Table of contents
1
Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ......................................................................... 7
1.1
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview .................................................................................. 7
1.2
Getting started ........................................................................................................................... 8
1.2.1
Using the management console ................................................................................................................10
1.3
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ...........................................................................16
1.3.1
Agent for Windows .....................................................................................................................................17
1.3.2
Agent for Linux ...........................................................................................................................................18
1.3.3
Components for centralized management ...............................................................................................18
1.3.4
Management Console ................................................................................................................................21
1.3.5
Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................21
1.3.6
Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy......................................................................................................................21
1.4
Supported file systems ............................................................................................................21
1.5
Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................22
1.6
System requirements ...............................................................................................................23
1.7
Technical support ....................................................................................................................24
2
Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 26
2.1
Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................26
2.2
User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................30
2.3
Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................31
2.4
Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................32
2.5
GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................34
2.6
Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................37
2.7
Retention rules ........................................................................................................................39
2.8
Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................42
2.9
Backing up LVM volumes (Linux) .............................................................................................44
2.10 Backing up RAID arrays (Linux) ................................................................................................46
2.11 Tape support ............................................................................................................................47
2.11.1
Tape compatibility table .............................................................................................................................47
2.11.2
Using a single tape drive .............................................................................................................................48
2.12 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................49
2.12.1
Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................49
2.12.2
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...........................................................................................................50
2.12.3
Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ....................................................51
2.12.4
Acronis Active Restore ...............................................................................................................................52
2.13 Understanding centralized management ................................................................................54
2.13.1
Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................54
2.13.2
Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network ......................................................55
2.13.3
Grouping the registered machines ............................................................................................................59
2.13.4
Policies on machines and groups ...............................................................................................................61
2.13.5
Backup policy's state and statuses .............................................................................................................66
2.13.6
Deduplication .............................................................................................................................................69
2.13.7
Privileges for centralized management .....................................................................................................73
2.13.8
Communication between Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ..................................................79
