 129 Labeling p 129 Any user with access to a managed vault on a tape library is able to perform these operations However two or more users cannot manage a tape library drive simultaneously because some operations can take minutes hours or even days For example if a user ...

Page 129: ...ges need a barcode or other readable labels If a tape does not get a label you should define it before the tape will be used If you need to apply a specific label for a tape for example MyWork label for a tape dedicated to back up files from the folder C work instead of a barcode label use the Labeling procedure as well To launch the procedure select the tape library vault in the Navigation pane o...

Page 130: ...with such tapes as the program manages all the tapes automatically When this option is enabled the backups belonging to the policy or plan being created will be located on a separate tape set Other backups will not be written to this tape set If the console is connected to the management server The Use a separate tape set option has more precise definitions So for the backup policy to be created y...

Page 131: ... Recovery 10 enables you to achieve full automation of tape rotation while backing up onto tape libraries This section provides you with useful information to choose a backup scheme and tape options for tape rotation To calculate the number of tapes required for tape rotation schemes you can use the method described in the Tape planning p 142 section Choosing a backup scheme When creating a backup...

Page 132: ... backups minimal maximal period of backup keeping need to store tape cartridges off site capability of the tape library number of drives loaders slots and available tapes capacity of tapes requirements for performing data recovery maximal duration You need to analyze every argument that is relevant for your case and select the main criteria for the choice Then choose a backup scheme and specify th...

Page 133: ...s use a free tape For each full backup option is selected Other Always use a free tape options are cleared It requires 16 tapes in rotation GFS Example 3 p 138 The Use a separate tape set option is selected All the Always use a free tape options are selected It requires 28 tapes in rotation These examples demonstrate how the number of tapes required for automated rotation depends on the tape optio...

Page 134: ...rive and mounted and then the backup last 24 Gb is continued onto the beginning of the new tape The next figure demonstrates the data backup archive at the moment The differential backup is drawn as a blue rectangle in the figure Number 1 in the green rectangle marks the incremental backup created on Monday of the 1st week of the year Then the following backups are written onto tape 02 four increm...

Page 135: ...e specified tape options A number in the green rectangle marks an incremental backup created on Monday of the corresponding week of the year Tape usage during the first year The next figure shows the actual usage of the tapes with free space instead of the deleted backups on the first Friday of the following year At the time the differential backup blue rectangle is written onto tape 24 ...

Page 136: ...scheme combination with the specified tape options commonly any data recovery is a long process that requires loading mounting rewinding and reading of one 3 for backups displayed in the Tape usage during the first year figure two 65 or three 32 tapes 22 tapes are used to store 13 monthly full backups when the monthly backup size is less than the size of a tape so keeping data is more expensive 25...

Page 137: ...backups have to be kept during the year the archive will require 28 tapes As the GFS backup scheme forces automatic deletion of the outdated backups on the first Friday of the second year the tapes keep only the backups displayed in the next figure ...

Page 138: ...cted the Always use a free tape For each incremental backup option is selected the Always use a free tape For each differential backup option is selected These options define the tape rotation scheme that is classical for GFS The figure shows the beginning of the rotation scheme that uses 8 tapes for daily backups 6 tapes for weekly backups and 13 tapes for monthly backups since there are 13 four ...

Page 139: ... 5 The Tower of Hanoi scheme with five levels ensures that the roll back period is 8 days Let s designate the backups of the levels with numbers from 1 to 5 by letters A B C D and E respectively Then the rotation template for the backup sequence in the archive is the following E A B A C A B A D A B A C A B A In the five level ToH scheme all the backups on the 1st level A are incremental on the 5th...

Page 140: ...kept on tape 01 at the moment which cannot be deleted as it is a base for actual differential D C B and incremental A backups stored on tape 02 The full backup deletion is postponed until all the above mentioned four backups will be deleted The next figure demonstrates the tapes content at the moment before creation of the new backup on level D At the moment the data archive occupies four tapes an...

Page 141: ... E because at the moment the first full backup is a base for differential backups D C and B are a base for incremental backup A So the full backup deletion is postponed until all the D C B and A backups will be deleted The next figure shows the tape usage at the moment before creating a new backup on level D At the moment the backup archive occupies four tapes It is the maximal number of tapes req...

Page 142: ...evel The example demonstrates that the tapes usage efficiency is reduced Moreover the data recovery requires access to the backups kept on one full backups 6 two differential backups 44 or three incremental backups 50 tapes So on average the operation takes more time than in the previous examples Tape planning Once you have specified the backup scheme and tape options you should determine the mini...

Page 143: ...Use a separate tape set option is selected the Always use a free tape For each full backup option is cleared the Always use a free tape For each incremental backup option is cleared the Always use a free tape For each differential backup option is cleared tape size is T_GB The Tower of Hanoi scheme with four levels A B C and D specifies the following line of backups on the tapes before the first b...

Page 144: ...e number of the tapes that will be free after the deletion So the calculation ignores this probability Tape set 01 should contain round up F_GB 4 D_GB 5 7 I_GB CL T_GB tapes to store the backups Tape set 02 needs round up F_GB 1 D_GB 7 I_GB CL T_GB tapes The sum of the calculated values gives the total number of tapes required for the case 4 1 3 9 What if What if I have to move tapes with backups ...

Page 145: ...g direct connection of the console to a managed machine Personal vaults are specific for each managed machine Personal vaults are visible to any user that can log on to the system A user s right to back up to a personal vault is defined by the user s permission for the folder or device where the vault is located A personal vault can be organized on detachable or removable media Acronis Secure Zone...

Page 146: ...on the selected archives and backups The list of backups is expanded by clicking the plus sign to the left of the archive s name All the archives are grouped by type on the following tabs The Disk archives tab lists all the archives that contain disk or volume backups images The File archives tab lists all the archives that contain file backups Related sections Operations with archives stored in a...

Page 147: ...en to the Validation p 219 page where this vault is already pre selected as a source The vault validation checks all the archives stored in the vault Delete a vault Click Delete The deleting operation actually removes only a shortcut to the folder from the Vaults view The folder itself remains untouched You have the option to keep or delete archives contained in the folder Refresh vault table info...

Page 148: ...ir destination to vault B 4 In the vaults tree select vault B to check whether the archives are displayed If not click Refresh 5 Delete vault A 4 3 Common operations 4 3 1 Operations with archives stored in a vault To perform any operation with an archive you have to select it first If the archive is protected with a password you will be asked to provide it All the operations described below are p...

Page 149: ...ions item of the main menu The following is a guideline for you to perform operations with backups To Do View backup content in a separate window Click View content In the Backup Content window examine the backup content Recover Click Recover The Recover data p 200 page will be opened with the pre selected backup as a source Recover a disk volume as a virtual machine Right click the disk backup th...

Page 150: ...ckup To preserve archive consistency the program will consolidate the two backups For example you delete a full backup but retain the next incremental one The backups will be combined into a single full backup which will be dated the incremental backup date When you delete an incremental or differential backup from the middle of the chain the resulting backup type will be incremental Please be awa...

Page 151: ...010 151 To show or hide columns 1 Right click any column header to open the context menu The menu items that are ticked off correspond to the column headers presented in the table 2 Click the items you want to be displayed hidden ...

Page 152: ...the user s account System startup Free space change specify the amount of free space change on any volume selected for backup or containing data selected for backup An event in Windows event log specify the parameters of the event Condition For backup operations only you can specify a condition or multiple conditions in addition to the events Once any of the events occurs the scheduler checks the ...

Page 153: ...ute the task area select one of the following Once at Set up the time at which the task will be run once Every From Until Set up how many times the task will be restarted during the specified time interval For example setting the task frequency to Every 1 hour From 10 00 00 AM until 10 00 00 PM allows the task to run 12 times from 10 AM to 10 PM during one day In the Effective area set the followi...

Page 154: ... s creation time the task will be started when the nearest time interval comes at 03 00 PM in our example To 12 15 2009 On this date the task will be performed for the last time but the task itself is still available in the Tasks view Several daily schedules for one task There are some cases when you might need the task to be run several times a day or even several times a day with different time ...

Page 155: ...til 10 00 00 PM allows the task to be run 12 times from 10 AM to 10 PM during one day In the Effective area set the following settings From Set up a date when this schedule will be enabled an effective date If this check box is cleared the task will be started on the nearest day and time you have specified above To Set up a date when this schedule will be disabled If this check box is cleared the ...

Page 156: ...e same day at 9 PM If the task was created say on Friday after 9 PM then it will be started for the first time on the nearest workday Monday in our example at 9 PM End date empty The task will be restarted for an indefinite number of weeks This schedule is widely used when creating a custom backup scheme The Workdays like schedule is added to the incremental backups while the full backup is schedu...

Page 157: ... one of the following Once at Set up the time at which the task will be run once Every From Until Set up how many times the task will be run during the specified time interval For example setting the task frequency to Every 1 hour From 10 00 00 AM until 10 00 00 PM allows the task to be run 12 times from 10 AM to 10 PM during one day In the Effective area set the following settings From Set up a d...

Page 158: ...s are set up as follows 1 Months September October November 2 On all workdays 3 Every 6 hours From 12 00 00 AM Until 06 00 00 PM 4 Effective From 08 30 2009 Actually the task will be started on the first workday of September By setting up this date we just define that the task must be started in 2009 To 12 01 2010 Actually the task will end on the last workday of November By setting up this date w...

Page 159: ... backup task on each machine starts with a delay see the next setting the management server will wake up the machines according to those delays Before using this setting make sure that you have enabled Wake on LAN on the registered machines The machine s basic input output system BIOS configuration network adapter configuration and the operating system configuration must allow waking up the machin...

Page 160: ...time within the time window Maximum delay 1 Hour s Distribution method Random Then the time of the task s first run on each machine may be any time between 09 00 00 AM and 09 59 59 AM the interval between the first and the second run is exactly two hours for instance First machine Every day at 09 30 03 AM and 11 30 03 AM Second machine Every day at 09 00 00 AM and 11 00 00 AM Third machine Every d...

Page 161: ...e disk and Event ID 15 occurs when a disk is not ready for access yet Examples Bad block emergency backup One or more bad blocks that have suddenly appeared on a hard disk usually indicate that the hard disk drive will soon fail Suppose that you want to create a backup plan that will back up hard disk data as soon as such a situation occurs When Windows detects a bad block on a hard disk it record...

Page 162: ... as the event source shown in the Source field and the event number shown in the Event ID field When you are finished click OK to close the Event Properties dialog box 5 6 Conditions Conditions add more flexibility to the scheduler enabling to execute backup tasks with respect to certain conditions Once a specified event occurs see the Scheduling section for the list of available events the schedu...

Page 163: ...at 9PM preferably when the user is idle If the user is still active by 11PM run the task anyway Event Daily every 1 day s Once at 09 00 00 PM Condition User is idle Task start conditions Wait until the conditions are met Run the task anyway after 2 hour s As a result 1 If the user becomes idle before 9PM the backup task will start at 9PM 2 If the user becomes idle between 9PM and 11PM the backup t...

Page 164: ...ff at any other time do not back up the users data i e skip task execution Event When logging off The following user Any user Condition Fits the time interval from 04 30 00 PM until 10 00 00 PM Task start conditions Skip the task execution As a result 1 if the user logs off between 04 30 00 PM and 10 00 00 PM the backup task will start immediately following the logging off 2 if the user logs off a...

Page 165: ...at 11PM the backup task starts anyway 5 6 5 Time since last backup Applies to Windows Linux Enables to put a backup task run on hold until the specified time interval since the last successful backup completion passes Example Run the backup task at system startup but only if more than 12 hours have passed since the last successful backup Event At startup Start the task on machine startup Condition...

Page 166: ...you can examine the reason of failure Tasks that need interaction X Resolve Each time a task needs human interaction the Dashboard shows a message to inform you what action has to be performed for example insert new CD or Stop Retry Ignore on an error Failed to check the license for the current edition X day s remaining until the software stops working Please make sure you have a valid license on ...

Page 167: ... will launch the Bootable Media Builder p 357 No backups have been created for X days Back up now The Dashboard warns you that no data was backed up on the machine for a relatively long period of time Back up now will take you to Create a Backup Plan page where you can instantly configure and run the backup operation To configure the time interval that is considered as critical select Options Cons...

Page 168: ...xecution states in the Backup plans and tasks p 168 view and specify your decision on each task in the Information panel or in the Task details p 176 window 6 1 2 Backup plans and tasks The Backup plans and tasks view keeps you informed of data protection on a given machine It lets you monitor and manage backup plans and tasks A backup plan is a set of rules that specify how the given data will be...

Page 169: ...g Otherwise see 4 Waiting for condition This situation is quite normal but delaying a backup for too long is risky The solution may be to set the maximum delay or force the condition tell the user to log off enable the required network connection Waiting while another task locks the necessary resources A one time waiting case may occur when a task start is delayed or a task run lasts much longer t...

Page 170: ...s started manually or the event specified by the schedule occurs the task enters either the Running state or the Waiting state Running A task changes to the Running state when the event specified by the schedule occurs AND all the conditions set in the backup plan are met AND no other task that locks the necessary resources is running In this case nothing prevents the task from running Waiting A t...

Page 171: ...d task Check the task log to find out the reason of the failure then do one or more of the following Remove the reason of the failure optionally Start the failed task manually Edit the failed task to prevent its future failure Edit the local plan to prevent its future failure in case a local plan has failed Edit the backup policy on the management server in case a centralized plan has failed 2 War...

Page 172: ...ils View plan s task s log Backup plan Click View log You will be taken to the Log p 179 view containing the list of the plan related log entries Task Click View log You will be taken to the Log p 179 view containing the list of the task related log entries Run a plan task Backup plan Click Run In the Run Backup Plan p 176 window select the task you need to be run Running the backup plan starts th...

Page 173: ... The task schedule if created remains valid To complete the operation you will have to run the task over again recovery task from the disk backup The target volume will be deleted and its space unallocated you will get the same result if the recovery is unsuccessful To recover the lost volume you will have to run the task once again recovery task from the file backup The aborted operation may caus...

Page 174: ...ently running Editing of the currently running backup plan is impossible Do not have the appropriate privilege Without the Administrator privileges on the machine a user cannot edit plans owned by other users The backup plan has a centralized origin Direct editing of centralized backup plans is not possible You need to edit the original backup policy Task Click Edit Why can t I edit the task Task ...

Page 175: ...eges on the machine a user cannot delete tasks owned by other users Refresh table Click Refresh The management console will update the list of backup plans and tasks existing on the machine with the most recent information Though the list is refreshed automatically based on events the data may not be retrieved immediately from the managed machine due to some latency Manual refresh guarantees that ...

Page 176: ...lan Temporarily disabling a backup plan is needed when moving archives from one vault to another by means of the third party file manager Applies to backup plans that use custom backup schemes only To disable a backup plan 1 Click Edit 2 Enter the backup scheme scheduling option and disable the schedule for the desired period by changing the Start date and or End date parameters Task details The T...

Page 177: ...ement operations Compacting Service task performed on a storage node Indexing Deduplication task performed by the storage node in the vault after a backup is completed Depending on the type of task and whether it is running or not a combination of the following tabs will appear Task The Task tab is common for all types of tasks It provides general information on the selected task Archive The Archi...

Page 178: ...nder which the plan runs Owner the name of the user who created or last modified the plan State execution state p 169 of the backup plan Status status p 169 of the backup plan Schedule whether the task is scheduled or set to start manually Last backup how much time has passed since the last backup Creation backup plan creation date Comments description of the plan if provided Source The Source tab...

Page 179: ...en the Log view with pre filtered log entries for the item in question Thus you do not have to configure filters in the log table yourself View Action Dashboard In the calendar right click on any highlighted date and then select View log The Log view appears with the list of log entries already filtered by the date in question Backup plans and tasks Select a backup plan or a task and then click Vi...

Page 180: ...he log entries 2 In the To field select the date up to which to display the log entries Filter log entries by type Press or release the following toolbar buttons to filter error messages to filter warning messages to filter information messages Filter log entries by the original backup plan or managed entity type Under the Backup plan or Managed entity type column header select the backup plan or ...

Page 181: ...ner user name of the backup plan owner only under operating system Message a text description of the event The log entry s details that you copy will have the appearance as follows Log Entry Details Type Information Date and time DD MM YYYY HH MM SS Backup plan Backup plan name Task Task name Message Description of the operation Code 12 3x45678A Module Module name Owner Owner of the plan Date and ...

Page 182: ...is the sequence number of the archive in the location you have selected Access credentials p 188 Optional Provide credentials for the location if the plan account does not have access permissions to the location To access this option select the Advanced view check box Archive comments Optional Enter comments on the archive To access this option select the Advanced view check box How to back up Bac...

Page 183: ...al Specify whether to convert every full every incremental or every differential backup or convert the last created backup on schedule Specify the conversion schedule if required Host p 199 Specify the machine that will perform the conversion The machine has to have Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agent for Windows Agent for ESX ESXi or Agent for Hyper V installed Virtualization server p 199 Here you s...

Page 184: ...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 Rec...

Page 185: ...me backup stores all other files and folders of the selected volume independent of their attributes including hidden and system files the boot record the file allocation table FAT if it exists the root and the zero track of the hard disk with the master boot record MBR The boot code of GPT volumes is not backed up A disk backup stores all volumes of the selected disk including hidden volumes such ...

Page 186: ... of the following parameters Exclude all hidden files and folders Select this check box to skip files and folders with the Hidden attribute If a folder is Hidden all of its contents including files that are not Hidden will be excluded Exclude all system files and folders Select this check box to skip files and folders with the System attribute If a folder is System all of its contents including fi...

Page 187: ...rk share which is mounted on a mount point such as mnt share select this mount point instead of the network share itself To back up data to an FTP or SFTP server type the server name or address in the Path field as follows ftp ftp_server port _number or sftp sftp_server port number If the port number is not specified port 21 is used for FTP and port 22 is used for SFTP After entering access creden...

Page 188: ...t be lost in the archive content Backup plans that operate with the same archive should back up the same data items say both plans back up volume C 2 Applying multiple retention rules to an archive makes the archive content in some way unpredictable Since each of the rules will be applied to the entire archive the backups belonging to one backup plan can be easily deleted along with the backups be...

Page 189: ...kup levels up to 16 In this scheme the data can be backed up more than once a day By setting up the backup schedule and selecting backup levels you automatically obtain the rollback period the guaranteed number of sessions that you can go back at any time The automatic cleanup mechanism maintains the required rollback period by deleting the expired backups and keeping the most recent backups of ea...

Page 190: ...tention periods for backups of each type Description Let us suppose that we want to set up a backup plan that will regularly produce a series of daily D weekly W and monthly M backups Here is a natural way to do this the following table shows a sample two month period for such a plan Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Jan 1 Jan 7 D D D D W Jan 8 Jan 14 D D D D W Jan 15 Jan 21 D D D D W Jan 22 Jan 28 D D D D M J...

Page 191: ...until all backups that directly depend on it become subject to deletion as well This is why you might see a weekly or a monthly backup remain in the archive for a few days past its expected expiration date If the schedule starts with a daily or a weekly backup a full backup is created instead Examples Each day of the past week each week of the past month Let us consider a GFS backup scheme that ma...

Page 192: ... to recover a previous version of a damaged file from a daily backup as well as 10 day access to weekly backups Each monthly full backup will be available for six months since the creation date Work schedule Suppose you are a part time financial consultant and work in a company on Tuesdays and Thursdays On these days you often make changes to your financial documents statements and update the spre...

Page 193: ...nce Up to 16 levels of full differential and incremental backups Next level backups are twice as rare as previous level backups One backup of each level is stored at a time Higher density of more recent backups Parameters You can set up the following parameters of a Tower of Hanoi scheme Schedule Set up a daily p 153 weekly p 155 or monthly p 157 schedule Setting up schedule parameters allows crea...

Page 194: ...backups accumulate toward the current time Having four backups we could recover data as of today yesterday half a week or a week ago Roll back period The number of days we can go back in the archive is different on different days The minimum number of days we are guaranteed to have is called the roll back period The following table shows full backup and roll back periods for schemes of various lev...

Page 195: ...rs Parameter Meaning Full backup Specifies on what schedule and under which conditions to perform a full backup For example the full backup can be set up to run every Sunday at 1 00 AM as soon as all users are logged off Incremental Specifies on what schedule and under which conditions to perform an incremental backup If the archive contains no backups at the time of the task run a full backup is ...

Page 196: ...re can be set up to run after each backup and also on schedule This option is available only if you have set at least one retention rule in Retention rules Cleanup schedule only if On schedule is selected Specifies a schedule for archive cleanup For example the cleanup can be scheduled to start on the last day of each month This option is available only if you selected On schedule in Apply the rul...

Page 197: ...l wait until all users are logged off and users are idle respectively Finally we create retention rules for the archive let us retain only backups that are no older than six months and let the cleanup be performed after each backup task and also on the last day of every month Retention rules Delete backups older than 6 months Apply the rules After backing up On schedule Cleanup schedule Monthly on...

Page 198: ...archive will validate all the archive s backups and may take a long time and a lot of system resources 3 Validation schedule appears only if you have selected the on schedule in step 1 set the schedule of validation For more information see the Scheduling p 152 section 6 2 11 Setting up regular conversion to a virtual machine When creating a backup plan p 181 you can set up regular conversion of a...

Page 199: ...he management server because such machines are not supposed to be backed up What is the host s processing power The conversion task will be created on the machine being backed up and will use this machine s date and time In fact the task will be executed by the host that you select and so will take that host s CPU resource If multiple backup plans use the same host multiple conversion tasks will b...

Page 200: ...ackup to a new virtual machine of any of the following types VMware Workstation Microsoft Virtual PC Parallels Workstation or Citrix XenServer virtual appliance The virtual appliance can then be imported to XenServer The VMware Workstation machine can be converted to the open virtualization format OVF using the VMware OVF tool With Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper V or Agent for ESX ESXi...

Page 201: ...ore p 47 for details Files p 210 You may have to specify credentials for the destination Skip this step when operating on a machine booted with bootable media Access credentials p 211 Optional Provide credentials for the destination if the task credentials do not enable recovery of the selected data To access this option select the Advanced view check box When to recover Recover p 211 Select when ...

Page 202: ...gged on If the task has to run on schedule you will be asked for the current user s password on completing the task creation Use the following credentials The task will always run under the credentials you specify whether started manually or executed on schedule Specify User name When entering the name of an Active Directory user account be sure to also specify the domain name DOMAIN Username or U...

Page 203: ...s means that the user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer If the archive is stored on a locally attached tape device expand the Tape drives group then click the required device 2 In the table to the right of the tree select the archive The table displays the names of the archives contained in each vault folder you select While you are reviewing the locati...

Page 204: ... by selecting the corresponding check boxes in the archives tree Selecting a folder automatically selects all its nested folders and files Use the table to the right of the archives tree to select the nested items Selecting the check box for the Name column s header automatically selects all items in the table Clearing this check box automatically deselects all the items 3 Click OK 6 3 5 Access cr...

Page 205: ... virtual machine files will be saved to the destination you specify If Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper V or Agent for ESX ESXi is installed These agents enable creating a new virtual machine on the virtualization server you specify The new virtual machine will be configured automatically the source machine configuration being copied where possible The configuration is displayed in the V...

Page 206: ...d on the disk and programs won t find their files The operating system on that disk will be unbootable To retain system bootability on the target disk volume choose one of the following Select automatically A new NT signature will be created only if the existing one differs from the one in the backup Otherwise the existing NT signature will be kept Create new The program will generate a new NT sig...

Page 207: ...ble when the Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper V or Agent for ESX ESXi is installed On selecting this you specify the virtualization server and the target virtual machine Then you proceed to the regular volume mapping procedure described below Please be aware that the target machine will be powered off automatically before recovery If you prefer to power it off manually modify the VM powe...

Page 208: ...volume s type You can change this setting if required Primary Information about primary volumes is contained in the MBR partition table Most operating systems can boot only from the primary volume of the first hard disk but the number of primary volumes is limited If you are going to recover a system volume to a basic MBR disk select the Active check box Active volume is used for loading an operat...

Page 209: ...eft part of the window select the virtualization server Use the right part of the window to review details on the selected server 3 Click OK to return to the Data recovery page To select the type of virtual machine 1 Choose the Save as files of the VM type that I select to the folder that I specify option 2 In the left part of the window select the virtual machine type Use the right part of the wi...

Page 210: ...sts A multicore host CPU or hyperthreading may enable multiple virtual processors on a single processor host 6 3 6 5 File destination To specify a destination 1 Select a location to recover the backed up files to Original location files and folders will be recovered to the same path s as they are in the backup For example if you have backed up all files and folders in C Documents Finance Reports t...

Page 211: ...priority over the file on the hard disk Overwrite existing file if it is older this will give priority to the most recent file modification whether it be in the backup or on the disk Do not overwrite existing file this will give the file on the hard disk priority over the file in the backup If you allow files to be overwritten you still have an option to prevent overwriting of specific files by ex...

Page 212: ...ivers in the exe cab or zip format extract them using a third party application such as WinRAR http www rarlab com or Universal Extractor http legroom net software uniextract The best practice is to store drivers for all the hardware used in your organization in a single repository sorted by device type or by the hardware configurations You can keep a copy of the repository on a DVD or a flash dri...

Page 213: ...t in the Mass storage drivers to install anyway step Use drivers bundled with your virtual machine software or download the latest drivers versions from the software manufacturer Web site 6 3 10 How to convert a disk backup to a virtual machine Rather than converting a TIB file to a virtual disk file which requires additional operations to bring the virtual disk into use Acronis Backup Recovery 10...

Page 214: ...ystem will not boot This cannot be fixed by changing the boot device order in BIOS because a Virtual PC ignores these settings 10 In When to recover specify when to start the recovery task 11 Optionally Review Recovery options and change the settings from the default ones if need be You can specify in Recovery options VM power management whether to start the new virtual machine automatically after...

Page 215: ...t is on the file system of one of the volumes System bootability can be recovered automatically only when the GRUB resides in the first several sectors of the disk and on the file system to which direct access is possible In other cases the user has to manually reactivate the boot loader Solution Reactivate the boot loader You might also need to fix the configuration file The system uses Linux Loa...

Page 216: ...r Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions for example as follows vi mnt system boot grub menu lst 6 In the menu lst file respectively grub conf find the menu item that corresponds to the system you are recovering This menu items have the following form title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 2 6 24 4 root hd0 0 kernel vmlinuz 2 6 24 4 ro root dev sda2 rhgb quiet initrd initrd 2 6 24 4 img ...

Page 217: ...sk 0 rdisk 0 partition 1 WINDOWS Microsoft Windows XP Professional noexecute optin fastdetect Windows Vista 2008 A part of the loader resides in the partition boot sector the rest is in the files bootmgr boot bcd At starting Windows boot bcd is mounted to the registry key HKLM BCD00000000 6 3 12 Recovering a vast number of files from a file backup Applies to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 When reco...

Page 218: ...disk backup of the machine where the storage node itself is installed This section describes how to recover the storage node registered on the management server in case the storage node and the management server are installed on different machines if they are installed on the same machine simply recover that machine Consider the following scenario You have a machine with the management server and ...

Page 219: ...ive or of the latest backup in the archive can be scheduled as part of the backup plan For more information see the Creating a backup plan p 181 section You can access the Validation page from the Vaults p 115 view Right click the object to validate archive backup or vault and select Validate from the context menu The Validation page will be opened with the pre selected object as a source All you ...

Page 220: ...ee the User privileges on a managed machine p 30 section 6 4 2 Archive selection Selecting the archive 1 Enter the full path to the location in the Path field or select the desired folder in the folders tree If the archive is stored in a centralized vault expand the Centralized group and click the vault If the archive is stored in a personal vault expand the Personal group and click the vault If t...

Page 221: ...w displays the selected backup content assisting you to find the right backup 2 Click OK 6 4 4 Location selection To select a location Enter the full path to the location in the Path field or select the desired location in the folders tree To select a centralized vault expand the Centralized group and click the appropriate vault To select a personal vault expand the Personal group and click the ap...

Page 222: ...it makes sense to schedule validation to the managed machine s off peak period On the other hand if you prefer to be immediately informed whether the data is not corrupted and can be successfully recovered consider starting validation right after the task creation Choose one of the following Now to start the validation task right after its creation that is after clicking OK on the Validation page ...

Page 223: ...nced view check box Mount settings Volumes p 225 Select volumes to mount and configure the mount settings for every volume assign a letter or enter the mount point choose the read write or read only access mode When you complete all the required steps click OK to mount the volumes 6 5 1 Archive selection Selecting the archive 1 Enter the full path to the location in the Path field or select the de...

Page 224: ... by another user or by the program itself according to scheduled operations Use the Refresh button to refresh the list of archives 3 Click OK 6 5 2 Backup selection To select a backup 1 Select one of the backups by its creation date time 2 To assist you with choosing the right backup the bottom table displays the volumes contained in the selected backup To obtain information on a volume right clic...

Page 225: ...ume is mounted you can browse files and folders contained in the backup using a file manager and copy the desired files to any destination Thus if you need to take out only a few files and folders from a volume backup you do not have to perform the recovery procedure Exploring images Exploring mounted volumes lets you view and modify if mounted in the read write mode the volume s content To explor...

Page 226: ...idered as simple on demand archive staging The resulting archive s name By default the exported archive inherits the name of the original archive Because having multiple archives of the same names in the same location is not advisable the following actions are disabled with the default archive name exporting part of an archive to the same location exporting an archive or part of an archive to a lo...

Page 227: ...rly running the archive deletion task followed by the export task Different ways to create an export task Using the Export page is the most general way to create an export task Here you can export any backup or archive you have permission to access You can access the Export page from the Vaults view Right click the object to export archive or backup and select Export from the context menu The Expo...

Page 228: ...ials you specify whether started manually or executed on schedule Specify User name When entering the name of an Active Directory user account be sure to also specify the domain name DOMAIN Username or Username domain Password The password for the account 2 Click OK To learn more about using credentials in Acronis Backup Recovery 10 see the Owners and credentials p 30 section To learn more about o...

Page 229: ...epted by an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer If the archive is stored on a locally attached tape device expand the Tape drives group then click the required device For the management server in the folders tree select the managed vault 2 In the table to the right of the tree select the archive The table displays the names of the archives contained in each vault folder you select If the archive i...

Page 230: ...l folders group and click the required folder To export data to a network share expand the Network folders group select the required networked machine and then click the shared folder If the network share requires access credentials the program will ask for them Note for Linux users To specify a Common Internet File System CIFS network share which is mounted on a mount point such as mnt share sele...

Page 231: ... of an archive to the same location twice In any of the above cases provide an archive name that is unique to the destination folder or vault If you need to redo the export using the same archive name first delete the archive that resulted from the previous export operation 6 7 6 Access credentials for destination Specify credentials required for access to the location where the resulting archive ...

Page 232: ...onal Protect the Acronis Secure Zone from unauthorized access with a password The prompt for the password appear at any operation relating to the zone After you configure the required settings click OK In the Result confirmation p 233 window review the expected layout and click OK to start creating the zone 6 8 1 1 Acronis Secure Zone Disk The Acronis Secure Zone can be located on any fixed hard d...

Page 233: ... field re type the password 4 Click OK To disable password 1 Choose Do not use 2 Click OK 6 8 1 4 Result confirmation The Result confirmation window displays the expected partition layout according to the settings you have chosen Click OK if you are satisfied with the layout and the Acronis Secure Zone creation will start How the settings you make will be processed This helps you to understand how...

Page 234: ...e archives To learn more about operations with vaults see the Vaults p 115 section 6 8 2 1 Increasing Acronis Secure Zone To increase Acronis Secure Zone 1 On the Manage Acronis Secure Zone page click Increase 2 Select volumes from which free space will be used to increase the Acronis Secure Zone 3 Specify the new size of the zone by dragging the slider and selecting any size between the current a...

Page 235: ...nates the need for a separate media or network connection to start the bootable rescue utility Activate Enables the boot time prompt Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager if you do not have the GRUB boot loader or adds the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager item to GRUB s menu if you have GRUB If the system fails to boot you will be able to start the bootable rescue utility by pressing F11 ...

Page 236: ... server or WDS RIS using the same wizard Linux based bootable media Linux based media contains Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Bootable Agent based on Linux kernel The agent can boot and perform operations on any PC compatible hardware including bare metal and machines with corrupted or non supported file systems The operations can be configured and controlled either locally or remotely using the manag...

Page 237: ...erver 2003 with Service Pack 1 PE 1 6 Windows Vista PE 2 0 Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 PE 2 1 Windows 7 PE 3 0 If you already have media with PE1 x distribution unpack the media ISO to a local folder and start the Bootable Media Builder either from the management console by selecting Tools Create Bootable Media or as a separate component The wizard will guide you through the necessar...

Page 238: ...be enabled if Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Universal Restore is installed on the machine where the media is created 3 optional The timeout interval for the boot menu plus the component that will automatically start on timeout If not configured the Acronis loader waits for someone to select whether to boot the operating system if present or the Acronis component If you set say 10 sec for the bootable...

Page 239: ...h a particular hardware configuration vga ask Prompts for the video mode to be used by the bootable media s graphical user interface Without the vga parameter the video mode is detected automatically vga mode_number Specifies the video mode to be used by the bootable media s graphical user interface The mode number is given by mode_number in the hexadecimal format for example vga 0x318 Screen reso...

Page 240: ...may want to use this parameter if the kernel is unable to allocate interrupt requests IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on the motherboard These calls might not work properly on some machines But this may be the only way to get the interrupt routing table Network settings While creating Acronis bootable media you have an option to pre configure network connections that will be used by the boota...

Page 241: ...f the network adapters for communication with the management console through the production network Automatic configuration could be done for this connection Sizeable data for recovery could be transferred through the second NIC included in the dedicated backup network by means of static TCP IP settings Network port While creating bootable media you have an option to pre configure the network port...

Page 242: ...emove 6 10 1 2 Adding the Acronis Plug in to WinPE 1 x Acronis Plug in for WinPE can be added to Windows PE 2004 1 5 Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 Windows PE 2005 1 6 Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 To add Acronis Plug in to WinPE 1 x 1 Unpack all files of your WinPE 1 x ISO to a separate folder on the hard disk 2 Start the Bootable Media Builder either from the management co...

Page 243: ... Select Use WinPE files located in the folder I specify Specify path to the folder where the WinPE files are located 4 optional Specify Windows drivers to be added to Windows PE Once you boot a machine into Windows PE the drivers can help you access the device where the backup archive is located Click Add and specify the path to the necessary inf file for a corresponding SCSI RAID SATA controller ...

Page 244: ...he media to create 11 Build the Bart PE 12 Burn the ISO to CD or DVD if this has not been done yet or copy to a flash drive Once the machine boots into the Bart PE and you configure the network connection select Go System Storage Acronis Backup Recovery 10 to start 6 10 2 Connecting to a machine booted from media Once a machine boots from bootable media the machine terminal displays a startup wind...

Page 245: ...onfiguration monitor and graphics card specifications If for some reason the video mode is detected incorrectly do the following 1 In the boot menu press F11 2 Add to the command prompt the following command vga ask and then proceed with booting 3 From the list of supported video modes choose the appropriate one by typing its number for example 318 and then press ENTER If you do not wish to follow...

Page 246: ...ces click Add device 4 Specify the 20 character device ID 5 If you want to allow writing data onto the device specify the five character write key Without this key the device will be available in the read only mode 6 Click OK 6 10 4 List of commands and utilities available in Linux based bootable media Linux based bootable media contains the following commands and command line utilities which you ...

Page 247: ...eate the volume structure in either of the following ways Automatically in Linux based bootable media by using the management console or a script see Creating the volume structure automatically p 247 Manually by using the lvm utility see Creating the volume structure manually p 248 6 10 5 1 Creating the volume structure automatically Suppose that you saved the volume structure to the etc Acronis d...

Page 248: ...5 Return to the management console by pressing CTRL ALT F1 or by running the command bin product 6 Click Recover then specify the path to the archive and any other required parameters and then click OK If Acronis Backup Recovery 10 could not create the volume structure or if it is not present in the archive create the structure manually 6 10 5 2 Creating the volume structure manually The following...

Page 249: ...lowing disk configuration The machine has two 1 gigabyte and two 2 gigabyte SCSI hard disks mounted on dev sda dev sdb dev sdc and dev sdd respectively The first and second pairs of hard disks are configured as two MD devices both in the RAID 1 configuration and are mounted on dev md0 and dev md1 respectively A logical volume is based on the two MD devices and is mounted on dev my_volgroup my_logv...

Page 250: ...t the backup from which you want to recover data 4 In Data type select Volumes 5 In Items to recover select the check box next to my_volgroup my_logvol 6 Under Where to recover click Change and then select the logical volume that you created in Step 1 Click the chevron buttons to expand the list of disks 7 Click OK to start the recovery For a complete list of commands and utilities that you can us...

Page 251: ... reduces the time required for booting multiple machines as compared to using physical bootable media Bootable components are uploaded to Acronis PXE Server using Acronis Bootable Media Builder To upload bootable components start the Bootable Media Builder either from the management console by selecting Tools Create bootable media or as a separate component and follow the step by step instructions...

Page 252: ... and DHCP on the same server If Acronis PXE Server and the DHCP server are on the same machine add to the DHCP server option 60 Client Identifier with string value PXE Client This can be done as follows C WINDOWS system32 netsh netsh dhcp netsh dhcp server server_machine_name or IP address netsh dhcp add optiondef 60 PXEClient STRING 0 comment Option added for PXE support netsh dhcp set optionvalu...

Page 253: ...imple rules 1 Create a disk image of the disk on which volumes will be created or managed Having your most important data backed up to another hard disk or CD will allow you to work on disk volumes being reassured that your data is safe Acronis Backup Recovery 10 is an extremely effective comprehensive data backup and recovery solution It creates a data or disk backup copy stored in a compressed a...

Page 254: ...hrough the Disk management view of the console The top part of the view contains a disks and volumes table enabling data sorting and columns customization and toolbar The table presents the numbers of the disks as well as assigned letter label type capacity free space size used space size file system and status for each volume The toolbar comprises of icons to launch the Undo Redo and Commit actio...

Page 255: ...and you will not be able to store any files there Acronis Disk Director Lite will detect that the disk is unusable by the system and needs to be initialized The Disk management view will show the newly detected hardware as a gray block with a grayed icon thus indicating that the disk is unusable by the system If you need to initialize a disk 1 Select a disk to initialize 2 Right click on the selec...

Page 256: ...cably Cloning method and advanced options The Clone basic disk operation usually means that the information from the source disk is transferred to the target As is So if the destination disk is the same size and even if it is larger it is possible to transfer all the information there exactly as it is stored at the source But with the wide range of available hardware it is normal that the target d...

Page 257: ... target disk signature and update the operating system according to the signature If you need to copy the NT signature 1 Select the Copy NT signature check box You receive the warning If there is an operating system on the hard disk uninstall either the source or the target hard disk drive from your machine prior to starting the machine again Otherwise the OS will start from the first of the two a...

Page 258: ...t to basic operation 2 Basic disk conversion MBR to GPT using the Convert to GPT operation 3 GPT disk conversion basic to dynamic p 258 using the Convert to dynamic operation 6 11 5 4 Disk conversion GPT to MBR If you plan to install an OS that does not support GPT disks conversion of the GPT disk to MBR is possible the name of the operation will be listed as Convert to MBR If you need to convert ...

Page 259: ...m volumes takes a certain amount of time and any power loss unintentional turning off of the machine or accidental pressing of the Reset button during the procedure could result in bootability loss In contrast to Windows Disk Manager the program ensures bootability of an offline operating system on the disk after the operation 6 11 5 6 Disk conversion dynamic to basic You would want to convert dyn...

Page 260: ...ays appears in the graphical view of the disk next to the disk s name Online The online status means that a disk is accessible in the read write mode This is the normal disk status If you need a disk to be accessible in the read only mode select the disk and then change its status to offline by selecting Change disk status to offline from the Operations menu Offline The offline status means that a...

Page 261: ... linked together by the LDM from several physical disks Up to 32 disks can be included into one volume thus overcoming the hardware size limitations but if at least one disk fails all data will be lost and no part of a spanned volume may be removed without destroying the entire volume So a spanned volume provides no additional reliability nor a better I O rate Striped Volume A volume also sometime...

Page 262: ...provides other disk management functions Its pages will enable you to enter operation parameters proceeding step by step further on and return to any previous step if necessary to change any previously selected options To help you with your choices each parameter is supplemented with detailed instructions If you want to create a volume Run the Create volume wizard by selecting Create volume on the...

Page 263: ...will proceed to the next page Set the volume size p 263 Set the volume size On the third wizard page you will be able to define the size of the future volume according to the previously made selections In order to choose the necessary size between the minimum and the maximum values use the slider or enter the necessary values into the special windows between the minimum and the maximum values or c...

Page 264: ...t button will be disabled You will have to change the label to proceed with the creation of the new volume If you click the Back button you will be returned to the previous page Set the volume size p 263 If you click the Finish button you will complete the operation planning To perform the planned operation click Commit in the toolbar and then click Proceed in the Pending Operations window If you ...

Page 265: ...You will have to confirm your decision to set the new volume as active To finish the added operation you will have to commit p 267 it Exiting the program without committing the pending operations will effectively cancel them The new volume structure will be graphically represented in the Disk management view immediately 6 11 6 4 Change volume letter Windows operating systems assign letters C D etc...

Page 266: ...ng operations will effectively cancel them The new label will be graphically represented in the Disk Management view of the console immediately 6 11 6 6 Format volume You might want to format a volume if you want to change its file system to save additional space which is being lost due to the cluster size on the FAT16 or FAT32 file systems as a quick and more or less reliable way of destroying da...

Page 267: ...e Undo action lets you undo the latest operation in the list While the list is not empty this action is available The Redo action lets you reinstate the last pending operation that was undone The Commit action forwards you to the Pending Operations window where you will be able to view the pending operation list Clicking Proceed will launch their execution You will not be able to undo any actions ...

Page 268: ...e moment the system displays No alerts or warnings Types of alerts The table below illustrates the types of messages you may observe Description Offer Comment Failed tasks X View the tasks View the tasks will open the Backup plans and Tasks view with failed tasks where you can examine the reason of failure Tasks that need interaction X Resolve When at least one task existing in the management serv...

Page 269: ...tered by the Last connect field To configure the length of time that is considered critical select Options Console options Time based alerts It is recommended to back up the management server to protect its configuration Install the agent on the management server machine and add the machine to AMS Install Acronis components Install Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agent for Windows to back up the machin...

Page 270: ...ght be not available for example if the vault is located on a tape library If the vault itself is not available offline the Vault is not available message will be displayed 7 1 2 Backup policies To be able to manage and protect multiple machines as a whole you can create a backup plan template called a backup policy By applying this template to a group of machines you will deploy multiple backup p...

Page 271: ... policy status on at least one machine is Error Otherwise see 2 View the log or identify the failed tasks to find out the reason of the failure then do one or more of the following Remove the reason of the failure optionally Start the failed task manually Edit the backup policy to prevent future failure 2 Warning The policy status on at least one machine is Warning Otherwise see 3 View the log to ...

Page 272: ...arnings while being deployed revoked or updated In the Tasks view apply the Last result Succeeded with warnings filter if there are too many tasks You can also sort the tasks succeeded with warnings by backup plans or by machines In the Log view apply the Warning filter if there are too many log entries You can also sort the warning entries by backup plans managed entities or machines 2 Once the r...

Page 273: ...t console will update the list of backup policies from the management server with the most recent information Though the list of policies is refreshed automatically based on events the data may not be retrieved immediately from the management server due to some latency Manual refresh guarantees that the most recent data is displayed Machines selection To apply the backup policy to machines or to g...

Page 274: ... 7 1 2 4 Policy details The Policy details window accumulates in five tabs all information on the selected backup policy and lets you perform operations with the machines and groups of machines the policy is applied to This information is also duplicated on the Information pane Backup policy The tab displays information about the selected policy Source The tab displays information about the type o...

Page 275: ...ne or more nested groups can be created inside any group created by the administrator Grouping helps organize data protection by the company departments by the Active Directory domains or organizational units within a domain by various populations of users by the site locations etc The main goal of grouping is protection of multiple machines with one policy Once a machine appears in a group the po...

Page 276: ... view select the group Use the toolbar s operational buttons to perform actions on the selected group p 287 Use the Information panel s tabs to view detailed information about the selected group and perform additional operations such as revoke policies or explore policy inheritance The panel is collapsed by default To expand the panel click the chevron The content of the panel is also duplicated i...

Page 277: ...ical machines group Add a machine to another static group Click Add to another group In the Add to group p 281 window specify the group to copy the selected machine to The backup policies applied to the groups the machine is a member of will be applied to the machine For machines in custom groups Add machines to a static group Click Add machines to group In the Add machines to group p 281 window s...

Page 278: ...hine s log entries Update all information related to the machine Click Synchronize The management server will query the machine and update the database with the most recent information Along with synchronizing the refresh operation will be performed automatically in order to update the list of the machines Refresh a list of machines Click Refresh The management console will update the list of mach...

Page 279: ...r details Importing machines from Active Directory To import machines from Active Directory 1 In the Navigation tree select Physical machines or All physical machines 2 Click Import machines from Active Directory on the toolbar 3 In the Search for field type the machine s or the organizational unit name then click Search You can use the asterisk to substitute for zero or more characters in a machi...

Page 280: ... initially import the machines from a text file Modify this file later as required by adding and removing machines but do not change the names addresses of the machines that have to remain registered To synchronize machines with a text file 1 In the Navigation tree select Physical machines or All physical machines 2 Click Synchronize machines with text file on the toolbar 3 In the Path field enter...

Page 281: ...t import Adding a machine to another group To add the selected machine to another group 1 Select the group the machine will be added to 2 Click OK The machine being added becomes a member of more than one group As a result the backup policies applied to the first group will remain on the machine and the backup policies applied to the second third etc group will be deployed to the machine Moving a ...

Page 282: ...cessful backup Availability Online the machine is available for the management server This means that the management server s last connection to the machine was successful Connection is established every 2 minutes Offline the machine is unavailable for the management server it is turned off or its network cable is unplugged Unknown this status is displayed until the first connection between the ma...

Page 283: ...of a group and the policy is applied to the group you cannot revoke the policy from a single machine without firstly removing the machine from the group Examine where the applied policy has come from Click Explore inheritance The Inheritance order p 286 window will display the inheritance order of the policy appliied to the machine Filtering and sorting Filtering and sorting of the backup policies...

Page 284: ...tasks Thus all the task operations will be aborted Task Click Stop What will happen if I stop the task Generally stopping the task aborts its operation backup recovery validation exporting conversion migration The task enters the Stopping state first then becomes Idle The task schedule if created remains valid To complete the operation you will have to run the task again recovery task from the dis...

Page 285: ...as a centralized origin Direct editing of centralized backup plans is not possible You need to edit the original backup policy Task Click Edit Why can t I edit the task Task belongs to a backup plan Only tasks that do not belong to a backup plan such as a recovery task can be modified by direct editing When you need to modify a task belonging to a local backup plan edit the backup plan A task belo...

Page 286: ...chine is a member of Operations To Do View details of a group Click View details You will be taken to the Group details window where you can examine all information related to this group View tasks related to a group Click View tasks You will be taken to the Tasks view with pre filtered tasks related to the selected backup group View log related to a group Click View log This opens Log view with p...

Page 287: ...e the list of machines whose names fully or just partly coincide with the entered value Filter machines by status last connect last backup availability In a field below the corresponding column s header select the required value from the list Configuring the machines table By default the table has five columns that are displayed others are hidden If required you can hide the shown columns and show...

Page 288: ... by its child groups will be revoked from all members of the deleted groups The the policies that are directly applied to the members will remain Refresh a list of groups Click Refresh The management console will update the list of groups from the management server with the most recent information Though the list of groups is refreshed automatically based on events the data may not be retrieved im...

Page 289: ... Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 and belong to the SERVERS organizational unit and whose IP addresses are within the range 192 168 17 0 192 168 17 55 How long does a dynamic group member remain in the group A dynamic group member remains in the group as long as the member meets the criteria The member is removed from the group automatically as soon as the member changes so that it no longer meets the...

Page 290: ...f each machine can be found in the Registration address column in any management server view that contains the machine the column is hidden by default Move one group to another To move the selected group to another group or to the root 1 In the groups tree click the group to move the selected group to You can move any type of custom group either static or dynamic to another custom group of any typ...

Page 291: ...a policy Click View tasks The Tasks p 300 view will display a list of the tasks related to the selected backup policy View log of a policy Click View log The Log p 302 view will display a list of the log entries related to the selected backup policy Revoke a policy from the group Click Revoke The management server revokes the policy from the group While the changes are being transferred to the mac...

Page 292: ...ted by Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition you want to use pre post backup or pre post data capture commands on the machine you want to apply file backup policies to the machine Adding a virtual machine as a virtual machine On Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Management Server a machine is considered virtual if it can be backed up from the virtualization host without installing an...

Page 293: ...they are included in Tasks that back up these virtual machines will fail with an appropriate log record as a result the generative policy will have the Error status The online or offline state of a virtual machine does not affect its backup since virtual machines can be backed up in both states Policies for virtual machines Any policy that backs up disks and volumes can be applied to virtual machi...

Page 294: ...ion with a VMware vCenter Server 1 In the Navigation tree right click Virtual machines and select VMware vCenter Integration 2 Click Configure integration 3 Clear the Enable VMware vCenter integration check box 4 Click OK The group that has the same name as the vCenter Server will be removed and the policies applied to this group or its child groups will be revoked Virtual machines remain in the A...

Page 295: ...shared by all the servers included into the cluster For more information please see Support for vCenter clusters p 296 Network interface This is the host s internal network the virtual appliance will be included in If there are multiple networks on the host the program selects the one that is more suitable for the agent operation and specifies this network as default Only those networks that have ...

Page 296: ...e console using the vSphere VMware Infrastructure client and check the agent configuration Configure the agent manually if required as described in Installing ESX ESXi virtual appliance Add the virtual appliance to the management server manually as described in Adding a machine to the management server p 278 7 1 4 4 Support for vCenter clusters In a vCenter cluster a single Agent for ESX ESXi back...

Page 297: ...s online and offline storage nodes added to the management server It also informs you about the total number of backups and archives on the storage node Information panel Contains the detailed information about the selected storage node and lets you manage the compacting task The panel is collapsed by default To expand the panel click the chevron The content of the pane is also duplicated in the S...

Page 298: ...ault on the selected storage node Click Create vault The Create managed vault page p 119 will be opened with the pre selected storage node Perform the remaining steps to create the vault Change the compacting task schedule After deleting backups from deduplicating vaults either manually or during cleanup unreferenced data may appear in the deduplicating vaults and their databases The compacting pr...

Page 299: ... cannot take place when the machine is offline 7 1 5 2 Storage node details The Storage node details window accumulates in four tabs all information on the selected Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Storage Node This information is also duplicated on the Information pane Storage node properties The tab displays the following information about the selected storage node Name the name of the machine where t...

Page 300: ...te whether the task is successfully accomplished To learn more about task states and statuses see the Task states p 170 and Task statuses p 171 sections Way of working with tasks Use the filtering and sorting p 302 capabilities to display the desired tasks in the table Select a task to take an action on it 7 1 6 1 Actions on tasks The following is a guideline for you to perform operations with tas...

Page 301: ...elonging to a local backup plan edit the backup plan A task belonging to a centralized backup plan can be modified by editing the centralized policy that spawned the plan Only the management server administrator can do this Task belongs to a backup plan Without Administrator privileges on the machine a user cannot modify tasks owned by other users Do not have the appropriate privilege Delete a tas...

Page 302: ...ow or hide columns 1 Right click any column header to open the context menu The menu items that are ticked off correspond to the column headers presented in the table 2 Click the items you want to be displayed hidden 7 1 7 Log The Acronis Backup Recovery 10 log stores the history of actions the software does on a machine or a user does on a machine using the software For example when a user edits ...

Page 303: ...ters in the log table by yourself View Action Dashboard In the calendar right click on any highlighted date and then select View log The Log view will appear with the list of the log entries already filtered by the date in question Machines Select a machine or a group of machines then click View log The Log view will display a list of the log entries related to the selected machine or group Backup...

Page 304: ...1 7 2 Filtering and sorting log entries The following is a guideline for you to filter and sort log entries To Do Display log entries for a given time period 1 In the From field select the date starting from which to display the log entries 2 In the To field select the date up to which to display the log entries Filter log entries by type Press or release the following toolbar buttons to filter er...

Page 305: ...f the machine where the event has occurred if any Code Blank or the program error code if the event type is error Error code is an integer number that may be used by Acronis support service to solve the problem Module Blank or the number of program module where an error was occurred It is an integer number that may be used by Acronis support service to solve the problem Owner User name of the poli...

Page 306: ...report select a report template in the Reports view and then click Generate on the toolbar There are two types of report templates customizable and predefined In a customizable report template you can specify which entries to include in the report by using filters A predefined report template is preset so that you can generate a report with one click The report will contain the information selecte...

Page 307: ...t meet all filter criteria are included Backup policies The list of backup policies Source type The type of data backed up under the backup policies Disks volumes and or Files Deployment state The deployment states of the backup policies for example Deployed Status The statuses of the backup policies OK Warning and or Error Schedule The types of the backup policies schedules Manual and or Schedule...

Page 308: ...you can generate a report about the tasks that run on registered machines This report consists of one or more tables Filters Under Filters choose which tasks to include in the report Only the tasks that meet all filter criteria are included Origin The types of origin of the tasks Centralized Local and or Local without backup plan A centralized task belongs to a centralized backup plan A local task...

Page 309: ...ackups that each of the archives contains With the default filter settings the report includes all archives that are stored in the centralized managed vaults Report view Under Report view choose how the report will look Select whether to show all items in a single table or to group them by a particular column Specify which table columns to show and in which order Specify how to sort the table 7 1 ...

Page 310: ...hich the tasks are based The default setting means all backup policies that ever existed during the report period Machines The list of machines on which the tasks exist Type The task types for example disk backup tasks Owner The list of users who created the tasks With the default filter settings the report includes all tasks that existed on the registered machines any time during the report perio...

Page 311: ...raphical user interface the template based parameters take precedence and are effective immediately the parameters shown in the GUI will be changed accordingly The following subtopics describe each way of configuration and the parameters that can be configured through it 7 2 1 Parameters set through administrative template The following are the parameters of Acronis Backup Recovery 10 components t...

Page 312: ...ou should restart the configured component s or some of their services For detailed information about Windows GPO Editor please see http msdn2 microsoft com en us library aa374163 aspx For detailed information about Group Policies please see http msdn2 microsoft com en us library aa374177 aspx 7 2 1 2 Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Storage Node The following are the parameters of Acronis Backup Recove...

Page 313: ...ult both as an absolute value and as a percentage below which a warning or error is recorded in the log This parameter contains the following settings Vault Free Space Warning Limit Description Specifies the amount of free space in a managed vault in megabytes below which a warning is recorded in the storage node s log Possible values Any integer number between 0 and 2147483647 Default value 200 A...

Page 314: ...a managed vault s database below which a warning is recorded in the storage node s log Possible values Any integer number between 0 and 2147483647 Default value 20 If the amount of free space on the volume containing a managed vault s database is less than the value in Vault Database Free Space Warning Limit a warning is recorded in the storage node s log indicating the vault in question You can v...

Page 315: ...tralized event log in kilobytes Possible values Any integer number between 0 and 2147483647 Default value 1048576 that is 1 GB Percentage to Keep Description Specifies the percentage of the maximum log size to keep on cleanup Possible values Any integer number between 0 and 100 Default value 95 For details on how the centralized event log is cleaned up see Log cleanup rules p 78 Windows Event Log ...

Page 316: ...ssible values Any string 0 to 32765 characters long Default value public Synchronization Specifies how Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Management Server connects to registered machines for deployment of centralized policies retrieval of logs and backup plan states and similar actions collectively called synchronization This parameter has the following settings Maximum Connections Description Specifies ...

Page 317: ...e number of seconds given by Period by using an available worker thread see Maximum Workers described previously If there are fewer worker threads than normal priority machines the actual interval between synchronizations may be longer than the value of this parameter Period High Priority in seconds Description Specifies how often in seconds to perform synchronization for machines that have a high...

Page 318: ...achine which appears to be offline Possible values Any integer number between 120 and 2147483647 Default value 1800 Normally the management server connects to each registered machine with a certain time interval see Period and Period High Priority earlier in this section When the management server discovers that the machine is offline it doubles this interval it keeps doubling this interval on eac...

Page 319: ...ll not exceed the available space minus 50 MB Without the snapshot storage taking snapshots is still possible The size of the snapshot storage does not affect the size of the backup 7 2 1 4 Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agent for Windows The following are the parameters of Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agent that can be set by using Acronis Administrative Template Licensing Specifies how often the agent...

Page 320: ...econnect once in the number of hours given by License Server Connection Retry Interval If the value is 0 no reconnection attempts will be performed the agent will only check for the license as determined by License Check Interval License Server Address Description Specifies the network name or IP address of Acronis License Server Possible values Any string 0 to 32765 characters long Default value ...

Page 321: ...tical error Default value 4 only errors and critical errors will be recorded if Trace State is set to True SNMP Address Description Specifies the network name or IP address of the SNMP server Possible values Any string 0 to 32765 characters long Default value Empty string SNMP Community Description Specifies the community name for the SNMP notifications Possible values Any string 0 to 32765 charac...

Page 322: ...sk space that is available at the time of starting the backup Possible values Any integer number between 0 and 100 Default value 50 If this setting is 0 the snapshot storage will not be created The initial size will not exceed the available space minus 50 MB Without the snapshot storage taking snapshots is still possible The size of the snapshot storage does not affect the size of the backup 7 2 1...

Page 323: ...f signed SSL certificates such as certificates created during the installation of Acronis Backup Recovery 10 components see SSL certificates p 74 You should keep this check box selected unless you have a Public Key Infrastructure PKI in your environment In Use Agent Certificate Authentication select one of the following Do not use The use of SSL certificates is disabled Any connection to a server ...

Page 324: ...se them otherwise Always use The use of SSL certificates is enabled The connection will be established only if the use of SSL certificates is enabled on the client application Disabled The same as Not configured Event tracing parameters In Windows the events occurring in Acronis Backup Recovery 10 can be recorded into the event log a file or both Each event has a level from zero to five based on t...

Page 325: ...ponent is installed will participate in the Customer Experience Program Select one of the following Not Configured By default the machine does not participate in the Customer Experience Program Enabled In Enable sending reports to Acronis select one of the following Enable Information about the hardware configuration the most and least used features and about any problems will be automatically col...

Page 326: ...on tape vaults database This database contains a list of vaults that are managed by the storage node other than tape vaults see the next parameter Its typical size does not exceed a few kilobytes Possible values Any string 0 to 32765 characters long Default value C Program Files Acronis StorageNode Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Acronis ASN Configuration StorageNode DatabasePath TapesDat...

Page 327: ... to the location where the backup archive will be stored and the archive name It is advisable that the archive name be unique within the location The location must be available at the time when the management server starts to deploy the policy Access credentials p 336 Optional Provide credentials for the location if the backup policy account does not have access permissions to the location To acce...

Page 328: ... vault so that the selected machine can access the archive When to convert p 198 Optional Specify whether to convert every full every incremental or every differential backup or convert the last created backup on schedule Specify the conversion schedule if required Host p 199 Specify the machine that will perform the conversion The machine has to have Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agent for Windows A...

Page 329: ...l section Volumes to back up selection rules p 329 Files to back up selection rules p 332 7 3 2 1 Volumes to back up selection rules Define volume selection rules according to which the volumes will be backed up on the machines the policy will be applied to To define volume selection rules In the first line select the rule from the list or type it manually To add another rule click the next empty ...

Page 330: ...tion on the first IDE hard disk of a Linux machine Type or select dev hda1 hda1 is the standard device name for the first partition of the first IDE hard disk drive For more details see Note on Linux machines below First partition on the first SCSI hard disk of a Linux machine Type or select dev sda1 sda1 is the standard device name for the first partition of the first SCSI hard disk drive For mor...

Page 331: ...from Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 create a dedicated system volume called System Reserved If you select SYSTEM only this dedicated volume will be backed up Always select both SYSTEM and BOOT when backing up machines running these operating systems Since backup policies are commonly applied to multiple machines with various operating systems Acronis recommends that you always select both th...

Page 332: ...ree entries in the Volumes to back up selection rules dialog box one for each possible type For example to back up the first hard disk of each Linux machine under a centralized policy you may want to type the following lines in the Volume field dev hda1 dev sda1 dev mda1 7 3 2 2 Files to back up selection rules Define file selection rules according to which the files and or folders will be backed ...

Page 333: ... and text For example to refer to the Acronis folder in the machines Program Files folder type PROGRAMFILES Acronis Templates Templates are similar to environment variables but are already pre customized To include In the Files and folders column type or select Comments All files on all volumes on a machine All Files Points to all files on all volumes of the machine All user profiles existing on a...

Page 334: ...s Hidden all of its contents including files that are not Hidden will be excluded Exclude all system files and folders Select this check box to skip files and folders with the System attribute If a folder is System all of its contents including files that are not System will be excluded You can view file or folder attributes in the file folder properties or by using the attrib command For more inf...

Page 335: ...folder on the machine Enter the full path to the folder in the Path field This path will be created on each machine the policy will be applied to Store each machine s archive in the machine s Acronis Secure Zone Acronis Secure Zone has to be created on each machine the policy will be applied to For information on how to create Acronis Secure Zone see the Creating Acronis Secure Zone p 232 section ...

Page 336: ...P servers are transferred through a network as plaintext This means that the user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer 7 3 7 Backup scheme selection Choose one of the available backup schemes Back up now to create a backup task for manual start and run the task immediately after its creation Back up later to create a backup task for manual start OR schedul...

Page 337: ...hen to start the backup The task will be started manually Select this check box if you do not need to put the backup task on a schedule and wish to start it manually afterwards 7 3 7 3 Simple scheme With the simple backup scheme you just schedule when and how often to back up data and set the retention rule At the first time a full backup will be created The next backups will be incremental To set...

Page 338: ... 12 00 PM Back up on Specifies the days on which to perform a backup The default value is Workdays Weekly Monthly Specifies which of the days selected in the Back up on field you want to reserve for weekly and monthly backups A monthly backup will be performed every fourth such day The default value is Friday Keep backups Specifies how long you want the backups to be stored in the archive A term c...

Page 339: ... Keep backups Daily 1 week Weekly 1 month Monthly indefinitely As a result an archive of daily weekly and monthly backups will be created Daily backups will be available for seven days since creation For instance a daily backup of Sunday January 1 will be available through next Sunday January 8 the first weekly backup the one of Saturday January 7 will be stored on the system until February 7 Mont...

Page 340: ...all backups including the daily ones for at least six months The following GFS scheme suits such purposes Start backup at 11 30 PM Back up on Tuesday Thursday Friday Weekly monthly Friday Keep backups Daily 6 months Weekly 6 months Monthly 5 years Here daily incremental backups will be created on Tuesdays and Thursdays with weekly and monthly backups performed on Fridays Note that in order to choo...

Page 341: ...x schedules specify the sessions on which the scheme should run In the discussion below days can be replaced with scheduled sessions Number of levels Select from 2 to 16 backup levels See the example stated below for details Roll back period The guaranteed number of sessions that one can go back in the archive at any time Calculated automatically depending on the schedule parameters and the number...

Page 342: ... are the backups we have on day 12 numbers in gray denote deleted backups 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 4 1 2 1 A new level 3 differential backup has not yet been created so the backup of day five is still stored Since it depends on the full backup of day one that backup is available as well This enables us to go as far back as 11 days which is the best case scenario The following day...

Page 343: ...backup destinations such as shared folders or centralized vaults When there is insufficient space while backing up The archive will be cleaned up only during backup and only if there is not enough space to create a new backup In this case the program will act as follows Delete the oldest full backup with all dependent incremental differential backups If there is only one full backup left and a ful...

Page 344: ...t all backups older than one year be deleted from the archive and let the cleanup be performed upon creating a new backup Retention rules Delete backups older than 12 months Apply the rules After backing up By default a one year old full backup will not be deleted until all incremental backups that depend on it become subject to deletion too For more information see Retention rules p 37 Monthly fu...

Page 345: ... if the schedule has not been set up You can manually run any backup task or cleanup task at any time regardless of whether it has a schedule In the first of the previous examples we set up a schedule only for full backups However the scheme will still result in three backup tasks enabling you to manually start a backup of any type Full backup runs every Friday at 10 00 PM Incremental backup runs ...

Page 346: ...ckup to a dummy destination Validation of a volume backup calculates a checksum for every data block saved in the backup Validation of the archive will validate all the archive s backups and may take a long time and a lot of system resources 3 Validation schedule appears only if you have selected the on schedule in step 1 set the schedule of validation For more information see the Scheduling p 152...

Page 347: ...onis Secure Zone A secure volume for storing backup archives p 348 within a managed machine p 356 Advantages enables recovery of a disk to the same disk where the disk s backup resides offers a cost effective and handy method for protecting data from software malfunction virus attack operator error eliminates the need for a separate media or network connection to back up or recover the data This i...

Page 348: ... is a file or a tape record that contains a copy of the backed up data as of specific date and time Backup files created by Acronis Backup Recovery 10 have a TIB extension The TIB files resulting from backup consolidation p 352 are also called backups Backup archive Archive A set of backups p 348 created and managed by a backup plan p 349 An archive can contain multiple full backups p 355 as well ...

Page 349: ...this is an option Physically a backup plan is a bundle of tasks p 359 configured for execution on a managed machine p 356 A backup plan can be created directly on the machine local plan or appears on the machine as a result of a backup policy p 349 deployment centralized plan p 351 Backup policy Policy A backup plan template created by the management server p 357 administrator and stored on the ma...

Page 350: ...r locally through the GUI or remotely using the console p 352 Bootable media A physical media CD DVD USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine p 356 BIOS as a boot device that contains the bootable agent p 350 or Windows Preinstallation Environment WinPE p 360 with the Acronis Plug in for WinPE p 347 A machine can also be booted into the above environments using the network boot from A...

Page 351: ...ackup plan p 351 Such task appears on the managed machine p 356 as a result of deploying a backup policy p 349 from the management server p 357 and can be modified only by editing the backup policy Centralized vault A networked location allotted by the management server p 357 administrator to serve as storage for the backup archives p 348 A centralized vault can be managed by a storage node p 358 ...

Page 352: ... For example the retention rules require to delete a full backup p 355 that has expired but retain the next incremental p 356 one The backups will be combined into a single full backup which will be dated with the incremental backup s date Since consolidation may take a lot of time and system resources retention rules provide an option to not delete backups with dependencies In our example the ful...

Page 353: ...ber of dynamic disks p 353 that store the common configuration data in their LDM databases and therefore can be managed as a whole Normally all dynamic disks created within the same machine p 356 are members of the same disk group As soon as the first dynamic disk is created by the LDM or another disk management tool the disk group name can be found in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM Cu...

Page 354: ... Dynamic disks organized on MBR Disk 1 and GPT Disk 2 disks For more information about dynamic disks please refer to the following Microsoft knowledge base articles Disk Management Windows XP Professional Resource Kit http technet microsoft com en us library bb457110 aspx 816307 Best practices for using dynamic disks on Windows Server 2003 based computers http support microsoft com kb 816307 Dynam...

Page 355: ...red anywhere on the disk or in the backup file the password hash is used for verification purposes With this two level security the backup data is protected from any unauthorized access but recovering a lost password is not possible Encrypted vault A managed vault p 356 to which anything written is encrypted and anything read is decrypted transparently by the storage node p 358 using a vault speci...

Page 356: ... incremental backup L Local backup plan A backup plan p 349 created on a managed machine p 356 using direct management p 352 Local task A task p 359 belonging to a local backup plan p 356 or a task that does not belong to any plan such as a recovery task A local task belonging to a backup plan can be modified by editing the plan only other local tasks can be modified directly M Machine A physical ...

Page 357: ...ntry point to the Acronis Backup Recovery 10 infrastructure an easy way to protect data on numerous machines p 356 using backup policies p 349 and grouping enterprise wide monitoring functionality the ability to create centralized vaults p 351 for storing enterprise backup archives p 348 the ability to manage storage nodes p 358 If there are multiple management servers on the network they operate ...

Page 358: ...tic group A group of machines which a management server p 357 administrator populates by manually adding machines to the group A machine remains in a static group until the administrator removes it from the group or from the management server Storage node Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Storage Node A server aimed to optimize usage of various resources required for protection of enterprise data This go...

Page 359: ...s to be performed on a managed machine p 356 when a certain time comes or a certain event occurs The actions are described in an xml script file The start condition schedule exists in the protected registry keys Tower of Hanoi A popular backup scheme p 350 aimed to maintain the optimal balance between a backup archive p 348 size and the number of recovery points p 357 available from the archive Un...

Page 360: ...ery under the bootable media to a spare hard drive can guarantee successful recovery in the future Validation rules A part of the backup plan p 349 Rules that define when and how often to perform validation p 360 and whether to validate the entire archive p 348 or the latest backup in the archive Vault A place for storing backup archives p 348 A vault can be organized on a local or networked drive...

Page 361: ... Server 2008 PE 2 1 WinPE is commonly used by OEMs and corporations for deployment test diagnostic and system repair purposes A machine can be booted into WinPE via PXE CD ROM USB flash drive or hard disk The Acronis Plug in for WinPE p 347 enables running the Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Agent p 347 in the preinstallation environment ...

Page 362: ...xy 20 Acronis WOL Proxy 80 Action pages 12 14 Actions on a tape library vault 126 Actions on backup plans and tasks 168 172 Actions on backup policies 270 272 Actions on centralized vaults 51 116 117 118 Actions on groups 276 287 Actions on log entries 179 303 Actions on machines 276 Actions on personal vaults 116 146 Actions on storage nodes 63 68 297 Actions on tasks 300 Actions with archives on...

Page 363: ...kup priority 86 94 Backup scheme 349 350 356 359 Backup scheme selection 327 336 Backup schemes 182 189 Backup selection 219 221 223 224 227 229 Backup splitting 86 98 Basic concepts 8 24 49 181 Basic disk cloning 255 Basic precautions 253 Bootability troubleshooting 214 Bootable agent 45 235 347 350 Bootable media 9 19 20 24 100 167 200 235 236 253 269 347 350 353 357 Bootable Media Builder 20 Bu...

Page 364: ...olume structure automatically 247 Creating the volume structure manually 247 248 Criteria of the choice 132 Cumulative state and status of a policy 61 Custom backup scheme 37 156 158 195 342 Customer Experience Program 85 D Daily schedule 153 193 298 341 Dashboard 166 168 268 Data type 200 203 Decreasing Acronis Secure Zone 234 Deduplicating vault 352 Deduplication 17 19 20 49 61 117 124 352 357 3...

Page 365: ...3 283 291 Filtering and sorting log entries 179 180 303 304 Filtering and sorting machines 276 287 Filtering and sorting tasks 300 302 Fits time interval 164 Fonts 77 Format volume 260 266 Full backup 348 350 352 355 Full incremental and differential backups 24 28 189 337 G Getting started 8 Getting started with a tape library 125 GFS Grandfather Father Son 350 356 359 GFS backup scheme 31 123 131...

Page 366: ...Managed machine 10 24 77 347 349 351 352 356 358 359 Managed vault 49 297 352 355 356 358 359 360 Management Console 8 20 Management Server 8 17 Management server Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Management Server 10 18 49 77 349 350 351 352 353 354 357 358 Management server administrator rights 68 Management server options 78 Managing a tape library 119 128 Managing Acronis Secure Zone 234 Managing mou...

Page 367: ... commands 86 90 93 Pre backup command 89 Pre data capture command 91 Pre recovery command 108 Prerequisites 125 Privileges for centralized management 65 Privileges for local connection 66 Privileges for remote connection in Windows 66 Proprietary Acronis technologies 44 Protecting the servers 51 Protecting the virtual machines 53 Protecting the workstations 52 PXE and DHCP on the same server 252 P...

Page 368: ...achine 84 Simple scheme 190 337 SNMP notifications 79 83 87 97 108 112 Source files exclusion 86 88 Source type 178 182 184 SSL certificates 70 72 74 323 Startup page 76 Static group 351 358 Storage Node 9 18 42 50 297 Storage node Acronis Backup Recovery 10 Storage Node 18 49 351 352 355 356 357 358 359 Storage node details 297 298 299 Storage nodes 297 Storage node side cleanup 19 116 297 357 35...

Page 369: ...Using the Tower of Hanoi tape rotation scheme 37 139 V Validating vaults archives and backups 118 147 148 149 172 219 300 Validation 24 123 348 359 360 Validation rules 349 360 Vault 24 44 234 355 357 360 Vault database path 119 120 Vault encryption 120 121 Vault path 119 120 121 122 Vaults 40 115 219 234 298 Views 14 Virtual machine 350 360 Virtual machine settings 205 207 209 214 Virtual machine...

Page 370: ...370 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Working with backup plans and tasks 172 Working with the 116 117 145 268 ...

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