Document Outline

• 1 Introducing Acronis Backup
  • 1.1 What's new in Update 5
  • 1.2 What's new in Update 4
  • 1.3 What's new in Update 3
  • 1.4 What's new in Update 2
  • 1.5 What's new in Update 1
  • 1.6 What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5
  • 1.7 Acronis Backup components
    • 1.7.1 Agent for Windows
    • 1.7.2 Agent for Linux
    • 1.7.3 Agent for VMware
    • 1.7.4 Agent for Hyper-V
    • 1.7.5 Agent for SQL
    • 1.7.6 Agent for Active Directory
    • 1.7.7 Components for centralized management
      • 1.7.7.1 Management Server
      • 1.7.7.2 Storage Node
      • 1.7.7.3 Components for Remote Installation
      • 1.7.7.4 PXE Server
      • 1.7.7.5 License Server
    • 1.7.8 Management Console
    • 1.7.9 Bootable Media Builder
    • 1.7.10 Acronis Wake-on-LAN Proxy
  • 1.8 About using the product in the trial mode
  • 1.9 Supported file systems
  • 1.10 Technical Support
• 2 Getting started
  • 2.1 Using the management console
    • 2.1.1 "Navigation" pane
    • 2.1.2 Main area, views and action pages
      • 2.1.2.1 Views
        • Sorting, filtering and configuring table items
      • 2.1.2.2 Action pages
    • 2.1.3 Console options
      • 2.1.3.1 Alert display options
      • 2.1.3.2 Credentials cache
      • 2.1.3.3 Fonts
      • 2.1.3.4 Pop-up messages
      • 2.1.3.5 Startup page
• 3 Understanding Acronis Backup
  • 3.1 Owners
  • 3.2 Credentials used in backup plans and tasks
  • 3.3 User privileges on a managed machine
  • 3.4 List of Acronis services
  • 3.5 Full, incremental and differential backups
  • 3.6 What does a disk or volume backup store?
  • 3.7 About dynamic and logical volumes
    • 3.7.1 Backup and recovery of dynamic volumes (Windows)
    • 3.7.2 Backup and recovery of logical volumes and MD devices (Linux)
      • 3.7.2.1 Backing up logical volumes
      • 3.7.2.2 Backing up MD devices
      • 3.7.2.3 Backing up hardware RAID arrays (Linux)
      • 3.7.2.4 Assembling MD devices for recovery (Linux)
      • 3.7.2.5 Recovering MD devices and logical volumes
        • Creating the volume structure automatically
        • Creating the volume structure manually
  • 3.8 Support for Advanced Format (4K-sector) hard disks
  • 3.9 Support for UEFI-based machines
  • 3.10 Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
  • 3.11 Compatibility with encryption software
  • 3.12 Support for SNMP
• 4 Backup
  • 4.1 Back up now
  • 4.2 Creating a backup plan
    • 4.2.1 Selecting data to back up
    • 4.2.2 Access credentials for source
    • 4.2.3 Source files exclusion
    • 4.2.4 Backup location selection
      • 4.2.4.1 Selecting backup destinations
    • 4.2.5 Access credentials for archive location
    • 4.2.6 Backup schemes
      • 4.2.6.1 Simple scheme
      • 4.2.6.2 Grandfather-Father-Son scheme
      • 4.2.6.3 Custom backup scheme
      • 4.2.6.4 Tower of Hanoi scheme
      • 4.2.6.5 Manual start
      • 4.2.6.6 Initial seeding
    • 4.2.7 Archive validation
    • 4.2.8 Backup plan's credentials
    • 4.2.9 Label (Preserving machine properties in a backup)
    • 4.2.10 Sequence of operations in a backup plan
    • 4.2.11 Why is the program asking for the password?
  • 4.3 Simplified naming of backup files
    • 4.3.1 The [DATE] variable
    • 4.3.2 Backup splitting and simplified file naming
    • 4.3.3 Usage examples
      • 4.3.3.1 Example 1. Daily backup replacing the old one
      • 4.3.3.2 Example 2. Daily full backups with a date stamp
      • 4.3.3.3 Example 3. Hourly backups within a day
      • 4.3.3.4 Example 4. Daily full backups with daily drive swaps
      • 4.3.3.5 Example 5. Daily backups with weekly drive swaps
      • 4.3.3.6 Example 6. Backups within working hours
  • 4.4 Scheduling
    • 4.4.1 Daily schedule
    • 4.4.2 Weekly schedule
    • 4.4.3 Monthly schedule
    • 4.4.4 On Windows Event Log event
    • 4.4.5 Advanced scheduling settings
    • 4.4.6 Conditions
      • 4.4.6.1 User is idle
      • 4.4.6.2 Location's host is available
      • 4.4.6.3 Fits the time interval
      • 4.4.6.4 Users logged off
      • 4.4.6.5 Time since last backup
  • 4.5 Replication and retention of backups
    • 4.5.1 Supported locations
    • 4.5.2 Setting up replication of backups
    • 4.5.3 Setting up retention of backups
    • 4.5.4 Retention rules for the Custom scheme
    • 4.5.5 Usage examples
      • 4.5.5.1 Example 1. Replicating backups to a network folder
      • 4.5.5.2 Example 2. Limiting the age and total size of stored backups
      • 4.5.5.3 Example 3. Replicating backups to the cloud storage
      • 4.5.5.4 Example 4. Moving older backups to tapes
      • 4.5.5.5 Example 5. Backing up to tapes within a narrow backup window
  • 4.6 How to disable backup cataloging
  • 4.7 Default backup options
    • 4.7.1 Additional settings
    • 4.7.2 Archive protection
    • 4.7.3 Backup cataloging
    • 4.7.4 Backup performance
      • 4.7.4.1 Backup priority
      • 4.7.4.2 HDD writing speed
      • 4.7.4.3 Network connection speed
    • 4.7.5 Backup splitting
    • 4.7.6 Compression level
    • 4.7.7 Disaster recovery plan (DRP)
    • 4.7.8 E-mail notifications
    • 4.7.9 Error handling
    • 4.7.10 Event tracing
      • 4.7.10.1 SNMP notifications
      • 4.7.10.2 Windows event log
    • 4.7.11 Fast incremental/differential backup
    • 4.7.12 File-level backup snapshot
    • 4.7.13 File-level security
    • 4.7.14 LVM snapshotting
    • 4.7.15 Media components
    • 4.7.16 Mount points
    • 4.7.17 Multi-volume snapshot
    • 4.7.18 Pre/Post commands
      • 4.7.18.1 Pre-backup command
      • 4.7.18.2 Post-backup command
    • 4.7.19 Pre/Post data capture commands
      • 4.7.19.1 Pre-data capture command
      • 4.7.19.2 Post-data capture command
    • 4.7.20 Replication/cleanup inactivity time
    • 4.7.21 Sector-by-sector backup
    • 4.7.22 Tape management
    • 4.7.23 Task failure handling
    • 4.7.24 Task start conditions
    • 4.7.25 Volume Shadow Copy Service
• 5 Recovery
  • 5.1 Creating a recovery task
    • 5.1.1 What to recover
      • 5.1.1.1 Selecting archive location
      • 5.1.1.2 Data catalog
    • 5.1.2 Access credentials for location
    • 5.1.3 Access credentials for destination
    • 5.1.4 Where to recover
      • 5.1.4.1 Selecting target disks
        • Disk destination
        • NT signature
        • How the automatic mapping works
        • Support for Advanced Format (4K-sector) hard disks
      • 5.1.4.2 Selecting target volumes
        • MBR destination
        • Volume destination
        • Changing volume properties
          • Size and location
          • Type
          • File system
          • Volume (partition) alignment
          • Logical drive letter (for Windows only)
      • 5.1.4.3 Selecting target location for files and folders
        • Recovery exclusions
    • 5.1.5 When to recover
    • 5.1.6 Task credentials
  • 5.2 Recovering BIOS-based systems to UEFI-based and vice versa
    • 5.2.1 Recovering volumes
    • 5.2.2 Recovering disks
  • 5.3 Acronis Active Restore
  • 5.4 Bootability troubleshooting
    • 5.4.1 How to reactivate GRUB and change its configuration
    • 5.4.2 About Windows loaders
  • 5.5 Reverting a Windows system to its factory settings
  • 5.6 Default recovery options
    • 5.6.1 Additional settings
    • 5.6.2 E-mail notifications
    • 5.6.3 Error handling
    • 5.6.4 Event tracing
      • 5.6.4.1 SNMP notifications
      • 5.6.4.2 Windows event log
    • 5.6.5 File-level security
    • 5.6.6 Mount points
    • 5.6.7 Pre/Post commands
      • 5.6.7.1 Pre-recovery command
      • 5.6.7.2 Post-recovery command
    • 5.6.8 Recovery priority
    • 5.6.9 Tape management
• 6 Conversion to a virtual machine
  • 6.1 Conversion methods
  • 6.2 Conversion to an automatically created virtual machine
    • 6.2.1 Considerations before conversion
    • 6.2.2 Setting up regular conversion to a virtual machine
      • 6.2.2.1 Conversion settings
      • 6.2.2.2 Setting up a conversion schedule
      • 6.2.2.3 Selecting a machine that will perform conversion
      • 6.2.2.4 How regular conversion to VM works
    • 6.2.3 Recovery to the ''New virtual machine'' destination
      • 6.2.3.1 Steps to perform
      • 6.2.3.2 Virtual machine type / virtualization server selection
      • 6.2.3.3 Virtual machine settings
  • 6.3 Recovery to a manually created virtual machine
    • 6.3.1 Considerations before conversion
    • 6.3.2 Steps to perform
• 7 Storing the backed up data
  • 7.1 Vaults
    • 7.1.1 Working with vaults
    • 7.1.2 Centralized vaults
      • 7.1.2.1 Actions on centralized vaults
        • Creating a managed centralized vault
          • Vault path
          • Deduplication database path
          • Vault encryption
          • Vault administrators
          • Vault users
        • Creating an unmanaged centralized vault
          • Vault path
        • Attaching a managed vault
    • 7.1.3 Personal vaults
      • 7.1.3.1 Actions on personal vaults
        • Creating a personal vault
        • Merging and moving personal vaults
    • 7.1.4 Changing the default cache folder for catalog files
  • 7.2 Acronis Secure Zone
    • 7.2.1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone
      • 7.2.1.1 Acronis Secure Zone Disk
      • 7.2.1.2 Acronis Secure Zone Size
      • 7.2.1.3 Password for Acronis Secure Zone
      • 7.2.1.4 Result confirmation
    • 7.2.2 Managing Acronis Secure Zone
      • 7.2.2.1 Increasing Acronis Secure Zone
      • 7.2.2.2 Decreasing Acronis Secure Zone
      • 7.2.2.3 Deleting Acronis Secure Zone
  • 7.3 Removable devices
  • 7.4 Tape devices
    • 7.4.1 What is a tape device?
    • 7.4.2 Overview of tape support
      • 7.4.2.1 Compatibility with RSM and third-party software
      • 7.4.2.2 Supported hardware
      • 7.4.2.3 Tape management database
      • 7.4.2.4 Peculiarities of backing up to tapes
      • 7.4.2.5 Parallel operations
      • 7.4.2.6 Limitations
      • 7.4.2.7 Readability of tapes written by the older Acronis products
    • 7.4.3 Getting started with a tape device
      • 7.4.3.1 Backing up a machine to a directly attached tape device
      • 7.4.3.2 Backing up to a tape device attached to a storage node
      • 7.4.3.3 Recovering under an operating system from a tape device
      • 7.4.3.4 Recovering under bootable media from a locally attached tape device
      • 7.4.3.5 Recovering under bootable media from a tape device attached to a storage node
    • 7.4.4 Tape management
      • 7.4.4.1 Detecting tape devices
      • 7.4.4.2 Tape pools
        • Separating filled tapes
      • 7.4.4.3 Operations with pools
        • Creating a pool
        • Editing a pool
        • Deleting a pool
      • 7.4.4.4 Operations with tapes
        • Renaming
        • Changing pool
        • Moving to another slot
        • Ejecting
        • Erasing
        • Rescanning
        • Inventorying
        • Removing
    • 7.4.5 Vaults on tapes
    • 7.4.6 Usage examples
      • 7.4.6.1 Example 1. A tape autoloader and 12 tapes
      • 7.4.6.2 Example 2. Backing up to tapes on a weekly rotational basis
      • 7.4.6.3 Example 3. Disk-to-disk-to tape with sending tapes to an off-site storage
      • 7.4.6.4 Example 4. GFS. Sending full backups to an off-site storage
  • 7.5 Storage nodes
    • 7.5.1 What is a storage node?
    • 7.5.2 Supported types of storage
    • 7.5.3 Operations performed by storage nodes
    • 7.5.4 Getting started with a storage node
    • 7.5.5 User privileges on a storage node
    • 7.5.6 Operations with storage nodes
      • 7.5.6.1 Actions on storage nodes
      • 7.5.6.2 Adding a storage node to a management server
      • 7.5.6.3 Storage node properties
      • 7.5.6.4 Configuring a storage node with Acronis Administrative Template
      • 7.5.6.5 Configuring a storage node with Windows registry
    • 7.5.7 Deduplication
      • 7.5.7.1 Overview
      • 7.5.7.2 How deduplication works
      • 7.5.7.3 When deduplication is most effective
      • 7.5.7.4 Deduplication best practices
      • 7.5.7.5 Deduplication restrictions
• 8 Operations with archives and backups
  • 8.1 Validating archives and backups
    • 8.1.1 Archive selection
    • 8.1.2 Backup selection
    • 8.1.3 Vault selection
    • 8.1.4 Access credentials for source
    • 8.1.5 When to validate
    • 8.1.6 Task credentials
  • 8.2 Exporting archives and backups
    • 8.2.1 Archive selection
    • 8.2.2 Backup selection
    • 8.2.3 Access credentials for source
    • 8.2.4 Destination selection
    • 8.2.5 Access credentials for destination
  • 8.3 Mounting an image
    • 8.3.1 Archive selection
    • 8.3.2 Backup selection
    • 8.3.3 Access credentials
    • 8.3.4 Volume selection
    • 8.3.5 Managing mounted images
  • 8.4 Operations available in vaults
    • 8.4.1 Operations with archives
    • 8.4.2 Operations with backups
    • 8.4.3 Converting a backup to full
    • 8.4.4 Deleting archives and backups
• 9 Bootable media
  • 9.1 How to create bootable media
    • 9.1.1 Linux-based bootable media
      • 9.1.1.1 Kernel parameters
      • 9.1.1.2 Network settings
      • 9.1.1.3 Network port
    • 9.1.2 WinPE-based bootable media
      • 9.1.2.1 Preparation: WinPE 2.x and 3.x
      • 9.1.2.2 Preparation: WinPE 4.0 and WinPE 5.0
      • 9.1.2.3 Adding Acronis Plug-in to WinPE
  • 9.2 Connecting to a machine booted from media
  • 9.3 Working under bootable media
    • 9.3.1 Setting up a display mode
    • 9.3.2 Configuring iSCSI and NDAS devices
  • 9.4 List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media
  • 9.5 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
  • 9.6 Acronis PXE Server
    • 9.6.1 Acronis PXE Server Installation
    • 9.6.2 Setting up a machine to boot from PXE
    • 9.6.3 Work across subnets
• 10 Disk management
  • 10.1 Supported file systems
  • 10.2 Basic precautions

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