Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition Acronis
Go to page of 402
Update 3 A c r o n i s ® B a c k u p & R e c o v e r y ™ 1 0 A d v a n c e d S e r v e r S B S E d i t i o n User's Guide.
Copyright © Acr onis, Inc., 2000 -2010. All righ ts reserv ed. “Acronis” and “Acr onis Sec ure Zone” are r egistered trad emarks of Acr onis, Inc. "Acronis Compute with Confid ence", “Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ”, “Acro nis Active Rest ore” and the Acronis l ogo are trademar ks of Acronis, Inc.
Table of contents 1 Introd ucin g Acronis® Ba ckup & Reco very™ 10 ........................................................................ 8 1.1 Acronis Backup & Rec overy 10 overview .......................................................
3. 1. 1 St art up pa ge .................................................................................................................................................. 79 3. 1. 2 Po p-u p m ess ag es ................................................
6 Direct man agement ................................ ........................................................................... 173 6.1 Adm inistering a managed machine ................................................................................
6. 8. 1 Cr ea ting A cro nis Se cur e Zon e .................................................................................................................... 24 7 6. 8. 2 Ma nag ing A cro nis Se cur e Zone ..........................................
8. 1. 9 Su bsc ri pti on lif ecy cle F AQ ................................................................................................ .......................... 37 9 8.2 Where do I start ? .........................................................
8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1 I nt r od uci ng A cr oni s® B ac kup & R ec ove ry™ 10 1. 1 Ac ron is Ba ck up & Re co ver y 1 0 ov erv iew Based on Acronis’ paten ted disk i.
9 Copyright © Ac ronis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Running services wi th minimal user rights Restricted rem ote access t o a backup agen t Secure communica tio n bet ween the product components Using third-pa.
10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To recover the entir e machine or the opera ting system that fails to start, use the bootable media (p. 391). You cannot contr ol operations under bootable media using the manage ment server, but you can disconnect th e console fro m the ser ver and conne ct it to the machine booted fro m the m edia.
11 Copyright © Ac ronis, Inc., 2000- 2010 1 . 2 . 1 U s i n g t h e m a n a g e m en t c o n s o l e As soon as the cons o le conn ect s to a manag ed machi ne (p.
12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1. 2. 1.1 "Na v ig at ion " pa n e The navigation pane includes the Navigation tree and the Shortcut s bar. Navigation tree The Navigation tr ee enable s you to navigate a cro ss th e progra m views.
13 Copyright © Ac ronis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Log . Use this vie w to exa mine the history of centraliz ed management operati o ns, such as creating a managed entities group, applying a po licy, m anaging a centraliz ed vault; as well as the history of opera tio ns lo gged in the local logs of the registered machines and the storage nodes.
14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Actions Contains a list of c ommon operati ons that can be perf o rmed on a m anaged m achin e or on a management ser v er. Alway s t he sam e for all v iews. Cli cking the operation opens t he respective action page (see th e Action pages (p.
15 Copyright © Ac ronis, Inc., 2000- 2010 The management co nsole "remembers" the way the panes' borders are set. Whe n you run the management cons o le nex t time, all the panes' borders w ill have th e same position that was se t previously.
16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 By clicking in the i tems in the [Item's name] A c tions bar (on the Ac tions an d Tools pane); By selecting the it ems in the Actions menu; By right-clicking t he item a nd selecting the operation in t he context m enu.
17 Copyright © Ac ronis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Action page - Contr ols Acronis Backup & Rec overy 10 remembers the change s you made on the action p ages.
18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Bootable media builde r With bootable m edia build er, you can create bootable media in order to use the agents and other rescue utilities in a rescue environment.
19 Copyright © Ac ronis, Inc., 2000- 2010 1 . 3 . 2 C o m po n e n t s f o r c e n t r a l i z e d m an a g e m e n t This section lists th e co mponents included in the A cronis Backup & Recovery 10 editions that provide the centralized m anage ment capability.
20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 This feature also enable s automatic deployment and configuration of Agent for ESX/ ESXi t o any ESX/ESXi server, that is not necessarily managed by the vCenter.
21 Copyright © Ac ronis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Encryption A managed vault can be configured so that anythin g written to it is encr y pted and anythin g read from it is decrypted transparently by the st o rage nod e, using a vault-specific encryption ke y stored on the node ser ver.
22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The Deduplication (p. 18 ) add-on enables you t o create bootable media with the back up t o a deduplicating vault fun ctionality.
23 Copyright © Ac ronis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Windows 2000 – all editi ons except for the Datacenter edition Windows Server 2003/200 3 R2 - the Standard , E nterp rise, Small Business Server ed.
24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Bootable Media Builder 80 MB 700 MB 300 MB CD -RW or DVD - RW drive Management Console 30 MB 950 MB 450 MB Screen resolution 1024*768 pixels or higher Manage.
25 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2 Un de rs ta ndi ng A cro ni s B ack up & Re co ver y 10 This section attempts to give its readers a clear un derstanding of the produc t so that they can use the product in vari ous circumstanc es without step- by -step instructions.
26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The following diag ram illus trate s the n otions discussed above. For mo re defin itions please r efer to the Glossary.
27 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Ba ckup using bootable media You can boot the m achine u sing the bootable media, configure th e backup operation in the sa m e way as a simple backup plan and execute the o peratio n.
28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The following diag ram illus trate s data r ecovery under the operating s ystem (online). N o backup can proceed on the machin e while the recovery opera tion is taking place. If requ ired, you can connect the console to an o ther ma chine and configure a recover y o peration on that m achin e.
29 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If the machine fail s to boot or you need to recover dat a to bare metal, you bo o t the machi ne using the bootable media and config ure the recovery operation in th e same wa y as the recovery task. The following diagram illustrate s t he rec o very using the bootable media.
30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 It is widely accept ed that a full backup is the slowes t to do but the fastest to rest o re. With Acr o nis technologies, rec overy from an incremental backup m ay be n o t slower than recovery f rom a full one.
31 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 P ar ame ter Fu ll ba cku p Di ff ere nti al ba cku p I nc re ment al ba cku p Storage space Maximal Medium Minimal Creation time Maximal Medium Minimal Recovery time Minimal Medium Maximal 2.
32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 When a user opens a plan or task for editing, which is owned by another user, all passwords set in the task are clear ed. This prevents the "modif y settings, leave pass words" trick. The program display s a warning each ti me you are trying to edit a plan (task) last modified by another user.
33 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 “sons”; weekly bac kups are referred to as “fath ers”; the longest lived monthl y backups are call ed “grandfathers”. GFS as a tape rotation scheme GFS was initially cr eated and is often referred to as a tape rotati on scheme.
34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The schedule m arked out according to th e GFS scheme. Schedule: Workd ays at 8:00 PM Weekly/Monthly: Frida y Acronis uses incre mental and differential backup s that help sa ve storage spac e and optimize the cleanup so that cons o lidati on is not needed.
35 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 “D” stands for the backup that is c onsidered Dail y. “W” stands for t he bac kup that is c onsidered Weekly. “M” stands f or the backup that is considered M onthly. An ideal archive created according to the GFS schem e.
36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The backups that outlive their nomin al lifetime be cause of dependencies are marked pink. The initial full backup will be deleted as soon as all differential and incremental ba ckups ba sed o n this backup are deleted.
37 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 For example, if there are five rings labeled A, B, C, D, and E in the puzzle, the solution gi ves the following order o f moves: The Tower of Hanoi backup scheme is based on the same pa tt erns. It operate s with Sessions ins tead of Moves and with Backup levels instead of Rings .
38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 the pattern starts with a ful l backup since the very first backup cannot be incremen tal the scheme f orces every backup level to keep only the most.
39 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1. Delete backups older than This is a time inter v al count ed back from the moment when the retention rules are app lied. Every time a retention rul e is app lied, the program calculate s t he date and time in the past corresponding to this interval and del etes all backups created b efo re that mom ent.
40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Combination of rules 1 and 2 You can limit bo th the backu ps’ lifetime and the archi ve size. The diagra m below i llustrates the resulting rule.
41 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 What you nee d to know about consolidation Please be aware that conso lidation is just a method of deletion but not an alternative to dele tion. The resulting backup w ill n ot contain data that w as pr esent in the deleted backup and was absent from the r et ained incremental or differential backup .
42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Recovering dynamic v olumes A dynamic volu m e can be r ecove red over any type o f existing v olume to unallocated space o f a di sk group to unallocated space o f a b asic disk.
43 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 U na ll oc ate d s pac e ( ba s ic GP T di sk) Basic GPT volume Basic GPT volume Basic GPT volume Moving and re sizing volum es during recovery You can resize the r esulting basic volume, both MBR and GPT, during recover y , or change the volume's location o n the di sk.
44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 de vi ce (ta pe dr iv e o r t ap e li br ary ) by. .. Agent for Windows ATIE 9.1 + + + + ATIE 9.5 - - - + ATIE 9.7 - - - + ABR10 + + + + Agent for Linux ATIE 9.1 + + + + ATIE 9.5 + + + + ATIE 9.7 + + + + ABR10 + + + + Ta pe w ri tt en on a ta pe dev ice th ro ugh .
45 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6. Acronis Activ e Rest ore (p. 388) is not available when recovering from a tape. Recovery from a loc ally attached tape device Before creating a r ecovery task, insert or m o unt the ta pe co ntain ing the backup you need to rec over.
46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.24 769.100.200.1.0 Value: "Unknown" Text description o f the e vent OID: 1.3.
47 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 With the new Acronis Secure Zone behavior, you o btain the ability to: list archives locat ed in the zone and backups contained in each archive exami.
48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2 . 1 1 . 3 U n i v e r s a l R e s t o r e ( A c r o n i s Ba c k u p & R e c o v e r y 1 0 U n i v e r s a l R e s t o r e ) Acronis Backup & Rec o.
49 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Universal Restore and Micro soft Sysprep Universal Restor e is not a s ystem preparation tool. You c an apply it to any Windows image creat ed by Acronis product s, includin g im ages of s ystems prep ared w ith Micr osoft System Preparati o n Tool (Sysprep).
50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 How it works When configurin g a recovery op eration, you select disks or volumes to rec o ver fr o m a backup . Acronis Backup & Rec overy 10 scans the selec ted disks or volumes in the backup . If this scan finds a supported operating sy ste m , the Acronis Ac tive Restore option become s available.
51 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5. Once the syste m rec o very is start ed, the operating system bo o ts from the backup. The Acronis Active Restore ic o n appear s in the system tray. The machin e beco m es operation al and ready to provide necessary se rvices.
52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Using the manage ment server, you can creat e one or more centraliz ed archive storages (centralized vaults (p.
53 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 You have to protect each serve r as a whole, the users' data on the w orkstations, and the virtual machines.
54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 When installing the storage node, register it o n the m anagement server in the sa me way as you register the agen ts. Installation t ips Both AMS and ASN can be in stalled o n a w o rkstati o n o perating system as well.
55 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 When you need and hav e the opportunity to back up any of the ser vers, navigate to the backup plan as described abo ve, select the plan and run it.
56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Install Agent for Wind ows or Agent for Linux on each virtual machine. Register the machi nes on the management server. The machines will be c o nsidered as ph y sical machin es. You can apply a backup policy to th ese mac hines o r creat e a backup plan on each machine s eparately.
57 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2. 12. 4. 1 A po lic y on a m ach in e o r a gro up In the diagrams bel o w, eac h numbered scheme illustr ates t he re sult of the respectively nu mbered action.
58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 In the diagram bel ow, the container stands for a gr oup; the one-color cir cle stands for a machine with one applied p o licy; th e two-color circl e stands for a machine with t wo applied policies; the white circle stand s for a machin e with no p o licy app lied.
59 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 In the diagram bel ow, the container stands for a gr oup; the tw o-color circle stand s fo r a machine with two applied polici es; the three-color circle s tands for a machine with thre e applied policies and so on.
60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 #4 "green" "orange" "blue" "violet" Inherited Inherited Inherited Applied directly All machines -> #4 G1 -> G2 .
61 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 another policy. In this c ase, the first policy's state o n t he m achi ne will be Revoki ng and the sec o nd policy's state will b e Deplo yi ng . The p o licies can app ear in the GUI simultane o usly or on e after another.
62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The policy gets th e Warning status o n Windows m achin es that have either a D: or F: volu me, unless an event that will r esult in an error occurs.
63 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 This status is defined as the most severe status of th e policy on the m achine s included in the group and its child groups. If the policy is currently not appli ed to any machine, its stat us is "OK".
64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Deduplication at s our ce Performed on a m anaged machine during bac kup. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent uses the storage node t o determine what data can be deduplicated, and d o es not transfer the data whose duplicates are alread y present in the vault.
65 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Deduplication at target After backup to a dedu plicating vault is completed, the storage node runs the in dexing task to deduplicate data in the vault as follows: 1. It moves the it ems (disk blocks or files) from the archives to a spe cial file within the vault, storing duplicate items there o nl y once.
66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The deduplicated items tha t have changed ar e not ide nti cal anymore and therefore will not be deduplicated.
67 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Similarly, in case of three machin es, the ratio becomes 1.5:1; for four m achine s, it is 1.6 :1. It approaches 2:1 as more su ch machines are back ed up to the same vault. This means that y ou can buy, say, a 10-TB st o rage devic e instead of a 20-TB one.
68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2 . 1 2 . 7 P r i v il e g e s f o r c e n t r a l i z e d ma n a g em e n t This section describes the users' privileges that are required to manage a .
69 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 For information ab o ut Acr onis security groups and their default members, see Acronis secur ity groups (p.
70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 DCNAME stands for the NetBIOS name of the domain co ntroller. E ach dollar sign is surrounded by a single space on either side. Instead of explici tly including t he names of all members of the Administrat ors group, the Administrators gr o up itself is included.
71 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Example Suppose that two us ers on a machine, UserA and Us erB, perform backups fr om this machine to a centralized vault m anaged by a storage no de. On the storage node, let these users have regular (n on - administrative) acc o unts U serA_SN and UserB_SN, res pectively.
72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The setup progra m will assi gn the above listed user rig hts to any existing account you specify for a corresponding ser v ice.
73 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 For instructions on h ow to manage SSL certificat es used for secure authenti cation, see SSL certificates (p.
74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. In the Acronis pa ne to the rig ht, double -clic k a communication o ption that you want to configure. The Administrati v e Te mplate contains the following options (each option is explained later in this topic): Remote Agent po rts Client Encrypt ion options Server Encryption options 4.
75 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Required Data transfer will be performed only if encr y ption is e nabled on the server applic atio n (see "Server Encryption o ptions "); it will b e encrypted.
76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Do not use The use of SSL certificat es is disabled. Any connection to a client application which requires the use of SSL certificat es will not be established. Use if possible The use of SSL certificat es is enabled.
77 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2. 12. 8. 5 SS L c ert if ic at es Acronis Backup & Rec overy 10 components use Se cure Sockets Layer (SS L) certificates for s ecure authentication.
78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To g ene ra te a ne w sel f-s ign e d ce rti fi cat e 1. Log on as a m ember of the Administrators group. 2. In the Start menu, click Run , and then type: c md 3. Run the follo wing comman d (note quotation marks): "%CommonProgramFile s% Acronis Utils acronisc ert" -- reinstall 4.
79 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3 O pt i on s This section covers Acronis Backup & Recover y 10 opti o ns that can be configured using Graphical User Interface. The c o ntent o f this se ctio n is app licable to both stan d-alone and advanced edi tio ns of Acronis Backup & Rec overy 10.
80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The preset is: Enabled for a ll result s. To make a settin g for each resul t (successful co m pletion, failu re or succes s with warni ngs) individually, sel ect or clear the resp ective check box.
81 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The option defines th e fonts to be used in the Grap hical User Interface of Acronis Backu p & Recovery 10. The Menu settin g affects the drop-down and context m enus. The Application setting affects the other GUI ele m ents.
82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 This parameter can als o be set by using Acronis Admini strative Template (p. 334 ). 3 . 2 . 3 E v e n t t r a c i n g You can configure the manag ement server t o log even ts in the Application Event Log of Window s, besides the manag ement server's own log.
83 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3 . 2 . 4 D o m a i n a c c e s s c r ed e n t i a l s This option deter m ines the user name and password th at the managemen t server will use to access the domain.
84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. 2. 6.1 VMw ar e vC ent er i nteg ra ti on This option defines wh ether to show virtual machines managed by a V M ware vCenter Server in t he management ser v er and show the backup status o f th ese machines in the vCente r.
85 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Note: Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online supports o nly HTTP and HTTPS proxy serve rs. Proxy settings for t he agen t and the management ser ver are configured separat ely, even if both are installed on the s ame mach ine.
86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3 . 3 . 2 E v e n t t r a c i n g It is possible to dupli cate lo g events generated b y the agent(s), operatin g on the managed machine, in the Applicati on Event Log of Wind o ws; or s end the events to th e specified SNMP manag ers.
87 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 You can override the settings set here, exclusivel y for the events that occur du ring backup or during recovery, in the D efault backup and recovery options (p.
88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 /etc/snmp/snmpd .conf - config uration file for the Ne t -SNMP SN M P agent /etc/snmp/snmptrap d.conf - configuration file fo r the Net-SNMP trap da emon. 3 . 3 . 3 L o g c l e a n u p r u l e s This option specifies h ow to clean up the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent log .
89 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If you choose Yes, I want t o participate in the ACEP , informa tio n about the hardware configuration, the most and lea st used features and about an y problems will be automatically collected fr om the machine and sent to Acro ni s o n a regular basis.
90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 (p. 93 ) Pre/Post data capture commands (p. 95 ) + + - - Multi-volume snapshot (p. 97 ) + + - - File -level backup snap shot (p. 97 ) - + - - Use VSS (p. 97 ) + + - - Compression level (p. 98 ) + + + + Backup performanc e: Backup priority (p.
91 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Additional settings (p. 109 ): Overwrite data on a t ape without prompting for user confirmation Dest: Tape Dest: Tape Dest: Tape Dest: Tape Dismount media a.
92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The AES cryptograp hic algorithm operates in the Ciph er -block chain ing (CBC) mode and uses a randomly generated key with a user-defin ed size of 128, 192 or 256 bits. The larger the key size, t he longer it will take fo r the pr ogram to encrypt the archi v e and the more secure your data will b e.
93 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Exclusion examples Cr it eri on Ex am ple D esc rip tio n Wi nd ows an d L in ux By name F.log F Excludes all files named "F.lo g" Excludes all folders nam ed "F" By mask (*) *.log F* Excludes all files with th e .
94 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To s pec if y p re/ po st c omm an ds 1. Enable pre/post commands execution by ch eck ing th e fo llowing options: Execute before the ba c kup Execute after the backup 2.
95 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4. If successful exe cutio n of the command is critical for y our backup strategy, sel ect the Fail the task if the comman d execution fails check box. In case the command execution fa ils, the program will rem ove the resulting TIB file and temporary files if possible, and the task will fail.
96 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4. Depending on the result you want to obtain, select th e appropriate options as d escribed in the table below.
97 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 fails. 3. 4. 1.5 Fil e- le ve l b ac ku p sn ap sh ot This option is effec tive only for fil e -level bac kup in Wind ows and Linux operating systems. This option defines wh ether to back up files one by o ne or by taking an in stant data snapshot.
98 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 transactions, at the moment of taking the data snaps hot by Acronis Backup & Recover y 10. Data consistency, in turn, ensur es that the application will be recovered in the corr ect state and bec ome operational im m ediately af te r recover y.
99 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Maximum – the da ta will be compressed as much as p ossible. The backup duratio n will be maximal. You ma y w ant t o select maximum co mpression when backing up to removable m edia to reduce the numb er of blank disks required.
100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Click Writing speed stated in kilobytes per se c ond , and then en ter the wri ting speed in kilobytes per second. Ne tw or k co nn ec ti on s pe ed This option is effec tive for Win dows and Linux opera ting systems and bootable media.
101 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4. For the e-mail message to include the log entri es related to the backup, s elec t th e Add full log to the notification chec k box.
102 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The When user intera ction is required check box – to send notific ation during the operati o n when user interac tio n is re quired – is always selected. Click Send test W inPopup message to check if the s ettings are correct.
103 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To s el ect wh et her t o s end th e bac ku p o per at ion s eve nts t o t he SN MP ma nag er s: Choose one of th e following: Use the setting set in the Machine options – to use the setting specified for the machine.
104 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The backup will aut omatically be split into several files if the destination disk's fil e system does not allow the esti mated file size. Such might be the case when the ba ckup is placed on FAT16 and FAT32 file system s t hat hav e a 4GB file size limit.
105 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To access file or folder NTFS p ermissions, select Properties > Secu rity . 3. 4. 1.1 5 Me di a com po ne nt s This option is effec tive for b oth Windows and Linu x operating sys tems, when the backup destinati on is removable m edia.
106 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 For example, if the backup destination on the netw o rk becom es unavailable or not reachable , t he program will atte m pt to re ach the destination every 30 seconds, but no more tha n 5 times.
107 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. 4. 1.1 8 T a sk st a rt co nd it io ns This option is effec tive in Wind ows and Linux opera ting systems.
108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. 4. 1.1 9 T a sk fa ilu re ha nd ling This option is effec tive for Win dows and Linux opera ting systems. This option is not avail able when operating und er the bootab le media. This option deter m ines the program behavior when an y of the ba ckup plan's tasks fails.
109 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If you leave this option unchang ed, then the backups, belonging to the p o licy o r plan being created, might be written o nto tape s c ontainin g backups written by different backup policies and comprisin g of data from diff erent machines.
110 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Overwrite data on a tape witho ut prompting for user confi rmation This option is effec tive only when bac king up to a tape devic e.
111 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 When the option is enabled, Acronis Backup & Recov ery 10 will restart the ma chine after the backup process is complet ed.
112 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 creating a rec overy task, yo u can either use a default op tion, or override th e default option with the custom value that will be specific for this task onl y. You can also custo m ize a d efault option itself b y c han ging its value against the pr e -defined one.
113 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Reboot machine automatically if it is requir ed for recovery + + - - Change SID after reco very Windows recovery - Windows recovery - Notifications: E-mail (p. 115 ) + + - - Win Pop- up (p. 116 ) + + - - Event tracing: Windows events log (p.
114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5. Click Test comma nd to che ck if the c omm and is correct. Ch ec k b ox S ele cti on Fail the task if the c ommand execution fails Selected Cleared Selec.
115 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To s pec if y t he re co ver y p roc es s pr ior it y Select one of the f o llowing: Low – to minimize resources taken by the r ecovery proces s, leav.
116 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 From - type the e-mail address of the user from who m the m essage will be sent. If you leave this field empty, m essages will be constructed as if they are fr o m the destin ation add ress. Use encryption – you can opt for encrypted connec tion to the mail server.
117 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. 4. 2.5 Eve nt t ra cin g It is possible to dupli cate lo g events of the rec overy operations, perfor m ed on the manag ed machin e, in the Applicati on Event Log of Wind o ws; or s end the events to th e specified SNMP managers.
118 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Types of events to s end – c hoo se the types of events t o be sent : All events , Errors and warnings , or Erro r s only . Server name/IP – type the name or IP address of the host running t he SN M P ma nagement application, the m essages will be sent to.
119 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 This option defines wh ether to validate a backup t o e nsur e that the bac kup is not corrupted, before data is recovered fr om it. Check file system after recovery This option is effec tive only when r ecovering disks or volum es.
120 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4 Va ul ts A vault is a locati o n for stor ing backup archives. For ea se of use and administra tion, a vault is associated with the archives' me tadata. Referring to this me tadata makes for fast and c onvenien t operations with archi ves and backups stored in the vault.
121 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Way of working with the "Vaults" view Vaults (on the na vigation pane) - top element of th e vaults tree.
122 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To learn more ab out privileges depending on the user rights, see the User privileg es o n a st o rage node (p. 70 ) sec tio n. Unmanaged vaults An unmanaged vau lt is a centrali zed vault that is not managed by a storage node.
123 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Related sections: Operations with arch ives st ored in a vault (p. 154) Operations with ba ckups (p. 155) Filtering and sortin g archives (p. 157) Bars of the "Actions and tools" pane [Vault Name] The Actions bar is available when clickin g the v aul t in the vault s tree.
124 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Delete a vault 1. Select the vault. 2. Click Delete . You'll be asked whether to ke ep the archives stored in t he vault, or delete the vaul t along with all the arch ives. The plans and tasks that use this vault will fail.
125 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Storage nod e Select the Acronis B ackup & Recovery 10 Storag e Node that will manage the v ault. You may need to enter ac cess crede ntials for the storage node. Path (p. 125) Specify where the v ault will be created.
126 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Va ult d at aba se p ath To s pec if y t he pa th w her e the v aul t's d ata bas e w ill be c re ate d 1. In the Local fold ers of the s to rage node, se lect the desired folder or ent er the full path to the folder in the Path fi eld.
127 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4. 1. 2.2 Cr eat in g a n u nm an ag ed ce nt ra li zed v au lt To c re ate a n unm an age d c en tra li zed v aul t, pe rfo rm th e fol lo win g s te ps. Vault Name Specify a unique na me for the vault. The creati o n of two centrali zed va ults with the same name is prohibit ed.
128 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To a tta ch a ma nag ed va ult to a s tor age n ode , per for m the f oll owi ng s teps . Vault Storage nod e Select the Acronis B ackup & Recovery 10 Storag e Node that will manage the vault. Path Specify the path to the loca tio n where the archives are stored.
129 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 by different comp o nents of other versions of the product by means o f Acr o nis Backup & Recov ery 10, see the Tape co m patibility table (p. 43 ) section. Acronis Backup & Rec overy 10 enables you t o set up di stribution of backups by media.
130 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4. A tape with backups written by the storage n o de cann o t be read on a tape devic e, locally attached to a machin e, the agent is installed on, becau se of a difference in tape fo rm at.
131 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4. 1. 3.5 Get ti ng s tar te d wi th a ta pe li br ar y If you have a tap e library device at tached to a machine with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 St o.
132 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If the tape barc ode cannot be read, an other T ask s Need I nteraction window as ks you to label a tape. A cti on s on a ta pe l ib ra ry va ul t If a tape.
133 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To change the set tings of the backup policy/plan to be created click Change… in the Backup options section on the Create b ackup po li cy/plan page. It o pen s the Backup option s window where the Tape support page is contained with the pre-defined values.
134 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Any user with access to a managed vault on a tape li brary is able to perform th ese operation s. However two or more user s cannot manage a tape library drive simultane o usly, because some operations can tak e minutes, hours or even da ys.
135 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 L ab el in g When a tape requir ed for data recovery is not found , the Task Need Interaction window will ask the user to bring the tape and insert it into a tape library s lot. So, all the tape cartrid ges need a barc o de or other readable lab els.
136 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If you leave this option unchan ged, then the backups, belonging to the p olicy or plan being created, might be written o nto tape s c ontaining backup s w ritte n by different backup polici es and co m prising of data from diff erent machines.
137 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 cycle. The same tap e rotation enables you to ge t by wi th the minimum number of c artridges and not to be buried in used tapes. Acronis Backup & Rec overy 10 enables you to achi eve full automation of tape rotation while backing up onto tape libraries.
138 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 capability of the tape library (number of driv es, loader s, slots and available tapes; capacity of tapes) requirements for perf orming data recovery ( maximal duration) You need to anal yze every arg ument that is relevant for your case and select th e main criteria for the choice.
139 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 backup policy/plan s tarts on Wednesday and full back ups should be created on ever y fourth Frid ay, on Wednesday the firs t backup will be full instead o f an increm ental one.
140 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The next figure d emonstrates the data backup archive at the moment. The differ ential backup is drawn as a blue rec tangle in the figure. Number 1 in the green rectangle ma rks the incre mental backup created o n Monday of the 1st week of the year.
141 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Below, the figure sh ows the deleted backup s as actua l, but demonstrates tape usage during the whole year for the GFS backup scheme in combin ation with the specified tape options. A number in the green rectang le marks an incremental bac kup created on Monday of the c o rrespondin g week of the year.
142 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The full backup stor ed on tape 01 is d eleted after the next full bac kup is created onto both tapes 23 and 24 on Friday of t he 5 2nd week. As all bac kups of tape 01 have b ee n deleted, the tape is considered as fr ee and can be reused.
143 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If all the backups hav e to be kept during the year, the archive will req uire 28 tap es. As the GFS backup sche me forces automatic del etion of the outdated backup s, on the first Friday of the second year the tapes keep only the backups disp layed in the next figure.
144 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 This figure dem o nstrates th at the GFS Example 2 tap e rotation scheme is more sui table for the case than GFS Example 1 .
145 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 backup deletion fre es a tap e so it can be reused. The main drawbac k is the l arge number of required ta pes that is used 5-10%.
146 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 T oH Ex am ple 1 Suppose, the backup plan has the following tape opti o ns: the Use a separate ta pe set option is selected the Always use a free ta.
147 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 five-level sche me requires up t o five tapes f o r this cas e. T oH Ex am ple 2 Suppose, the backup plan has the following tape options: the Use a .
148 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 T oH Ex am ple 3 Imagine the backup pla n has the f o llowing tap e o p tions: the Use a separate ta pe set option is selected the Always use a free.
149 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To simplify the tape pla nnin g lets discard the p o ssibility tha t the calculated tapes might contain backups of other data.
150 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Total number of req uired tapes = r ound up ((2*F_GB + 12*I_GB + 11*D_GB) * C L / T_GB) + 1 = ro und up ( (2*320 + 12* 1 6 + 11 *40) * 1 / 400 ) + 1 = round up ( 3.
151 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 node database has all the required information ab o ut the c o ntent of the moved tapes. So all you need to do is to perform th e inventory (p. 134) procedure for t he managed vault on the library where th e tapes we re placed t o.
152 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Metadata The .meta folder is created during backup in every personal vault. This folder con tains additional information about a rchives and backups stored in the vault, such as archive o wners or the machine name.
153 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 [Archive Name] The Actions bar is availab le when you select an arch ive in the ar chives table. Duplicates acti ons of the archi v es toolbar. [Backup Name] The Ac tion s bar is available when you expand the archive and click on a ny o f its backups.
154 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4. 2. 2.1 Cr eat in g a pe rs ona l v au lt To c re ate a p ers on al va ult 1. In the Name field, type a name for the vault b eing created. 2. [Optional] In th e Commen ts field, add a descrip tion of the vault.
155 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To Do Validate an archive Click Validate . The Validation (p. 233 ) page will be opened with the pre-s elected archive as a source. Validation of an a rchive will check all the archive's backu ps. Export an a rchive Click Export .
156 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Validate a backup Click Validate . The Validation (p. 233 ) page will be opened with the pre-s elected backup as a source. Validation of a fil e backup imitates re covering of all files from th e backup to a dummy destination.
157 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4 . 3 . 4 F i l t e ri n g a n d s o r t i ng a r c h i v e s The following is a guid eline for you to filter and s ort archi v es in the ar chives table. To Do Sort backup a rchives by any column Click the column's header to sort the archives in a scending order.
158 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5 Sc he du lin g Acronis scheduler help s the adminis trator adapt backup plans to the co m pany’s daily routin e and each employee’s wo rk styl e. The plans’ tasks will be l aunched systemati cally keeping t he critical data safely protected.
159 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The specified period of tim e has passed sinc e the last successful backup completed The scheduler beha vio r, in case the event occurs but t he co nditi o n (or an y of multiple conditions) is not met is defin ed by the Task start c o nditions (p.
160 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Examples "Simple" daily s chedule Run the task ever y day at 6PM. The schedule's param eters are thus set up as foll o ws. 1. Every: 1 da y (s ). 2. Once at: 06:0 0:00 PM . 3. Effective: From: not set .
161 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 task's recurrence s is 4 hours, and bet ween the third, fourth and fifth is 2 hours. In this case, the optimal way is t o add two s chedules to the task. First daily sched ule 1. Every: 3 da y (s). 2. Every: 4 h o urs.
162 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Examples "One day in the week" schedule Run the task ever y Friday at 1 0PM, starting fr om a cer tain date (say 05/14/2009) and endin g after six months. The schedule's param eters are thus set up as foll o ws.
163 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Thursday: every 3 h o urs fr om 9 AM till 9 PM Friday: twice at 12 PM and 9 PM (i.e. sa me as on Monday) Saturday: once at 9 PM Sun day: once at 9 PM Combining the identical times, the following thr ee schedules can be add ed to the task: First schedule 1.
164 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Every: <...> From: <...> Until: <...> Set up how many t imes the task will be run during the spec ified time interval. For example, setting the ta sk frequency to Every 1 hour Fro m 10:00:00 AM until 10:00:00 PM allo ws the task to be ru n 12 times from 10 AM to 10 PM during one day .
165 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To: 12/01/2010 . A ctually the task will end on the last workday of Novemb er. By setting up this date we just define that the task must be discon tinued in 20 10, after autu m n end s in the northern hemispher e.
166 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Use Wake- On -LAN When this setting is e nable d, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server will use the Wake- On -LAN (WOL) func tio nalit y to wake up turned-off registered machines wh en a backup, cleanup or validation is sch eduled to start.
167 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Then the time of th e task's first run on each machine m ay be an y time between 09:00:00 AM and 09:59:59 AM; the interval between the first and the se.
168 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Examples "Bad block" eme r gency ba ckup One or more bad blo cks that have suddenly appeared o n a hard dis k usually indicate that the hard disk drive will so o n fail. Sup pose that you want to create a bac kup plan that will back up hard disk data as soon as such a situation occurs.
169 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2. In the list of ev ents in the ri ght pane, double-click the name of an event whose pr operties you want to view. 3. In the Event Prop erties dialog box, v iew the event's properti es such as the event source, sho wn in the Source field ; and the ev ent number, shown in th e Event ID field.
170 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Example: It is required to run t he bac kup task after free space o n the managed machine is changed by at least 1 GB, but only if all users are logged off and more than 12 hours ha ve passed since the last backup .
171 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Task start conditi o ns: Skip the task execution . As a result, (1) If 9:00 PM co mes and the loca tio n's h ost is availab le, the backup task starts ri ght o n time.
172 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If the task start c onditions are Wait unt il the condition s are met and the Run th e task anyway after check box is selected with, say, th e 1 Hour waiting time, the task (schedul ed to run at 3:00 PM) will star t at 4:0 0 PM — the t ime w hen the waiting period ends.
173 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6 D ir ect m an agem ent This section covers o perati o ns that can be performed directly on a m anaged machine by using the direct console-agent co nne ction. The content of this secti on is applicable to both stand-alone and advanced editions o f Acron is Backup & Recovery 10.
174 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 licenses. Please make sure you h ave a valid license on Acroni s License Server. After a successful licen se check the agent will start working. Trial version of prod uct expires in X day (s) Please make sure you h ave a valid license on Acroni s License Server.
175 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 H ow it i s d ete rmi ned Errors Highlight the date in red if at least one "Error" entry a ppeared in the log on t his date. Warnings Highlight the date in yellow if no "Error" entries appear ed and at least one "Warn ing" entry appeared in the log o n this date.
176 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 In the backup tabl e, select the backup plan (task). Use the toolbar's but to ns t o take an action on the selected plan (task). See the Actions on backup plans and tasks (p. 1 7 9) section f or details.
177 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 A backup plan status is derived fro m the results o f the last run of the plans' tasks. S tat us H ow it i s d ete rmi ned H ow to han dle 1 Error At least one task has failed.
178 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Need interaction Any running task can put itself into the Need interact ion state when it needs human inter action such as changing m edia or ig noring a read error.
179 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 centralized plan has failed 2 Warning Last result is "Succe eded with warning" View the log to read th e warnings - > [optionally] Perform actions to prevent the future warnings or failure. 3 OK Last result is "Succeeded", "-", or "Stopped" No action is required.
180 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Run a plan/ta sk Backup plan Click Run . In the Run Backup Plan (p. 183 ) windo w, select the task you n eed to be run. Running the back up plan starts the selected task of th at plan immediately in spite of its schedul e and conditions.
181 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Edit a plan /task Backup plan Click Edit . Backup plan ed iting is performed in the same way as creat ion (p. 188 ), except for the following limitat ions : It is not always possible to u se all scheme options, when editing a backu p plan if th e created archive is not em pty (i.
182 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Delete a plan/task Backup plan Click Delete . What will happen if I delete the backup plan? The plan's deletion delet es all its tasks.
183 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Configuring backup pl ans and the tasks table By default, the table has six columns that are disp layed, others are hidden. If req uired, you can hide the displayed c olumns and show hidden o nes. To s how o r h ide c ol umns 1.
184 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Recovery (disk) Disk backup recovery Recovery (file) File and folder recov ery Recovery (volume) Recovery of volumes fro m a disk backup Recovery (MBR) Mast.
185 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Pr ogress The Progress tab is a vailable while the task i s running. It is common for all ty pes of tasks. The tab provides informati o n ab out task progr ess, elapsed time and other para meters.
186 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Validation (if select ed) - events b efore or after which the validation is perf o rmed , and validation schedule.
187 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 View a log entry’s details 1. Select a log entry. 2. Do one of the followin g Click View Details . Th e log entry's details will be displayed in a separat e window. Expand th e Information panel, by clicking the chevron.
188 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Configuring the log ta ble By default, the table has seven columns that are displ ayed, others are hidden. If required, you can hide the shown colu mns and show the hidden ones. To s how o r h ide c ol umns 1.
189 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To c re ate a b ac ku p pla n, pe rf orm t he fol lo win g s teps . General Plan name [Optional] Enter a uniq ue name for the backup plan. A conscious name lets you id entify the plan among others. Plan's credentials (p.
190 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Access credentials (p. 200) [Optional] Provide credentials for the location if the pl an account does not have a cce ss permissions to the l ocation. To access this opti o n, sele ct the Advanced v iew check box.
191 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Virtualization s erver (p. 211) Here you select the resulting virtual machine type and location. Available o ptions depend o n the host you selec te d in the pre vio us step. Storage (p. 211) Choose the storage o n the v irtualizati on server or the folder to pla ce the v irtual machin e files in.
192 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Files Available if the Acr o nis Bac kup & Recovery 10 Agent for Wind ows (or for Linux) is install ed.
193 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Windows The swap file (pag efile.sys) and the file that keeps the RAM content when the ma chine goes into hibernation (hiberfil.s ys) are not backed up. After recover y , the files will be re -cre ated in the appropriate place with the zero size.
194 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 6 . 2 . 6 E x c l u s i o n s Set up exclusions for the specific t y pes of fil es yo u d o not wish to back up. For example, you may not want database, hidden and system files and folder s, as well as files w ith specifi c extensi o ns, to be stored in the archiv e.
195 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Wi nd ows By file path C: FinanceF.log Excludes the file named " F.log" located in the folder C: Finance By folder path C: FinanceF Excludes the folder C: FinanceF (be sure to spe cify the full path starting from th e disk letter) Li nux By file path /home/user/Finance/F.
196 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 To back up data to a l ocally attached tape device, ex pan d the Tape drives group, then click the required device. 2. Using the archives table To assist you with choosing the right destinati on, the table displays the na m es of the archives contained in each l o cation you select.
197 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 This behavior can be sup pressed by adding the [Dat e] variable (p. 200) to the arc hive name. If you do not select the Name ba c kup files us ing the archive name.
19 8 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Your script can m o ve older backups based on the date stamp. See also “The *Dat e+ variable” (p. 200 ). Ex am pl e 3 . Ho ur ly ba ck up s w it hin a da y Consider the follo wing scenario: You want to perfor m hourl y backups of your server's c ritical files every day.
199 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 You want to swap th e drive s each Monday, so that on e drive contains backups of the curr ent week (Monda y through Sund ay), and the other dri ve those of the previous wee k.
200 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 6. 2. 8.2 Th e [ DA TE ] va ri ab le If you specify the [DATE] vari able in the archive name, the fil e name of each backup will inclu de that backup’s creation da te . When using this variable, th e first backup o f a ne w day will b e a full backup.
201 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The program will ac cess the source data usi ng the cre dentials of the backup plan account specified in the Gen eral section. Use the followin g creden tials The program will ac cess the source data usin g the cred entials you specify.
202 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 In the Backup type fi eld, select whether y ou want to create a full, incremental or differential backup (p. 29 ). 6. 2. 10. 2 Ba ck u p lat er sc he me With the Back up later scheme, the backup will b e performed only once, at the date and ti me you specify.
203 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 - - Daily backups run e v ery workday except Frid ay, which is left for weekly and monthly backups.
204 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Keep monthly ba ckups indefin itely . Backup scheme para meters can then be s et up as foll o ws. Start backup at: 11: 00 PM Back up on: All day.
205 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Have a weekl y summary of fil e changes since las t month (Friday weekly diff erential backup). Have a monthly ful l backup of your files. Moreover, assu m e that yo u want to retain ac ces s t o all backup s, including the daily ones, f or at least six months.
206 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Parameters You can set up the f o llowin g parameters of a Tower of Hanoi schem e. Schedule Set up a d aily (p.
207 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Nu mbe r of l evel s Fu ll ba cku p ev ery On di ff ere nt da ys, c an g o ba ck Ro ll- ba ck pe ri od 2 2 days 1 to 2 days 1 day 3 4 days 2 to 5 days 2 day.
208 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Incremental Specifies on what sched ule and un der which conditions to perform an incremental backup . If the archive contain s no backups at the time of the task ru n, a full b ackup is created instead of the in cremental backup .
209 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Examples Weekly full backup The following sche me yields a full backup perfor m ed every Frid ay night. Full backup : Schedule: We ekly , every Friday , at 10:00 PM Here, all param eters excep t Schedule in Ful l backup are left empty.
210 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Finally, we create r etention rules for the archiv e: let us retain only backups that are no older than six months, and let the c leanu p be performed after each backup task and also on the last day of every month.
211 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6 . 2 . 1 1 A r c h i v e v a l i da t i o n Set up the validati on task t o check if the bac ked up data is re coverable. If the backup could n ot pass the validation su ccessfully, the valida tion task fails and the bac kup plan gets the Error status.
212 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Which agent is installed on the host? The resulting virtual m achi ne ty pe and location depen d o n the agen t that resides o n the sele cte d host.
213 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If the managed machin e's operating system fails to start or you ne ed to recove r data to bare metal , boot the machin e from the bootable media (p. 391) or using Acronis Startup Recover y Manager (p. 47 ).
214 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Access credentials (p. 217) [Optional] Provide credentials for the archive lo cation if the ta s k account do es not have the right to access it. To access this option, select th e Advan c ed view check b ox.
215 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 After any of the settings is cha nged against the defaul t v alue , a new line that dis plays the newly set value appears. T he setting status changes from Default to Custom . Should y ou modify the settin g again, the lin e will disp lay the new value unless th e new value is the default one.
216 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 If the archive is loc ated on removable me dia, e.g. DVDs, first insert the last DVD and then insert the discs in order starting from the first o ne when the p rogram prompts.
217 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6. 3. 4.1 Dis ks /v olu mes s ele cti on To s el ect a b ac ku p and di sk s/ vo lum es t o r ec over : 1. Select one of the successiv e backups by its c reation d ate and time. Thus, you ca n revert the disk data to a certain moment in tim e.
218 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Use the followin g creden tials Th e program will access the locati on using the creden tials you specify. Use this option if th e task account does no t have access permissions to the l o cation. Y o u might ne ed to provide special credentials f o r a ne two rk shar e or a storage node vault.
219 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Please be aware tha t the target machine will be po wered off automatically be fore the recovery. If you prefer to power it off manuall y, modify the VM po wer management op tion. Disk #: Disk # (MODEL ) (p.
220 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Keep existing The program will lea v e the existing NT sign ature of the t arget hard disk as is. 6. 3.
221 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 M BR des t in at io n To s pec if y a de st in ati on di sk : 1. Select the disk to recover t he MBR to. 2. Click OK . Vo lu me de st in at ion To s pec if y a de st in ati on vol um e: 1. Select a volu m e or unall ocated space where you want the selected volume to be r ecovered to.
222 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Logical . Informa tion about logical vo lumes is located not in the MBR, but in the extended partition table. The number of logical volumes o n a disk is un lim ited. A l ogical volume cann o t be set as active.
223 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Storage Initial settin g : the default s to rage of the v irtualizati on server if the new machin e is created o n the virtualization ser v er. Other wise the current user's documents fo lder. This is the place wher e the new virtual machin e will be creat ed.
224 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Re co ver y ex clu sio ns Set up exclusions for the specific file s you do not wish to rec o ver. Use the Add , Edit , Remove and Remove A ll buttons to create t he list of file masks. Files whose names match any of t he m asks will be s kipped during recovery.
225 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Do not overwrite ex i sting file - this will gi ve the file o n the hard disk priority over the file in the backup. If you allow files to be overwritten, you still have an op tion to prevent over writing of specific files by excluding (p.
226 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 DVD supplied by th e hardware vendor o r downl o ad th e drivers from the v endor’s Web site. The driver files sh ould have the *.inf, *.s ys or *.oem extensions. If you d ownload the drivers in the *. exe, *.
227 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Drivers for a virtual m achine When recovering a sy ste m to a new v irtual ma chine, the Universal Restore techn olo gy is appli ed in the background, becaus e the program knows what drivers are required for the supported virtual machines.
228 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 8. [Optionally] Re view the Virtual machine sett i ngs (p . 222 ) and make changes if necessary. Here you can change the path to the ne w virtual machine. The same type o f machines with the sam e name cannot be creat ed in th e same folder.
229 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Windows was r ecovered to a dyna mi c volume tha t cannot be bo otable Solution : Reco v er Windo ws to a basic, simple or mirr ored volume.
230 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 6. 3. 11. 1 Ho w to re ac ti vat e GRU B an d c ha ng e i ts c on fi gu ra ti on Generally, you sh o uld refer to the boot l oader manual p ages for the appr o priate p rocedure. There is also the corresp o nding Kno wledg e Base ar ticle on the Acronis Web site.
231 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 9. Specify the disk o n which GRUB is located — typically, t he boot or root partition: root (hd0,0) 10. Install GRUB. For example, to install GRUB in the master boot rec o rd (MBR) of the first disk, run the following com m and: setup (hd0) 11.
232 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 To resolve the pr o blem, d o either of the following: Recover the files a s two or more groups. For ex ample, if the problem occurs when recoverin g 1 million files, tr y recovering t he first 5 0 0,000 o f the m and then the r emaining 500,000.
233 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1. Connect to the management server and r emove the storage node from it. Note: All vaults mana ged by the storage nod e will also be removed from the man agement server.
234 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 What to validate Validate Choose an object t o validate: Archive (p. 234 ) - in tha t case, you need to specify t he arch ive. Backup (p. 235 ) - sp ecify the archive first, and then select th e desired backup in th is archive.
235 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Exporting and mounting are not supported for ba ckups stored in Acronis Online Ba ckup Storage. If the archive is st o red in a centralized vault, expand th e Centralized group and click the vault. If the archive is st o red in a personal vault, expand the Person al group and click the vault.
236 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 6 . 4 . 4 L o c a t io n s e l e ct i o n To s el ect a l oca ti on Enter the full path to the l ocation in the Path fi eld or select the desired l ocation in the folders tree . To select a centraliz ed vaul t, expand the Central i zed group and c lick the appropriate vault.
237 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6 . 4 . 6 W h e n t o v a l i d a t e As validation is a resource-intensive operation, it ma kes sense to schedule valid ation to the managed machine's off-pea k period.
238 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Access credentials (p. 239) [Optional] Provide credentials for the archive locati o n. To access this o ption, s elect the Advanced vie w check box.
239 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To access a managed vault, type the following string in the Path fi eld: bsp://node_ad dress/vault_name/ To access an unmanag ed centralized vault, type the full path to the v ault's f older. 2.
240 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Read only - enables e xploring and opening files within the backup without com mitting any changes. Read/write - with thi s mode, the program assume s t hat the ba ckup content will be modified, and cr eat es an in cremental backup to captu re the chang es.
241 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Usage scenarios Export enables y o u to separate a specifi c backup from a chain of incre m ental bac kups for fast recovery, writing onto rem o vable or deta chable media or other pu rposes.
242 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 export from an unman aged centralized vault . The ex port is perfor med by the agent installed on the managed machin e you specify. The destin ation can be any location acces sible to the agent, including a managed vault.
243 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Where to export Archive (p. 245) Enter the path to the location where th e new archive will be creat ed. Be sure to provide a distinct name and comment f o r the new arch ive.
244 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 If the archive is st o red in a l ocal folder on the machine, expand t he Local fo l ders g ro up and click the required f o lder.
245 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To s pec if y c re den ti als 1. Select one of the following: Use the task cred entials The program will ac cess the location using t he creden tials of the task account sp ecified in the General section.
246 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 According to t he original FTP specifica tion, credentials required for acce ss to FTP servers are transferred through a ne twork as plaintext. This means that th e user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a p acket sniffer.
247 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Specify: User name . When ent ering the name of an Active D irector y user account, be sure to also specify the domain name (DOMAINUsername or Us ername@domain) Password . The passw ord for the account.
248 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 To a llo ca te s pa ce for Ac ro nis S ecu re Zo ne 1. Choose a hard disk (if several) on which to cr eate the zone. The unallocated spa ce is selected by default. The progra m displays the total space a vailable for the Acronis Secure Zone.
249 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If there is no or not e nough unallocated space at the en d of the disk, but ther e is unallocated space between volu mes, the volumes will be moved to add more unallocat ed space to the end.
250 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 If there is not en o ugh unall ocated space, the pro gra m will tak e free space fr om the selected volumes, prop ortionally redu cing the volumes' size. Resizing of locked partiti o ns requ ires a reboot.
251 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Under Linux, when usin g a boot loader other than GR UB (such as LILO), consider installing it to a Linux root (or boot) partition boot record instead of the MBR bef o re acti v ating A SRM. Ot herwis e, reconfigure the b o ot loade r manually after the activation.
252 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Advantages: Using Acronis Backup & Recovery 1 0 in Win dows Prei nstallation Envir onment provides more functionality than usin g Linux-based bo o table medi a.
253 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1. Download and ins tall Windows Automated Installati on Kit (WAIK). Automated Installa tion Kit (AIK) for Windows Vista (PE 2.
254 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 user name and pass wo rd t o be enter ed on the cons ole side at c o nnection t o the ag ent. If you leave these fields empty, the connection will b e enabled on typing any sy m bols i n the prompt window.
255 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 quiet Disables displaying o f startu p m essages when the Linux kernel is loadin g, and starts the management cons o le aft er the kernel is loaded. This parameter is i mplicitly specified when cr eating the bootable media, but yo u can remove this parameter while in th e boot menu.
256 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 IP address Subnet mask Gateway DNS server WINS server. Once the bootabl e agent st arts o n a m achine, the conf iguration is applied to the machin e’s network interface card (NIC.) If the settings have n o t been pre-configu red, the agent uses DHCP auto configuration.
257 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 D riv er s f or U niv er sa l R est or e While creating bo o table media, you have an option t o add Windows drivers to th e media.
258 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 4. Specify path to the folder where the WinPE files are l o cated. 5. Specify netw o rk settings (p . 255) for the machine net wo rk adap ters or choos e DHCP auto configuration. 6. Specify the full path to the resulting ISO file incl uding the file na me.
259 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 controller, network adapter, tape drive or oth er devic e. You wi ll have to repeat this pr ocedure for each driver y ou want to be inclu ded in the resulting WinPE boot media. 6. Choose whether you want to create ISO or WIM imag e or upload th e media on Acronis PXE Server.
260 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Once the machine b oots into the Bart PE and y ou conf igure the network connection, sel ect Go - > System -> Storage - > Acron i s Backup & Recovery 10 to start.
261 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6. 10. 3. 1 Se tt in g up a d is pla y m ode For a machine bo o ted from m edia, a disp lay video mode is detect ed automatically based on th e hardware configuration (monitor and graphics card specifications).
262 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 6 . 1 0 . 4 L i s t o f c o m m an d s a n d u t i l i t i e s a v ai l ab l e i n L i n u x - ba s e d b o o t a b l e m e d i a Linux-based bootabl e media contains the foll owing command s and command lin e utilities, which you can use when runnin g a command shell.
263 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 grep ping umount growisof s pktsetup uuidgen grub poweroff vconfig gunzip ps vi halt raidautorun zcat hexdump readcd hotplug reboot 6 .
264 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 To c re ate th e vo lu me st ruc tu re b y u si ng a sc rip t 1. Boot the machine from a Li nux-based bootable media. 2. Click Acronis Bootable Agent . Then, click Run management console . 3. On the toolbar, cli ck Actions , and then click Sta rt shell .
265 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Example Suppose that you pre v iously perf ormed a disk backup of a machine with the following disk configuration: The machine has two 1-gigabyte and tw o 2-gigab y te SCSI hard disks, mounted on /dev/sda , /dev/sdb , /dev/ sdc , and /dev/sdd , r espectively.
266 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 --- Volume group --- VG Name my_volg roup ... VG Access read/wr ite VG Status resizab le ... VG Size 1.99 GB ... VG UUID 0qoQ4l- Vk7 W-yDG3 -uF1l -Q2AL-C0z0- vMeACu 5. Run the follo wing comman d to creat e the logical v o lu me; in the -L parameter, sp ecify the size given by VG Size : lvm lvcreate -L1.
267 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2. Use the -- mount c ommand, specifying the volu me's index in the -i parameter. For example: trueimagemnt -- moun t /mn t -- filename smb://s erver/backups/linux_machine.ti b - i 4 This command mounts the logical volume DYN1, whose in dex in the bac kup is 4, on the mount point /mnt.
268 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 On a machine tha t has an operating sy ste m on the har d disk, the BIOS must be co nfigured so that the network interfac e card is ei ther the first boot device, or at least prior to the Hard D rive device.
269 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Sometimes after t he v o lume has be en backed up and its image plac ed into a safe storage, the machine disk c onfiguration might chang e due to a HDD replace m ent or hard ware loss.
270 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 6 . 1 1 . 3 C h o o s i n g t h e o pe r a t i n g s y s t e m f o r d i s k m a n a g e me n t On a machine with t wo o r mo re operating syste ms, representation of disks and volumes depends on which operating sy stem is currently running.
271 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6 . 1 1 . 5 D i s k o p e r a t i o n s Acronis Disk Dire ctor Lite in cludes the following operations that can be perform ed o n disks: Disk Initialization (p. 271 ) - initializes the new hardwar e added to the system Basic disk cloning (p.
272 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 6. 11. 5. 2 Ba si c di sk cl on in g Sometimes it is n ece ssary to transfer all the disk data o nto a ne w disk. It can be a case of expanding the system v olume, startin g a new system layout or disk e vacuation due to a hardware fau lt.
273 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 volumes, then the C lone b asic disk operation will be i m possible and t he user will not be able to continue. If you are about to clone a disk co mprising of a syste m v olu me , pay attention t o the Advan c ed options .
274 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 6. 11. 5. 3 D is k co nve rs io n: MB R t o GP T You would want to co nvert an MBR basic disk to a GPT basic disk in the f o llowing cases: If you need more than 4 primary v o lumes on o ne disk. If you need additi o nal disk reliability against any possi ble data damage.
275 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 (To finish the added o perat io n you will have to commit (p. 283) it. Exiting the program without committing the pending op erations will effec tively cancel them.
276 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 dynamic disks (all volume types excep t Simple volumes), then you will be warn ed here about the possible damage to the data in volved in the conversion . Please note, t he operation is unavailable f or a dynamic d isk containing Spanned, Stripe d, or RAID - 5 volumes.
277 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6 . 1 1 . 6 V o l u me o p e r a t i o n s Acronis Disk Direct or L ite i ncludes the following operations that can be performed on volumes: Create Volume (p. 2 77 ) - Creates a new volu me with the help of the Create Volume Wizard.
278 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 space available on each dis k that you want t o include i n the volume and the size o f the volu me will depend on the size of the smallest space.
279 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 RAID-5 You will obtain a brief description of every type o f volume for better underst anding of t he advantages and limit atio ns of each possib le volume architectur e.
280 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 The maximum value normally includes the m ost possib le unallocated space. But in some cases the possible unallocat ed space and the proposed ma ximum volume size migh t differ (e.
281 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6. 11. 6. 2 D el et e v ol um e This version of Ac r onis Disk Director Lite has reduced functionality because it is ma inly a tool for preparing bare-metal systems for recovering previou sly saved volum e images.
282 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 6. 11. 6. 4 C h ang e vol um e let te r Windows operating systems assign letters (C:, D:, etc) to hard dis k volumes at sta rtup. These letters are used by applicati o ns an d operating syste ms to locate files and folders in th e volumes.
283 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 to save additional space which is being lost due to the cluster size on th e FAT16 or FAT32 file systems as a quick and m ore or less reliab le way of destr o ying data, residing in this volume If y ou wa nt to f orm at a vo lum e: 1.
284 Copyright © Acro nis, Inc., 2000- 2010 Quitting Acronis Dis k Director Lite with o ut commi tting the pendin g o perati ons effectively cancels them, so if you try to exit Disk management without committing t he pend ing operations, you will receive the appr o priate wa rning.
285 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 7 C en tr al iz ed man ag em en t This section covers o perati o ns that can be performed centrally by usin g the components for centralized manage ment. The content of this se ctio n i s o nly app licable to advanced editions of Acronis Backup & Rec overy 10.
286 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Vaults with low free space : X View vaults The alert is displayed if at lea st one centralized vault has less than 10% free space.
287 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Statistics for the s elected date ar e displayed to the rig ht o f the char t. All the statistics fields are interactive, i.e. if yo u click any field, the Log view will be open ed with the log entries pre-filt ered by this field.
288 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 7. 1. 2.1 Ba cku p pol ic y dep lo ym en t sta tes A backup policy depl oyment state is a combination of the policy deployment states on all m achin es the policy is appli ed to.
289 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 In the Log view, apply the Error filter if there are too many log entries. You can a lso sort the "error" entries by backu p plans, managed entities o r machines. 2. Once the reas on of the fail ure is clear, do one or more of t he foll o wing: Remove the reason o f the f ailure.
290 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Edit a policy Click Edit . Editing policies is perfor med in the same way a s creating (p . 346 ). Once the policy i s edited, the management s erver updates the policy on a ll machines the policy was deployed to.
291 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To Do Sort backup p olicies by any column Click the column's header to sort the back up policies in ascending ord er.
292 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Actions To Do View details of the machine (group). Click View details . In the Machine d etails (p. 299 )/Group d etails (p. 309) window, examin e all information on the selected machine (or the selected grou p).
293 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Custom groups - g roups created manu ally by the managemen t server adminis trator. Static groups Static groups contain machin es manuall y added to the gro up by the ad ministrator.
294 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To Do Add a new machine to th e management server Click Add a m achine to AMS . In the Add m achine (p. 296 ) window, se lect the machine th at needs to be added to the man agement server. Import machines from Active Directory Click Impor t machines from Active Directory .
295 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The backup policies applied to the group th e machine is no w a member of will be deployed to th e machine. Remove a machine fro m the current static group Click Remove fr om group . The backup policies applied to the group will be re voked from the machine automatically.
296 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Refresh a list of machine s Click Refresh . The management con sole will update the list of machin es from the management server with th e most recent information .
297 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. In the Search for field, type the machine's (or the organiz atio nal unit) na m e, then click Search . You can use the ast erisk (*) to sub stitute for zer o or m o re charact ers in a machine (or an organizational unit ) name.
298 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2. Click Synchronize machine s with text file on the toolb ar. 3. In the Path field, enter the path to a .txt o r .csv file containin g the list of machines, or click Browse and select the file in t he Browse wind o w.
299 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The machine being add ed b ecom es a member of m ore than one gr o up. As a r esult, the backup policies applied t o the first group will remain o n the machine, and the backup policies app lied to the second, third, etc.
300 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Offline - the machin e is unavailable f o r the m anage ment server: it is turned o ff, o r its network cable is unplu gged.
301 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Filtering and so r ting Filtering and sortin g o f the backup policies is per formed in the same way as fo r th e Backup policies view. See the Filt ering and sorting backup policies (p. 290) secti on for details.
302 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Stop a plan/ta sk Backup plan Click Stop . Stopping the run ning backup plan stops all its tasks. Thus, a ll the task operations will be aborted.
303 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Only tasks that d o not belong to a backup plan, such as a recovery task, can be modified by d irect editing.
304 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Refresh table Click Refresh . The management con sole will update the list of back up plans and tasks existing on the machine with th e most recent information .
305 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Group1 in the root c o ntain s Group2 to which the policy is applied directl y. Group2 , in turn , contains child Group3 that inherit s the policy from the parent a nd applies the policy to Machin e1 respectively.
306 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 View detailed information on a group Clic k View details . In the Gro up details (p. 309 ) window, exam ine information on t he selected group. Rename a custom group/subgroup Click Renam e . In the Name column, type a new name for th e selected group .
307 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Listed in txt/c sv file (p. 308) All the machines that ar e listed in the specified .tx t or .csv file will be members of the dynamic group. 3. In the Comments fi eld, enter a description o f the crea ted group.
308 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If OU3 has child c ontainers an d y ou also n ee d to add t he m achi nes of those con tainers to the group, select the Include c hild c ontainers check bo x.
309 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Gr ou p det ai ls Aggregates in tw o tabs all i nformation on the select ed group. Allows performin g operations with the policies applied t o the grou p. This information is al so dup licated in the Information panel.
310 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The policy that is dir ectly applied to the group is disp layed as follows: Group name The following exa m ple illus trate s how the policy that is applied on the group thro ugh inheritance is displayed.
311 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2. Acronis Backup & Re co very 10 Agent f o r ESX/ES Xi is deli vered as a virtual appli ance. Do ei ther of the following: Deploy the agent (p.
312 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 You can create b o th static and dynamic groups o f virt ual machines. Any virtual machine that is currently available can be added to a static gr oup. You cannot create groups that co ntain b o th physical and virtual machin es.
313 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 management ser v er and you will be abl e to apply backup policies to the virtual machines or back up each machine individu ally. The update of already installed agents is perf o rmed in the s ame wa y as deployment.
314 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 By default, the sof tw are will use the account tha t you h av e already specified, either when configuring integrati on with the vCenter, o r when get ting access to the ESX/ESXi server. You have the option to specif y crede ntials for a different accoun t if need be.
315 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Server 3 uses storag es B, C, D The VA can be depl oyed to either C or D. If there is n o storage shared by all the s ervers, you can import the VA m anually int o any of the h osts. This will work, but backup performance will be far fr om optimal.
316 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Note: You can skip this step if both the sto rage node and the users' machines are in t he same Active Directory domain. For information ab o ut us er rights on a st o rage node and in its managed vaults, s ee User rights on a storage node (p.
317 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Change the compacting task schedule After deleting backup s from deduplicating vaults, eith er manually or d uring cleanup, unreferenced d ata may appear in th e deduplicating vaults and their databases. The compacting p rocedure deletes such d ata in order to free up mor e storage space.
318 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Storage node properties The tab displays th e follo wing informa tion about the s elec ted st o rage node : Name - the na me of the mach ine where the s.
319 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 7. 1. 6.1 Ac t io ns o n ta sk s The following is a guid eline for you to perfor m operati o ns with tas ks. To Do Create a new backup plan, or a task on a re gistered machine Click New , and select one of th e following: Backup plan (p.
320 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 tasks owned by o ther users Delete a task Click Delete . Why can't I de lete the task? Task belongs to a backu p plan A task belonging to a b ackup plan cannot be deleted separately from the plan. Edit th e plan to remove the task or delete the entire p lan .
321 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Filter tasks by typ e, executio n state, status, type, origin, la st result, schedule. In a field below the corr esponding header, select th e required value from the li st. Configuring tasks tabl e By default, the table has eight columns that are displayed, others are hidden.
322 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Use the Information panel to review the de tailed information on the selected l og entry. The panel is collapsed by default. To expand the panel, click the chevron. The content of the panel is also duplicated in th e Lo g entry details (p.
323 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Save all the filtered log entries to a file 1. Set filters to get a list of th e log entries that satisfy th e filtering criteria. 2. Click Save All to File . 3. In the op ened window, specify a p ath and a name for the file.
324 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 7. 1. 7.3 Cen tr al iz ed log e nt ry de ta ils Displays detailed information on the log entry you have selected and l et s you co py the details to the clipboard. To copy the details, click the Copy to clipboard bu tton.
325 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Acronis Backup & Rec overy 10 Management Ser ver offers report templates fo r: Registered machin es Backup policies existin g on the m anage m e.
326 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Availability (physi cal machines only): The type s o f the machines' availabilit y — Online or Offline .
327 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Execution state : Th e execution states of the ba ckup plans — for example, Running . Status : The status es of the backup plans — OK , Warnin g , and/or Error . Last finish time : The perio d within which the las t backup finished under each o f the backup plans.
328 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 7. 1. 8.5 Rep or t a bo ut t he a rc hi ve s a nd b ack up s In this view, you can gener ate a repor t ab out the archives that are stored in manag ed ce ntralized vaults. This rep o rt consists o f one or more tables.
329 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Report view Under Report vie w , choos e how the rep ort will look: Specify which table co lumn s to show, and in which order. Select which diagra ms to include in the report. The diagrams show space usage in the vaults.
330 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Explorer, click the Information bar that appears at th e top of the webpage by default, and then cli ck Allow blocked con tent . To a llo w a ct iv e c on ten t perm ane nt ly in Internet Explor er 1. On the Tools m enu, click Internet Options , and t hen click the Advan c ed tab.
331 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To l oa d the A cro ni s Adm ini st r ativ e Tem pl ate 1. Run Windows Gr oup Policy Objects Editor ( %w indir% system32gpedit. m sc.) 2. Open the Group Policy object (GPO) you want to edit. 3. Expand Computer Configuration .
332 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Default value: 10 Acronis Backup & Rec overy 10 agents connect to the storage node to access its man aged v aults during backup or re covery. The Client C onne ction Limit param et er det erm ines th e maximum number of such connec t ions that th e storage node can han dle simultaneousl y.
333 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If the volume ha s 5 GB of free space, th en the total size of Vault A is 2 0 GB + 5 GB = 25 GB, and that of Vault B is 45 GB + 5 GB = 50 GB, regardl ess of the size of the volume. The percentage of fr ee space in a vault is the v ault's free space divid ed by the vault's total size.
334 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 7. 2. 1.3 Ac r on is Ba ck up & Re cov er y 10 Ma na gem en t Ser ve r The following are the parameters of Acronis Backup & Recover y 10 Manage ment Server tha t can be set by using Acr o nis Admini strative Template.
335 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Trace Level Description: Specifi es the minimu m level of severity of events to be rec o rded in to the even t log. Only events of levels gr eater than or equal t o the v alue in Trace Leve l will be recorded.
336 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Otherwise, it c o nnects to a n um ber of regis tered machines depending on the all otted number of simultane ous connections.
337 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If Real Time Mon i toring is set t o True , the manage ment server instead sends req uests to machines to provid e new data when ever it will appear, and then en ters a listening mode. This approach is called real-time monitoring.
338 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 You may want t o increase the initial size o f the snapsh ot storage — or to place it on a different volume — when experien cing problems with backing up data that changes extensi v ely durin g backup.
339 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Acronis Backup & Rec overy 10 Agent periodicall y checks whether its licens e key is present on the license serv er.
340 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 For details on ho w the agent log is cleaned up, see Log cleanup rules (p. 88 ). Windows Event Lo g Specifies when t o record A cronis Backup & Rec overy 10 Agent's events int o the Application event log in Windows.
341 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 With the default setting s, the snapshot storage is created in a Windows' temp o rary files fo lder and initially occupies 50 percent of the space avail able on the volume containing that fo lder. Th is size may then gro w if m o re space is needed for the sn apshot.
342 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Connection parameter s Remote Agent po rts Specifies the por t that the compo nen t will use for inc om ing and outgoing communication wi th other Acronis comp onents. Select one of the f o llowing: Not Configured The component will us e the default TCP port numbe r 9876.
343 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Always use The use of SSL certificat es is enabled. The connecti o n will b e established o nly if t he use of SSL certificates is enab led on the ser v er application. Disabled The same as Not confi gured .
344 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Level Name Description 0 Unknown Event whose lev el of severity is unkn own or not applicable 1 Debug Event used for debug purp oses 2 Information Informati.
345 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 regular basis. The end results are intended to provid e software improvements and enhanced functionality to bet ter meet the n eeds of Acronis customers. Acr onis does not collect any personal data. The ter ms of participation can be foun d on the Acronis Web site.
346 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Parameters related to vault databases The following tw o paramet ers deter m ine paths to Acronis Bac kup & Recovery 10 Storage Node's internal databases, which contain information ab o ut managed vaults.
347 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Policy credentia ls (p . 349) [Optional] You can c hange the po licy a cco unt cred entials if necessary. T o access this opti on, select the Advan c ed view c heck box. Policy commen ts [Optional] Type a description of the backup policy.
348 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Backup options Settings [Optional] Configu re parameters o f the backup o peration, such as pre/post backup commands, maxi mum net wo rk band width allocated for the backup s tream or the backup archive compression l evel.
349 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 After you have p erfo rm ed all the r equired steps, clic k OK to create th e backup p olicy. 7 . 3 . 1 P o l ic y c r e d e n t i al s Provide the credentials under which the centraliz ed tasks will run on the machin es.
350 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To i ncl ude I n th e V olu mes co lum n: Co mm ent s Wi nd ows an d L in ux v ol ume s All volumes Type or select: [All Volum es] Refers to all volumes on mach ines running Windows, and all mounted volumes on machines running Linux.
351 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The names of te m plates ar e case-sensitive. What doe s a disk or volum e backup store? For supported file systems, a disk o r volu m e backup st o res only those sectors t hat con tain data. This reduces the resul ting backup size and speeds up the backup and rec o very ope rations.
352 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 For example, le t a Linux m achi ne co ntain a hard disk which is split into thr ee volu mes, or partiti ons: the first, second, and third partitions. These partitions are availab le in the tree as /dev/hda 1, /dev/hda2, and /d ev/hda3, respectively.
353 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/ vg_mymachine/lv_root VG Name vg_my machine … --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/ vg_mymachine/lv_bin VG Name vg_my m.
354 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 C: ProgramData in Windows Vista) You can use other envir onment variables or a combination of environm ent variables and text.
355 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Password . The passw ord for the account. 2. Click OK . 7 . 3 . 4 E x c l u s i o n s Set up exclusions for the specific t y pes of fil es yo u d o not wish to back up.
356 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Wi nd ows By file path C: FinanceF.log Excludes the file named " F.log" located in the folder C: Finance By folder path C: FinanceF Excludes the folder C: FinanceF (be sure to specify the full path starting from th e disk letter) Li nux By file path /home/user/Finance/F.
357 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The program g enerates a c o mmon na m e for the new archives and displays it in the Name field. Th e name looks like [ P olicyNa me]_[MachineName]_Archive1. If yo u are n o t satisfied with the automatically gene rated name, construct another na me.
358 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Back up now – to create a backup task for manual sta rt and run the task immedi ate ly after its creation. Back up later – t o create a backup task for manual sta rt OR schedule one -time ta sk executi o n in the future.
359 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To set up the simple ba ckup scheme, specify t he app ropriate setting s as follows. Backup Set up the backup schedule - when a nd how often to back u p the data. To learn more abou t setting up the schedule, s ee the Schedu ling (p.
360 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Week ly/Monthly: Specifies which of the days select ed in the B a c k up on field you want t o reserve for wee kly and monthly backups. A m o nthly backup w ill be performed every f o urth such day. T he defau lt value is Friday.
361 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 As a result, an archi ve of daily, weekly, and m o nthly backup s w ill be cr eated. Daily backups will be available for seven da y s sin ce creation.
362 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Daily: 6 months Weekly: 6 month s Monthly: 5 years Here, daily incre m ental bac kups will be created on Tuesda ys and Thursdays, with weekly and monthly backups perf ormed on Fridays.
363 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 levels you select. See the example below for detail s. Example Schedule parameters are set as follows Recur: Every 1 da y Frequency: Once at 6 PM Number of levels : 4 This is how the first 14 days (or 14 sessions) of this s cheme's schedule look.
364 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Here are the backup s we have on day 12 (numbers in gray denote deleted backu ps). 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 has not yet been cr eated, so the backup of da y five is still stored.
365 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 This setting is recommend ed for backup d estinations such as shared folders or centralized vaults. When there is insufficient space while backing up The archive will be cl eaned up only d uring backup and only if there is not eno ugh space to create a n ew backup.
366 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Incremental: Sched ule: Weekly, every workd ay , at 9:00 PM Also, let all backup s older than one year be del et ed from the archive, and let the cleanup be performed upon crea ting a new backup.
367 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Resulting tasks Any custom sche me always produces three backup tasks and — in case the retenti on rules are specified — a cleanu p task. Each tas k is listed in the list of tasks either as Schedule d (if the schedule has been set up) or a s Manual (if the schedule ha s not been s et up).
368 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. Validation schedule (appe ars o nly if yo u have selected the o n schedule in ste p 1 ) - set the schedule of validation.
369 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 8 O nl ine b ack up This section provid es detail s about using the Acronis B ackup & Recovery 10 Online service. This service enables y o u to do online backups to Acronis Onli ne Backup Storage. Acronis Backup & Re covery 10 Online might b e unavailable in your region.
370 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 8 . 1 . 2 W h a t d a t a c a n I b a c k u p an d r e c o v e r ? You can back up fil es, vo lu mes, disks, or the entire physical machine as o ften as you wish. Unlike most online backup so lutio ns, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Onli ne enables bare metal recovery directly from the o nline st orage.
371 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Host-based bac kup is available only for paid lice nses of VMware ESXi. Choose the below approach if yo ur ESXi Server uses a free licen se. Install Acronis software into the guest system The machine will b e treate d as a physical on e.
372 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 8. 1. 6.4 Wha t if a n et wo rk co nn ect io n is lo st du rin g on li n e b ac ku p or r ec ov er y? The software will tr y to reach the online storag e every 30 seconds. Aft er five unsuccessful attempts the backup or rec o very tas k will fail .
373 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The hard disk drive is sent back to you but it is n o t po ssible to recover from it. H owever, recover y from a locally att ached device is possible with the L arg e scale rec overy (p. 377) option. 8. 1. 7.
374 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 8. 1. 7.8 How t o p er fo r m in it ia l s ee din g? 1. Decide on the m edia (p. 373 ) that you will send. 2. Attach the m edia to the machine you are going to bac k up. Alternati vely, you can back up to a local or network f older and then c o py/move the backup to the media.
375 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 St ep 1 Delicately rem o ve your har d disk drive from the machi ne. St ep 2 Place the hard dri v e into a n anti-static bag to protect the drive from ele ctrostatic discharge. If y ou do not have an anti-stati c bag, simply wrap the hard dri v e into alu m inum foil.
376 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 St ep 4 Choose the transp o rt comp any that you will use for shi pping. On this company's web site, prepare and print two prepaid ship ping labels: 1. Shipping lab el for sending y our hard dri ve. This label is placed on the t o p of the box.
377 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 An order was created – The first ba ckup is about to start and the license cann ot be used for any other machine. Fro m this p oint on, you can cancel the order if somethin g goes wrong. This will return the license to t he po o l of available lic enses.
378 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Once you order Large Scale Recovery for a particular machine, Acronis send s you a USB hard disk drive with all of th e backup s m ade fro m this machine. You can recover data directly from the dis k or copy the backups t o a local or network folder.
379 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 can cancel the order if something goes wrong. This will return the license t o the p o ol of availab le licenses. The order is bein g pro cessed - Order processing in the datacenter started. Writing data – Y our backups are being written on to t he media.
380 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If you purchased your sub scriptions online using th e Acronis Web sit e, they are available im m ediately on your account manag ement Web page. The ne wly obtained sub scriptions are li ste d at the Manage Subscriptions tab.
381 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Wh at d oes " Au to -re ne w" me an ? Auto-renewal means that when the current subscript io n expires, th e next subscription will be automatically s elected fro m the available sub scriptions. The next subscripti o n m ust be identical to the current subscripti on.
382 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Windows Server 2008 R2 - the Standard , Enterprise, Small Busines s Server, Datacenter, Foundation editions Windows MultiP o int Serve r 2 010 Works.
383 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 As soon as a subscripti on is activated, its subscripti o n period st arts. To avoid losing sub scription time, activate th e subscription only when you are read y to back up the machine. If a machine alre ady has a su bscription, the ne w subsc ription will replace t he old o ne.
384 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Depending on y our settings, this ba ckup will be e ither full or incremental. But its size is not lik ely to be less than a full bac kup size. Therefore, it is not practical t o reassign a sub scription to a machine whose first backup wa s done as an initial seeding.
385 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To c onf ig ure p rox y s et tin gs fo r an age nt 1. Connect the cons o le t o the machine fo r which yo u wa nt to configure proxy setting s. 2. In the Op tions m enu, located on the toolbar, clic k Machine options .
386 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Dual destinat ion (p. 106) By using the Ba c kup perfo rmance > Net w ork conn ection speed option, you can v ary the transferrin g speed as kilobytes per second, but not as a percentag e. Command-line mode Acronis Backup & Rec overy 10 command-line utiliti es do not support online back up.
387 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Reassign a subscriptio n Assign a subscription that is already activated, t o a different m achine. Registration code A character string f o r regist ering a subscription or lice nse that was bought fr o m an Acro nis par tner.
388 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 9 G los sa ry A A cro ni s Act iv e Res tor e The Acronis propri et ary t echnology that brings a syste m online immediately af ter the syst em recovery is start ed. The system bo o ts from the backup (p. 394 ) and the machine becomes operational and r eady to provide nec essary services.
389 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Limitation: requir es re -acti vation of loaders other tha n Window s load ers and GR UB. A gen t (A cr oni s Ba cku p & R eco ve ry 1 0 Ag en t) An application tha t performs data backup and recovery and enab les other management op erations on the machine (p.
390 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Ba cku p opt io ns Configuration para meters of a backup o perati o n (p. 389), such as pre/post backup command s, maximum networ k bandwi dth allotted for the backup stream o r data compre ssion level. Backup options are a part of a backup pla n (p.
391 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4. On each machine, the agent (p. 389) installed on the machine find s data item s using the selection rules. For example, if the selection rule is [A ll volumes], the entire machin e will b e backed up. 5. On each machine, the agent installed on th e machine creates a backup plan (p.
392 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Built-in groups canno t be deleted, moved to other groups or manually modified. Custom groups cannot be created wi thin b uilt-in groups. There is no way to remove a physi cal machine from the built-in group exc ept for re m oving the machine from the managem ent server.
393 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 C lea nu p Deleting backups (p. 3 89) from a backup archive (p. 389) in order to get rid of outdated backups or prevent the archiv e from exceeding the desir ed size. Cleanup consists in app lying to an archive the ret ention rules set by the backup plan (p.
394 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 D ire ct ma na ge me n t Any management o peratio n that is performed on a managed machine (p. 397 ) using the direc t console (p. 393)-agen t (p. 3 8 9) connecti on (as opposed to centralized manage ment (p.
395 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 222189 Descripti on o f Dis k Groups in Windows Disk Management http://support.micr o soft.c om/kb/222189 /EN -US/ D yna mi c di sk A hard disk manag ed by Log ical Disk Manag er (LDM) t hat is available in Windows starting with Windows 2000.
396 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 the administrat or changes the crit eria so that the mach ine does not meet them anymore. There is no way t o remove a m achine from a dynamic group manuall y e xcept fo r deleting the machine from th e management server.
397 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 F Fu ll ba cku p A self-sufficient backup (p. 389) c o ntaining all da ta chosen for backup. Y o u do not need a ccess to any other backup to r ecover the data fr om a full backup. G GF S ( Gr and fa th er -Fa th er -So n) A popular backup sche me (p.
398 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 M ana ge d v au lt A centralized vault (p. 392) manag ed by a storage node (p. 399). Archi ves (p. 389) in a managed vault can be accessed as f o llows : bs.
399 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 P lan See Backup plan (p. 3 9 0 ). P oli cy See Backup policy (p. 390 ). R Re co ver y po in t Date and time to w hich th e backed up dat a can be reverted to. Re gi st ere d ma ch in e A machine (p. 397) managed by a manage ment server (p.
400 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 prevent access to the backup archives, even in c as e the storage medium is stolen or access ed by a malefactor, by usin g encrypted vaults (p. 396 ). S tor ag e nod e- sid e cle an u p Cleanup (p. 392) perf ormed by a storage node (p.
401 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 U Un iv er sa l R es tor e (Ac ro ni s Bac ku p & R eco ve ry 10 U ni ve rs al Re st or e) The Acronis propri et ary t echnology that helps boot up W indows on dissimila r hardware or a virtual machine.
402 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Vi rt ua l m ac hi ne On Acronis Backup & Recover y 10 Manag ement Serve r, a m achine (p. 397) is con sidered virtual if it can be backed up fr o m the virtuali zation host without installin g an agent (p.
An important point after buying a device Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition (or even before the purchase) is to read its user manual. We should do this for several simple reasons:
If you have not bought Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition yet, this is a good time to familiarize yourself with the basic data on the product. First of all view first pages of the manual, you can find above. You should find there the most important technical data Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition - thus you can check whether the hardware meets your expectations. When delving into next pages of the user manual, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition you will learn all the available features of the product, as well as information on its operation. The information that you get Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition will certainly help you make a decision on the purchase.
If you already are a holder of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition, but have not read the manual yet, you should do it for the reasons described above. You will learn then if you properly used the available features, and whether you have not made any mistakes, which can shorten the lifetime Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition.
However, one of the most important roles played by the user manual is to help in solving problems with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition. Almost always you will find there Troubleshooting, which are the most frequently occurring failures and malfunctions of the device Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition along with tips on how to solve them. Even if you fail to solve the problem, the manual will show you a further procedure – contact to the customer service center or the nearest service center
