ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server, ES Podręcznik Użytkownika

Update 3 Acronis® Backup & Recovery ™ 10 Advanced Server User's Guide

10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Start the console. Create the bootable media. 5. Connect the console to the management server. The sim

100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Pre/Post backup commands (p. 103) + + + + PE only PE only Pre/Post data capture commands (p. 105) + + +

101 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Overwrite data on a tape without prompting for user confirmation Dest: Tape Dest: Tape Dest: Tape Dest: Ta

102 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The AES cryptographic algorithm operates in the Cipher-block chaining (CBC) mode and uses a randomly gener

103 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Windows and Linux By name F.log F Excludes all files named "F.log" Excludes all folders named &

104 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Do any of the following:  Click Edit to specify a new command or a batch file  Select the existing

105 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5. Click Test Command to check if the command is correct. 3.4.1.4 Pre/Post data capture commands This o

106 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 command execution fails Do not perform the data capture until the command execution is complete Selected

107 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This option defines whether to back up files one by one or by taking an instant data snapshot. Note: Files

108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will select the VSS provider automatically based on the operating system

109 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.4.1.9 Backup performance Use this group of options to specify the amount of network and system resource

11 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Creating a backup policy rather than backup plans Set up a centralized backup policy and apply it to the

110 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Network connection speed This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable med

111 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  From - type the e-mail address of the user from whom the message will be sent. If you leave this field

112 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.4.1.11 Event tracing It is possible to duplicate log events of the backup operations, performed on the

113 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Types of events to send – choose the types of events to be sent: All events, Errors and warnings, or Er

114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The task will enter the Need interaction state and ask for a new media when the previous one is full. Fixe

115 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When backing up to removable media, you can make this media work as regular Linux-based bootable media (p.

116 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When the option is disabled, the program will display a pop-up window each time it comes across a bad sect

117 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The preset is: Wait until the conditions are met. Wait until the conditions are met With this setting, the

118 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The program will try to execute the failed task again if you select the Restart a failed task check box an

119 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the console is connected to the management server The Use a separate tape set option has more precise d

12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Navigation pane Contains the Navigation tree and the Shortcuts bar and lets you navigate to the different

120 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Dismount media after backup has finished This option is effective in Windows and Linux operating systems.

121 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Deduplicate backup only after transferring it to the vault (do not deduplicate at source) This option is a

122 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To view and change the default recovery options, connect the console to the managed machine and then selec

123 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 E-mail (p. 125) + + + + - - Win Pop-up (p. 126) + + + + - - Event tracing: Windows events log (p. 126

124 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 complete Result Preset Perform the recovery only after the command is successfully executed. Fail the ta

125 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  High – to maximize the recovery process speed by taking resources from the other processes. 3.4.2.3 F

126 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Port – set the port of the POP server. By default, the port is set to 110.  User name – enter the use

127 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This option defines whether the agent(s) operating on the managed machine have to log events of the recove

128 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.4.2.6 Error handling These options are effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable m

129 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Restart machine automatically if it is required for recovery This option is effective when recovery takes

13 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Dashboard. Use this view to estimate at a glance whether the data is successfully protected on the mach

130 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4 Vaults A vault is a location for storing backup archives. For ease of use and administration, a vault i

131 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Way of working with the "Vaults" view Vaults (on the navigation pane) - top element of the vau

132 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To learn more about privileges depending on the user rights, see the User privileges on a storage node (p.

133 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Operations with archives stored in a vault (p. 164) Operations with backups (p. 165) Filtering and sorting

134 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Delete a vault 1. Select the vault. 2. Click Delete. You'll be asked whether to keep the archives

135 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Select the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node that will manage the vault. You may need to enter

136 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Vault database path To specify the path where the vault's database will be created 1. In the Local f

137 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4.1.2.2 Creating an unmanaged centralized vault To create an unmanaged centralized vault, perform the fol

138 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To attach a managed vault to a storage node, perform the following steps. Vault Storage node Select the A

139 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 by different components of other versions of the product by means of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, see

14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 All actions can also be accessed in the respective menu items. A menu item appears on the menu bar when you

140 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. A tape with backups written by the storage node cannot be read on a tape device, locally attached to a

141 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4.1.3.5 Getting started with a tape library If you have a tape library device attached to a machine with

142 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the tape barcode cannot be read, another Tasks Need Interaction window asks you to label a tape. Actio

143 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To change the settings of the backup policy/plan to be created click Change… in the Backup options section

144 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Any user with access to a managed vault on a tape library is able to perform these operations. However two

145 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Labeling When a tape required for data recovery is not found, the Task Need Interaction window will ask th

146 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you leave this option unchanged, then the backups, belonging to the policy or plan being created, might

147 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 cycle. The same tape rotation enables you to get by with the minimum number of cartridges and not to be bu

148 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  capability of the tape library (number of drives, loaders, slots and available tapes; capacity of tapes

149 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 backup policy/plan starts on Wednesday and full backups should be created on every fourth Friday, on Wedne

15 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Help Contains a list of help topics. Different views and action pages of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 p

150 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The next figure demonstrates the data backup archive at the moment. The differential backup is drawn as a

151 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Below, the figure shows the deleted backups as actual, but demonstrates tape usage during the whole year f

152 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The full backup stored on tape 01 is deleted after the next full backup is created onto both tapes 23 and

153 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If all the backups have to be kept during the year, the archive will require 28 tapes. As the GFS backup

154 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This figure demonstrates that the GFS Example 2 tape rotation scheme is more suitable for the case than GF

155 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  backup deletion frees a tape so it can be reused. The main drawback is the large number of required tap

156 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 ToH Example 1 Suppose, the backup plan has the following tape options:  the Use a separate tape set opti

157 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  five-level scheme requires up to five tapes for this case. ToH Example 2 Suppose, the backup plan has

158 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 ToH Example 3 Imagine the backup plan has the following tape options:  the Use a separate tape set opti

159 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To simplify the tape planning lets discard the possibility that the calculated tapes might contain backups

16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 "Tasks" view Common way of working with views Generally, every view contains a table of items, a

160 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Total number of required tapes = round up ((2*F_GB + 12*I_GB + 11*D_GB) * CL / T_GB) + 1 = round up ( (2*3

161 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 node database has all the required information about the content of the moved tapes. So all you need to do

162 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Metadata The .meta folder is created during backup in every personal vault. This folder contains additiona

163 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  [Archive Name] The Actions bar is available when you select an archive in the archives table. Duplicate

164 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4.2.2.1 Creating a personal vault To create a personal vault 1. In the Name field, type a name for the v

165 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To Do Validate an archive Click Validate. The Validation (p. 243) page will be opened with the pre-selec

166 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Validate a backup Click Validate. The Validation (p. 243) page will be opened with the pre-selected backu

167 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4.3.4 Filtering and sorting archives The following is a guideline for you to filter and sort archives in

168 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5 Scheduling Acronis scheduler helps the administrator adapt backup plans to the company’s daily routine

169 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The specified period of time has passed since the last successful backup completed + + The scheduler behav

17 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Action page - Create backup plan Using controls and specifying settings The action pages offer two ways of

170 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Run the task every day at 6PM. The schedule's parameters are thus set up as follows. 1. Every: 1 day

171 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Every: 3 day(s). 2. Every: 4 hours. From: 08:00:00 AM Until: 12:00:00 PM. 3. Effective: From: 09/20/

172 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Run the task every Friday at 10PM, starting from a certain date (say 05/14/2009) and ending after six mont

173 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Sunday: once at 9 PM Combining the identical times, the following three schedules can be added to the t

174 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 From: <...> Set up a date when this schedule will be enabled (an effective date). If this check box

175 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In the case when the task needs to be run on different days or weeks with different time intervals dependi

176 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Parameters Log name Specifies the name of the log. Select the name of a standard log (Application, Securit

177 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Log name: System  Event source: Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUpdateClient  Event type: Information  E

178 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Delay values range from zero to the specified maximum delay value, and are determined according to the cho

179 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.6 When an ADRM alert is received This schedule is effective in Windows operating systems when Acronis®

18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Navigation buttons 1.3 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components This section contains a full list of

180 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Condition: Time since last backup; Value: Time since the last backup: 12 hour(s).  Task start conditi

181 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.7.3 Fits time interval Applies to: Windows, Linux Restricts a backup task's start time to a specif

182 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Example Run the backup task at 8 PM on the first and third Friday of every month, preferably when all user

183 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6 Direct management This section covers operations that can be performed directly on a managed machine by

184 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 licenses. Please make sure you have a valid license on Acronis License Server. After a successful license

185 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Errors Highlight the date in red if at least one "Error" entry appeared in the log on this date

186 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Use the toolbar's buttons to take an action on the selected plan (task). See the Actions on backup

187 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Status How it is determined How to handle 1 Error At least one task has failed. Otherwise, see 2 Iden

188 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Any running task can put itself into the Need interaction state when it needs human interaction such as ch

189 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2 Warning Last result is "Succeeded with warning" View the log to read the warnings -> [opt

19 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 File backup File-level data protection is based on backing up files and folders residing on the machine whe

190 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Run a plan/task Backup plan Click Run. In the Run Backup Plan (p. 193) window, select the task you need

191 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Edit a plan/task Backup plan Click Edit. Backup plan editing is performed in the same way as creation (

192 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Delete a plan/task Backup plan Click Delete. What will happen if I delete the backup plan? The plan&apo

193 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Configuring backup plans and the tasks table By default, the table has six columns that are displayed, oth

194 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Recovery (disk) Disk backup recovery Recovery (file) File and folder recovery Recovery (volume) Recover

195 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Progress The Progress tab is available while the task is running. It is common for all types of tasks. The

196 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Validation (if selected) - events before or after which the validation is performed, and validation sch

197 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 View a log entry’s details 1. Select a log entry. 2. Do one of the following  Click View Details. T

198 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Configuring the log table By default, the table has seven columns that are displayed, others are hidden. I

199 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To create a backup plan, perform the following steps. General Plan name [Optional] Enter a unique name for

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010. All rights reserved. “Acronis” and “Acronis Secure Zone” are registered trademarks of Acronis, Inc. "Acro

20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 recovered to their original location or to another place. It is possible to recover all files and directori

200 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 [Optional] Provide credentials for the location if the plan account does not have access permissions to th

201 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Here you select the resulting virtual machine type and location. Available options depend on the host you

202 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Available if the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows (or for Linux) is installed. Select th

203 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The swap file (pagefile.sys) and the file that keeps the RAM content when the machine goes into hibernatio

204 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.2.6 Exclusions Set up exclusions for the specific types of files you do not wish to back up. For exampl

205 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 By file path C:\Finance\F.log Excludes the file named "F.log" located in the folder C:\Finance

206 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  To back up data to a locally attached tape device, expand the Tape drives group, then click the require

207 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This behavior can be suppressed by adding the [Date] variable (p. 210) to the archive name. If you do not

208 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Your script can move older backups based on the date stamp. See also “The [Date] variable” (p. 210). E

209 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  You want to swap the drives each Monday, so that one drive contains backups of the current week (Monday

21 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 VMware vCenter integration This feature provides the capability to view virtual machines managed by a VMwar

210 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.2.8.2 The [DATE] variable If you specify the [DATE] variable in the archive name, the file name of each

211 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The program will access the source data using the credentials of the backup plan account specified in the

212 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In the Backup type field, select whether you want to create a full, incremental or differential backup (p.

213 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Feb 5—Feb 11 D D D D W - - Feb 12—Feb 18 D D D D W - - Feb 19—Feb 25 D D D D M - - Feb 26—Mar

214 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Keep monthly backups indefinitely. Backup scheme parameters can then be set up as follows.  Start bac

215 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Have a weekly summary of file changes since last month (Friday weekly differential backup).  Have a m

216 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Parameters You can set up the following parameters of a Tower of Hanoi scheme. Schedule Set up a daily (p

217 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2 2 days 1 to 2 days 1 day 3 4 days 2 to 5 days 2 days 4 8 days 4 to 11 days 4 days 5 16 days 8

218 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Incremental Specifies on what schedule and under which conditions to perform an incremental backup. If th

219 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Examples Weekly full backup The following scheme yields a full backup performed every Friday night. Full b

22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Deduplication A managed vault can be configured as a deduplicating vault. This means that identical data wi

220 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Finally, we create retention rules for the archive: let us retain only backups that are no older than six

221 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.2.11 Archive validation Set up the validation task to check if the backed up data is recoverable. If th

222 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Which agent is installed on the host? The resulting virtual machine type and location depend on the agent

223 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the managed machine's operating system fails to start or you need to recover data to bare metal, b

224 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 [Optional] Provide credentials for the archive location if the task account does not have the right to acc

225 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 modify the setting again, the line will display the new value unless the new value is the default one. Whe

226 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the archive is located on removable media, e.g. DVDs, first insert the last DVD and then insert the dis

227 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.3.4.1 Disks/volumes selection To select a backup and disks/volumes to recover: 1. Select one of the su

228 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The program will access the location using the credentials you specify. Use this option if the task accoun

229 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Disk #: Disk # (MODEL) (p. 231) Select the destination disk for each of the source disks. NT signature (p.

23 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The media builder that installs on Windows can create bootable media based on either Windows Preinstallatio

230 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.3.6.2 Volumes Available volume destinations depend on the agents operating on the machine. Recover to:

231 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 MBR destination To specify a destination disk: 1. Select the disk to recover the MBR to. 2. Click OK. V

232 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 set as active. If you recover a system volume to another hard disk with its own volumes and operating syst

233 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Storage Initial setting: the default storage of the virtualization server if the new machine is created on

234 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Recovery exclusions Set up exclusions for the specific files you do not wish to recover. Use the Add, Edi

235 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Do not overwrite existing file - this will give the file on the hard disk priority over the file in the

236 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 DVD supplied by the hardware vendor or download the drivers from the vendor’s Web site. The driver files s

237 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Drivers for a virtual machine When recovering a system to a new virtual machine, the Universal Restore tec

238 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8. [Optionally] Review the Virtual machine settings (p. 232) and make changes if necessary. Here you can

239 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Windows was recovered to a dynamic volume that cannot be bootable Solution: Recover Windows to a basic,

24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Windows Server 2008 - the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Foundation editions (x86, x64) 

240 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.3.11.1 How to reactivate GRUB and change its configuration Generally, you should refer to the boot load

241 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 root (hd0,0) 10. Install GRUB. For example, to install GRUB in the master boot record (MBR) of the first d

242 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the recovery requires the machine to be rebooted (usually, when the volumes to recover include the boot

243 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.3.14 Recovering the storage node In addition to backing up data to centralized vaults managed by Acroni

244 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can access the Validation page from the Vaults (p. 130) view. Right-click the object to validate (arch

245 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  User name. When entering the name of an Active Directory user account, be sure to also specify the doma

246 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  To access a managed vault, type the following string in the Path field: bsp://node_address/vault_name/

247 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Use the task credentials The program will access the location using the credentials of the task account

248 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  "Band aid" database recovery solution: mount up an image that contains an SQL database from a

249 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  If the archive is stored on an FTP or SFTP server, type the server name or address in the Path field as

25 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Windows Server 2008 - the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Foundation editions (x86, x64) 

250 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  User name. When entering the name of an Active Directory user account, be sure to also specify the doma

251 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.7 Exporting archives and backups The export operation creates a copy of an archive or a self-sufficient

252 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The resulting archive's options The exported archive inherits the options of the original archive, in

253 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 [Optional] The export task will run on behalf of the user who is creating the task. You can change the tas

254 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.7.2 Archive selection To select an archive 1. Enter the full path to the location in the Path field, o

255 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.7.3 Backup selection To specify a backup(s) to export 1. At the top of the window, select the respecti

256 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  To export data to a network share, expand the Network folders group, select the required networked mach

257 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.7.6 Access credentials for destination Specify credentials required for access to the location where th

258 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 [Optional] Protect the Acronis Secure Zone from unauthorized access with a password. The prompt for the pa

259 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.8.1.4 Result confirmation The Result confirmation window displays the expected partition layout accord

26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Management Console 30 MB 950 MB 450 MB Screen resolution 1024*768 pixels or higher Management Server

260 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Select volumes from which free space will be used to increase the Acronis Secure Zone. 3. Specify the

261 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Activate Enables the boot time prompt "Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager…" (if you

262 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Linux-based bootable media Linux-based media contains Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Bootable Agent base

263 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Windows Vista (PE 2.0)  Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 (PE 2.1)  Windows 7 (PE 3.0) If y

264 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Universal Restore can be enabled if Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore is installed on

265 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Disables Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC). You may want to use this parameter when experi

266 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Disables the use of PCI BIOS; only direct hardware access methods will be allowed. You may want to use thi

267 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Sizeable data for recovery could be transferred through the second NIC, included in the dedicated backup n

268 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Click Remove. 6.10.1.2 Adding the Acronis Plug-in to WinPE 1.x Acronis Plug-in for WinPE can be adde

269 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. Select Bootable media type: Windows PE. When creating a new PE ISO:  Select Create Windows PE 2.x o

27 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 This section attempts to give its readers a clear underst

270 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6. Copy the contents of the current folder—by default: C:\Program Files\Acronis\Bootable Components\WinPE

271 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7. Tasks cannot be scheduled; in fact, tasks are not created at all. If you need to repeat the operation,

272 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To add an NDAS device 1. In a Linux-based bootable media, run the management console. 2. Click Configure

273 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 egrep mkswap sysinfo fdisk more tar fsck mount tune2fs fxload mtx udev gawk mv udevinfo gpm pccardctl ud

274 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To create the volume structure by using the management console 1. Boot the machine from a Linux-based boo

275 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7. Return to the management console by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1, or by running the command: /bin/product (Do

276 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 lvm pvcreate /dev/md0 /dev/md1 lvm vgcreate my_volgroup /dev/md0 /dev/md1 lvm vgdisplay The output of the

277 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Num Idx Partition Flags Start Size Type ---- --- --------- ----- ----- --------- ------ Disk 1:

278 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.10.6.2 Setting up a machine to boot from PXE For bare metal, it is enough that the machine’s BIOS suppo

279 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.11 Disk management Acronis Disk Director Lite is a tool for preparing a machine disk/volume configurati

28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The following diagram illustrates the notions discussed above. For more definitions please refer to the Glo

280 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Running Acronis Disk Director Lite from a bootable media You can run Acronis Disk Director Lite on a bare

281 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Displaying operation results The results of any disk or volume operation, you have just planned, are immed

282 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you decide to change the disk settings it can be done later using the standard Acronis Disk Director Li

283 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 data loss , then the user will be allowed to proceed. If due to the size limitations safe transfer of all

284 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5. Wait until the task is finished. 6.11.5.3 Disk conversion: MBR to GPT You would want to convert an M

285 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Please note, a volume, belonging to a GPT disk to convert, will be a logical one after the operation and i

286 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You will be advised about the changes that will happen to the system if the chosen disk is converted from

287 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 the following Microsoft knowledge base article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732026.aspx.

288 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A volume, also sometimes called RAID 0, consisting of equal sized stripes of data, written across each dis

289 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Striped  Mirrored  RAID-5 You will obtain a brief description of every type of volume for better u

29 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Backup using bootable media You can boot the machine using the bootable media, configure the backup operati

290 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 minimum and the maximum values or click on the special handle, and hold and drag the borders of the disk&a

291 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.11.6.2 Delete volume This version of Acronis Disk Director Lite has reduced functionality because it is

292 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.11.6.4 Change volume letter Windows operating systems assign letters (C:, D:, etc) to hard disk volumes

293 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  to save additional space which is being lost due to the cluster size on the FAT16 or FAT32 file systems

294 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Quitting Acronis Disk Director Lite without committing the pending operations effectively cancels them, so

295 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7 Centralized management This section covers operations that can be performed centrally by using the comp

296 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Vaults with low free space: X View vaults The alert is displayed if at least one centralized vault has

297 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Statistics for the selected date are displayed to the right of the chart. All the statistics fields are in

298 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.1.2.1 Backup policy deployment states A backup policy deployment state is a combination of the policy d

299 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In the Log view, apply the Error filter if there are too many log entries. You can also sort the "e

Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ... 8 1.1

30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The following diagram illustrates data recovery under the operating system (online). No backup can proceed

300 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Edit a policy Click Edit. Editing policies is performed in the same way as creating (p. 356). Once the po

301 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Sort backup policies by any column Click the column's header to sort the backup policies in ascending

302 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 View details of the machine (group). Click View details. In the Machine details (p. 309)/Group details (p

303 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Static groups contain machines manually added to the group by the administrator. A static member remains i

304 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 added to the management server. Import machines from Active Directory Click Import machines from Active D

305 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Remove a machine from the current static group Click Remove from group. The backup policies applied to th

306 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Adding a machine to the management server To be able to deploy backup policies from Acronis Backup & R

307 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If more than 1000 matches are found, only the first 1000 items will be displayed. In this case, it is reco

308 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Synchronization command line tool Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server has a command line to

309 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Moving a machine to another group To move the selected machine to another group 1. In the group tree, sel

31 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the machine fails to boot or you need to recover data to bare metal, you boot the machine using the boot

310 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Unknown - this status is displayed until the first connection between the management server and the mac

311 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Plans and tasks Displays a list of the plans (both local and centralized) and tasks existing on the select

312 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  recovery task (from the disk backup): The target volume will be deleted and its space unallocated – you

313 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Delete a plan/task Backup plan Click Delete. What will happen if I delete the backup plan? The plan&apo

314 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This opens Log view with pre-filtered log entries of the selected group. Remove machine from a group. Clic

315 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To show or hide columns 1. Right-click any column header to open the context menu. The menu items that ar

316 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Refresh a list of groups Click Refresh. The management console will update the list of groups from the ma

317 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 IP range: 192.168.17.0 - 192.168.17.55 will add to the same group all the machines whose operating syst

318 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 when the machine was initially added to the management server. Otherwise, the machine will not be added to

319 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 View details of a policy Click View details. In the Policy details (p. 301) window, examine all informati

32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Members of the Administrators group also can:  View and manage backup plans and tasks owned by any user o

320 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This approach comes in handy when:  the machine is not hosted on a virtualization server  the virtuali

321 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When virtual machines become unavailable for the agent (this happens when machines are removed from the vi

322 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5. Click OK As a result, a group that has the same name as the vCenter Server appears on the management s

323 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When you select a host or cluster where the agent is already installed, the right panel of the ESX Agent D

324 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Monitoring the deployment progress and result Creating or updating virtual appliances may take some time.

325 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Storage node enables you to:  relieve managed machines of unnecessary CPU load by using the storage node

326 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Add a storage node to the management server Click Add. In the Add storage node (p. 326) window, specify t

327 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Use the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of the storage node, that is, a completely specified domain nam

328 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Services This tab displays the compacting task scheduling parameters. Service tasks This tab lets the man

329 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Stop a task Click Stop. What will happen if I stop the task? Generally, stopping the task aborts its oper

33 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can skip the Plan's (Task) credentials step. Every time you start the task, the task will run unde

330 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.1.6.2 Filtering and sorting tasks The following is a guideline for you to filter and sort tasks. To Do

331 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node has its own local event log. This log's events are acce

332 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 window.  Expand the Information panel, by clicking the chevron. Save the selected log entries to a file

333 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Configuring the log table By default, the table has seven columns that are displayed, others are hidden. I

334 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.1.8 Reporting Reporting provides the management server administrator with detailed and well-structured

335 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Status: The machine statuses—OK, Warning, and/or Error.  Last connection (physical machines only): T

336 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.1.8.3 Report about the backup plans In this view, you can generate a report about backup plans existing

337 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Owner: The list of users who created the tasks.  Duration: The limits for the amount of time within w

338 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Filters Under Filters, select which centralized managed vaults to include in the report, and whether to in

339 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When choosing the columns to display, use the left arrow and right arrow buttons to include or exclude col

34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Example: An Internet cafe, school or university lab where the administrator often undoes changes made by th

340 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.2.1 Parameters set through administrative template The following are the parameters of Acronis Backup &

341 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374177.aspx 7.2.1.2 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storag

342 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In this case, the component's connection to the storage node will fail. If the component is an Acroni

343 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When the amount of free space in a vault is equal to the value in Vault Free Space Error Limit or less, an

344 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Possible values: 0 (Internal event), 1 (Debugging information), 2 (Information), 3 (Warning), 4 (Error), o

345 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Description: Specifies the minimum level of severity of events for sending SNMP notifications about them.

346 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A connected machine to be synchronized waits for an available worker. For this reason, the actual number o

347 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When connecting to a registered machine, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server first uses the

348 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Description: Specifies the initial size of the snapshot storage, in megabytes. Possible values: Any intege

349 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If Acronis License Server is unavailable, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will continue working with full

35 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.5 GFS backup scheme This section covers implementation of the Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) backup scheme

350 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Default value: 4 (only errors and critical errors will be recorded—if Trace State is set to True) SNMP Spe

351 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can specify a local folder on any volume, including a volume you are backing up. Snapshot Storage Abso

352 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The component will use the default settings, which is to use encryption if possible and to trust self-sign

353 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Disabled Encryption is disabled; any connection to a client application which requires encryption will not

354 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Description: Specifies the minimum severity level of events to be recorded in the file. Only events of lev

355 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.2.3 Parameters set through Windows registry The following are the parameters of Acronis Backup & Re

356 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Acronis\ASN\Configuration\StorageNode\DatabasePath TapesDatabase

357 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Exclusions (p. 364) [Optional] Set up exclusions for the specific types of files you do not wish to back u

358 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 By setting up regular conversion, you obtain a copy of your server or workstation on a virtual machine whi

359 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Click OK. To learn more about Acronis service credentials, see the Rights for Acronis services (p. 81)

36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Select a day of the week from the days selected in the previous step. Each 1st, 2nd and 3rd backup created

360 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Boot volume Type or select: [BOOT] Refers to the registered machine's boot volume. The boot volume

361 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Linux A volume backup stores all files and folders of the selected volume independent of their attributes,

362 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In general, the standard name for a Linux partition consists of three components:  Disk type; hd for IDE

363 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Windows Full path Point to the folders and files to be backed up. If you specified a path to a file or fol

364 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Text file file.txt on the volume /dev/hda3 mounted on /home/usr/docs /dev/hda3/file.txt or /home/usr/docs/

365 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can view file or folder attributes in the file/folder properties or by using the attrib command. For m

366 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  To back up data to Acronis Online Backup Storage, click Log in and specify the credentials to log in to

367 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The name looks like ArchiveN, where N is a sequence number. If the program finds that the archive Archive1

368 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Custom – to create a custom scheme, where you are free to set up a backup strategy in the way your ente

369 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Description Let us suppose that we want to set up a backup plan that will regularly produce a series of da

37 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The resulting archive: ideal Assume you select to keep daily backups for 7 days, weekly backups for 2 weeks

370 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Keep backups: Specifies how long you want the backups to be stored in the archive. A term can be set in h

371 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Limited storage If you do not want to arrange a vast amount of space to store a huge archive, you may set

372 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Here, daily incremental backups will be created on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with weekly and monthly backups

373 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Recur: Every 1 day  Frequency: Once at 6 PM Number of levels: 4 This is how the first 14 days (or 14

374 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A new level 3 differential backup has not yet been created, so the backup of day five is still stored. Sin

375 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The archive will be cleaned up only during backup and only if there is not enough space to create a new ba

376 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Retention rules: Delete backups older than 12 months Apply the rules: After backing up By default, a one-y

377 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In the first of the previous examples, we set up a schedule only for full backups. However, the scheme wil

378 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online might be unavailable in your region. To find more information, cli

379 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.3 How long will my backups be kept in the online storage? Your backups remain in the online storage u

38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When using the incremental and differential backup methods, you cannot delete a backup as soon as the schem

380 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  you want to perform file-level backup and recovery  you want to back up an independent disk or an RDM

381 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 backups. You may also want to set or edit the retention rule (p. 379) so that an overflow does not occur.

382 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.7.4 What types of hard drive can I use for Initial Seeding? Acronis accepts hard disk drives of the f

383 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. [Optional] If you want to add more backups to the media, repeat step 3 selecting the different data in

384 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Step 2 Place the hard drive into an anti-static bag to protect the drive from electrostatic discharge. If

385 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You might want to use the most cost-efficient delivery method for having your hard drive returned. Step 5

386 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You will receive a notification message when Acronis receives the order and when the order is completed. I

387 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.8.4 Is Large Scale Recovery a paid service? Yes, you need to buy one Large Scale Recovery license per

388 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  [Occasional] Address is undeliverable – Acronis cannot send the disk. On the same Web page, click Chang

389 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.9.4 What happens when my subscription expires? A month before the subscription expiration date you re

39 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Tower of Hanoi overview The Tower of Hanoi scheme is based on a mathematical puzzle of the same name. In th

390 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 group. Click the Group column header to sort the subscriptions and then apply the desired actions to the g

391 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  VMware ESX(i) 4.0 and 4.1 (Host-based backup is available only for paid licenses of VMware ESXi.)  Wi

392 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Select the machine and then click Select subscription. 5. From Available subscriptions, select the su

393 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Depending on your settings, this backup will be either full or incremental. But its size is not likely to

394 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To configure proxy settings for an agent 1. Connect the console to the machine for which you want to conf

395 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Dual destination (p. 116) By using the Backup performance > Network connection speed option, you can

396 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Reassign a subscription Assign a subscription that is already activated, to a different machine. Registrat

397 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 9 Glossary A Acronis Active Restore The Acronis proprietary technology that brings a system online immedi

398 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Limitation: requires re-activation of loaders other than Windows loaders and GRUB. Agent (Acronis Backup

399 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Backup options Configuration parameters of a backup operation (p. 398), such as pre/post backup commands,

2.14.4 Policies on machines and groups ...

40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  up to 16 backup levels  incremental backups on first level (A) - to gain time and storage savings for

400 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. On each machine, the agent (p. 398) installed on the machine finds data items using the selection rule

401 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Built-in groups cannot be deleted, moved to other groups or manually modified. Custom groups cannot be cre

402 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Cleanup Deleting backups (p. 398) from a backup archive (p. 398) in order to get rid of outdated backups o

403 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Direct management Any management operation that is performed on a managed machine (p. 406) using the direc

404 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 222189 Description of Disk Groups in Windows Disk Management http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222189/EN-US/

405 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  the administrator changes the criteria so that the machine does not meet them anymore. There is no way

406 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 F Full backup A self-sufficient backup (p. 398) containing all data chosen for backup. You do not need acc

407 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Managed vault A centralized vault (p. 401) managed by a storage node (p. 408). Archives (p. 398) in a mana

408 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Plan See Backup plan (p. 399). Policy See Backup policy (p. 399). R Recovery point Date and time to whic

409 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  prevent access to the backup archives, even in case the storage medium is stolen or accessed by a malef

41 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.7 Retention rules The backups produced by a backup plan make an archive. The two retention rules describ

410 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 U Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) The Acronis proprietary technolog

411 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Virtual machine On Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server, a machine (p. 406) is considered vi

42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 There is a certain risk that all but one backup will be deleted if the maximum archive size is set improper

43 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The outdated backup will be kept until all backups that depend on it also become outdated. Then all the cha

44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Backing up dynamic volumes Dynamic and basic GPT volumes are backed up in the same way as basic MBR volumes

45 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Recovered to: Dynamic volume Basic MBR volume Basic GPT volume Dynamic volume Dynamic volume Type as of

46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To back up all available disks, specify all logical volumes plus basic volumes not belonging to them. This

47 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 For information about assembling MD devices when performing recovery in Linux, see Assembling MD devices fo

48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Num Partition Flags Start Size Type ---- -------------------- ----------- ----

49 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.11 Tape support Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 supports tape libraries, autoloaders, SCSI and USB tape

5.7 Conditions ... 179 5.

50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Backup to a locally attached tape device When creating a backup plan, you are able to select the locally at

51 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The value may be "Information", "Warning", 'Error" and "Unknown". &

52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Should the disk experience a physical failure, the zone and the archives located there will be lost. That&a

53 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 to start the bootable rescue utility. This feature has the trade name "Acronis Startup Recovery Manage

54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The Universal Restore technology provides an efficient solution for hardware-independent system recovery by

55 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Getting Universal Restore Universal Restore comes free with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Serv

56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 multimedia files. Some of these storage volumes can be extremely large as compared to the system and so pra

57 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.14.1 Basic concepts Applying backup policies and tracking their execution To protect data on a single ma

58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 More than one storage node, each managing a number of vaults, can be set up and controlled centrally from t

59 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When installing the agents, register each of the machines on the management server. To do so, enter the ser

6.7.1 Task credentials ...

60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Create a static group named, say, S_1. Add all the servers to this group. (A storage node can be added

61 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.14.2.3 Protecting the virtual machines Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for ESX/ESXi provides the

62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  IP address range. Multiple criteria can be specified for a dynamic group. For example, a set of criteria

63 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3, 4, 5, 6 - the salesmen's machines (Windows XP) from the "Sales department" AD organizatio

64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  edit a group, that is:  change the group name  change the group description  change the dynamic m

65 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.14.4.1 A policy on a machine or a group In the diagrams below, each numbered scheme illustrates the res

66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.14.4.2 Operations with a machine This section is a simplified illustration of what happens with the poli

67 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.14.4.3 Inheritance of policies Policy inheritance can be easily understood if we assume that a machine c

68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 #4 "green" "orange" "blue" "violet" Inherited Inherited Inherited

69 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 another policy. In this case, the first policy's state on the machine will be Revoking and the second

8.1.1 What is Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online? ... 378 8.1

70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The policy gets the Warning status on Windows machines that have either a D: or F: volume, unless an event

71 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This status is defined as the most severe status of the policy on the machines included in the group and it

72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Performed on a managed machine during backup. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent uses the storage node

73 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Deduplication at target After backup to a deduplicating vault is completed, the storage node runs the index

74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  The deduplicated items that have changed are not identical anymore and therefore will not be deduplicate

75 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Similarly, in case of three machines, the ratio becomes 1.5:1; for four machines, it is 1.6:1. It approache

76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.14.7 Privileges for centralized management This section describes the users' privileges that are re

77 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Click Manage this machine. To allow a non-root user to start the console  As a root user, add the nam

78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Remote connection as a non-root user Since accessing the system as the root user should be restricted, the

79 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.14.7.5 Acronis security groups On a machine running Windows, Acronis security groups determine who can m

8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1 Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview Based on Ac

80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Tip: To ensure proper group names, you should install Acronis components in a domain controller after you h

81 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  For users whom you want to act as storage node administrators, add their accounts to the Administrators

82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you choose to specify an existing user account for the management server service, this account will be a

83 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.14.8.2 Client and server applications There are two stakeholders of the secure communication process: 

84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. For the new communication settings to take effect, restart all running Acronis components—preferably, b

85 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Selecting the Trust self-signed certificates check box allows the client to connect to the server applicati

86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The use of SSL certificates is enabled. The server will use SSL certificates if their use is enabled on the

87 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Self-signed certificates, such as certificates automatically generated during the installation of an Acr

88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Restart Windows, or restart the running Acronis services. Non-self-signed certificates You have the opt

89 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3 Options This section covers Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 options that can be configured using Graphi

9 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Controlling user rights to perform operations and access backups Running services with minimal user rights R

90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The preset is: Enabled for all results. To make a setting for each result (successful completion, failure o

91 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The option defines the fonts to be used in the Graphical User Interface of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This parameter can also be set by using Acronis Administrative Template (p. 343). 3.2.3 Event tracing You

93 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.2.4 Domain access credentials This option determines the user name and password that the management ser

94 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.2.6.1 VMware vCenter integration This option defines whether to show virtual machines managed by a VMwar

95 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Note: Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online supports only HTTP and HTTPS proxy servers. Proxy settings fo

96 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.3.2 Event tracing It is possible to duplicate log events generated by the agent(s), operating on the man

97 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can override the settings set here, exclusively for the events that occur during backup or during recov

98 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf - configuration file for the Net-SNMP SNMP agent  /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf - conf

99 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you choose Yes, I want to participate in the ACEP, information about the hardware configuration, the mos