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On each machine, the agent installed on the machine creates a backup plan (p. 370) using other
rules specified by the policy. Such backup plan is called a centralized plan (p. 372).
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On each machine, the agent installed on the machine creates a set of centralized tasks (p. 372)
that will carry out the plan.
Backup scheme
A part of the backup plan (p. 370) that includes the backup schedule and [optionally] the retention
rules and the cleanup (p. 372) schedule. For example: perform full backup (p. 376) monthly on the
last day of the month at 10:00AM and incremental backup (p. 377) on Sundays at 10:00PM. Delete
backups that are older than 3 months. Check for such backups every time the backup operation is
completed.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 provides the ability to use well-known optimized backup schemes,
such as GFS (p. 376) and Tower of Hanoi (p. 380), to create a custom backup scheme or back up data
once.
Bootable agent
A bootable rescue utility that includes most of the functionality of the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
Agent (p. 368). Bootable agent is based on Linux kernel. A machine (p. 377) can be booted into a
bootable agent using either bootable media (p. 371) or Acronis PXE Server. Operations can be
configured and controlled either locally through the GUI or remotely using the console (p. 373).
Bootable media
A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine (p. 377) BIOS as a
boot device) that contains the bootable agent (p. 371) or Windows Preinstallation Environment
(WinPE) (p. 381) with the Acronis Plug-in for WinPE (p. 368). A machine can also be booted into the
above environments using the network boot from Acronis PXE Server or Microsoft Remote
Installation Service (RIS). These servers with uploaded bootable components can also be thought of
as a kind of bootable media.
Bootable media is most often used to:
recover an operating system that cannot start
access and back up the data that has survived in a corrupted system
deploy an operating system on bare metal
create basic or dynamic volumes (p. 376) on bare metal
back up sector-by-sector a disk that has an unsupported file system
back up offline any data that cannot be backed up online because of restricted access, being
permanently locked by the running applications or for any other reason.
Built-in group
A group of machines that always exists on a management server (p. 378).
A management server has two built-in groups that contain all machines of each type: All physical
machines (p. 378), All virtual machines (p. 381).
Built-in groups cannot be deleted, moved to other groups or manually modified. Custom groups
cannot be created within built-in groups. There is no way to remove a physical machine from the
