ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Guida Utente

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

10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Set up a centralized backup policy and apply it to the All machines group. This way you will deploy backup

100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Perform the backup only after the command is successfully executed. Fail the task if the command execution

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 101  Execute after the data capture 2. Do any of the following:  Click Edit to specify a new command or a

102 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Do not back up until the command execution is complete Selected Selected Cleared Cleared Result Preset

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 103 When this option is set to Enable, snapshots of all volumes being backed up will be created simultaneously

104 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 compressed files, such as .jpg, .pdf or .mp3. However, formats such as .doc or .xls will be compressed wel

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 105 Backing up to a fixed hard disk (for example, to Acronis Secure Zone) may slow performance of the operatin

106 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. In the E-mail addresses field, type the e-mail address to which notifications will be sent. You can en

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 107 2. In the Machine name field, enter the name of the machine to which notifications will be sent. Multiple

108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 provides the following Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) objects

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 109 Automatic With this setting, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will act as follows.  When backing up to a

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 11 Actions and Tools pane (p. 12) section). Main area The main place of working, where you create, edit and

110 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To completely eliminate this kind of problem, disable preserving file security settings in archives. The r

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 111 When a recoverable error occurs, the program re-attempts to perform the unsuccessful operation. You can se

112 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You might have to provide the access credentials for the secondary destination. Enter the credentials on p

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 113 Skip the task execution Delaying a backup might be unacceptable, for example, when you need to back up dat

114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Separate tape set is a tape set which contains only backups of the specific protected data. Other backups

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 115 Additional settings Specify the additional settings for the backup operation by selecting or clearing the

116 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Restart the machine automatically after backup is finished This option is available only when operating un

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 117 3.4.2 Default recovery options Each Acronis agent has its own default recovery options. Once an agent is

118 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Check file system after recovery + - + - + - Reboot machine automatically if it is required for recov

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 119 4. Depending on the result you want to obtain, select the appropriate options as described in the table b

12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Physical machines. Use this view to manage machines registered on the management server.  Virtual ma

120 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To specify the recovery process priority Select one of the following:  Low – to minimize resources taken

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 121  Use encryption – you can opt for encrypted connection to the mail server. SSL and TLS encryption types

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 123  Types of events to send – choose the types of events to be sent: All events, Errors and warnings, or Er

124 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This option defines whether to validate a backup to ensure that the backup is not corrupted, before data i

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 125 4 Vaults A vault is a location for storing backup archives. For ease of use and administration, a vault i

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 127 To learn more about privileges depending on the user rights, see the User privileges on a storage node (p.

128 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Operations with backups (p. 159) Filtering and sorting archives (p. 160) Bars of the "Actions and too

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 129 another storage node. Explore an unmanaged vault 1. Select the unmanaged vault. 2. Click Explore. The

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 13 Examples of "'Item name' actions" bars Actions Contains a list of common operatio

130 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Path (p. 130) Specify where the vault will be created. Managed centralized vaults can reside on a network

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 131 To create a new folder for the database, click Create folder. 2. Click OK. When choosing a folder for th

132 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Enter the distinctive description of the vault. Type Select the Unmanaged type. Path (p. 132) Specify whe

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 133 For the vault that was encrypted, provide the encryption password. After you have performed all the requir

134 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Hardware A tape library (robotic library) is a high-capacity storage device that contains the following: 

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 135 System media pools include Free pool, Import pool and Unrecognized pool. The System pools hold media that

136 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Click Administrative Tools > Server Manager > Features > Add Feature. 2. Select the Removabl

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 137 It should be noted, these functions have some specific features for a tape library. So the Edit operation

138 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When recovering, you start creating a recovery task, select the tape device vault, and select the archive

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 139 To launch the procedure select the tape library vault in the Navigation pane of the console, click Manage

14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Operations with panes How to expand/minimize panes By default, the Navigation pane appears expanded and the

140 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To define your own label for a tape, select a related data field, type in a new label, click Eject tape, w

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 141 Always use a free tape If you leave the options below unchanged, then each backup will be written onto the

142 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If your backup archive must provide recovery with daily resolution for the last several days, weekly resol

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 143 Weekly/differential backups (40 GB) are displayed as a blue rectangle: . Any full monthly backup (320 GB)

144 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 loaded especially for backing up the data. The tape is marked with number 01 in the figure below. In accor

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 145 Below, the figure shows the deleted backups as actual, but demonstrates tape usage during the whole year f

146 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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 147 If all the backups have to be kept during the year, the archive will require 28 tapes. As the GFS backup

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 149 The main drawback is the large number of required tapes that is used 5-10%. If we have to keep a daily bac

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 15 Common way of working with views Generally, every view contains a table of items, a table toolbar with butt

150 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  the Use a separate tape set option is selected  the Always use a free tape: For each full backup opti

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 151  the Use a separate tape set option is selected  the Always use a free tape: For each full backup opti

152 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  the Always use a free tape: For each full backup option is selected  the Always use a free tape: For

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 153  compression level specified for backing up the data  tape rotation scheme ( frequency of backups, ret

154 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  compression level provides CL average reduction coefficient  selected tape rotation scheme is Custom

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 155 node cannot be read by an agent in a locally attached tape device. However the storage node can read tapes

156 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Vault toolbar The toolbar contains operational buttons that let you perform operations with the selected p

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 157 The following is a guideline for you to perform operations with personal vaults. To Do Create a personal

158 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Merging and moving personal vaults What if I need to move the existing vault from a one place to another?

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 159 or multiple archives 2. Click Delete. The program duplicates your selection in the Backups deletion (p.

16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 the available fields are displayed. You can switch between the views by selecting the Advanced view check b

160 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 if need be (select the check boxes for the desired backups), then confirm the deletion. Delete all archive

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 161 To show or hide columns 1. Right-click any column header to open the context menu. The menu items that ar

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 162 5 Scheduling Acronis scheduler helps the administrator adapt backup plans to the company’s daily routine

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 163 The scheduler behavior, in case the event occurs but the condition (or any of multiple conditions) is not

164 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Every: 1 day(s). 2. Once at: 06:00:00 PM. 3. Effective: From: not set. The task will be started on t

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 165 From: 09/20/2009. To: not set. Second daily schedule 1. Every: 3 day(s). 2. Every: 2 hour(s). From: 03:0

166 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. Effective: From: 05/13/2009. The task will be started on the nearest Friday at 10 PM. To: 11/13/2009.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 167 From: 12:00:00 PM Until: 09:00:00 PM. 3. Effective: From: not set. To: not set. Second schedule 1. Every

168 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Advanced scheduling settings (p. 171) are available only for machines registered on Acronis Backup & R

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 169  During northern summer, the task runs every first and fifteenth of every month at 10 PM. Thus, the foll

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 17 Console The console provides Graphical User Interface and remote connection to the agents and other Acronis

170 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Specifies the event type: Error, Warning, Information, Audit success, or Audit failure. Event ID Specifies

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 171 2. In the Computer Management console, expand System Tools, and then expand Event Viewer. 3. In Event Vi

172 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Run the task: Daily Once at: 09:00:00 AM Distribute start time within the time window Maximum delay: 1 Hou

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 173 task anyway. With this setting, the program will automatically handle the situation when the conditions ar

174 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Example: Backing up data to the networked location is performed on workdays at 9:00 PM. If the location&ap

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 175 In this case, whether and when the task will run depends on the task start conditions:  If the task star

176 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 (2) if the free space changes by more than 1GB after 12 hours pass since the last backup successful comple

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 177 6 Direct management This section covers operations that can be performed directly on a managed machine by

178 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Please make sure you have a valid license on Acronis License Server. working. Trial version of product ex

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 179 Warnings Highlight the date in yellow if no "Error" entries appeared and at least one "War

18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Deduplication This add-on enables the agent to back up data to deduplicating vaults managed by Acronis Back

180 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Use the Information panel to review detailed information on the selected plan (task). The panel is coll

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 181 Otherwise, see 2 following:  Remove the reason of the failure -> [optionally] Start the failed task m

182 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The user can stop a running task or a task that needs interaction. The task changes to the Stopping state

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 183 Working with backup plans and tasks Actions on backup plans and tasks The following is a guideline for you

184 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Stop a plan/task Click Backup plan Stop. Stopping the running backup plan stops all its tasks. Thus, all

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 185 Edit a plan/task Click Backup plan Edit. Backup plan editing is performed in the same way as creation (p.

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 187 Configuring backup plans and the tasks table By default, the table has six columns that are displayed, oth

188 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Recovery (file) File and folder recovery Recovery (volume) Recovery of volumes from a disk backup Recove

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 189 Backup plan details The Backup plan details window (also duplicated on the Information panel) aggregates i

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 19  The configuration database that stores the list of registered machines and other configuration informati

190 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.1.3 Log The Log stores the history of operations performed by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 on the m

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 191 Save the selected log entries to a file 1. Select a single log entry or multiple log entries. 2. Click

192 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Log entry details Displays detailed information on the log entry you have selected and lets you copy the d

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 193 [Optional] Type a description of the backup plan. To access this option, select the Advanced view check bo

194 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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 195 To specify credentials 1. Select one of the following:  Run under the current user The tasks will run u

196 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Selecting disks and volumes To specify disks/volumes to back up 1. Select the check boxes for the disks a

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 197 6.2.5 Access credentials for source Specify the credentials required for access to the data you are going

198 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 By name File1.log Excludes all files named File1.log. By path C:\Finance\test.log Excludes the file na

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 199 unique within the selected location. If you are satisfied with the automatically generated name, click OK.

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  on a network share  on a Storage Area Network (SAN)  on a Network Attached Storage (NAS)  on a tap

200 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.2.9 Backup schemes Choose one of the available backup schemes:  Back up now – to create a backup task

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 201 To set up the simple backup scheme, specify the appropriate settings as follows. Backup Set up the backup

202 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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 203  Be able to recover an accidentally deleted or inadvertently modified file if this has been discovered r

204 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Start backup at: 12:00 PM  Back up on: Friday  Weekly/monthly: Friday  Keep backups:  Daily: 1

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 205 Backups of different levels have different types:  Last-level (in this case, level 4) backups are full;

206 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 4 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 4 1 2 1 3 1 The roll-back perio

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 207 This setting enables deletion of the last backup in the archive, in case your storage device cannot accomm

208 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Suppose that we need a scheme that will produce monthly full backups, weekly differential backups, and dai

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 209 If you have also specified the retention rules in your backup scheme, the scheme will result in four tasks

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 21 1.3.4 Management Console Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console is an administrative tool for

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 211 If the managed machine's operating system fails to start or you need to recover data to bare metal, b

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 213 default one. When the default value is set, the line disappears and so you always see only the settings th

214 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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 215 There are probably other times when you may need to recover the MBR, but the above are the most common. Wh

216 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Disks Available disk destinations depend on the agents operating on the machine. Recover to: Physical mach

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 217 NT signature When the MBR is selected along with the disk backup, you need to retain operating system boot

218 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The new virtual machine will be configured automatically, the source machine configuration being copied wh

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 219 Volume properties Resizing and relocating When recovering a volume to a basic MBR disk, you can resize and

22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  JFS - particular files cannot be recovered from disk backups located on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

220 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Virtual machine type / virtualization server selection The new virtual machine can be created either on a

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 221 This is the number of processors of the new virtual machine. In most cases it is set to one. The result of

222 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Overwriting Choose what to do if the program finds in the target folder a file with the same name as in th

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 223  you have chosen to use Acronis Active Restore (p. 358) because these features are primarily meant for i

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 225 The same type of machines with the same name cannot be created in the same folder. Change either the VM na

226 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Solution: Boot the machine from the Acronis Disk Director's bootable media and select in the menu Too

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 227 cp /mnt/system/boot/grub/menu.lst /mnt/system/boot/grub/menu.lst.backup or cp /mnt/system/boot/grub/grub

228 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 About Windows loaders Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 A part of the loader resides in the partition boot sector, t

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 229 The most likely cause of the problem is an insufficient amount of memory allocated to the recovery process

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 23 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Linux  Linux with kernel 2.4.20 or later (including 2.6.x kern

230 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Connect to the management server and remove the storage node from it. Note: All vaults managed by the

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 231 Archive (p. 231) - in that case, you need to specify the archive. Backup (p. 232) - specify the archive fi

232 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  If the archive is stored on a network share, expand the Network folders group, then select the required

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 233 According to the original FTP specification, credentials required for access to FTP servers are transferre

234 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  On schedule - to schedule the task. To learn more about how to configure the scheduling parameters, ple

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 235  If the archive is stored in a local folder on the machine, expand the Local folders group and click the

236 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The program will access the location using the credentials you specify. Use this option if the current use

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 237 To unmount an image, select it in the table and click Unmount. To unmount all the mounted volumes, click

238 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The exported archive inherits the options of the original archive, including encryption and the password.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 239 What to export Export Select an object to export: Archive (p. 213) - in that case, you need to specify the

24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Storage Node 100 MB 150 MB 150 MB When using a tape library, space required for tapes database: approx.

240 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  If the archive is stored in a centralized vault, expand the Centralized group and click the vault.  I

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 241 6.7.4 Access credentials for source Specify credentials required for access to the location where the sou

242 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can access the server as an anonymous user if the server enables such access. To do so, click Use anon

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 243 Specify:  User name. When entering the name of an Active Directory user account, be sure to also specify

244 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To allocate space for Acronis Secure Zone 1. Choose a hard disk (if several) on which to create the zone.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 245  If there is no or not enough unallocated space at the end of the disk, but there is unallocated space b

246 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Reducing a system volume to the minimum size might prevent the machine's operating system from bootin

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 247 Under Linux, when using a boot loader other than GRUB (such as LILO), consider installing it to a Linux ro

248 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Using Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 in Windows Preinstallation Environment provides more functionali

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 249 http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C7D4BC6D-15F3-4284-9123-679830D629F2&displayl

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 25 More information about contacting Acronis Technical Support is available at the following link: http://www

250 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  the TCP port that the bootable agent listens for incoming connection. 7. The type of media to create.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 251 Without this parameter, all startup messages will be displayed, followed by a command prompt. To start the

252 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Once the bootable agent starts on a machine, the configuration is applied to the machine’s network interfa

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 253  to search the media for the drivers that best fit the target hardware  to get the mass-storage driver

254 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Adding the Acronis Plug-in to WinPE 2.x or 3.0 Bootable Media Builder provides three methods of integratin

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 255 copy c:\AcronisMedia.wim c:\winpe_x86\ISO\sources\boot.wim  use the Oscdimg tool. For the above example,

256 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.10.3 Working under bootable media Operations on a machine booted with bootable media are very similar t

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 257 An iSCSI device is sometimes called an iSCSI target. A hardware or software component that provides intera

258 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 cp ln sg_map26 dd ls sh df lspci sleep dmesg lvm ssh dmraid mdadm sshd e2fsck mkdir strace e2label mke2fs

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 259 To recreate the volume structure in Linux-based bootable media, use either of the methods described below.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 26 2 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 This section attempts to give its readers a clear underst

260 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5. Create the volume structure according to that in the archive, by using the mdadm utility (for MD devic

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 261 mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sd[ab] mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-de

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 263 Setting up a machine to boot from PXE For bare metal, it is enough that the machine’s BIOS supports networ

264 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Sometimes after the volume has been backed up and its image placed into a safe storage, the machine disk c

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 265 6.11.3 Choosing the operating system for disk management On a machine with two or more operating systems,

266 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.11.5 Disk operations Acronis Disk Director Lite includes the following operations that can be performed

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 267 case, the reason for the Clone basic disk operation can be summed up as the necessity to transfer all the

268 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 (To finish the added operation you will have to commit (p. 278) it. Exiting the program without committing

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 269 2. Right-click on the selected volume, and then click Convert to GPT in the context menu. You will receiv

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 27 The following diagram illustrates the notions discussed above. For more definitions please refer to the Glo

270 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you need to convert a basic disk to dynamic: 1. Select the basic disk to convert to dynamic. 2. Right

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 271 In some cases the possible unallocated space and the proposed maximum volume size might differ (e.g. when

272 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The full version of Acronis Disk Director will provide more tools and utilities for working with volumes.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 273 Mirrored-Striped Volume A fault-tolerant volume, also sometimes called RAID 1+0, combining the advantage o

274 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To create a basic volume:  Select a destination disk and specify the unallocated space to create the bas

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 275 The wizard will prompt you to choose one of the Windows file systems: FAT16 (disabled, if the volume size

276 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 (To finish the added operation you will have to commit (p. 278) it. Exiting the program without committing

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 277 Change volume label The volume label is an optional attribute. It is a name assigned to a volume for easie

278 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you set a 64K cluster size for FAT16/FAT32 or an 8KB-64KB cluster size for NTFS, Windows can mount the

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 279 7 Centralized management This section covers operations that can be performed centrally by using the comp

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

280 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 less than 10% free space. View vaults will take you to the Centralized vaults (p. 127) view where you can

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 281 Statistics for the selected date are displayed to the right of the chart. All the statistics fields are in

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 283 In the Log view, apply the Error filter if there are too many log entries. You can also sort the "e

284 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Edit a policy Click Edit. Editing policies is performed in the same way as creating (p. 338). Once the po

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 285 Filter backup policies by name/owner Type a policy's name / owner's name in the fields below the

286 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 machine (group). View log of the machine (group) Click View log. The Log (p. 313) view will display a lis

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 287 existing machines' properties and will analyze every newly registered machine. The machine that meets

288 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In the Import machines from file (p. 292) window, browse for a .txt or .csv file, containing the names (or

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 289 actions will be performed on the machine as soon as the machine becomes available to the management server

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 29 The following diagram illustrates data recovery under the operating system (online). No backup can proceed

290 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Note for Virtual Edition users: When adding a VMware ESX/ESXi host, enter the IP of the virtual appliance

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 291  Deletes and then tries again to add registered machines that are present in the list, but their current

292 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  {username password} belong to a user who is a member of the Administrators group on all machines listed

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 293 Once the machines appear in the group, the policy that was applied to the group (if any), is deployed to t

294 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Backup policies Displays a list of backup policies applied to the selected machine and lets the management

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 295 You will be taken to the Log (p. 190) view containing the list of the plan-related log entries. Click Task

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 297  Task belongs to a backup plan A task belonging to a backup plan cannot be deleted separately from the p

298 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can create a dynamic group based on the list of the hosted virtual machines. To do this, click Create

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 299 Create a custom static or a dynamic group Click Create group. In the Create group (p. 299) window, specif

Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ...7 1.1 A

30 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

300 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 All the machines running the selected operating system will be members of the dynamic group.  Organizati

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 301 Select an organizational unit from the Active Directory tree by clicking Browse, or typing it manually. If

302 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Changing the type of group will result in its conversion. Any custom group can be converted to a dynamic g

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 303 Filtering and sorting Filtering and sorting of the backup policies is performed in the same way as for the

304 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. Register (p. 289) the Hyper-V host on the management server. If the machine is already registered, ski

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 305 Grouping of virtual machines The Virtual machines section of the navigation tree contains one built-in gro

306 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Deploying and updating Agent for ESX/ESXi Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server provides an e

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 307 The management server will use this account to establish a trusted relationship with the agent during regi

308 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Server 3 uses storages B, C, D The VA can be deployed to either C or D. If there is no storage shared b

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 309 For information about user rights on a storage node and in its managed vaults, see User rights on a storag

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 31  View and manage backup plans and tasks owned by any user on the machine. Linux When managing a machine r

310 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 View details of the storage node Click View details. In the Storage node details (p. 310) window (the con

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 311  Online - the storage node is available for the management server. This means that the last management s

312 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 the backup plan will run. View details of a task Click View details. In the Tasks details (p. 187) window

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 313  Each storage node has a built-in service task called a compacting task. This task cannot be deleted. Thi

314 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 added to the log. When the software executes a task, it adds multiple entries saying what it is currently

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 315 Actions on log entries All the operations described below are performed by clicking the corresponding item

316 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Filter log entries by type Press or release the following toolbar buttons: to filter error messages to

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 317  Message - The event text description. The log entry's details that you copy will have the followin

318 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The report will contain the information selected, grouped and sorted according to the template settings. T

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 319  Schedule: The types of the backup policies' schedules—Manual and/or Scheduled. Manual schedule mea

32 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

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 321 Report view Under Report view, choose how the report will look:  Select whether to show all items in a s

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 323  By using the graphical user interface (GUI)  By modifying the Windows registry In Linux, instead of u

324 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374177.aspx Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node Th

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 325 Vault Warnings and Limits Specifies the amount of free space in a vault (both as an absolute value and as

326 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Description: Specifies the amount of free space, in megabytes, on the volume containing a managed vault&ap

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 327 Specifies how to clean up the centralized event log stored in the management server's reporting datab

328 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Description: Specifies the network name or IP address of the SNMP server. Possible values: Any string 0 to

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 329 Default value: 120 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server tries to perform synchronization for

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 33 Example: An Internet cafe, school or university lab where the administrator often undoes changes made by th

330 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Offline Period Threshold (in seconds) Description: Specifies the maximum interval, in seconds, between att

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 331 If this setting is 0, the snapshot storage will not be created. The initial size will not exceed the avail

332 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the value is 0, no reconnection attempts will be performed; the agent will only check for the license a

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 333 Description: Specifies the minimum level of severity of events for sending SNMP notifications about them.

334 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Possible values: Any integer number between 0 and 100 Default value: 50 If this setting is 0, the snapshot

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 335 Authentication parameters Selecting the Trust self-signed certificates check box allows the client to conn

336 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Always use The use of SSL certificates is enabled. The connection will be established only if the use of S

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 337 Specifies whether the machine where the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 component is installed will parti

338 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This database contains a list of vaults that are managed by the storage node, other than tape vaults (see

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 339 Where to back up Archive (p. 346) Specify the path to the location, where the backup archive will be store

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

340 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When to convert (p. 209) [Optional] Specify whether to convert every full, every incremental or every diff

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 341 7.3.2 Items to back up Specify selection rules for backing up items, selected in the Source type field of

342 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 All fixed volumes Type or select: [Fixed Volumes] Refers to all volumes other than removable media. Fixe

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 343 Operating systems starting from Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 create a dedicated system volume call

344 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 /dev/mda1 Files to back up selection rules Define file selection rules, according to which the files and

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 345 All files on all volumes on a machine [All Files] Points to all files on all volumes of the machine. All

346 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Exclude all hidden files and folders Select this check box to skip files and folders with the Hidden at

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 347 Enter the full path to the folder in the Path field. This path will be created on each machine the policy

348 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Password. The password for the account. 2. Click OK. Warning: According to the original FTP specificat

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 349 The task will be started manually Select this check box, if you do not need to put the backup task on a sc

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 35 created on this day of the week will be considered as a monthly backup. Backups created on the other days w

350 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Start backup at: Specifies when to start a backup. The default value is 12:00 PM. Back up on: Specifies

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 351  Weekly: 1 month  Monthly: indefinitely As a result, an archive of daily, weekly, and monthly backups

352 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Keep backups:  Daily: 6 months  Weekly: 6 months  Monthly: 5 years Here, daily incremental backup

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 353 levels you select. See the example below for details. Example Schedule parameters are set as follows  Re

354 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 4 1 2 1 A new level 3 differential backup

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 355 When there is insufficient space while backing up The archive will be cleaned up only during backup and on

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 357 In the first of the previous examples, we set up a schedule only for full backups. However, the scheme wil

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 358 Glossary A Acronis Active Restore The Acronis proprietary technology that brings a system online immediate

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 359 Agent (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent) An application that performs data backup and recovery and e

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

360 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Backup options Configuration parameters of a backup operation (p. 359), such as pre/post backup commands,

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 361 5. On each machine, the agent installed on the machine creates a backup plan (p. 360) using other rules s

362 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 built-in group except for deleting the machine from the management server. Virtual machines are deleted as

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 363 Cleanup consists in applying to an archive the retention rules set by the backup plan (p. 360) that produc

364 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 operations are configured on the management server (p. 368) and propagated by the server to the managed ma

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 365 Dynamic disk A hard disk managed by Logical Disk Manager (LDM) that is available in Windows starting with

366 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Dynamic volume Any volume located on dynamic disks (p. 364), or more precisely, on a disk group (p. 364)

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 367 G GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son) A popular backup scheme (p. 361) aimed to maintain the optimal balance bet

368 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Physically, managed vaults can reside on a network share, SAN, NAS, on a hard drive local to the storage n

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 369 R Recovery point Date and time to which the backed up data can be reverted to. Registered machine A machi

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 37 When using the incremental and differential backup methods, you cannot delete a backup as soon as the schem

370 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Since the cleanup schedule exists on the machine (p. 367) the agent (p. 358) resides on, and therefore use

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 371  the image being recovered is located in Acronis Secure Zone (p. 358) or  when using Acronis Active Re

372 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (PE 1.6)  Windows Vista (PE 2.0)  Windows Vista SP1 and Win

Index A A policy on a machine or a group • 62 About Windows loaders • 233 Access credentials • 240, 241 Access credentials for archive location • 19

374 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Archive selection • 217, 219, 236, 237, 240, 244, 245 Archive validation • 199, 214, 369 At Windows Event

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 375 Collecting system information • 284 Column selection • 332 Common operations • 162 Communication between A

376 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Disk operations • 271 Disks • 217, 221 Disks/volumes selection • 220 Domain access credentials • 91, 309 D

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 377 Increasing Acronis Secure Zone • 251 Incremental backup • 372, 374, 376, 380 Inheritance of policies • 64

378 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Operations with archives stored in a vault • 129, 130, 160, 162 Operations with backups • 129, 131, 160, 1

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 379 Report about the machines • 328 Report about the task activities • 331 Report about the tasks • 329 Report

38 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

380 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Task details • 183, 184, 188, 192, 302, 321 Task failure handling • 97, 114 Task start conditions • 97, 11

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 381 W Weekly schedule • 169, 210, 318, 364 What if • 158 When deduplication is most effective • 71 When to rec

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 39  incremental backups on first level (A) - to gain time and storage savings for the most frequent backup o

3 Options ... 86 3.1 C

40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The retention rules are effective if the archive contains more than one backup. This means that the last ba

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 41 Combination of rules 1 and 2 You can limit both the backups’ lifetime and the archive size. The diagram bel

42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Please be aware that consolidation is just a method of deletion but not an alternative to deletion. The res

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 43 Recovering dynamic volumes A dynamic volume can be recovered  over any type of existing volume  to una

44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Unallocated space (basic GPT disk) Basic GPT volume Basic GPT volume Basic GPT volume Moving and resizing

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 45 For detailed instructions on how to recover logical volumes, see Recovering MD devices and logical volumes

46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2.10 Backing up RAID arrays (Linux) Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Linux can back up and recov

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 47 Recovery Parameters of software RAID arrays are not backed up, so they can only be recovered over a basic v

48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 a locally attached tape device (tape drive or tape library) by... ATIE 9.7 + + + + ABR10 + + + + Ag

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 49 5. Because the presence of an operating system cannot be detected in a backup located on a tape, Acronis U

6 Direct management ... 177 6.1 Administer

50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 With the new Acronis Secure Zone behavior, you obtain the ability to:  list archives located in the zone

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 51 2.12.3 Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) Acronis Backup & Recover

52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Universal Restore and Microsoft Sysprep Universal Restore is not a system preparation tool. You can apply i

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 53 If you do not enable the option, the system recovery will proceed in the usual way and the machine will bec

54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you try to log off, shut down or hibernate the machine using the Start Menu commands, the end of the cur

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 55 Organizing a managed archive storage What should the capacity of your centralized vault be? What if transfe

56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You have to protect each server as a whole, the users' data on the workstations, and the virtual machi

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 57 Installation tips  Both AMS and ASN can be installed on a workstation operating system as well.  There

58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Protecting the workstations Here is how to set up the most popular schedule: weekly full backup and daily i

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 59 Advanced product editions other than Virtual Edition (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server, Adv

6.8.1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone ...

60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Besides physical machines, you can group virtual machines (p. 304) hosted on registered virtualization serv

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 61 The policy applied to the parent group (G2) will be applied to the child group (G3), but members of G3 are

62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Deploying a policy transfers the established correspondence to the machines. Physically, a bundle of tasks

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 63 1. The same policy can be applied to a group and to a machine. Nothing changes on the machine at the secon

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 65 Besides the All machines group, we have the custom G1 group in the root and the custom G2 group, which is

66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 #5 or #6 "green" "orange" "blue" Inherited Inherited Inherited All machines

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 67 Backup policy state diagram Policy status on a machine To see this parameter, select any group of machine

68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 /dev/sda1 volume (since the [System] volume is not found). The policy will get the Error status on Linux ma

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 69 Cumulative state and status of a policy In addition to the deployment state and status as related to a spec

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7 1 Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview Based on Ac

70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Performed in the vault after a backup is completed. The storage node analyses the vault's archives and

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 71 1. It moves the items (disk blocks or files) from the archives to a special folder within the vault, stori

72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Indexing of a backup requires that the vault have free space with a minimum size of 1.1 multiplied by th

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 73  If the volume is a compressed volume  If the volume's allocation unit size—also known as cluster

74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Remote connection A remote connection is established between Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Co

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 75 Privileges for remote connection in Windows To establish a remote connection to a machine running Windows,

76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Add the names of the non-root users, whom you want to allow to connect to the machine remotely, to the

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 77 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server When Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server

78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 User privileges on a storage node The scope of a user's privileges on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 79 Rights for Acronis services The Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows, Acronis Backup & Re

8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Running services with minimal user rights Restricted remote access to a backup agent Secure communication be

80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This section also provides information on configuring communication settings, selecting a network port for

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 81 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Bootable Agent Yes Yes Configuring communication settings You can config

82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Client Encryption options Specifies whether to encrypt the transferred data when the component acts as a cl

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 83 The component will use the default setting, which is to use encryption if possible (see the following optio

84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Linux Specify the port in the /etc/Acronis/Policies/Agent.config file. Restart the Acronis_agent daemon. Co

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 85 Tip: Alternatively, you can manage the list of certificates of a remote machine. To do this, click Another

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 86 3 Options This section covers Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 options that can be configured using Graphi

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 87 The preset is: Enabled for all results. To make a setting for each result (successful completion, failure o

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 89 3.2.3 Event tracing You can configure the management server to log events in the Application Event Log of

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 9 The simplified way of centralized management  Backup Using the Back up control, select the machine which y

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 91 VMware vCenter integration This option defines whether to show virtual machines managed by a VMware vCenter

92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To access the machine options, connect the console to the managed machine and then select Options > Mach

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 93 This option defines whether the agent(s) operating on the managed machine have to log events in the Applica

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

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 95 3.3.4 Customer Experience Program This option defines whether the machine will participate in the Acronis

96 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Source files exclusion (p. 98) + + + + + + Pre/Post backup commands (p. 99) + + + + PE only PE on

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 97 Overwrite data on a tape without prompting user for confirmation Dest: Tape Dest: Tape Dest: Tape Dest:

98 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 used for verification purposes. With this two-level security, the backup data is protected from any unautho

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 99 Pre/Post commands This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and PE-based bootable me