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11 Centralized management
This section covers operations that can be performed centrally by using the components for
centralized management. The content of this section is only applicable to advanced editions of
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.
11.1 Understanding centralized management
This section contains an overview of centralized data protection with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.
Please be sure you have an understanding of how data is protected on a single machine before
reading this section.
11.1.1 Basic concepts
Creating centralized backup plans and tracking their execution
To protect data on a single machine, you install on the machine an agent (p. 367) or multiple agents
for various data types you want to protect. You connect the console to the machine and create a
backup plan (p. 368) or multiple backup plans.
What if you have to manage hundreds of machines? It takes time to create a backup plan on each
machine, while the plans may be quite similar you need to back up, say, the system drive and the
users' documents. Tracking the plans' execution on each machine separately is also time-consuming.
To be able to propagate the management operations to multiple machines, you install Acronis
Backup & Recovery 11 Management Server (p. 376) and register (p. 377) the machines on the server.
After that you can create groups of machines and thus manage multiple machines as a whole. You
can protect all of them or your selection by setting up a centralized backup plan (p. 289).
Once you complete setting up a centralized backup plan on the management server, the server
deploys it to each of the machines included in the plan. The agents on the machines start executing
the plan. You are able to monitor the plan's status on a single screen and navigate, if required, to
each machine or activity to see their status and log entries. The management server also enables you
to monitor and manage the agent's locally originated activities.
Since you connect the console to the management server rather than to each machine and perform
all management operations through the central management unit, this way of management is called
centralized management (p. 369).
Centralized management does not rule out the direct management (p. 371) of each machine. You can
connect the console to each machine and perform any direct management operation. However,
centralized backup plans can be managed through the management server only, since a well-thought
out plan functions automatically and rarely requires human intervention.
Using the management server, you can create one or more centralized archive storages (centralized
vaults (p. 370)), which will be shared by the registered machines. A centralized vault can be used by
any backup plan, either centralized or created on the registered machines using direct management.
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