6.8.1
Creating Acronis Secure Zone ................................................................................................................. 247
6.8.2
Managing Acronis Secure Zone ............................................................................................................... 249
6.9
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...................................................................................... 250
6.10 Bootable media ..................................................................................................................... 251
6.10.1
How to create bootable media ............................................................................................................... 252
6.10.2
Connecting to a machine booted from media ....................................................................................... 259
6.10.3
Working under bootable media .............................................................................................................. 260
6.10.4
List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media ............................................. 261
6.10.5
Recovering MD devices and logical volumes .......................................................................................... 262
6.10.6
Acronis PXE Server ................................................................................................................................... 266
6.11 Disk management ................................................................................................................. 268
6.11.1
Basic precautions ..................................................................................................................................... 268
6.11.2
Running Acronis Disk Director Lite .......................................................................................................... 269
6.11.3
Choosing the operating system for disk management .......................................................................... 269
6.11.4
"Disk management" view ........................................................................................................................ 269
6.11.5
Disk operations ........................................................................................................................................ 270
6.11.6
Volume operations .................................................................................................................................. 276
6.11.7
Pending operations ................................................................................................................................. 282
6.12 Collecting system information .............................................................................................. 283
7
Centralized management ..................................................................................................... 284
7.1
Administering Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server .................................... 284
7.1.1
Dashboard ............................................................................................................................................... 284
7.1.2
Backup policies ........................................................................................................................................ 286
7.1.3
Physical machines .................................................................................................................................... 291
7.1.4
Virtual machines ...................................................................................................................................... 308
7.1.5
Storage nodes .......................................................................................................................................... 313
7.1.6
Tasks ......................................................................................................................................................... 317
7.1.7
Log ............................................................................................................................................................ 319
7.1.8
Reporting ................................................................................................................................................. 323
7.2
Configuring Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .................................................... 328
7.2.1
Parameters set through administrative template .................................................................................. 329
7.2.2
Parameters set through GUI ................................................................................................................... 343
7.2.3
Parameters set through Windows registry ............................................................................................ 344
7.3
Creating a backup policy ....................................................................................................... 345
7.3.1
Policy credentials ..................................................................................................................................... 347
7.3.2
Items to back up ...................................................................................................................................... 348
7.3.3
Access credentials for source .................................................................................................................. 353
7.3.4
Exclusions ................................................................................................................................................. 353
7.3.5
Archive ..................................................................................................................................................... 354
7.3.6
Access credentials for location ................................................................................................................ 356
7.3.7
Backup scheme selection ........................................................................................................................ 356
7.3.8
Archive validation .................................................................................................................................... 366
8
Online backup ..................................................................................................................... 366
8.1
Introduction to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online ........................................................ 367
8.1.1
What is Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online? .................................................................................... 367
8.1.2
What data can I back up and recover? ................................................................................................... 367
8.1.3
How long will my backups be kept in the online storage? ..................................................................... 368
8.1.4
How to secure my data? ......................................................................................................................... 368
8.1.5
How to back up virtual machines to the online storage? ...................................................................... 368
8.1.6
Backup and recovery FAQ ....................................................................................................................... 369
8.1.7
Initial Seeding FAQ ................................................................................................................................... 370
8.1.8
Large Scale Recovery FAQ ....................................................................................................................... 375