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 .....................................................................................................................................16
1.3.2
Components for centralized management ...............................................................................................17
1.3.3
Management Console ................................................................................................................................20
1.3.4
Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................20
1.3.5
Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy......................................................................................................................20
1.4
Supported file systems ............................................................................................................20
1.5
Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................21
1.6
System requirements ...............................................................................................................22
1.7
Technical support ....................................................................................................................22
2
Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 24
2.1
Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................24
2.2
Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................28
2.3
User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................30
2.4
Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................30
2.5
GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................31
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 Restore ...............................................................................................................................47
2.11 Understanding centralized management ................................................................................49
2.11.1
Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................49
2.11.2
Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network ......................................................50
2.11.3
Grouping the registered machines ............................................................................................................53
2.11.4
Policies on machines and groups ...............................................................................................................53
2.11.5
Backup policy's state and statuses .............................................................................................................58
2.11.6
Deduplication .............................................................................................................................................61
2.11.7
Privileges for centralized management .....................................................................................................65
2.11.8
Communication between Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ..................................................70
3
Options .................................................................................................................................. 76
3.1
Console options .......................................................................................................................76
3.1.1
Startup page ...............................................................................................................................................76
3.1.2
Pop-up messages ........................................................................................................................................76
