ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 11 Server f/Windows, 1srv, 1y, Level I, DEU Podręcznik Użytkownika

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Update 0 User Guide Applies to the following editions:  Advanced Server  Virtual Edition  Advanced Server SBS

10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 File backup File-level data protection is based on backing up files and folders residing on the machine whe

100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 There are probably other times when you may need to recover the MBR, but the above are the most common. Wh

101 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 5.1.1.2 Data catalog Data catalog lets you easily find the required version of data and select it for rec

102 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Solutions:  Run the cataloging manually by clicking Catalog now. For the Data catalog, all backups sto

103 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 5.1.3 Access credentials for destination To specify credentials 1. Select one of the following:  Use t

104 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 On selecting this, you specify the virtualization server and the target virtual machine. Then you proceed

105 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Note: You should be absolutely sure that none of the existing disks on this machine has the same NT signat

106 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Recover to: Physical machine Available when the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Agent for Windows or Agen

107 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Size: (p. 107) [Optional] Change the recovered volume size, location and other properties. MBR destinatio

108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 installed operating system could prevent the machine from booting. You cannot set a logical drive or dynam

109 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  VMWare VMFS (64 KB) - select this option when recovering the volume as a VMware Virtual Machine File Sy

11 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  FAT16/32  NTFS  Ext2/Ext3/Ext4  ReiserFS3 - particular files cannot be recovered from disk backups

110 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Specify files and folders you do not wish to be recovered. Recovery exclusions Set up exclusions for the

111 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Later - the recovery task will be started manually afterwards. If you need to schedule the task, clear

112 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Install Universal Restore from the product installation package (in addition to Agent for Windows, Agen

113 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The best practice is to store drivers for all the hardware used in your organization in a single repositor

114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Specify the appropriate drivers by clicking Add driver. The drivers defined here will be installed, with a

115 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Source and target disk partition style: MBR or GPT. System and boot volumes of BIOS platforms use MBR d

116 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Original system Target hardware BIOS Disk: MBR BIOS Disk: GPT UEFI Disk: MBR UEFI Disk: GPT UEFI OS: non-

117 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Original system Target hardware Platform: BIOS Target disk <2 TB Platform: BIOS Target disk >2 TB Pl

118 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Original system Target hardware Platform: BIOS Target disk <2 TB Platform: BIOS Target disk >2 TB Pl

119 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Customers familiar with Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange can note that this product uses Active Res

12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2 Getting started Step 1. Installation These brief installation instructions enable you to start using

120 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If your operating system and its loader reside on different volumes, always include both volumes in the ba

121 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Tip. Microsoft Virtual PC does not support disks that are larger than 127 GB. Acronis enables you to creat

122 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 5.5.1 Virtual machine type / virtualization server selection The new virtual machine can be created eithe

123 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 When adding a new virtual disk, along with interface and capacity, you can specify its format.  Thin f

124 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 When you configure recovery of a system volume to a disk that does not have an MBR, the program prompts wh

125 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2. Mount the system you are recovering: mkdir /mnt/system/ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt/system/ # root pa

126 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 umount /mnt/system/dev/ umount /mnt/system/proc/ umount /mnt/system/boot/ umount /mnt/system/ reboot 13. R

127 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Agent for Windows Bootable media (Linux-based or PE-based) Disk recovery File recovery (also from a disk

128 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 5.7.1 Additional settings Specify the additional settings for the recovery operation by selecting or clea

129 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 5.7.2 Error handling These options are effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable med

13 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Create a backup plan if you need a long-term backup strategy including backup schemes, schedules and condit

130 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Types of events to send – choose the types of events to be sent: All events, Errors and warnings, or Er

131 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Enable the Mount points option to recover files and folders that were stored on the mounted volumes and we

132 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 c. Some Internet service providers require authentication on the incoming mail server before being allowe

133 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The program does not support interactive commands, i.e. commands that require user input (for example, &qu

134 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2. In the Working directory field, specify a path to a directory where the command/batch file will be exe

135 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 6 Storing the backed up data 6.1 Vaults A vault is a location for storing backup archives. For ease of u

136 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 6.1.1 Working with vaults This section briefly describes the main GUI elements of the selected vault, and

137 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Sharing a personal vault Multiple machines can refer to the same physical location; for example, to the sa

138 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Delete a vault Click Delete. The deleting operation actually removes only a shortcut to the folder from

139 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4. In the vaults tree, select vault B to check whether the archives are displayed. If not, click Refresh.

14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Management Console - Welcome screen Key elements of the console workspace

140 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 6.2.1.1 Acronis Secure Zone Disk The Acronis Secure Zone can be located on any fixed hard drive. Acronis

141 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 6.2.1.4 Result confirmation The Result confirmation window displays the expected partition layout accordi

142 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  If there is not enough unallocated space, the program will take free space from the selected volumes, p

143 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 7 Operations with archives and backups 7.1 Validating archives and backups Validation is an operation th

144 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 [Optional] Provide credentials for accessing the source if the task account does not have enough privilege

145 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  To select a centralized vault, expand the Centralized group and click the appropriate vault.  To sele

146 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Choose one of the following:  Now - to start the validation task right after its creation, that is, afte

147 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Your choice of backups belonging to the same archive - the resulting archive will contain only the spec

148 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 When the console is connected to a management server, two export methods are available:  Export from a m

149 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Select the Archive (p. 149) or the Backups (p. 149). Show access credentials (p. 149) [Optional] Provide

15 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Backup plans and tasks. Use this view to manage backup plans and tasks on the managed machine: run, ed

150 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Use the following credentials The program will access the location using the credentials you specify. U

151 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2. Using the archives table To assist you with choosing the right destination, the table on the right disp

152 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 mount operation. The mount operation is available when the console is connected to a managed machine runni

153 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  If the archive is stored in a local folder on the machine, expand the Local folders group and click the

154 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 7.3.3 Access credentials To specify credentials 1. Select one of the following:  Use the current user

155 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To explore a mounted volume select it in the table and click Explore. The default file manager window o

156 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The program duplicates your selection in the Backups deletion (p. 157) window that has check boxes for eac

157 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Delete a single or multiple backups Select one of the backups you want to delete, then click Delete. Th

158 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 full backup which will be dated the incremental backup date. When you delete an incremental or differentia

159 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8 Bootable media Bootable media Bootable media is physical media (CD, DVD, USB drive or other media suppo

16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2.1.2.1 Views A view appears on the main area when clicking any item in the Navigation tree in the Navigat

160 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 PE-based bootable media does not support UEFI. 8.1 How to create bootable media To enable creating physi

161 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=696DD665-9F76-4177-A811-39C26D3B3B34&displayl

162 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  build an ISO image of a bootable disc to burn it later on a blank disc  upload the selected component

163 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 nousb2 Disables USB 2.0 support. USB 1.1 devices still work with this parameter. This parameter allows you

164 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Pre-configuring multiple network connections You can pre-configure TCP/IP settings for up to ten network i

165 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  to get the mass-storage drivers that you explicitly specify from the media. This is necessary when the

166 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8.1.3 Adding the Acronis Plug-in to WinPE 2.x or 3.0 Bootable Media Builder provides three methods of in

167 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Once a machine boots into WinPE, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 starts automatically. To create a PE ima

168 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Remote connection To connect to the machine remotely, select Connect -> Manage a remote machine in the

169 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 3. From the list of supported video modes, choose the appropriate one by typing its number (for example,

17 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Filter items by predefined column value In a field below the corresponding column's header, select the

170 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  acronis  asamba  lash Linux commands and utilities busybox ifconfig rm cat init rmmod cdrecord insm

171 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8.5 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is a modification of the bootable a

172 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9 Disk management Acronis Disk Director Lite is a tool for preparing a machine disk/volume configuration

173 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1. Back up the disk on which volumes will be created or managed. Having your most important data backed u

174 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The top part of the view contains a disks and volumes table enabling data sorting and columns customizatio

175 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Acronis Disk Director Lite will detect that the disk is unusable by the system and needs to be initialized

176 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If there is some data on the disk that was chosen as the target, the user will receive a warning: “The sel

177 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If you need to copy the NT signature: 1. Select the Copy NT signature check box. You receive the warning:

178 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1. MBR disk conversion: dynamic to basic (p. 179) using the Convert to basic operation. 2. Basic disk

179 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 System disk conversion Acronis Disk Director Lite does not require an operating system reboot after basic

18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Using controls and specifying settings Use active controls to specify a backup plan or recovery task settin

180 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  safe conversion of a dynamic disk to basic when it contains volumes with data for simple and mirrored v

181 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Store collections of similar files separately — for example, an MP3 collection or video files on a sepa

182 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 data itself. If a physical disk fails, the portion of the RAID-5 volume that was on that failed disk can b

183 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To create a Striped volume:  Select two or more destination disks to create the volume on. To create a R

184 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 In setting the cluster size you can choose between any number in the preset amount for each file system

185 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9.7.3 Set active volume If you have several primary volumes, you must specify one to be the boot volume.

186 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9.7.5 Change volume label The volume label is an optional attribute. It is a name assigned to a volume fo

187 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If you set a 64K cluster size for FAT16/FAT32 or an 8KB-64KB cluster size for NTFS, Windows can mount the

188 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 10 Administering a managed machine This section describes the views that are available through the navigat

189 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To Do View details of a plan/task Click Details. In the respective Plan Details (p. 197) or Task Detail

19 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2.1.3.2 Credentials cache The option specifies whether to store the credentials entered while using the ma

190 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To Do Edit a plan/task Click Edit. Backup plan editing is performed in the same way as creation (p. 29)

191 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1 Need interaction At least one task needs user interaction. Otherwise, see 2. Identify the tasks that nee

192 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 10.1.2.3 Task states A task can be in one of the following states: Idle; Waiting; Running; Need interacti

193 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 10.1.3 Export and import of backup plans The export operation creates a file with complete configuration

194 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 10.1.3.1 Editing the export file The export file is an .xml file and can be edited with a text editor.

195 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 </login> <password encrypted="true"> XXXYYYZZZ888 </password> How to change it

196 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 <specific> <backup_type> disks </backup_type> <disk_level_options />

197 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The default path to the dedicated folder is %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Acronis\BackupAndRecovery\import. The path i

198 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Last finish time - how much time has passed since the last plan or task end.  Last result - the resul

199 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 10.2 Log The local event log stores the history of operations performed by Acronis Backup & Recovery

2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011. All rights reserved. “Acronis” and “Acronis Secure Zone” are registere

20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The preset is: Enabled. To make a selection, select or clear the Notify if bootable media is not created ch

200 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Save all the filtered log entries to a file 1. Set filters to get a list of the log entries that satisfy

201 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Fixing issues that caused alerts To find and fix the issue that caused the alert, click Fix the issue. You

202 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 10.5.1 Customer Experience Program This option defines whether the machine will participate in the Acroni

203 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The alert is displayed in the Alerts view of the Navigation pane. When the console is connected to the man

204 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 This option enables you to specify when and how often to receive notifications about the certain types of

205 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 You can override the settings set here, exclusively for the events that occur during backup or during reco

206 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf - configuration file for the Net-SNMP SNMP agent  /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf - con

207 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 This option defines whether the Acronis agent will connect to the Internet through a proxy server. Note: A

208 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 11 Online backup This section provides details about using the Acronis Backup & Recovery Online servic

209 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 11.1.3 How long will my backups be kept in the online storage? Your backups remain in the online storage

21 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 3 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 This section attempts to give its readers a clear underst

210 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 11.1.5.4 What if a network connection is lost during online backup or recovery? The software will try to

211 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The hard disk drive is sent back to you but it is not possible to recover from it. However, recovery from

212 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2. Decide on the media (p. 211) that you will send. 3. Attach the media to the machine you are going t

213 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Step 1 Delicately remove your hard disk drive from the machine. Step 2 Place the hard drive into an anti-

214 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Step 4 Choose the transport company that you will use for shipping. On that company's web site, prepa

215 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  An order was created – The backup is about to start and the license cannot be used for the same or any

216 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Once you order Large Scale Recovery for a particular machine, Acronis sends you a USB hard disk drive with

217 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 can cancel the order if something goes wrong. This will return the license to the pool of available licens

218 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If you purchased your subscriptions online using the Acronis Web site, they are available immediately on y

219 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 What does "Auto-renew" mean? Auto-renewal means that when the current subscription expires, the

22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1. In the Plan parameters (or Task parameters) section, click Show plan's credentials, comments, labe

220 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 11.1.8.8 Can I revoke a subscription from a machine? You cannot return an activated subscription to the l

221 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Trial subscriptions You can get one free workstation or server subscription per account. The storage quota

222 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Alternatively, you can activate a subscription when the console is connected to a machine instead of the m

223 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Depending on your settings, this backup will be either full or incremental. But its size is not likely to

224 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 11.6 Limitations of the online storage Unlike other types of storage available in Acronis Backup & Re

225 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Assign a subscription to a machine Reserve a subscription for a particular machine. Subscription period do

226 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Storage quota The amount of storage space that a machine can use according to the subscription. Subscripti

227 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 12 Glossary A Acronis Active Restore The Acronis proprietary technology that brings a system online immedi

228 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Acronis Universal Restore The Acronis proprietary technology that helps boot up Windows or Linux on dissim

229 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Backup options Configuration parameters of a backup operation (p. 228), such as pre/post backup commands,

23 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 influence of all the methods’ shortcomings. For example, weekly differential backup facilitates archive cle

230 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Bootable media A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine (p. 236) a

231 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  creating and managing centralized vaults (p. 231) for storing archives  managing storage nodes (p. 23

232 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Consolidation might be needed when deleting backups, either manually or during cleanup (p. 231). For examp

233 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  viewing the state, progress and properties of the centralized tasks (p. 231) existing on the machine 

234 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Dynamic disk A hard disk managed by Logical Disk Manager (LDM) that is available in Windows starting with

235 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Dynamic volume Any volume located on dynamic disks (p. 233), or more precisely, on a disk group (p. 233).

236 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 I Image The same as Disk backup (p. 233). Incremental backup A backup (p. 228) that stores changes to the

237 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 M Machine A physical or virtual computer uniquely identified by an operating system installation. Machines

238 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 P Personal vault A local or networked vault (p. 240) created using direct management (p. 232). Once a pers

239 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 S Static group A group of machines which a management server (p. 237) administrator populates by manually

24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 the same full backup at the same point of time. The above mentioned difference implies creating a different

240 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Validation of a file backup imitates recovery of all files from the backup to a dummy destination. Validat

25 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 3.5 Backup and recovery of dynamic volumes (Windows) This section explains in brief how to back up and rec

26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Example 1. The group contains fewer disks than is required for the dynamic volume. Assume you are going to

27 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Disk-level encryption software encrypts data on the fly. This is why data contained in the backup is not en

28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 3.7 Support for SNMP SNMP objects Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 provides the following Simple Network M

29 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4 Backup 4.1 Back up now Use the Back up now feature to configure and run a one-time backup in a few simp

3 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 ...

30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To access these settings, click Show backup file naming, access credentials, archive comments. File naming

31 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 [Optional] Configure parameters of the backup operation, such as pre/post backup commands, maximum network

32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 In order to recover your operating system along with all the settings and applications, you have to perform

33 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 This option is effective only for file systems that are supported by Windows. Select this check box to skip

34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The above settings are not effective for the files or folders that were explicitly selected for backup. For

35 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Custom – to create a custom scheme, where you are free to set up a backup strategy in the way your enter

36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Custom retention periods for backups of each type Description Let us suppose that we want to set up a ba

37 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Backup type Specifies the types of daily, weekly and monthly backups  Always full - all the daily, weekly

38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Keep monthly backups for half a year. Backup scheme parameters can then be set up as follows.  Start b

39 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Weekly/monthly: Friday  Keep backups:  Daily: 1 week  Weekly: 1 month  Monthly: indefinitely Bac

4 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.4.5 Upon an Acronis Drive Monitor alert ...

40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 backups  If there is only one full backup left and a full backup is in progress, then delete the last ful

41 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Retention rules: Delete backups older than 12 months Apply the rules: After backing up By default, a one-ye

42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Higher density of more recent backups Parameters You can set up the following parameters of a Tower of H

43 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The scheme allows for efficient data storage: more backups accumulate toward the current time. Having four

44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Backup type Select the type of backup  Full - selected by default for all backup locations (except for Ac

45 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 the rule: "one backup plan - one archive". Doing the opposite will not prevent the program from f

46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Destination Details FTP, SFTP To back up data to FTP or SFTP, type the server name or address in the Path

47 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  User name. When entering the name of an Active Directory user account, be sure to also specify the domai

48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Windows 2000 Server win2000ServGuest Windows 2000 Advanced Server win2000ServGuest Windows XP All Editions

49 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Before creating a new full backup, the software will delete the entire archive and start a new one. This

5 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 5.5 How to convert a disk backup to a virtual machine ...

50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 In this scenario, create a backup plan with a daily schedule. When creating the backup plan, specify MyMach

51 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.3.1.5 Example 5. Daily backups with weekly drive swaps Consider the following scenario:  You want to p

52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  The 10 differential backups of January 31, 2011, will be stored as ServerFiles(1.31.2011)2.tib, ServerFi

53 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.4 Scheduling Acronis scheduler helps the administrator adapt backup plans to the company’s daily routine

54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The task run time is within the specified time interval All users are logged off The specified period of ti

55 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Examples "Simple" daily schedule Run the task every day at 6PM. The schedule's parameters ar

56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 task's recurrences is 4 hours, and between the third, fourth and fifth is 2 hours. In this case, the o

57 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Examples "One day in the week" schedule Run the task every Friday at 10PM, starting from a certai

58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Thursday: every 3 hours from 9 AM till 9 PM  Friday: twice at 12 PM and 9 PM (i.e. same as on Monday)

59 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Every: <...> From: <...> Until: <...> Set up how many times the task will be run during t

6 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8.1.1 Linux-based bootable media ...

60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To: 12/01/2010. Actually the task will end on the last workday of November. By setting up this date we just

61 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 For example, you may want to set up a backup plan that will automatically perform an emergency full backup

62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUpdateClient and event number 18 into the System log; the type of this event is In

63 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.4.6 Conditions Conditions add more flexibility to the scheduler, enabling to execute backup tasks with r

64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Task start conditions: Wait until the conditions are met, Run the task anyway after 2 hour(s). As a resu

65 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Condition: Fits the time interval, from 04:30:00 PM until 10:00:00 PM.  Task start conditions: Skip th

66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.4.6.5 Time since last backup Applies to: Windows, Linux Enables to put a backup task run on hold until

67 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Usage scenarios  Reliable disaster recovery (p. 71) Store your backups both on-site (for immediate recove

68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Backups that were copied or moved to the next location do not depend on the backups remaining in the origin

69 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Tower of Hanoi scheme Each backup is retained based on its level (p. 41), and then deleted. You specify the

7 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 10.5.2 Alerts ...

70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 You will be able to specify the location where to move the backups and set up retention rules for that loca

71 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 moment. The operations that had started before the inactivity time began continue without interruption. The

72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Click OK. In Apply retention rules, select the After backup check box. Result:  Backups that are younger

73 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 [Virtual Machine Name] [Virtualization Server Type] Folder on VMware vCenter If the management server is in

74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 What is the machine's processing power? Conversion will take the selected machine's CPU resource.

75 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Otherwise, the existing virtual machine is updated to reflect changes since the last conversion. If upda

76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Agent for Windows Bootable media (Linux-based or PE-based) Disk backup File backup Disk backup File backu

77 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Agent for Windows Bootable media (Linux-based or PE-based) Disk backup File backup Disk backup File backu

78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Reset archive bit The option is effective only for file-level backup in Windows operating systems and in bo

79 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2. In the Enter the password field, type a password. 3. In the Confirm the password field, re-type the pa

8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1 Introducing Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 1.1 What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Acr

80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Backup performance options might have a more or less noticeable effect on the speed of the backup process.

81 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The option defines the amount of network connection bandwidth allocated for transferring the backup data.

82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.7.6 Compression level This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable medi

83 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To set up sending DRPs: 1. Select the Send disaster recovery plan check box. 2. Enter the e-mail address

84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.7.9 Event tracing It is possible to duplicate log events of the backup operations, performed on the mana

85 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To select whether to log the backup operations events in the Application Event Log of Windows: Choose one o

86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Always back up files directly. Administrator or Backup Operator privileges are not required. Trying to back

87 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Acronis Bootable Agent is a bootable rescue utility (based on Linux kernel) that includes most of the fu

88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.7.15 Multi-volume snapshot This option is effective only for Windows operating systems. This option appl

89 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8. In the User name field, enter the user name. 9. In the Password field, enter the password. 10. Click A

9 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Exporting and importing backup plans (p. 193) Export a backup plan to an .xml file and import it to a dif

90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.7.17 Pre/Post commands This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and PE-based boo

91 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 only after the command is successfully executed. Fail the task if the command execution fails. command is e

92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To specify pre/post data capture commands 1. Enable pre/post data capture commands execution by checking t

93 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4. Depending on the result you want to obtain, select the appropriate options as described in the table be

94 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To create an exact copy of a disk or volume on a physical level, select the Back up sector-by-sector check

95 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To handle the situation when the conditions are not met for too long and further delaying the backup is bec

96 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Hardware/software - Select automatically (selected by default) VSS will use the hardware-based provider

97 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 5 Recovery When it comes to data recovery, first consider the most functional method: connect the console

98 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 [Optional] Provide credentials for the archive location if the task account does not have the right to acce

99 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Universal Restore for Windows/Linux (p. 112) Use Acronis Universal Restore when you need to recover and boo