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 ...........................................................................17
1.3.1
Agent for Windows .....................................................................................................................................17
1.3.2
Agent for Linux ...........................................................................................................................................18
1.3.3
Agent for ESX/ESXi ......................................................................................................................................19
1.3.4
Components for centralized management ...............................................................................................19
1.3.5
Management Console ................................................................................................................................21
1.3.6
Bootable Media Builder .............................................................................................................................22
1.3.7
Acronis Wake-On-LAN Proxy......................................................................................................................22
1.4
Supported file systems ............................................................................................................22
1.5
Supported operating systems ..................................................................................................23
1.6
System requirements ...............................................................................................................24
1.7
Technical support ....................................................................................................................25
2
Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ....................................................................... 27
2.1
Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................27
2.2
User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................31
2.3
Owners and credentials ...........................................................................................................32
2.4
Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................33
2.5
GFS backup scheme .................................................................................................................35
2.6
Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ..............................................................................................38
2.7
Retention rules ........................................................................................................................40
2.8
Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows) ................................................................................43
2.9
Backing up LVM volumes (Linux) .............................................................................................45
2.10 Backing up RAID arrays (Linux) ................................................................................................47
2.11 Backing up virtual machines ....................................................................................................48
2.11.1
How to install Hyper-V Integration Services ..............................................................................................50
2.11.2
How to install VMware Tools .....................................................................................................................50
2.12 Tape support ............................................................................................................................51
2.12.1
Tape compatibility table .............................................................................................................................51
2.12.2
Using a single tape drive .............................................................................................................................51
2.13 Proprietary Acronis technologies ............................................................................................52
2.13.1
Acronis Secure Zone ...................................................................................................................................52
2.13.2
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...........................................................................................................53
2.13.3
Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ....................................................54
2.13.4
Acronis Active Restore ...............................................................................................................................56
2.14 Understanding centralized management ................................................................................57
2.14.1
Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................................57
2.14.2
Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network ......................................................59
2.14.3
Grouping the registered machines ............................................................................................................62
2.14.4
Policies on machines and groups ...............................................................................................................64
2.14.5
Backup policy's state and statuses .............................................................................................................69