ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation Guía de usuario

User's Guide Acronis® Backup & Recovery ™ 10 Workstation

10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 "Actions" bar on a managed machine and on a management server Tools Contains a list of the Acr

100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 • Event: Monthly, Months: <All>; On: <First>, <Third> <Friday>; Once at 08:00:00

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 101 6. Direct management This section covers operations that can be performed directly on a managed machine b

102 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Bootable media was not created Create now To be able to recover an operating system when the machine fa

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 103 If you select the check box for the Do not show this window when tasks require interaction. I will see thi

104 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 State How it is determined How to handle 1 Need interaction At least one task needs user interaction.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 105 2 Warning At least one task has succeeded with warnings. Otherwise, see 3. View the log to read the warn

106 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Task state diagram Task statuses A task can have one of the following statuses: Error; Warning; OK. A ta

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 107 6.1.2.2. Working with backup plans and tasks Actions on backup plans and tasks The following is a guideli

108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Stop a plan/task Click Backup plan Stop. Stopping the running backup plan stops all its tasks. Thus, all

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 109 Edit a plan/task Click Backup plan Edit. Backup plan editing is performed in the same way as creation (p.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 11 1.2.1.4. Main area, views and action pages The main area is a basic place where you work with the console.

110 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Delete a plan/task Click Backup plan Delete. What will happen if I delete the backup plan? The plan'

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 111 Configuring backup plans and the tasks table By default, the table has six columns that are displayed, oth

112 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Recovery (disk) Disk backup recovery Recovery (file) File and folder recovery Recovery (volume) Recover

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 113 Backup plan details The Backup plan details window (also duplicated on the Information panel) aggregates i

114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 • Backup options - backup options changed against the default values. 6.1.3. Log The Log stores the his

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 115 View a log entry’s details 1 Select a log entry. 2 Do one of the following • Click View Details. The

116 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Configuring the log table By default, the table has seven columns that are displayed, others are hidden. I

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 117 To create a backup plan, perform the following steps. General Plan name [Optional] Enter a unique name for

118 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Archive comments [Optional] Enter comments on the archive. To access this option, select the Advanced view

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 119 Specify the machine that will perform the conversion. The machine has to have Acronis Backup & Recover

12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Action pages An action page appears in the main area when clicking any action item in the Actions menu, or

120 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 6.2.3. Source type Select the type of data you want to be backed up on the managed machine. The list of a

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 121 What does a disk or volume backup store? For supported file systems, with the sector-by-sector option turn

122 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 o Use the following credentials The program will access the source data using the credentials you specify

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 123 Mask (?) my???.log Excludes all .log files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with “my”.

124 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Backing up to an existing archive You can configure the backup plan to back up to an existing archive. To

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 125 6.2.9. Backup schemes Choose one of the available backup schemes: • Back up now – to create a backup tas

126 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 6.2.9.3. Simple scheme With the simple backup scheme you just schedule when and how often to back up data

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 127 Parameters You can set up the following parameters of a Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) scheme. Start backup

128 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 • Weekly/monthly: Saturday (for example) • Keep backups: o Daily: 1 week o Weekly: 1 month o Monthly:

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 129 Moreover, assume that you want to retain access to all backups, including the daily ones, for at least six

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 13 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 remembers the changes you made on the action pages. For example, if you st

130 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Parameters You can set up the following parameters of a Tower of Hanoi scheme. Schedule Set up a daily (p

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 131 Roll-back period The number of days we can go back in the archive is different on different days. The mini

132 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 6.2.9.6. Custom backup scheme At a glance • Custom schedule and conditions for backups of each type • C

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 133 backup for some reason. Apply the rules (only if the retention rules are set) Specifies when to apply the

134 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Full backup: Schedule: Monthly, every Last Sunday of the month, at 9:00 PM Incremental: Schedule: Weekly,

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 135 You can run any of these backup tasks by selecting it from the list of tasks in the Backup plans and tasks

136 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 6.2.11.2. Selecting a host that will perform conversion Specify the machine that will perform the convers

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 137 Since the space is not pre-allocated, the physical disk on which the virtual machine will run is expected

138 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 What to recover Archive (p. 140) Select the archive to recover data from. Data type (p. 140) Applies to: d

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 139 Use the Acronis Universal Restore when you need to recover and boot up Windows on dissimilar hardware. Aut

14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 File backup File-level data protection is based on backing up files and folders residing on the machine whe

140 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 To learn more about operations available depending on the user privileges, see the User privileges on a ma

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 141 6.3.4. Content selection The representation of this window depends on the type of data stored in the arch

142 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 To specify credentials 1. Select one of the following: o Use the task credentials The program will acces

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 143 Existing virtual machine Available when the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V or Agent f

144 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 o Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 creates scheduled tasks using the signature of the source hard disk. I

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 145 Select the way the disk's signature contained in the MBR will be handled. The disk signature is used

146 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Properties Type A basic MBR disk can contain up to four primary volumes or up to three primary volumes an

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 147 To select the virtualization server the new virtual machine will be created on 1. Choose the Place on the

148 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 This is the number of processors of the new virtual machine. In most cases it is set to one. The result of

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 149 Exclusion examples Criterion Example Description By name File1.log Excludes all files named File1.log.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 15 1.3.3. Management Console Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console is an administrative tool fo

150 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 • Password. The password for the account. 2. Click OK. 6.3.8. When to recover Select when to start the

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 151 - If the drivers are on a vendor's disc or other removable media, turn on the Search removable media.

152 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 XenServer virtual appliance can be imported to a XenServer using Citrix XenCenter. The VMware Workstation

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 153 6.3.11. Bootability troubleshooting If a system was bootable at the time of backup, you expect that it wi

154 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 • The system loader points to the wrong volume This may happen when system or boot volumes are not recov

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 155 The lines starting with title, root, kernel, and initrd respectively determine: o The title of the menu i

156 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 157 What to validate Validate Choose an object to validate: Archive (p. 157) - in that case, you need to speci

158 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 o If the archive is stored in a centralized vault, expand the Centralized group and click the vault. o I

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 159 • To select a personal vault, expand the Personal group and click the appropriate vault. • To select a

16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 1.6. Hardware requirements This section lists the minimum and recommended hardware requirements to install

160 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Choose one of the following: • Now - to start the validation task right after its creation, that is, afte

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 161 Mount settings Volumes (p. 162) Select volumes to mount and configure the mount settings for every volume:

162 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 6.5.2. Backup selection To select a backup: 1. Select one of the backups by its creation date/time. 2.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 163 4. Click OK. 6.6. Managing mounted images Once a volume is mounted, you can browse files and folders con

164 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 • recovery without access to the storage node in case of networking problems or failure of the storage no

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 165 Tip. You can implement the staging scenario manually, by regularly running the archive deletion task follo

166 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 6.7.1. Task credentials Provide credentials for the account under which the task will run. To specify cre

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 167 After entering access credentials, the folders on the server become available. Click the appropriate folde

168 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 According to the original FTP specification, credentials required for access to FTP servers are transferre

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 169 3. Naming the new archive By default, the exported archive inherits the name of the original archive. Beca

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 17 2. Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 This section attempts to give its readers a clear unders

170 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 6.8.1. Creating Acronis Secure Zone You can create Acronis Secure Zone while the operating system is runn

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 171 • Taking all free space from a system volume may cause the operating system to work unstably and even fai

172 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 6.8.2. Managing Acronis Secure Zone Acronis Secure Zone is considered as a personal vault (p. 219). Once

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 173 o dragging the slider and selecting any size between the current and minimum values. The minimum size is

174 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 • boot the machine from a separate bootable rescue media • use network boot from Acronis PXE Server or M

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 175 • PE-based bootable media helps overcome some Linux-related bootable media issues such as support for cer

176 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94bb6e34-d890-4932-81a5-5b50c657de08&DisplayL

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 177 o create CD, DVD or other bootable media such as removable USB flash drives if the hardware BIOS allows f

178 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Without this parameter, all startup messages will be displayed, followed by a command prompt. To start the

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 179 • Subnet mask • Gateway • DNS server • WINS server. Once the bootable agent starts on a machine, the

18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The following diagram illustrates the notions discussed above. For more definitions please refer to the Glo

180 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Drivers for Universal Restore While creating bootable media, you have an option to add Windows drivers to

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 181 2. Start the Bootable Media Builder either from the management console, by selecting Tools > Create B

182 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 controller, network adapter, tape drive or other device. You will have to repeat this procedure for each d

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 183 11. Build the Bart PE. 12. Burn the ISO to CD or DVD (if this has not been done yet) or copy to a flash dr

184 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 6.10.3.1. Setting up a display mode For a machine booted from media, a display video mode is detected aut

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 185 6.10.4. List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media Linux-based bootable media

186 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 gawk mtx tune2fs gpm mv udev grep parted udevinfo growisofs pccardctl udevstart grub ping umount

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 187 Under the archive contents, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will display a message saying that it detecte

188 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 8. Click Recover, then specify the path to the archive and any other required parameters, and then click

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 189 --- Volume group --- VG Name my_volgroup ... VG Access read/write VG Status resizable ... VG Size

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 19 Backup using bootable media You can boot the machine using the bootable media, configure the backup operati

190 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 ... Dynamic & GPT Volumes: DYN1 4 my_volgroup-my_logvol 12533760 Ext2 You will need the volume&apos

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 191 3. Do not perform any disk/volume operations while running other software that has low-level disk access.

192 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The graphic panel at the bottom of the view also graphically depicts all the disks and their volumes as re

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 193 If you need to initialize a disk: 1. Select a disk to initialize. 2. Right-click on the selected volume,

194 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Cloning method and advanced options The Clone basic disk operation usually means that the information fro

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 195 If you need to copy the NT signature: 1. Select the Copy NT signature check box. You receive the warning:

196 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Dynamic disk conversion: MBR to GPT Acronis Disk Director Lite does not support direct MBR to GPT convers

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 197 Should you decide to revert your dynamic disks back to basic ones, e.g. if you want to start using an OS o

198 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 2. The machine runs this operating system. Dynamic to basic conversion of the disk, comprising of system

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 199 6.11.6.1. Creating a volume You might need a new volume to: • Recover a previously saved backup copy in

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009. All rights reserved. “Acronis” and “Acronis Secure Zone” are registered trademarks of Acronis, Inc. "Acro

20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The following diagram illustrates data recovery under the operating system (online). No backup can proceed

200 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 RAID-5 A fault-tolerant volume whose data is striped across an array of three or more disks. The disks do

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 201 To create a Simple/Spanned volume: o Select one or more destination disks to create the volume on. To cre

202 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The wizard will prompt you to choose one of the Windows file systems: FAT16 (disabled, if the volume size

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 203 By clicking OK in the Delete volume window, you'll add the pending operation of volume deletion. (To

204 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The new volume structure will be graphically represented in the Disk management view immediately. 6.11.6.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 205 (To finish the added operation you will have to commit (p. 205) it. Exiting the program without committing

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 206 Glossary A Acronis Active Restore The Acronis proprietary technology that brings a system online immediate

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 207 Agent (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent) An application that performs data backup and recovery and

208 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Backup options Configuration parameters of a backup operation (p. 207), such as pre/post backup commands

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 209 3. The management server deploys the policy to the machines. 4. On each machine, the agent (p. 207) inst

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 21 If the machine fails to boot or you need to recover data to bare metal, you boot the machine using the boot

210 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 A management server has two built-in groups that contain all machines of each type: All physical machines

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 211 On a machine that is not registered on the management server, a user having the privilege to back up to th

212 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Differential backup A differential backup stores changes to the data against the latest full backup (p.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 213 and the foreign disks so that they form a single entity. A foreign group is imported as is (will have the

214 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 • IP address range. A machine remains in a dynamic group as long as the machine meets the group's cr

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 215 F Full backup A self-sufficient backup (p. 207) containing all data chosen for backup. You do not need acc

216 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Managed vault A centralized vault (p. 210) managed by a storage node (p. 217). Archives (p. 207) in a mana

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 217 Plan See Backup plan (p. 208). Policy See Backup policy (p. 208). R Recovery point Date and time to whic

218 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 • prevent access to the backup archives, even in case the storage medium is stolen or accessed by a malef

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 219 U Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) The Acronis proprietary technolo

22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 It is widely accepted that a full backup is the slowest to do but the fastest to restore. With Acronis tech

220 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Virtual machine On Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server, a machine (p. 215) is considered vi

Index A About Windows loaders • 155 Access credentials • 160, 162 Access credentials for archive location • 117, 124 Access credentials for destinat

222 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Bootable agent • 39, 173, 206, 209 Bootable components and media builder • 14 Bootable media • 14, 17, 65,

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 223 Drivers for Universal Restore • 177, 180 Dual destination • 38, 50, 66 Dynamic disk • 33, 206, 212, 213, 2

224 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Managed vault • 211, 214, 216, 217, 218, 219 Management Console • 15 Management server (Acronis Backup &am

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 225 Selecting source and target disks • 193 Selection rule • 208, 217 Set active volume • 198, 203 Set the vol

226 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Volume selection • 161, 162 Volume Shadow Copy Service • 49, 54, 57 Volumes • 138, 144 W Weekly schedule •

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 23 specifications of the devices, the backup/recovery options you set, to name a few. Practice is the best gui

24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Managing a plan (task) owned by another user Having Administrator privileges on the machine, a user can mo

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 25 2.5. GFS backup scheme This section covers implementation of the Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) backup schem

26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Weekly/Monthly This step forms the daily, weekly and monthly cycles in the schedule. Select a day of the we

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 27 Keep backups: Monthly This step defines the retention rule for monthly backups. The cleanup task will run a

28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Starting from the third week, weekly backups will be regularly deleted. After 6 months, monthly backups wil

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 29 2.6. Tower of Hanoi backup scheme The need to have frequent backups always conflicts with the cost of keepi

Table of Contents 1. Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ... 6 1.1. Acronis Backu

30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Tower of Hanoi by Acronis The Tower of Hanoi backup scheme is generally too complex to mentally calculate t

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 31 For information about using Tower of Hanoi for tape libraries, see Using the Tower of Hanoi tape rotation s

32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 There is a certain risk that all but one backup will be deleted if the maximum archive size is set improper

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 33 • Retain the backup until all dependent backups become subject to deletion The outdated backup will be kep

34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can back up and recover dynamic volumes and, with minor limitations, basic

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 35 o If the data size is less than 20GB, then one disk can hold, say, 10GB; the other will hold the remaining

36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 2.9. Tape support Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 supports tape libraries, autoloaders, SCSI and USB tape

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 37 Tape written on a tape device through... Backup Server ATIE 9.1 + + + + ATIE 9.5 - - - + ATIE 9.7

38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Recovery from a locally attached tape device Before creating a recovery task, insert or mount the tape cont

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 39 With the new Acronis Secure Zone behavior, you obtain the ability to: • list archives located in the zone

4. Vaults ... 80 4.1. Personal vaul

40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 2.10.3. Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) Acronis Backup & Recove

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 41 Universal Restore relies on the built-in Plug and Play discovery and configuration process to handle hardwa

42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Limitation The only supported archive location is a local drive, or more precisely, any device available th

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 43 4. Configure the system recovery: select the system disk or volume and select the Use Acronis Active Resto

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 44 3. Options This section covers Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 options that can be configured using Graph

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 45 The option defines whether to display the pop-up messages about task run results: successful completion, fa

46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 3.1.5. Fonts This option is effective when the console is connected to a managed machine or to the managem

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 47 You can further override the settings set in the default backup and recovery options, when creating a backu

48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 o Community – type the name of the SNMP community to which both the host running SNMP management applicati

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 49 3.3. Default backup and recovery options 3.3.1. Default backup options Each Acronis agent has its own defa

6.4.1. Task credentials...

50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Backup priority (p. 58) + + - - HDD writing speed (p. 59) Dest: HDD Dest: HDD Dest: HDD Dest: HDD Net

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 51 Reboot after the backup - - + + Notifications: E-mail (p. 60) + + - - Win Pop-up (p. 61) + + - - E

52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The option defines which files and folders to skip during the backup process and thus exclude from the list

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 53 The following scheme illustrates when pre/post commands are executed. Pre-backup command Backup Post-backu

54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 successfully executed. Fail the task if the command execution fails. execution failure or success. executio

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 55 To specify pre/post data capture commands 1. Enable pre/post data capture commands execution by checking t

56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 3. In the Arguments field specify the command’s execution arguments, if required. 4. Depending on the res

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 57 3.3.1.6. Multi-volume snapshot This option is effective only for Windows operating systems. This option ap

58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 vssadmin list writers Note: In Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, the writer for Microsoft Excha

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 59 To specify the backup process priority Select one of the following: • Low – to minimize resources taken

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 6 1. Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 1.1. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview Based on A

60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 • Click Transferring speed stated in kilobytes per second, and then enter the bandwidth limit for transfer

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 61 • Port – set the port of the SMTP server. By default, the port is set to 25. • User name – enter the user

62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The preset is: Use the setting set in the Machine options. To select whether to log the backup operations e

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 63 Click Send test message to check if the settings are correct. • Do not send SNMP notifications – to disabl

64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Fixed size Enter the desired file size or select it from the drop-down list. The backup will then be split

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 65 When backing up to removable media, you can make this media work as regular Linux-based bootable media (p.

66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Ignore bad sectors The preset is: Disabled. When the option is disabled, the program will display a pop-up

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 67 This option determines the program behavior in case a backup task is about to start (the scheduled time com

68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 This option is not available when operating under the bootable media. This option determines the program be

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 69 Ask for the first media while backing up to removable media This option is effective only when backing up t

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 7 Windows Start the console by selecting it from the start menu. 3. Connect the console to the machine where

70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The preset is: Disabled. Enabling this option turns off deduplicating backups at source, meaning that dedup

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 71 • The environment the agent operates in (Windows, bootable media) • The type of data being recovered (dis

72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Event tracing: Windows events log (p. 76) + + - - SNMP (p. 76) + + - - 3.3.2.1. Pre/Post commands T

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 73 Check box Selection Fail the task if the command execution fails Selected Cleared Selected Cleared Do no

74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 To specify the recovery process priority Select one of the following: • Low – to minimize resources take

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 75 5. Click Additional e-mail parameters, to configure additional e-mail parameters as follows, then click O

76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The When user interaction is required check box – to send notification during the operation when user in

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 77 The preset is: Use the setting set in the Machine options. To select whether to send the recovery operation

78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 3.3.2.7. Additional settings Specify the additional settings for the recovery operation by selecting or cl

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 79 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can generate an unique security identifier (SID) for the recovered system.

8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Main area The main place of working, where you create, edit and manage backup plans, policies, tasks and p

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 80 4. Vaults A vault is a location for storing backup archives. For ease of use and administration, a vault i

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 81 Click any personal vault in the vaults tree to open the detailed view of this vault (p. 81) and to take act

82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The legend displays the following information about the vault: • full path to the vault • total number of

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 83 Change user account for accessing a vault Click Change user. In the appearing dialog box, provide the crede

84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 How can I merge two vaults? Suppose you have two vaults A and B in use. Both vaults are used by backup pla

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 85 The program duplicates your selection in the new window that has check boxes for each archive and each back

86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 4.2.3. Deleting archives and backups The Backups deletion window displays the same tab as for the vaults v

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 87 5. Scheduling Acronis scheduler helps the administrator adapt backup plans to the company’s daily routine

88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The scheduler behavior, in case the event occurs but the condition (or any of multiple conditions) is not m

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 89 Examples "Simple" daily schedule Run the task every day at 6PM. The schedule's parameters ar

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 9 If the console and agent are installed on the same machine, the shortcut to this machine will be added to th

90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The obvious way is to add five simple schedules. If you spend one minute for examination, you can think out

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 91 Advanced scheduling settings are available only for machines registered on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Several weekly schedules for one task In the case when the task needs to be run on different days of the we

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 93 To specify a monthly schedule In the Schedule area, select the appropriate parameter as follows: Months: &l

94 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 "Season" schedule Run the task on all workdays during the northern autumn seasons of 2009 and 201

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 95 From: 11/01/2009. To: not set. Third schedule 1. Months: June, July, August. 2. Days: 1, 15. 3. Once at:

96 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 When Windows detects a bad block on a hard disk, it records an event with the event source disk and the eve

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 97 3. In the Event Properties dialog box, view the event's properties such as the event source, shown in

98 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Example: Run the backup task on the managed machine every day at 9PM, preferably when the user is idle. If

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 99 Example A company uses different locations on the same network-attached storage for backing up users data a