ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server, AAS, MNT, 5000-12499u, ENG Guia do Utilizador

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 Exclusion examples Criterion Example Description Windows and Linux By name F.log F Excludes all files name

104 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To specify pre/post commands 1. Enable pre/post commands execution by checking the following options: 

105 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. If successful execution of the command is critical for your backup strategy, select the Fail the task

106 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Depending on the result you want to obtain, select the appropriate options as described in the table b

107 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 fails. 3.4.1.5 File-level backup snapshot This option is effective only for file-level backup in Windows

108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 transactions, at the moment of taking the data snapshot by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. Data consiste

109 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Maximum – the data will be compressed as much as possible. The backup duration will be maximal. You may

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  Click Writing speed stated in kilobytes per second, and then enter the writing speed in kilobytes per s

111 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. For the e-mail message to include the log entries related to the backup, select the Add full log to th

112 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The When user interaction is required check box – to send notification during the operation when user inte

113 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Use the setting set in the Machine options – to use the setting specified for the machine. For more inf

114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the destination disk runs out of free space while creating the backup, the task enters the Need interac

115 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.4.1.15 Media components This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems, when the

116 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Ignore bad sectors The preset is: Disabled. When the option is disabled, the program will display a pop-up

117 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This option determines the program behavior in case a backup task is about to start (the scheduled time co

118 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This option determines the program behavior when any of the backup plan's tasks fails. The preset is

119 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When this option is enabled, the backups, belonging to the policy or plan being created, will be located o

12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Key elements of the console workspace Name Description Navigation pane Contains the Navigation tree and t

120 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When starting backup to a non-empty tape in a locally attached tape device, the program will warn that you

121 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 For example, if the machine boots from a hard disk drive by default and you select this check box, the mac

122 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can also customize a default option itself by changing its value against the pre-defined one. The new

123 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Change SID after recovery Windows recovery - Windows recovery - Windows recovery - Notifications: E-mail (

124 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Check box Selection Fail the task if the command execution fails Selected Cleared Selected Cleared Do not

125 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Low – to minimize resources taken by the recovery process, leaving more resources to other processes ru

126 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Some Internet service providers require authentication on the incoming mail server before being allowed

127 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Windows event log This option is effective only in Windows operating systems. This option is not availabl

128 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Community – type the name of SNMP community to which both the host running SNMP management application

129 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Check file system after recovery This option is effective only when recovering disks or volumes. When oper

13 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  [Management server name]. Root of the tree also called a Welcome view. Displays the name of the managem

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 Related sections: Operations with archives stored in a vault (p. 164) Operations with backups (p. 165) Fil

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 Storage node Select the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node that will manage the vault. You may

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 actions bar will be named as 'System backup' actions and will have the set of actions typical to

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. 244) page will be opened with the pre-selec

166 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Validate a backup Click Validate. The Validation (p. 244) page will be opened with the pre-selected back

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 Examples "Simple" daily schedule Run the task every day at 6PM. The schedule's parameters a

171 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 task's recurrences is 4 hours, and between the third, fourth and fifth is 2 hours. In this case, the

172 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Examples "One day in the week" schedule Run the task every Friday at 10PM, starting from a certa

173 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Thursday: every 3 hours from 9 AM till 9 PM  Friday: twice at 12 PM and 9 PM (i.e. same as on Monday)

174 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Every: <...> From: <...> Until: <...> Set up how many times the task will be run during

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

176 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 For example, you may want to set up a backup plan that will automatically perform an emergency full backup

177 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 WindowsUpdateClient and event number 18 into the System log; the type of this event is Information. When c

178 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Distribute start time within the time window When this setting is enabled, the backup task on each registe

179 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. In How to back up, select the Simple, Tower of Hanoi, or Custom scheme, and then click Change to speci

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 Adding multiple conditions Multiple conditions must be met simultaneously to enable task execution. Exampl

181 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Event: Weekly, Every 1 week(s) on <workdays>; Once at 09:00:00 PM.  Condition: Location's

182 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  If the task start conditions are Wait until the conditions are met and the Run the task anyway after ch

183 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 (3) if the machine is never restarted, the task will never start. You can start the backup manually, if ne

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

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

186 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 How it is determined Errors Highlight the date in red if at least one "Error" entry appeared in

187 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  In the backup table, select the backup plan (task).  Use the toolbar's buttons to take an action

188 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A backup plan status is derived from the results of the last run of the plans' tasks. Status How it

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

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 centralized plan has failed 2 Warning Last result is "Succeeded with warning" View the log to re

191 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Run a plan/task Backup plan Click Run. In the Run Backup Plan (p. 194) window, select the task you need

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

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

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

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

196 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

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

198 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. Th

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

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 To create a backup plan, perform the following steps. General Plan name [Optional] Enter a unique name for

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

202 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Virtualization server (p. 222) Here you select the resulting virtual machine type and location. Available

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

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

205 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

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

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

208 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This behavior can be suppressed by adding the [Date] variable (p. 211) to the archive name. If you do not

209 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Your script can move older backups based on the date stamp. See also “The *Date+ variable” (p. 211). E

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  You want to swap the drives each Monday, so that one drive contains backups of the current week (Monday

211 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

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

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

214 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 4 D D D D W

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

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

217 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.

218 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Number of levels Full backup every On different days, can go back Roll-back period 2 2 days 1 to 2 days 1

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

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 Examples Weekly full backup The following scheme yields a full backup performed every Friday night. Full b

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

222 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

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

224 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

225 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Access credentials (p. 228) [Optional] Provide credentials for the archive location if the task account do

226 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After any of the settings is changed against the default value, a new line that displays the newly set val

227 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

228 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

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

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 Disk #: Disk # (MODEL) (p. 232) Select the destination disk for each of the source disks. NT signature (p.

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

232 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

233 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

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

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

236 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

237 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

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

239 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8. [Optionally] Review the Virtual machine settings (p. 233) and make changes if necessary. Here you can

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  Windows was recovered to a dynamic volume that cannot be bootable Solution: Recover Windows to a basic,

241 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

242 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 9. Specify the disk on which GRUB is located—typically, the boot or root partition: root (hd0,0) 10. Inst

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  If the archive is stored on an FTP or SFTP server, type the server name or address in the Path field as

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

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

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

254 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

255 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

256 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

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

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

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

26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Management Console 30 MB 950 MB 450 MB Screen resolution 1024*768 pixels or higher Management Server 40 MB

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

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

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

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

264 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

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

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

267 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 pci=nobios Disables the use of PCI BIOS; only direct hardware access methods will be allowed. You may want

268 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Example The bootable agent could use one of the network adapters for communication with the management co

269 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To remove drivers: 1. Select the INF file. 2. Click Remove. 6.10.1.2 Adding the Acronis Plug-in to Win

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 2. Start the Bootable Media Builder either from the management console, by selecting Tools > Create Bo

271 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5. Run the following command: export_license.bat 6. Copy the contents of the current folder—by default:

272 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5. There is no Navigation tree in the media GUI. Use the Navigation menu item to navigate between views.

273 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7. If prompted, specify the user name and password to access the iSCSI device. To add an NDAS device 1.

274 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 echo mknod swapon egrep mkswap sysinfo fdisk more tar fsck mount tune2fs fxload mtx udev gawk mv udevinfo

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

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

277 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

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

279 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

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 6.11 Disk management Acronis Disk Director Lite is a tool for preparing a machine disk/volume configurati

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

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

283 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

284 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

285 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

286 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

287 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

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

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

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  Striped  Mirrored  RAID-5 You will obtain a brief description of every type of volume for better u

291 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

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

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

294 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

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

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

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

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

299 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

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

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 In the Log view, apply the Error filter if there are too many log entries. You can also sort the "e

301 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Edit a policy Click Edit. Editing policies is performed in the same way as creating (p. 357). Once the p

302 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To Do Sort backup policies by any column Click the column's header to sort the backup policies in asc

303 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Actions To Do View details of the machine (group). Click View details. In the Machine details (p. 310)/G

304 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Static groups Static groups contain machines manually added to the group by the administrator. A stati

305 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In the Add machine (p. 307) window, select the machine that needs to be added to the management server. Im

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

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

308 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

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

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 Moving a machine to another group To move the selected machine to another group 1. In the group tree, sel

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

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

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

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

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

316 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

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

318 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

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

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 To Do View details of a policy Click View details. In the Policy details (p. 302) window, examine all in

321 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Adding a virtual machine as a physical machine Install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows

322 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.1.4.1 Virtual machines on a management server Availability of virtual machines Virtual machines are dis

323 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.1.4.2 VMware vCenter integration If you are using VMware vSphere, it is recommended that you integrate

324 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 For a vCenter Server, a list of ESX/ESXi hosts and clusters obtained from the vCenter Server will be displ

325 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To be able to deduplicate backups, an agent needs a separately sold license for deduplication. If you have

326 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Creating a cluster of servers that already have agents It is recommended that you remove Agents for ESX/ES

327 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.1.5.1 Actions on storage nodes All the operations described here, are performed by clicking the corresp

328 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 storage nodes The management console will update the list of storage nodes from the management server with

329 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Archives - the total number of archives stored in all the vaults managed by the storage node  Backups

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

330 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 View a task's log Click View log. The Log (p. 331) view will display a list of the log entries rel

331 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Refresh tasks table Click Refresh. The management console will update the list of tasks existing on the

332 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 personal vaults, executing a recovery task, will generate events logged in the local event log. Physically

333 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To Do Select a single log entry Click on it. Select multiple log entries  non-contiguous: hold down CTRL

334 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Filter log entries by the original backup plan or managed entity type Under the Backup plan (or Managed en

335 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 ---------------------------Log Entry Details--------------------------- Type: Infor

336 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 the tables. You can export the report to an XML file and open it later using Microsoft Excel or Microsoft

337 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Schedule: The types of the backup policies' schedules—Manual and/or Scheduled. Manual schedule mea

338 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Filters Under Filters, choose which tasks to include in the report. Only the tasks that meet all filter cr

339 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Report view Under Report view, choose how the report will look:  Select whether to show all items in a s

34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  you need to roll back the system to its initial state  this initial state does not change often, so th

340 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Backup policies (centralized tasks only): The backup policies on which the tasks are based. The default

341 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  By using the graphical user interface (GUI)  By modifying the Windows registry In Linux, instead of u

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

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

344 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

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

346 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Trace Level Description: Specifies the minimum level of severity of events for sending SNMP notifications

347 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Each worker performs synchronization for exactly one machine at a time. A connected machine to be synchron

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

349 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Snapshot Storage Absolute Size Description: Specifies the initial size of the snapshot storage, in megabyt

35 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Recovery time Minimal Medium Maximal 2.5 GFS backup scheme This section covers implementation of the Gra

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

351 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

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

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

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

355 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 File Trace Minimal Level Description: Specifies the minimum severity level of events to be recorded in the

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

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

358 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Exclusions (p. 365) [Optional] Set up exclusions for the specific types of files you do not wish to back u

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

36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Weekly/Monthly This step forms the daily, weekly and monthly cycles in the schedule. Select a day of the we

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

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

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

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

364 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

365 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Linux To include In the Files and folders column, type or select: Text file file.txt on the volume /dev/hd

366 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Exclude all system files and folders This option is effective only for file systems that are supported

367 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Selecting the archives destination Choose where to store machines' archives:  Store all machines

368 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 FINDEPT2_SYSTEM_BACKUP_Archive1 FINDEPT3_SYSTEM_BACKUP_Archive1 2. Click OK. The name looks like ArchiveN

369 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 backup levels, you automatically obtain the rollback period – the guaranteed number of sessions that you c

37 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 backups’ retention period cannot be less than the weekly backups’ retention period. It is usually set sever

370 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Custom retention periods for backups of each type Description Let us suppose that we want to set up a b

371 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 ho

372 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

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

374 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

375 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

376 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

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

378 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

379 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8 Online backup This section provides details about using the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online ser

38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The resulting archive: real In reality, the archive content will somewhat differ from the ideal scheme. Whe

380 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.2 What data can I back up and recover? You can back up files, volumes, disks, or the entire physical

381 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Host-based backup is available only for paid licenses of VMware ESXi. Choose the below approach if your ES

382 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.6.4 What if a network connection is lost during online backup or recovery? The software will try to r

383 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The hard disk drive is sent back to you but it is not possible to recover from it. However, recovery from

384 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.7.8 How to perform initial seeding? 1. Decide on the media (p. 383) that you will send. 2. Attach

385 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Step 1 Delicately remove your hard disk drive from the machine. Step 2 Place the hard drive into an anti-

386 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Step 4 Choose the transport company that you will use for shipping. On this company's web site, prepa

387 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  An order was created – The first backup is about to start and the license cannot be used for any other

388 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Once you order Large Scale Recovery for a particular machine, Acronis sends you a USB hard disk drive with

389 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 can cancel the order if something goes wrong. This will return the license to the pool of available licens

39 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme The need to have frequent backups always conflicts with the cost of keepi

390 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you purchased your subscriptions online using the Acronis Web site, they are available immediately on y

391 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 What does "Auto-renew" mean? Auto-renewal means that when the current subscription expires, the

392 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Windows Server 2008 R2 - the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Datacenter, Foundation editio

393 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  As soon as a subscription is activated, its subscription period starts. To avoid losing subscription ti

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

395 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

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

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

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

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

2.14.4 Policies on machines and groups ...

40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Tower of Hanoi by Acronis The Tower of Hanoi backup scheme is generally too complex to mentally calculate t

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

401 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. On each machine, the agent (p. 399) installed on the machine finds data items using the selection rule

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

403 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Cleanup Deleting backups (p. 399) from a backup archive (p. 399) in order to get rid of outdated backups o

404 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Direct management Any management operation that is performed on a managed machine (p. 407) using the direc

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

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

407 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 F Full backup A self-sufficient backup (p. 399) containing all data chosen for backup. You do not need acc

408 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Managed vault A centralized vault (p. 402) managed by a storage node (p. 409). Archives (p. 399) in a mana

409 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Plan See Backup plan (p. 400). Policy See Backup policy (p. 400). R Recovery point Date and time to whic

41 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 For information about using Tower of Hanoi for tape libraries, see Using the Tower of Hanoi tape rotation s

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

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

412 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Virtual machine On Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server, a machine (p. 407) 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  Retain the backup until all dependent backups become subject to deletion The outdated backup will be kep

44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can back up and recover dynamic volumes and, with minor limitations, basic

45 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Backed up (source): Recovered to: Dynamic volume Basic MBR volume Basic GPT volume Dynamic volume Dynamic

46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Backup (GUI) In Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 GUI, logical volumes appear under Dynamic & GPT Volume

47 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When recovering MD devices under bootable media, the structure of MD devices can be automatically created i

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

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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 Deduplication at source Performed on a managed machine during backup. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agen

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 Authentication parameters Selecting the Trust self-signed certificates check box allows the client to conne

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. 344). 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