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Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
This section attempts to give its readers a clear understanding of the product so that they can use
the product in various circumstances without step-by-step instructions.
2.1
Basic concepts
Please familiarize yourself with the basic notions used in the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 graphical
user interface and documentation. Advanced users are welcome to use this section as a step-by-step
quick start guide. The details can be found in the context help.
Backup under operating system
1.
To protect data on a machine, install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent (p. 360) on the
machine which becomes a managed machine (p. 369) from this point on.
2.
To be able to manage the machine using Graphical User Interface, install Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10 Management Console (p. 365) on the same machine or any machine from which you
prefer to operate. If you have the standalone product edition, skip this step since in your case the
console installs with the agent.
3.
Run the console. To be able to recover the machine's operating system if the system fails to start,
create bootable media (p. 363).
4.
Connect the console to the managed machine.
5.
Create a backup plan (p. 362).
To do so, you have to specify, at the very least, the data to be protected and the location where
the backup archive (p. 361) will be stored. This will create a minimal backup plan consisting of
one task (p. 372) that will create a full backup (p. 361) of your data every time the task is
manually started. A complex backup plan might consist of multiple tasks which run on schedule;
create full, incremental or differential backups (p. 32); perform archive maintenance operations
such as backup validation (p. 373) or deleting outdated backups (archive cleanup (p. 364)). You
can customize backup operations using various backup options, such as pre/post backup
commands, network bandwidth throttling, error handling or notification options.
6.
Use the
Backup plans and tasks
page to view information about your backup plans and tasks and
monitor their execution. Use the
Log
page to browse the operations log.
7.
The location where you store backup archives is called a vault (p. 373). Navigate to the
Vaults
page to view information about your vaults. Navigate further to the specific vault to view
archives and backups and perform manual operations with them (mounting, validating, deleting,
viewing contents). You can also select a backup to recover data from it.
