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1. This section contains a list of Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 components with a brief description of their functionality Components for a managed machine agents These are applications that perform data backup recovery and other operations on the machines managed with Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agents require a license to perform operations on each managed machine Agents have multiple features or add ons that enable additional functionality and so might require additional licenses Console and tools The console provides Graphical User Interface and remote connection to the agents and other Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 components With bootable media builders you can create bootable media in order to use the agents and other rescue utilities in a rescue environment Availability of the agent add ons in a rescue environment depends on whether an add on is installed on the machine where the media builder is working 1 3 1 Agent for Linux This agent enables disk level and file level data protection under Linux Disk backup Disk level data protection is based on backing up either a disk or a volume file system as a whole along with all information necessary for the operating system to boot or all the disk sectors using the sector by sector approach raw mode A backup that contains a copy of a disk or a volume in a packaged form is called a disk volume backup or a disk volume image It is possible to recover disks o
2. When you complete all the required steps click OK to mount the volumes 6 5 1 Archive selection Selecting the archive 1 Enter the full path to the location in the Path field or select the desired folder in the folders tree o Ifthe archive is stored in a centralized vault expand the Centralized group and click the vault o Ifthe archive is stored in a personal vault expand the Personal group and click the vault o Ifthe archive is stored in a local folder on the machine expand the Local folders group and click the required folder If the archive is located on removable media e g DVDs first insert the last DVD and then insert discs in order starting from the first one when the program prompts o Ifthe archive is stored on a network share expand the Network folders group then select the required networked machine and then click the shared folder If the network share requires access credentials the program will ask for them Note for Linux users To specify a Common Internet File System CIFS network share which is mounted on a mount point such as mnt share select this mount point instead of the network share itself o Ifthe archive is stored on an FTP or SFTP server type the server name or address in the Path field as follows ftp ftp_server port number or sftp sftp_server port number Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 149 If the port number is not specified port 21 is used for FTP and port 22
3. e User name When entering the name of an Active Directory user account be sure to also specify the domain name DOMAIN Username or Username domain e Password The password for the account 2 Click OK As appears from the original FTP specification credentials required for access to FTP servers are transferred through a network as plaintext This means that the user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer 6 3 6 Destination selection Specify the destination the selected data will be recovered to 6 3 6 1 Disks Available disk destinations depend on the agents operating on the machine Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 135 Recover to Physical machine The selected disks will be recovered to the physical disks of the machine the console is connected to On selecting this you proceed to the regular disk mapping procedure described below Disk Disk MODEL p 137 Select the destination disk for each of the source disks NT signature p 136 Select the way the recovered disk s signature will be handled The disk signature is used by Windows and the Linux kernel version 2 6 and later Disk destination To specify a destination disk 1 Select a disk where you want the selected disk to recover to The destination disk s space should be at least the same size as the uncompressed image data 2 Click OK non backed up data that you might need All the data s
4. licenses o Trial period is over Insert a full license key A Low free space on X vaults Show list A Bootable rescue media was Create now not created A No backups performed Back up within last X days now A Trial version of product expires in X days e Not connected to the Show log management server for 3 days 96 to the license server being unavailable You may also want to ensure that the licenses are present on the license server 15 day trial period has expired Enter a full license key Show list will take you to the Vaults view where you can examine the vault size free space content and take the necessary steps to increase the free space To be able to recover an operating system when the machine fails to boot you must 1 Back up the system volume and the boot volume if it is different 2 Create at least one bootable media p 169 Create now will launch the Bootable Media Builder p 177 The Dashboard warns you that no data was backed up on the machine for a relatively long period of time Back up now will take you to Create a Backup Plan page where you can instantly configure and run the backup operation To configure the time interval that is considered as critical select Options gt Console options gt Time based alerts Once the trial version of the product is installed the program starts the countdown of days remaining until the trial period expires This type of message can appear
5. task if the command execution fails Post data capture command To specify a command batch file to be executed after data capture Selected Cleared Cleared Cleared Perform the data capture concurrently with the command and irrespective of the command execution result 1 In the Command field type a command or browse to a batch file The program does not support interactive commands i e commands that require user input for example pause 2 Inthe Working directory field specify a path to a directory where the command batch file will be executed 3 Inthe Arguments field specify the command s execution arguments if required 4 Depending on the result you want to obtain select the appropriate options as described in the table below 5 Click Test command to check if the command is correct Check box Fail the task if the command execution fails Do not back up until the command execution is complete 54 Selection Selected Cleared Selected Selected Result Preset Continue the N A backup after the Continue the P command is backup only after executed despite the command is command successfully j execution failure Selected Cleared Cleared Cleared Continue the backup concurrently with the command execution and irrespective of the Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 executed Delete Or success command the TIB file and execution result temporary files
6. 3 1 2 3 1 3 3 1 4 3 1 5 3 2 3 2 1 3 3 3 3 1 3 32 4 1 4 1 1 4 1 2 Introducing Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 ceeeeee ee eee eene eene nnn nennen nnn 6 Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 overview nennen nnne nenas nnns 6 Getting started ea aee a s ed eade to i e or eti ect A dee e Regie 6 Using the management console esses eene nn ernst tns tns thia stas tn statis tss stas sa stains 7 Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 components eesseseeeeeeeeenee enne 13 Agent for Elnux eee eter erre eet C DE REY EE RS ERE END XI REN A E UI ERE YER En ERE Pede 13 Management Console 5 eter iun ndi dr ERE e a 14 Supported operating systems aerieni eini aaki a Ee nnne ennt nhan sse kE EEE nnn 14 Supported filessystems 2 5 5 su M Ve 15 T chnical s pport n e e NERA IH ees 15 Understanding Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 ceeeeeeeeee eese ee eene nn 17 Basic Concepts eee ertet ee fae edet che leteeind Aee Ea eia e araoa a Ea ume aide ens 17 Full incremental and differential backups 0 cccessssecececessessnneceeececeseessaeeeeeeseessesenaees 21 User privileges on a managed machine esee ener nns 23 Owners and credentials ate RM Tre cedet Te GE e TOY ER ane 23 GFS back p scheme EU Ha RI t e RT d 24 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme sss eene nnne enters n ranis 29 Retention rules ire P ne RUD IE
7. 97 98 108 Backup plan statuses 98 99 108 Backup plans and tasks 97 114 Backup plan s credentials 112 114 Backup policy Policy 168 170 171 177 178 Backup priority 48 56 Backup scheme 168 169 175 179 Backup schemes 113 120 Backup selection 145 147 149 150 Backup splitting 48 60 Basic concepts 7 17 112 Bootability troubleshooting 35 141 Bootable agent 41 154 166 169 Bootable components and media builder 14 Bootable media 14 17 61 96 131 154 157 166 169 172 177 Bootable Media Builder 158 Built in group 170 C Centralized backup plan 40 168 169 170 Centralized management 170 171 172 Centralized task 169 170 172 Centralized vault e 170 171 176 177 Cleanup 17 167 169 171 178 180 Common operations 80 Compression level 48 55 Conditions 63 92 Connecting to a machine booted from media 160 Console Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Console 17 166 169 171 172 Console options 43 Consolidation 167 171 Content selection 131 134 Creating a backup plan 103 112 144 Creating a personal vault 79 80 Creating Acronis Secure Zone 41 79 152 Custom backup scheme 88 90 127 D Daily schedule 85 126 Dashboard 95 97 Data type 131 134 Decreasing Acronis Secure Zone 156 Deduplicating vault 172 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Deduplication 172 176 1
8. A backup plan state is a cumulative state of the plan s tasks The status of a backup plan p 99 helps you to estimate whether the data is successfully protected A task is a set of sequential actions to be performed on a machine when a certain time comes or certain event occurs To keep track of a task s current progress examine its state p 100 Check a task status p 101 to ascertain the result of a task Way of working e Use filters to display the desired backup plans tasks in the backup plans table By default the table displays all the plans of the managed machine sorted by name You can also hide the unneeded columns and show the hidden ones See the Filtering and sorting backup plans and tasks p 105 section for details e Inthe backup table select the backup plan task e Use the toolbar s buttons to take an action on the selected plan task See the Actions on backup plans and tasks p 102 section for details You can run edit stop and delete the created plans and tasks e Use the Information panel to review detailed information on the selected plan task The panel is collapsed by default To expand the panel click the A chevron The content of the panel is also duplicated in the Plan details p 108 and Task details p 106 windows respectively 6 1 2 1 Understanding states and statuses Backup plan execution states A backup plan can be in one of the following execution states Idle Waiting Running
9. Here is an example of a volumes list obtained with the command trueimagecmd list The GUI displays a similar table Num Partition Flags Start Size Type Dee ile 1 1 hdal boot Piet AC te 63 208782 Ext 3 1 2 hda2 Pri 208845 8177085 None Diski a Relo Pri Act 63 8385867 None Dies Se S iacl Pri Act 63 2 21 951 7 EES 3 2 Acronis Secure Zone Pri 1219680 2974608 FAT32 Dynamic amp GPT Volumes DYN1 VolGroup00 LogVo100 1852090 0e pies DYN2 VolGroup00 LogVo101 1048576 Linux Swap Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 35 The system has three physical disks Disk 1 Disk 2 and Disk 3 Two logical volumes DYN1 and DYN2 are arranged across basic volumes 1 2 and 2 1 Disk 3 includes Acronis Secure Zone which is not normally backed up To back up the logical volume DYN1 select the volume DYN1 To back up all three hard disks select the volumes 1 1 3 1 DYN1 and DYN2 If you select Disk 2 volume 1 2 or volume 2 1 the program will create a raw sector by sector backup To back up the logical DYN1 volume by using the command line interface run the following command here the name of the backup is assumed to be home backup tib trueimagecmd partition dyn1 filename home backup tib create Helpful link e http tldp org HOWTO LVM HOWTO 2 9 Backing up RAID arrays Linux Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent for Linux can back up and recover Linux Software RAID devices known a
10. If Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is not activated you will need one of the following to recover the system when it fails to boot e boot the machine from a separate bootable rescue media e use network boot from Acronis PXE Server or Microsoft Remote Installation Services RIS See the Bootable media p 157 section for details 6 7 1 5 Result confirmation The Result confirmation window displays the expected partition layout according to the settings you have chosen Click OK if you are satisfied with the layout and the Acronis Secure Zone creation will start How the settings you make will be processed This helps you to understand how creating the Acronis Secure Zone will transform a disk containing multiple volumes 154 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 e Acronis Secure Zone is always created at the end of the hard disk When calculating the final layout of the volumes the program will first use unallocated space at the end e If there is no or not enough unallocated space at the end of the disk but there is unallocated space between volumes the volumes will be moved to add more unallocated space to the end e When all unallocated space is collected but it is still not enough the program will take free space from the volumes you select proportionally reducing the volumes size Resizing of locked volumes requires a reboot e However there should be free space on a volume so that the operating system and applica
11. Stopping Need Interaction Plan states names are the same as task state names because a plan state is a cumulative state of the plan s tasks Oi How it is determined How to handle Need interaction At least one task needs Identify the tasks that need interaction the program will user interaction display what action is needed gt Stop the tasks or enable the tasks to run change media provide additional space on the Otherwise see 2 i E vault ignore the read error create the missing Acronis Secure Zone At least one task is No action is required running Otherwise see 3 98 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 3 At least one task is waiting Otherwise see 4 Stopping At least one task is stopping Otherwise see 5 Waiting for condition This situation is quite normal but delaying a backup for too long is risky The solution may be to set the maximum delay or force the condition tell the user to log off enable the required network connection Waiting while another task locks the necessary resources A one time waiting case may occur when a task start is delayed or a task run lasts much longer than usual for some particular reason and this way prevents another task from starting This situation is resolved automatically when the obstructing task comes to an end Consider stopping a task if it hangs for too long to enable the next task to start Persistent task overlapping may result from an
12. To specify pre post data capture commands 1 Enable pre post data capture commands execution by checking the following options o Execute before the data capture o Execute after the data capture 2 Doany ofthe following o Click Edit to specify a new command or a batch file o Select the existing command or the batch file from the drop down list 3 Click OK Pre data capture command To specify a command batch file to be executed before data capture 1 In the Command field type a command or browse to a batch file The program does not support interactive commands i e commands that require user input for example pause 2 Inthe Working directory field specify a path to a directory where the command batch file will be executed 3 Inthe Arguments field specify the command s execution arguments if required 4 Depending on the result you want to obtain select the appropriate options as described in the table below 5 Click Test command to check if the command is correct Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 53 Check box Fail the backup task if the command execution fails Do not perform the data capture until the command execution is complete Selection Selected Cleared Selected Selected Result Preset Perform the data N A capture after the Perform the data E command is capture only after executed despite the command is execution failure successfully Or success executed Fail the
13. backup policies p 168 and accesses other management server functionality that is performs centralized management p 170 Using the direct console agent connection the administrator performs direct management p 172 Consolidation Combining two or more subsequent backups p 167 belonging to the same archive p 167 into a single backup Consolidation might be needed when deleting backups either manually or during cleanup p 171 For example the retention rules require to delete a full backup p 175 that has expired but retain the next incremental p 176 one The backups will be combined into a single full backup which will be dated with the incremental backup s date Since consolidation may take a lot of time and system resources retention rules provide an option to not delete backups with dependencies In our example the full backup will be retained until the incremental one also becomes obsolete Then both backups will be deleted Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 171 D Deduplicating vault A managed vault p 176 in which deduplication p 172 is enabled Deduplication A method of storing different duplicates of the same information only once Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 can apply the deduplication technology to backup archives p 167 stored on storage nodes p 178 This minimizes storage space taken by the archives backup traffic and network usage during backup Differential backup A diffe
14. be select the check boxes for the desired archives then confirm the deletion Please be aware that if filters have been applied to the vaults list you see only a part of the vault content Be sure that the vault does not contain archives you need to retain before starting the operation Click 9e Delete all The program duplicates your selection in the new window that has check boxes for each archive and each backup Review the selection and correct if need be then confirm the deletion 4 2 2 Operations with backups To perform any operation with a backup you have to select it first To select a backup expand the archive then click the backup If the archive is protected with a password you will be asked to provide it All the operations described below are performed by clicking the corresponding buttons on the toolbar These operations can be also accessed from the Backup name actions bar on the Actions and tools pane and from the Backup name actions item of the main menu The following is a guideline for you to perform operations with backups To View backup content in a separate window Recover Recover a disk volume Do Click 4 View content In the Backup Content window examine the backup content Click Recover The Recover data p 130 page will be opened with the pre selected backup as a source Right click the disk backup then select Recover as virtual machine Copyright
15. e Full backup runs every Friday at 10 00 PM e Incremental backup runs manually e Differential backup runs manually You can run any of these backup tasks by selecting it from the list of tasks in the Backup plans and tasks section in the left pane If you have also specified the retention rules in your backup scheme the scheme will result in four tasks three backup tasks and one cleanup task 6 2 10 Archive validation Set up the validation task to check if the backed up data is recoverable If the backup could not pass the validation successfully the validation task fails and the backup plan gets the Error status To set up validation specify the following parameters 1 When to validate select when to perform the validation As the validation is a resource intensive operation it makes sense to schedule the validation to the managed machine s off peak period On the other hand if the validation is a major part of your data protection strategy and you prefer to be immediately informed whether the backed up data is not corrupted and can be successfully recovered think of starting the validation right after backup creation 2 What to validate select either to validate the entire archive or the latest backup in the archive Validation of a file backup imitates recovery of all files from the backup to a dummy destination Validation of a volume backup calculates a checksum for every data block saved in the backup Validation of
16. managers You can choose the types of events to be sent Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 provides the following Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP objects to SNMP management applications 1 3 6 1 4 1 24769 100 200 1 0 string identifying the type of event Information Warning Error 1 3 6 1 4 1 24769 100 200 2 0 string containing the text description of the event it looks identical to messages published by Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 in its log The preset is Use the setting set in the Machine options To select whether to send the backup operations events to the SNIMP managers Choose one of the following Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 59 e Use the setting set in the Machine options to use the setting specified for the machine For more information refer to Machine options p 45 e Send SNMP notifications individually for backup operation events to send the events of the backup operations to the specified SNMP managers o Types of events to send choose the types of events to be sent All events Errors and warnings or Errors only o Server name IP type the name or IP address of the host running the SNMP management application the messages will be sent to o Community type the name of the SNMP community to which both the host running the SNMP management application and the sending machine belong The typical community is public Click Send test message to check if the settings
17. six months The following GFS scheme suits such purposes e Start backup at 11 30 PM 124 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 e Back up on Tuesday Thursday Friday e Weekly monthly Friday e Keep backups o Daily 6 months o Weekly 6 months o Monthly 5 years Here daily incremental backups will be created on Tuesdays and Thursdays with weekly and monthly backups performed on Fridays Note that in order to choose Friday in the Weekly monthly field you need to first select it in the Back up on field Such an archive would allow you to compare your financial documents as of the first and the last day of work and have a five year history of all documents etc No daily backups Consider a more exotic GFS scheme e Start backup at 12 00 PM e Back up on Friday e Weekly monthly Friday e Keep backups o Daily 1 week o Weekly 1 month o Monthly indefinitely Backup is thus performed only on Fridays This makes Friday the only choice for weekly and monthly backups leaving no other date for daily backups The resulting Grandfather Father archive will hence consist only of weekly differential and monthly full backups Even though it is possible to use GFS to create such an archive the Custom scheme is more flexible in this situation 6 2 9 5 Tower of Hanoi scheme At a glance e Up to 16 levels of full differential and incremental backups e Next level backups are twice as rare as previous level backups e One
18. state A backup plan cannot be deleted if at least one of its tasks is running e Do not have the appropriate privilege Without the Administrator s privileges on the machine a user cannot delete plans owned by other users e The backup plan has a centralized origin A centralized plan can be deleted by the management server administrator by revoking the backup policy that produced the plan Task Click X Delete Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Why can t I delete the task e Task belongs to a backup plan A task belonging to a backup plan cannot be deleted separately from the plan Edit the plan to remove the task or delete the entire plan e Do not have the appropriate privilege Without the Administrator privileges on the machine a user cannot delete tasks owned by other users ra Refresh table Click amp Refresh The management console will update the list of backup plans and tasks existing on the machine with the most recent information Though the list is refreshed automatically based on events the data may not be retrieved immediately from the managed machine due to some latency Manual refresh guarantees that the most recent data is displayed Filtering and sorting backup plans and tasks Sort backup plans and tasks Click the column s header to sort the backup plans and tasks in ascending by name state status type order origin etc NER S Click it once again to sort the plans and tasks in desc
19. the default options have pre defined values which are referred to as presets in the documentation When creating a backup plan you can either use a default option or override the default option with the custom value that will be specific for this plan only You can also customize a default option itself by changing its value against the pre defined one The new value will be used by default in all backup plans you will create later on this machine To view and change the default backup options connect the console to the managed machine and then select Options Default backup and recovery options Default backup options from the top menu Availability of the backup options The set of available backup options depends on e The environment the agent operates in Linux bootable media e The type of the data being backed up disk file e The backup destination networked location or local disk e The backup scheme Back up now or using the scheduler The following table summarizes the availability of the backup options Agent for Linux Bootable media Linux based Disk File Disk File backup backup backup backup Archive protection p 49 iu E t t password encryption Source files exclusion p 50 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 47 Pre Post backup commands p 51 Pre Post data capture commands p 52 File level backup snapshot p 55 Compression level p 55 Backup performance Backup p
20. 168 from the management server p 176 Such plan can be modified only by editing the backup policy Centralized management Management of the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 infrastructure through a central management unit known as Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Server p 176 The centralized management operations include e creating applying and managing backup policies p 168 e creating and managing static p 178 and dynamic groups p 174 of machines p 176 e managing the tasks p 179 existing on the machines e creating and managing centralized vaults p 170 for storing archives e managing storage nodes p 178 e monitoring activities of the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 components viewing the centralized log and more Centralized task A task p 179 belonging to a centralized backup plan p 170 Such task appears on the managed machine p 176 as a result of deploying a backup policy p 168 from the management server p 176 and can be modified only by editing the backup policy 170 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Centralized vault A networked location allotted by the management server p 176 administrator to serve as storage for the backup archives p 167 A centralized vault can be managed by a storage node p 178 or be unmanaged The total number and size of archives stored in a centralized vault are limited by the storage size only As soon as the management server adm
21. 2 g Validate ES Create personal vaut DD Create Acronis Secure Zone Tools i Create bootable media un Ren Acronis Recovery for Microsoft SQL Server Bi casos Q O gd Run Acronis Recovery lee Microsalt Exchange 7 At startup show the Dashboard instead of the curent view J Acronis e A remm MALI 5 Create personal veut M creme Acronis Secure Zone QD Mort image dq Manage mounted mages Tools Py Create bootable meds Install Acronis components Run Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange k Run Acrores Recovery for Microsoft SQL Server Maroon beers Help Using the management console Q rect management ce Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Console Welcome screen Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Key elements of the console workspace Name Description ae Navigation pane Contains the Navigation tree and the Shortcuts bar and lets you navigate to the different views see the Navigation pane p 8 section e Actions and tools pane Contains bars with a set of actions that can be performed and tools see the Actions and Tools pane p 9 section E Main area The main place of working where you create edit and manage backup plans policies tasks and perform other operations Displays the different views and action pages p 11 depending on items selected in the menu Navigation tree or on the Actions and Tools pane O Menu bar Appears across the top
22. Acronis Inc 2000 2009 51 5 Click Test command to check if the command is correct Check box Selection Fail the task if the command Selected Cleared Selected Cleared execution fails Do not back up until the Selected Selected Cleared Cleared command execution is complete Result Preset Perform the N A Perform the backup after the backu Perform the P P back p chivaiter command is concurrently with executed despite the command the command is i successfully execution failure execution and executed Fail the or success irrespective of the command task if the command execution result execution fails Post backup command To specify a command executable file to be executed after the backup is completed 1 2 In the Command field type a command or browse to a batch file In the Working directory field specify a path to a directory where the command batch file will be executed In the Arguments field specify the command execution arguments if required If successful execution of the command is critical for your backup strategy select the Fail the task if the command execution fails check box In case the command execution fails the program will remove the resulting TIB file and temporary files if possible and the task will fail When the check box is not selected the command execution result does not affect the task execution failure or success You can track the command execution result by explorin
23. Acronis Inc 2000 2009 81 as a virtual machine The Recover data p 130 page will be opened with the pre selected backup as a source Select the location and the type of new virtual machine and then proceed as with regular disk or volume recovery Validate a backup Click 8f validate The Validation p 144 page will be opened with the pre selected backup as a source Validation of a file backup imitates recovering of all files from the backup to a dummy destination Validation of a disk backup calculates a checksum for every data block saved in the backup Delete a single or Select one of the backups you want to delete then click X Delete multiple backups The program duplicates your selection in the Backups deletion p 82 window that has check boxes for each archive and each backup Review the selection and correct if need be select the check boxes for the desired backups then confirm the deletion Delete all archives and Please be aware that if filters have been applied to the vaults list you see only a part of backups in the vault the vault content Be sure that the vault does not contain archives you need to retain before starting the operation Click o Delete all The program duplicates your selection in the Backups deletion p 82 window that has check boxes for each archive and each backup Review the selection and correct if need be then confirm the deletion 4 2 3 Deleting archives and backups The Backups de
24. Archive protection This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media This option is effective for both disk level and file level backup The preset is Disabled To protect the archive from unauthorized access 1 2 5 Select the Set password for the archive check box In the Enter the password field type a password In the Confirm the password field re type the password Select one of the following o Do not encrypt the archive will be protected with the password only o AES 128 the archive will be encrypted using the Advanced Standard Encryption AES algorithm with a 128 bit key o AES 192 the archive will be encrypted using the AES algorithm with a 192 bit key o AES 256 the archive will be encrypted using the AES algorithm with a 256 bit key Click OK The AES cryptographic algorithm operates in the Cipher block chaining CBC mode and uses a randomly generated key with a user defined size of 128 192 or 256 bits The larger the key size the longer it will take for the program to encrypt the archive and the more secure your data will be The encryption key is then encrypted with AES 256 using a SHA 256 hash of the password as a key The password itself is not stored anywhere on the disk or in the backup file the password hash is used for verification purposes With this two level security the backup data is protected from any unauthorized access but recovering a
25. Inc 2000 2009 39 Recovery from a locally attached tape device Before creating a recovery task insert or mount the tape containing the backup you need to recover When creating a recovery task select the tape device from the list of available locations and then select the backup After recovery is started you will be prompted for other tapes if the tapes are needed for recovery 2 11 Proprietary Acronis technologies This section describes the proprietary technologies inherited by Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 from Acronis True Image Echo and Acronis True Image 9 1 product families 2 11 1 Acronis Secure Zone Acronis Secure Zone is a secure partition that enables keeping backup archives on a managed machine disk space and therefore recovery of a disk to the same disk where the backup resides Certain Windows applications such as Acronis disk management tools can access the zone Should the disk experience a physical failure the zone and the archives located there will be lost That s why Acronis Secure Zone should not be the only location where a backup is stored In enterprise environments Acronis Secure Zone can be thought of as an intermediate location used for backup when an ordinary location is temporarily unavailable or connected through a slow or busy channel Advantages Acronis Secure Zone e Enables recovery of a disk to the same disk where the disk s backup resides e Offers a cost effective and handy method for
26. LILO loaders you will need to correct the GRUB configuration files If the number of the Linux root partition has changed it is also recommended that you change etc fstab so that the SWAP volume can be accessed correctly e Linux was recovered from an LVM volume backup to a basic MBR disk Such system cannot boot because its kernel tries to mount the root file system at the LVM volume Solution Change the loader configuration and etc fstab so that the LVM is not used and reactivate the boot loader 6 3 9 1 How to reactivate GRUB or LILO and change its configuration Generally you should refer to the boot loader manual pages for the appropriate procedure In case the system disk volume is recovered to identical hardware the following steps would usually help 142 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 GRUB 1 Boot the machine from the Linux rescue CD or Linux installation CD The installed system and the system on the CD must have the same kernel version The Linux distribution does not have to be the same Opt for boot without RAM disk without the installer linux noinitrd root dev ROOTDEV Where linux is the kernel name the installation CD may contain multiple kernels with different names LILO and GRUB enable you to select the kernel ROOTDEV is the device corresponding to the root partition This is usually hda1 on an IDE device and sda1 on an SCSI device The kernel loads and the operating system starts from t
27. Recovery 10 provided with lists of specific help topics 1 2 1 3 Operations with panes How to expand minimize panes By default the Navigation pane appears expanded and the Actions and Tools minimized You might need to minimize the pane in order to free some additional workspace To do this click the chevron lt I for the Navigation pane l for the Actions and tools pane The pane will be minimized and the chevron changes its direction Click the chevron once again to expand the pane How to change the panes borders 1 Point to the pane s border 10 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 2 When the pointer becomes a double headed arrow drag the pointer to move the border The management console remembers the way the panes borders are set When you run the management console next time all the panes borders will have the same position that was set previously 1 2 1 4 Main area views and action pages The main area is a basic place where you work with the console Here you create edit and manage backup plans policies tasks and perform other operations The main area displays different views and action pages according the items you select in the menu Navigation tree or on the Actions and Tools pane Views A view appears on the main area when clicking any item in the Navigation tree in the Navigation pane p 8 Check the heulth of the backup plans and tasks exiting on the machine PE SXRS Cete tote Zeis
28. a blank disc o upload the selected components to Acronis PXE Server o upload the selected components to a WDS RIS 158 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 7 optional Windows system drivers to be used by Acronis Universal Restore This window appears only if the Acronis Universal Restore add on is installed and a media other than PXE or WDS RIS is selected 8 Path to the media ISO file or the name or IP and credentials for PXE or WDS RIS 6 8 1 1 Network settings While creating Acronis bootable media you have an option to pre configure network connections that will be used by the bootable agent The following parameters can be pre configured e P address e Subnet mask e Gateway e DNS server e WINS server Once the bootable agent starts on a machine the configuration is applied to the machine s network interface card NIC If the settings have not been pre configured the agent uses DHCP auto configuration You also have the ability to configure the network settings manually when the bootable agent is running on the machine Pre configuring multiple network connections You can pre configure TCP IP settings for up to ten network interface cards To ensure that each NIC will be assigned the appropriate settings create the media on the server for which the media is customized When you select an existing NIC in the wizard window its settings are selected for saving on the media The MAC address of each existing NIC is
29. access this option select the Advanced view check box Where to back up Archive p 118 Specify path to the location where the backup archive will be stored and the archive name It is advisable that the archive name be unique within the location The default archive name is Archive N where N is the sequence number of the archive in the location you have selected Access credentials p 120 Optional Provide credentials for the location if the plan account does not have access permissions to the location To access this option select the Advanced view check box Archive comments Optional Enter comments on the archive To access this option select the Advanced view check box How to back up Backup scheme p 120 Specify when and how often to back up your data define for how long to keep the created backup archives in the selected location set up schedule for the archive cleanup procedure Use well known optimized backup schemes such as Grandfather Father Son and Tower of Hanoi create a custom backup scheme or back up data once Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 113 Archive validation When to validate p 130 Optional Define when and how often to perform validation and whether to validate the entire archive or the latest backup in the archive Backup options Settings Optional Configure parameters of the backup operation such as pre post backup commands maximum network bandwidth allocated for the bac
30. and fail the task if the command execution fails 2 315 File level backup snapshot This option is effective only for file level backup in Windows and Linux operating systems This option defines whether to back up files one by one or by taking an instant data snapshot Note Files that are stored on network shares are always backed up one by one The preset is Create snapshot if it is possible Select one of the following e Always create a snapshot The snapshot enables backing up of all files including files opened for exclusive access The files will be backed up at the same point in time Choose this setting only if these factors are critical that is backing up files without a snapshot does not make sense To use a snapshot the backup plan has to run under the account with the Administrator or Backup Operator privileges If a snapshot cannot be taken the backup will fail e Create a snapshot if it is possible Back up files directly if taking a snapshot is not possible e Donot create a snapshot Always back up files directly Administrator or Backup Operator privileges are not required Trying to back up files that are opened for exclusive access will result in a read error Files in the backup may be not time consistent 3 3 1 6 Compression level This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media The option defines the level of compression applied to the data being backed up T
31. are completed If not unmounted manually a volume will remain mounted until the operating system restarts To unmount an image select it in the table and click e Unmount To unmount all the mounted volumes click L Unmount all 6 7 Acronis Secure Zone Acronis Secure Zone is a secure partition that enables keeping backup archives on a managed machine disk space and therefore recovery of a disk to the same disk where the backup resides Certain Windows applications such as Acronis disk management tools can access the zone To learn more about the advantages and limitations of the Acronis Secure Zone see the Acronis Secure Zone p 40 topic in the Proprietary Acronis technologies section 6 7 1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone You can create Acronis Secure Zone while the operating system is running or using bootable media To create Acronis Secure Zone perform the following steps Space Disk p 153 Choose a hard disk if several on which to create the zone Acronis Secure Zone is created using unallocated space if available or at the expense of the volume s free space Size p 153 Specify the exact size of the zone Moving or resizing of locked volumes such as the volume containing the currently active operating system requires a reboot Settings Password p 153 Optional Protect the Acronis Secure Zone from unauthorized access with a password The prompt for the password appear at any operation relating t
32. are correct e Do not send SNMP notifications to disable sending the log events of the backup operations to SNMP managers 3 3 1 10 Fast incremental differential backup The option is effective in Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media This option is effective for incremental and differential disk level backup This option defines whether a file change is detected using the file size and time stamp or by comparing the file contents to those stored in the archive The preset is Enabled Incremental or differential backup captures only data changes To speed up the backup process the program determines whether a file has changed or not by the file size and the date time when the file was last modified Disabling this feature will make the program compare the entire file contents to those stored in the archive 3 3 1 11 Backup splitting This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media The option defines how a backup can be split The preset is Automatic The following settings are available Automatic With this setting Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 will act as follows e When backing up to a hard disk A single backup file will be created if the destination disk s file system allows the estimated file size The backup will automatically be split into several files if the destination disk s file system does 60 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 not allow the est
33. as the connection is resumed OR the specified number of attempts is performed depending on which comes first Ignore bad sectors The preset is Disabled When the option is disabled the program will display a pop up window each time it comes across a bad sector and ask for a user decision as to whether to continue or stop the backup procedure In order to back up the valid information on a rapidly dying disk enable ignoring bad sectors The rest of the data will be backed up and you will be able to mount the resulting disk backup and extract valid files to another disk 3 3 1 14 Dual destination This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems when the primary backup destination is a ocal folder or Acronis Secure Zone and the secondary destination is another local 62 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 folder or network share Managed vaults and FTP servers are not supported as secondary destinations The preset is Disabled When dual destination is enabled the agent will automatically copy each backup being created locally to the secondary destination such as a network share Once the backup to the primary destination is completed the agent compares the updated archive contents to the secondary archive contents and copies to the secondary destination all backups that are missing there along with the new backup This option enables quick machine backup to the internal drive as an intermediate step before
34. backup procedure The following scheme illustrates when pre post commands are executed Pre backup B Post backup command command Examples of how you can use the pre post commands e delete some temporary files from the disk before starting backup e configure a third party antivirus product to be started each time before the backup starts e copy an archive to another location after the backup ends The program does not support interactive commands i e commands that require user input for example pause To specify pre post commands 1 Enable pre post commands execution by checking the following options o Execute before the backup o Execute after the backup 2 Doany ofthe following o Click Edit to specify a new command or a batch file o Selectthe existing command or the batch file from the drop down list 3 Click OK Pre backup command To specify a command batch file to be executed before the backup process starts 1 In the Command field type a command or browse to a batch file The program does not support interactive commands i e commands that require user input for example pause 2 Inthe Working directory field specify a path to a directory where the command batch file will be executed 3 Inthe Arguments field specify the command s execution arguments if required 4 Depending on the result you want to obtain select the appropriate options as described in the table below Copyright
35. because the differential backup D created at session 9 is still actual In the table all cells with deleted backups are grayed out Eee fA Taj al lal jn nj jul d d D D seme ee Ese j 1 TT soreer TTT TTT 1 TT l le Lose SSS Differential backup D created at session 9 will be deleted at session 25 after creation of a new differential backup is completed This way a backup archive created in accordance with the Tower of Hanoi scheme by Acronis sometimes includes up to two additional backups over the classical implementation of the scheme For information about using Tower of Hanoi for tape libraries see Using the Tower of Hanoi tape rotation scheme Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 3l 2 7 Retention rules The backups produced by a backup plan make an archive The two retention rules described in this section enable you to limit the archive size and set the lifetime retention period of the backups 1 Delete backups older than This is a time interval counted back from the moment when the retention rules are applied Every time a retention rule is applied the program calculates the date and time in the past corresponding to this interval and deletes all backups created before that moment None of the backups created after this moment will be deleted Retention rule is applied I 4 4 4 pv I I t Delete ra Do not delete 2 Keep the archive size within This is th
36. boxes for the components you want to put on the bootable media e One Click Restore is the minimal addition to a disk backup stored on removable media allowing for easy recovery from this backup If you boot a machine from the media and click Run Acronis One click Restore the disk will be immediately recovered from the backup contained on the same media Caution Because the one click approach does not presume user selections such as selecting volumes to recover Acronis One Click Restore always recovers the entire disk If your disk contains several volumes and you are planning to use Acronis One Click Restore include all the volumes in the backup Any volumes missing from the backup will be lost e Bootable agent is a bootable rescue utility based on Linux kernel that includes most of the functionality of the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 agent Put this component on the media if you want more functionality during recovery You will be able to configure the recovery operation in the same way as under regular bootable media use Active Restore or Universal Restore In Windows if Acronis Disk Director Lite is installed on the machine you can select one more component Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 61 e Acronis Disk Director Lite is a disk management tool that enables such operations as cloning disks creating deleting and converting basic and dynamic volumes and some additional operations such as converting a disk part
37. but in the extended partition table The number of logical volumes on a disk is unlimited A logical volume cannot be set as active If you recover a system volume to another hard disk with its own volumes and operating system you will most likely need only the data In this case you can recover the volume as logical to access the data only File system Change the volume file system if required By default the program selects the original volume s file system Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 can make the following file system conversions FAT 16 FAT 32 and Ext2 Ext3 For volumes with other native file systems this option is not available Assume you are going to recover a volume from an old low capacity FAT16 disk to a newer disk FAT16 would not be effective and might even be impossible to set on the high capacity hard disk That s because FAT16 supports volumes up to 4GB so you will not be able to recover a 4GB FAT16 volume to a volume that exceeds that limit without changing the file system It would make sense here to change the file system from FAT16 to FAT32 Older operating systems MS DOS Windows 95 and Windows NT 3 x 4 x do not support FAT32 and will not be operable after you recover a volume and change its file system These can be normally recovered on a FAT16 volume only 138 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Logical drive letter for Windows only Assign a letter to the recovered volume Select the desired l
38. case level 4 backups are full e Backups of intermediate levels 2 3 are differential e First level 1 backups are incremental A cleanup mechanism ensures that only the most recent backups of each level are kept Here is how the archive looks on day 8 a day before creating a new full backup The scheme allows for efficient data storage more backups accumulate toward the current time Having four backups we could recover data as of today yesterday half a week or a week ago Roll back period The number of days we can go back in the archive is different on different days The minimum number of days we are guaranteed to have is called the roll back period The following table shows full backup and roll back periods for schemes of various levels 126 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Number of Full backup On different Roll back levels every days can go period back 2 2 days 1 to 2 days 1 day 3 4 days 2 to 5 days 2 days 4 8 days 4 to 11 days 4 days 5 16 days 8 to 23 days 8 days 6 32 days 16 to 47 days 16 days Adding a level doubles the full backup and roll back periods To see why the number of recovery days varies let us return to the previous example Here are the backups we have on day 12 numbers in gray denote deleted backups A new level 3 differential backup has not yet been created so the backup of day five is still stored Since it depends on the full backup of day one that backup is availab
39. cases the scheme can be changed and should continue to operate as if existing archives were created by a new scheme For empty archives all changes are possible Why can t edit the backup plan e The backup plan is currently running Editing of the currently running backup plan is impossible e Do not have the appropriate privilege Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 103 Delete a plan task 104 Without the Administrator privileges on the machine a user cannot edit plans owned by other users The backup plan has a centralized origin Direct editing of centralized backup plans is not possible You need to edit the original backup policy Task Click Edit Why can t edit the task Task belongs to a backup plan Only tasks that do not belong to a backup plan such as a recovery task can be modified by direct editing When you need to modify a task belonging to a local backup plan edit the backup plan A task belonging to a centralized backup plan can be modified by editing the centralized policy that spawned the plan Only the management server administrator can do so Do not have the appropriate privilege Without the Administrator privileges on the machine a user cannot modify tasks owned by other users Backup plan Click X Delete What will happen if delete the backup plan The plan s deletion deletes all its tasks Why can t delete the backup plan e The backup plan is in the Running
40. example the D drive in the rescue utility might correspond to the E drive in Windows The Linux style bootable media shows local disks and volumes as unmounted sda1 sda2 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 137 Volume properties Resizing and relocating When recovering a volume to a basic MBR disk you can resize and relocate the volume by dragging it or its borders with a mouse or by entering corresponding values in the appropriate fields Using this feature you can redistribute the disk space between the volumes being recovered In this case you will have to recover the volume to be reduced first Properties Type A basic MBR disk can contain up to four primary volumes or up to three primary volumes and multiple logical drives By default the program selects the original volume s type You can change this setting if required e Primary Information about primary volumes is contained in the MBR partition table Most operating systems can boot only from the primary volume of the first hard disk but the number of primary volumes is limited If you are going to recover a system volume to a basic MBR disk select the Active check box Active volume is used for loading an operating system Choosing active for a volume without an installed operating system could prevent the machine from booting You cannot set a logical drive or dynamic volume active e Logical Information about logical volumes is located not in the MBR
41. example the retention rules require to delete a full backup but retain the next incremental one The backups will be combined into a single full backup which will be dated the incremental backup date When an incremental or differential backup from the middle of the chain is deleted the resulting backup type will be incremental This mode ensures that after each cleanup the archive size and the backups age are within the bounds you specify The consolidation however may take a lot of time and system resources And you still need some extra space in the vault for temporary files created during consolidation What you need to know about consolidation Please be aware that consolidation is just a method of deletion but not an alternative to deletion The resulting backup will not contain data that was present in the deleted backup and was absent from the retained incremental or differential backup Backups resulting from consolidation always have maximum compression This means that all backups in an archive may acquire the maximum compression as a result of repeated cleanup with consolidation Best practices Maintain the balance between the storage device capacity the restrictive parameters you set and the cleanup frequency The retention rules logic assumes that the storage device capacity is much more than the average backup size and the maximum archive size does not come close to the physical storage capacity but leaves a reasonable reser
42. features e upto 16 backup levels 30 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 e incremental backups on first level A to gain time and storage savings for the most frequent backup operations but data recovery from such backups takes longer because it generally requires access to three backups e full backups on the last level E for five level pattern the rarest backups in the scheme take more time and occupy more space in storage e differential backups on all intermediate levels B C and D for five level pattern e the pattern starts with a full backup since the very first backup cannot be incremental e the scheme forces every backup level to keep only the most recent backup other backups from the level have to be deleted however backup deletion is postponed in cases where the backup is a base for another incremental or differential one e anold backup on a level is kept until a new backup has been successfully created on the level The table shows the pattern for the five level backup scheme The pattern consists of 16 sessions voce lal Tal al fal fl fal al ome 18 18 CL BE pomme fel o 1 Wl SO Se As a result of using incremental and differential backups the situation may arise when an old backup deletion must be postponed as it still is a base for other backups The table below indicates the case when deletion of full backup E created at session 1 is postponed at session 17 until session 25
43. for activating LILO lilo 4 Eject the CD and reboot 6 4 Validating vaults archives and backups Validation is an operation that checks the possibility of data recovery from a backup Validation of a file backup imitates recovery of all files from the backup to a dummy destination Validation of a disk or volume backup calculates a checksum for every data block saved in the backup Both procedures are resource intensive Validation of an archive will validate all the archive s backups A vault or a location validation will validate all archives stored in this vault location While successful validation means high probability of successful recovery it does not check all factors that influence the recovery process If you back up the operating system only a test recovery in bootable environment to a spare hard drive can guarantee success of the recovery At least ensure that the backup can be successfully validated using the bootable media Different ways to create a validation task Using the Validation page is the most general way to create a validation task Here you can validate immediately or set up a validation schedule for any backup archive or location you have permission to access Validation of an archive or of the latest backup in the archive can be scheduled as part of the backup plan For more information see the Creating a backup plan p 112 section You can access the Validation page from the Vaults p 76 vie
44. is considered critical The preset is alert if the machine s last connection to the management server was more than 5 days ago The alert is displayed in the Alerts section of the Dashboard When the console is connected to the management server this setting will also control the color scheme of the Last connect column s value for each machine 3 1 4 Number of tasks This option is effective only when the console is connected to the management server The option defines how many tasks will be displayed at a time in the Tasks view You can also use filters available in the Tasks view to limit the number of displayed tasks The preset is 400 The adjustment range is 20 to 500 To make a selection choose the desired value from the Number of tasks drop down menu 44 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 management server The option defines the fonts to be used in the Graphical User Interface of Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 The Menu setting affects the drop down and context menus The Application setting affects the other GUI elements The preset is System Default font for both the menus and the application interface items To make a selection choose the font from the respective combo box and set the font s properties You can preview the font s appearance by clicking the button to the right 3 2 Machine options The ma
45. lost password is not possible Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 49 2 3 1 25 Source files exclusion This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media This option is effective for disk level backup of NTFS and FAT file systems only This option is effective for file level backup of all supported file systems The option defines which files and folders to skip during the backup process and thus exclude from the list of backed up items The preset is Exclude files matching the following criteria tmp bak To specify which files and folders to exclude Set up any of the following parameters e Exclude all hidden files and folders Select this check box to skip files and folders with the Hidden attribute If a folder is Hidden all of its contents including files that are not Hidden will be excluded e Exclude all system files and folders Select this check box to skip files and folders with the System attribute If a folder is System all of its contents including files that are not System will be excluded You can view file or folder attributes in the file folder properties or by using the attrib command For more information refer to the Help and Support Center in Windows e Exclude files matching the following criteria Select this check box to skip files whose names match any of the criteria called file masks in the list use the Add Edit Remove a
46. not met For more information on conditions please see Scheduling p 84 and Conditions p 92 The preset is Wait until the conditions are met Wait until the conditions are met With this setting the scheduler starts monitoring the conditions and launches the task as soon as the conditions are met If the conditions are never met the task will never start Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 63 To handle the situation when the conditions are not met for too long and further delaying the backup is becoming risky you can set the time interval after which the task will run irrespective of the condition Select the Run the task anyway after check box and specify the time interval The task will start as soon as the conditions are met OR the maximum time delay lapses depending on which comes first Time diagram Wait until conditions are met gt waiting f iiti Scheduled Time interval time or event Condition Idle Waiting Running Idle Task state __ i Las t Time 1 lt waiting f jiti Scheduled time or event Time interval Condition Idle Waiting Running Idle Task state _ SS eee gt Skip the task execution Delaying a backup might be unacceptable for example when you need to back up data strictly at the specified time Then it makes sense to skip the backup rather than wait for the conditions especially if the events occur relatively often 3 3 1 16 Task failure handling
47. of cartridges and not to be buried in used tapes A lot of Internet sources describe varieties of the GFS tape rotation scheme You are free to use any of the varieties when backing up to a locally attached tape device GFS by Acronis With Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 you can easily set up a backup plan that will regularly back up data and clean up the resulting archive according to the GFS scheme Create the backup plan as usual For the backup destination choose any storage device where automatic cleanup can be performed such as an HDD based storage device or robotic tape library Since the space freed on the tape after cleanup cannot be reused until all the tape becomes free take into account additional considerations when using GFS on a tape library The following is an explanation of the settings that are specific for the GFS backup scheme GFS related settings of the backup plan Start backup at Back up on This step creates the total backup schedule that is defines all the days you need to back up on Assume you select backing up at 8 00 PM on workdays Here is the total schedule you have defined B stands for backup Tt amp 8 858 OB 8 B BBB 88 B8 8 8 B BBB Schedule The total schedule Schedule Workdays at 8 00 PM Weekly Monthly This step forms the daily weekly and monthly cycles in the schedule Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 25 Select a day of the week from the days
48. of tasks The tab provides information about task progress elapsed time and other parameters Backup plan details The Backup plan details window also duplicated on the Information panel aggregates in four tabs all the information on the selected backup plan The respective message will appear at the top of the tabs if one of the plan s tasks requires user interaction It contains a brief description of the problem and action buttons that let you select the appropriate action or stop the plan Backup plan The Backup plan tab provides the following general information on the selected plan e Name name of the backup plan e Origin whether the plan was created on the managed machine using direct management local origin or appeared on the machine as a result of deploying a backup policy from the management server centralized origin e Policy for backup plans with centralized origin name of the backup policy whose deployment created the backup plan e Account the name of the account under which the plan runs e Owner the name of the user who created or last modified the plan e State execution state p 98 of the backup plan e Status status p 99 of the backup plan e Schedule whether the task is scheduled or set to start manually e Last backup how much time has passed since the last backup e Creation backup plan creation date e Comments description of the plan if provided 108 Copyright Acr
49. off correspond to column headers presented in the table 2 Click the items you want to be displayed hidden 6 1 3 3 Log entry details Displays detailed information on the log entry you have selected and lets you copy the details to the clipboard To copy the details click the Copy to clipboard button Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 111 Log entry data fields A local log entry contains the following data fields e Type type of event Error Warning Information e Date date and time of the event occurrence e Backup plan the backup plan the event relates to if any e Task the task the event relates to if any e Code the program code of the event Every type of event in the program has its own code A code is an integer number that may be used by Acronis support service to solve the problem e Module number of the program module where the event has occurred It is an integer number that may be used by Acronis support service to solve the problem e Owner user name of the backup plan owner only under operating system e Message a text description of the event The log entry s details that you copy will have the appearance as follows Log Entry Details Type Information Date and time DD MM YYYY HH MM SS Backup plan Backup plan name Task Task name Message Description of the operation Code 12 3x45678A Module Module name Owne
50. on a machine that is registered on a management server The Dashboard warns you that the connection might be lost or the server might be unavailable and the machine is not centrally managed as a result Click Show log to open the Log view where you can examine the log entries and find out the reason of the issue Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Activities The calendar lets you explore the history of the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 agent s activities on the machine Right click on any highlighted date and select View log to see the list of log entries filtered by date On the View section at the right of the calendar you can select the activities to highlight depending on the presence and severity of the errors How it is determined Highlight the date in red if at least one Error entry appeared in the log on this date Highlight the date in yellow if no Error entries appeared and at least one Warning entry appeared in the log on this date Highlight the date in green if only Information log entries appeared on this date normal activity The Select current date link focuses selection to the current date System view Shows summarized statistics of backup plans tasks and brief information on the last backup Click the items in this section to obtain the relevant information This will take you to the Backup plans and tasks p 97 view with pre filtered plans or tasks For instance if you click Local und
51. opening files within the backup without committing any changes e Read write with this mode the program assumes that the backup content will be modified and creates an incremental backup to capture the changes o Assign letter in Windows Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 will assign an unused letter to the mounted volume If required select another letter to assign from the drop down list o Mount point in Linux specify the directory where you want the volume to be mounted 3 If several volumes are selected for mounting click on every volume to set its mounting parameters described in the previous step 4 Click OK 6 6 Managing mounted images Once a volume is mounted you can browse files and folders contained in the backup using a file manager and copy the desired files to any destination Thus if you need to take out only a few files and folders from a volume backup you do not have to perform the recovery procedure Exploring images Exploring mounted volumes lets you view and modify if mounted in the read write mode the volume s content To explore a mounted volume select it in the table and click M Explore The default file manager window opens allowing the user to examine the mounted volume contents Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 151 Unmounting images Maintaining the mounted volumes takes considerable system resources It is recommended that you unmount the volumes after the necessary operations
52. password for the archive are set in the backup options p 168 each backup belonging to the archive is encrypted by the agent p 167 before saving the backup to its destination The AES cryptographic algorithm operates in the Cipher block chaining CBC mode and uses a randomly generated key with a user defined size of 128 192 or 256 bits The encryption key is then encrypted with AES 256 using a SHA 256 hash of the password as a key The password itself is not stored anywhere on the disk or in the backup file the password hash is used for verification purposes With this two level security the backup data is protected from any unauthorized access but recovering a lost password is not possible Encrypted vault A managed vault p 176 to which anything written is encrypted and anything read is decrypted transparently by the storage node p 178 using a vault specific encryption key stored on the node In case the storage medium is stolen or accessed by an unauthorized person the malefactor will not be able to decrypt the vault contents without access to the storage node Encrypted archives p 175 will be encrypted over the encryption performed by the agent p 167 F Full backup A self sufficient backup p 167 containing all data chosen for backup You do not need access to any other backup to recover the data from a full backup G GFS Grandfather Father Son A popular backup scheme p 169 aimed to maintain the optimal ba
53. protecting data from software malfunction virus attack operator error e Being an internal archive storage eliminates the need for a separate media or network connection to back up or recover the data This is especially useful for mobile users e Can serve as a primary destination when using dual destination p 62 backup Limitations e The zone cannot be organized on a dynamic disk or a disk using the GPT partitioning style Managing the Acronis Secure Zone Acronis Secure Zone is considered as a personal vault p 180 Once created on a managed machine the zone is always present in the list of Personal vaults Centralized backup plans p 170 can use Acronis Secure Zone as well as local plans p 176 If you have used Acronis Secure Zone before please note a radical change in the zone functionality The zone does not perform automatic cleanup that is deleting old archives anymore Use backup 40 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 schemes with automatic cleanup to back up to the zone or delete outdated backups manually using the archive management functionality With the new Acronis Secure Zone behavior you obtain the ability to e list archives located in the zone and backups contained in each archive e examine a backup s content e mount a disk backup to copy files from the backup to a physical disk e safely delete archives and backups from the archives For more information about operations available in Acronis S
54. resizable VG Size 1 99 GB VG UUID 0q0Q41 Vk7W yDG3 uF11 Q2AL C0z0 vMeACu Run the following command to create the logical volume in the L parameter specify the size given by VG Size lvm lvcreate L1 99G name my logvol my volgroup Activate the volume group by running the following command lvm vgchange a y my volgroup Press CTRL ALT F1 to return to the management console Step 2 Starting the recovery 7 In the management console click Recover In Archive click Change and then specify the name of the archive In Backup click Change and then select the backup from which you want to recover data In Data type select Volumes In Items to recover select the check box next to my volgroup my logvol Under Where to recover click Change and then select the logical volume that you created in Step 1 Click the chevron buttons to expand the list of disks Click OK to start the recovery For a complete list of commands and utilities that you can use in the bootable media environment see List of commands and utilities available in Linux based bootable media p 161 For detailed descriptions of the trueimagecmd and trueimagemnt utilities see the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 command line reference 164 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Mounting backup volumes You may want to mount a volume stored in a disk backup for example to view some files in it before starting the recovery To mount a bac
55. saving the ready backup on the network This comes in handy in cases of slow or busy networks and time consuming backup procedures Disconnection during the copy transfer will not affect the backup operation as opposed to backing up directly to the remote location Other advantages e Replication enhances the archive reliability e Roaming users can back up their portable computers to Acronis Secure Zone while on the road When the portable computer is connected to the corporate network all changes made to the archive will be transferred to its stationary copy after the first backup operation If you select the password protected Acronis Secure Zone as the primary destination keep in mind that the archive in the secondary destination will not be protected with a password To use Dual destination 1 Select the check box for Use dual destination 2 Browse to the secondary destination or enter the full path to the destination manually 3 Click OK You might have to provide the access credentials for the secondary destination Enter the credentials on prompt 3 3 1 15 Task start conditions This option is effective in Windows and Linux operating systems This option is not available when operating under bootable media This option determines the program behavior in case a backup task is about to start the scheduled time comes or the event specified in the schedule occurs but the condition or any of multiple conditions is
56. server The preset is the Welcome screen To make a selection select or clear the check box for Show the Dashboard view upon connection of the console to a machine This option can also be set on the Welcome screen If you select the check box for At startup show the Dashboard instead of the current view on the Welcome screen the setting mentioned above will be updated accordingly 3 1 2 Pop up messages About tasks that need interaction This option is effective when the console is connected to a managed machine or to the management server The option defines whether to display the pop up window when one or more tasks require user interaction This window enables you to specify your decision such as to confirm reboot or to retry after freeing up the disk space on all the tasks in the same place Until at least one task requires interaction you can open this window at any time from the managed machine s Dashboard Alternatively you can review the task execution states in the Tasks view and specify you decision on each task in the Information pane The preset is Enabled To make a selection select or clear the Pop up the Tasks Need Interaction window check box About the task execution results This option is effective only when the console is connected to a managed machine Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 43 The option defines whether to display the pop up messages about task run results successful completion fai
57. sets up a trust relationship between the agent p 167 residing on the machine and the server During registration the console retrieves the management server s client certificate and passes it to the agent which uses it later to authenticate clients attempting to connect This helps prevent any attempts by network attackers from establishing a fake connection on behalf of a trusted principal the management server S Selection rule A part of the backup policy p 168 Enables the management server p 176 administrator to select the data to back up within a machine Static group A group of machines which a management server p 176 administrator populates by manually adding machines to the group A machine remains in a static group until the administrator removes it from the group or from the management server Storage node Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Storage Node A server aimed to optimize usage of various resources required for protection of enterprise data This goal is achieved by organizing managed vaults p 176 Storage node enables the administrator to e relieve managed machines p 176 of unnecessary CPU load by using the storage node side cleanup p 178 and storage node side validation p 179 e drastically reduce backup traffic and storage space taken by the archives p 167 by using deduplication p 172 e prevent access to the backup archives even in case the storage medium is stolen or accessed by
58. system The preset is Disabled This option defines whether to check the integrity of the file system after a disk or volume recovery Restart machine automatically if it is required for recovery This option is effective when recovery takes place on a machine running an operating system The preset is Disabled The option defines whether to reboot the machine automatically if it is required for recovery Such might be the case when a volume locked by the operating system has to be recovered Reboot machine after recovery This option is effective when operating under bootable media The preset is Disabled This option enables booting the machine into the recovered operating system without user interaction Change SID after the recovery is finished The preset is Disabled Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 can generate an unique security identifier SID for the recovered system You do not need a new SID when recovering a system over itself or when creating a system replica that will replace the original system Generate a new SID if the original and the recovered systems will work concurrently in the same workgroup or domain Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 75 4 Vaults A vault is a location for storing backup archives For ease of use and administration a vault is associated with the archives metadata Referring to this metadata makes for fast and convenient operations with archives and backups stored in the vault A v
59. the Local folders group and click the required folder If the archive is located on removable media e g DVDs first insert the last DVD and then insert discs in order starting from the first one when the program prompts o Ifthe archive is stored on a network share expand the Network folders group then select the required networked machine and then click the shared folder If the network share requires access credentials the program will ask for them Note for Linux users To specify a Common Internet File System CIFS network share which is mounted on a mount point such as mnt share select this mount point instead of the network share itself o If the archive is stored on an FTP or SFTP server type the server name or address in the Path field as follows ftp ftp_server port number or sftp sftp_server port number If the port number is not specified port 21 is used for FTP and port 22 is used for SFTP After entering access credentials the folders on the server become available Click the appropriate folder on the server You can access the server as an anonymous user if the server enables such access To do so click Use anonymous access instead of entering credentials As appears from the original FTP specification credentials required for access to FTP servers are transferred through a network as plaintext This means that the user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a packet s
60. the archive will validate all the archive s backups and may take a long time and a lot of system resources 3 Validation schedule appears only if you have selected the on schedule in step 1 set the schedule of validation For more information see the Scheduling p 84 section 6 3 Recovering data When it comes to data recovery first consider the most functional method connect the console to the managed machine running the operating system and create the recovery task 130 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 If the managed machine s operating system fails to start or you need to recover data to bare metal boot the machine from the bootable media p 169 or using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager p 41 Then create a recovery task Before recovering Linux Software RAID devices known as MD devices and or devices created by Logical Volume Manager LVM known as logical volumes you might need to manually create the corresponding volume structure For information on how to do so see Recovering MD devices and logical volumes p 162 To create a recovery task perform the following steps General Task name Optional Enter a unique name for the recovery task A conscious name lets you quickly identify the task among the others Task credentials p 133 Optional The task will run on behalf of the user who is creating the task You can change the task account credentials if necessary To access this option select t
61. the same archive to recover data from an incremental backup An incremental backup is most useful when e you need the possibility to roll back to any one of multiple saved states e the data changes tend to be small as compared to the total data size It is widely accepted that incremental backups are less reliable than full ones because if one backup in the chain is corrupted the next ones can no longer be used However storing multiple full backups is not an option when you need multiple prior versions of your data because reliability of an oversized archive is even more questionable Example Backing up a database transaction log Differential backup A differential backup stores changes to the data against the latest full backup You need access to the corresponding full backup to recover the data from a differential backup A differential backup is most useful when e you are interested in saving only the most recent data state e the data changes tend to be small as compared to the total data size The typical conclusion is differential backups take longer to do and are faster to restore while incremental ones are quicker to do and take longer to restore In fact there is no physical difference between an incremental backup appended to a full backup and a differential backup appended to the same full backup at the same point of time The above mentioned difference implies creating a differential backup after or instead of c
62. time interval For example e Event Daily Every 1 day s Once at 03 00 00 PM e Condition Fits time interval from 06 00 00 PM until 11 59 59 PM In this case whether and when the task will run depends on the task start conditions e Ifthe task start conditions are Skip the task execution the task will never run e If the task start conditions are Wait until the conditions are met and the Run the task anyway after check box is cleared the task scheduled to run at 3 00 PM will start at 6 00 PM the time when the condition is met e If the task start conditions are Wait until the conditions are met and the Run the task anyway after check box is selected with say the 1 Hour waiting time the task scheduled to run at 3 00 PM will start at 4 00 PM the time when the waiting period ends 5 4 3 Time since last backup eT Enables to put a backup task run on hold until the specified time interval since the last successful backup completion passes Example Run the backup task after free space on the managed machine has changed by at least 1 GB but only if more than 12 hours have passed since the last successful backup e Event When free space changed Run task if free space has changed by at least 1 GB e Condition Time since last backup Time since the last backup 12 hour s e Task start conditions Wait until the conditions are met As a result 1 if the free space changes by more than 1GB before 12 hours pass sin
63. to put the backup task on a schedule and started manually wish to start it manually afterwards 6 2 9 3 Simple scheme With the simple backup scheme you just schedule when and how often to back up data and set the retention rule At the first time a full backup will be created The next backups will be incremental To set up the simple backup scheme specify the appropriate settings as follows Backup Set up the backup schedule when and how often to back up the data To learn more about setting up the schedule see the Scheduling p 84 section Retention rule With the simple scheme only one retention rule p 32 is available Set the retention period for the backups Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 121 6 2 9 4 Grandfather Father Son scheme At a glance e Daily incremental weekly differential and monthly full backups e Custom day for weekly and monthly backups e Custom retention periods for backups of each type Description Let us suppose that we want to set up a backup plan that will regularly produce a series of daily D weekly W and monthly M backups Here is a natural way to do this the following table shows a sample two month period for such a plan ISDESTSISISTST Beer pu mre T men T mama pr pes e e mess v esos o 9 gt memes e e 7 7 Daily backups run every workday except Friday which is left for weekly and monthly backups Monthly backups run ever
64. under bootable media 160 Working with backup plans and tasks 102 Working with the 77 78 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009
65. value will be used by default in all recovery tasks you will create later on this machine To view and change the default recovery options connect the console to the managed machine and then select Options Default backup and recovery options Default recovery options from the top menu Availability of the recovery options The set of available recovery options depends on e The environment the agent operates in Linux bootable media e The type of data being recovered disk file e The operating system being recovered from the disk backup The following table summarizes the availability of the recovery options Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 67 Pre Post recovery commands p 69 Recovery priority p 70 File level security p 71 Recover files with their security settings Error handling p 74 Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode Re attempt if an error occurs Additional settings p 74 Set current date and time for recovered files Validate backup archive before recovery Check file system after recovery Reboot machine automatically if it is required for recovery Change SID after recovery Notifications E mail p 71 Win Pop up p 72 Event tracing SNMP p 73 68 Agent for Linux Disk recovery Windows recovery File recovery also from a disk backup Bootable media Linux based or PE based Disk File recovery recover
66. will be equal in size to the disk being backed up if the Compression level option is set to None Use the sector by sector backup for backing up drives with unrecognized or unsupported file systems and other proprietary data formats 3 Click OK What does a disk or volume backup store For supported file systems with the sector by sector option turned off a disk or volume backup stores only those sectors that contain data This reduces the resulting backup size and speeds up the backup and recovery operations Windows The swap file pagefile sys and the file that keeps the RAM content when the machine goes into hibernation hiberfil sys are not backed up After recovery the files will be re created in the appropriate place with the zero size A volume backup stores all other files and folders of the selected volume independent of their attributes including hidden and system files the boot record the file allocation table FAT if it exists the root and the zero track of the hard disk with the master boot record MBR The boot code of GPT volumes is not backed up A disk backup stores all volumes of the selected disk including hidden volumes such as the vendor s maintenance partitions and the zero track with the master boot record Linux A volume backup stores all files and folders of the selected volume independent of their attributes a boot record and the file system super block A disk backup stores all disk volum
67. 4 Acronis COMPUTE WITH CONFIDENCE WWW ACRONIS COM Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Server for Linux User s Guide Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 All rights reserved Acronis and Acronis Secure Zone are registered trademarks of Acronis Inc Acronis Compute with Confidence Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Acronis Active Restore and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis Inc Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Windows and MS DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder Distribution of this work or derivative work in any standard paper book form for commercial purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED AS IS AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH DISCLAIMERS ARE HELD TO BE LEGALLY INVALID Table of Contents 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 32 1 4 1 5 1 6 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 5 2 6 2 7 2 8 2 9 2 10 2 10 1 2 10 2 2 11 2 11 1 2 11 2 3 1 3 1 1
68. 67 e the ability to manage storage nodes p 178 If there are multiple management servers on the network they operate independently manage different machines and use different centralized vaults for storing archives Media builder A dedicated tool for creating bootable media p 169 P Personal vault A local or networked vault p 180 created using direct management p 172 Once a personal vault is created a shortcut to it appears under the Personal vaults item of the Navigation pane Multiple machines can use the same physical location for example a network share as a personal vault Physical machine On Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Server a physical machine is the same as a registered machine p 177 A virtual machine is considered physical if an Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 agent is installed on the machine and the machine is registered on the management server Plan See Backup plan p 168 Policy See Backup policy p 168 R Recovery point Date and time to which the backed up data can be reverted to Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 177 Registered machine A machine p 176 managed by a management server p 176 A machine can be registered on only one management server at a time A machine becomes registered as a result of the registration p 178 procedure Registration A procedure that adds a managed machine p 176 to a management server p 176 Registration
69. 67 in a managed vault can be accessed as follows bsp node address vault name archive name Physically managed vaults can reside on a network share SAN NAS on a hard drive local to the storage node or on a tape library locally attached to the storage node The storage node performs storage node side cleanup p 178 and storage node side validation p 179 for each archive stored in the managed vault An administrator can specify additional operations that the storage node will perform deduplication p 172 encryption Any managed vault is self contained that is contains all metadata the storage node needs to manage the vault In case the storage node is lost or its database is corrupted the new storage node retrieves the metadata and re creates the database When the vault is attached to another storage node the same procedure takes place 176 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Management server Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Server A central server that drives data protection within the enterprise network Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Server provides the administrator with e a single entry point to the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 infrastructure e an easy way to protect data on numerous machines p 176 using backup policies p 168 and grouping e enterprise wide monitoring functionality e the ability to create centralized vaults p 170 for storing enterprise backup archives p 1
70. 78 Default backup and recovery options 45 47 Default backup options 47 114 Default recovery options 67 132 Deleting Acronis Secure Zone 156 Deleting archives and backups 81 82 Destination selection 135 Differential backup 167 172 Direct management 95 166 171 172 176 177 Disk backup Image 166 172 176 Disk destination 136 Disk group 173 175 Disks 131 135 Disks volumes selection 134 Dual destination 40 48 62 Dynamic disk 166 167 173 175 Dynamic group 170 174 Dynamic volume 170 175 E E mail 49 57 68 71 Encrypted archive 175 Encrypted vault 175 178 Error handling 48 62 68 74 Event tracing 45 59 73 Exclusions 113 117 139 140 F Fast incremental differential backup 48 60 File destination 131 139 File level backup snapshot 48 55 File level security 68 71 Files selection 135 183 Filtering and sorting archives 78 83 Filtering and sorting backup plans and tasks 98 105 Filtering and sorting log entries 109 111 Fits time interval 93 Fonts 45 Full backup 167 169 171 172 175 Full incremental and differential backups 17 21 121 G Getting started 6 GFS Grandfather Father Son 169 175 179 GFS backup scheme 24 175 Grandfather Father Son scheme 122 H HDD writing speed 48 56 How to reactivate GRUB or LILO and change its configuration 142 Image 176 Increas
71. 9 Unallocated Dynamic amp GPT Volumes DYN1 mdO S SINIMINOO EES IDEE SES 0 63 DESI 0 63 You can back up the RAID array as follows trueimagecmd creat partition DYN1 filename tmp raid tib progress on In the Graphical User Interface you can select the DYN1 check box Recovery Parameters of software RAID arrays are not backed up so they can only be recovered over a basic volume to unallocated space or to a previously configured array Recovery can be performed in Linux or a Linux based bootable media When started from bootable media the bootable agent tries to access parameters of a software disk array and configure it However if the necessary information is lost the array cannot be configured automatically In this case create a software array manually by using a command such as mdadm and then restart the recovery procedure For example the following command creates an MD device dev mdO in the RAID 1 configuration on the basic volumes dev sdc1 and dev sdd1 mdadm create dev md level 1 raid devices 2 dev sd cd 1 For detailed information about recovering software RAID arrays see Recovering MD devices and logical volumes p 162 Hardware RAID arrays Hardware RAID arrays under Linux combine several physical drives to create a single partitionable disk The special file related to a hardware RAID array is usually located in dev ataraid You can back up hardware RAID arrays in the same way as ordinar
72. A AAEE E I A T BaGK 0A eno MEME Access credentials ere reet rsen edet ait ce edere edere eee in pesa Rai eyed Volurmie selection nee re eie bier deter a rede n i eder 6 6 Managing mounted images esses enne nnne ener nn nasse seran nns 151 6 7 Acronis Sec re ZOMG sic 265 255 er ve e Eee eR rev eee noU aerae aeaieo ikora Rte ea ence aeris 152 6 7 1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone esee eene ennt ennt tine ra sinka raketani ai tans tsi ta sese ta stasera san 152 6 7 2 Managing Acronis Secure Zone eese eee ennt rne nn sts stint na sistat tania sense ia stasera sanae n sa 155 6 8 Bootable media terea eto teme edere 157 6 8 1 Bootable Media Builders 5 31 2 0 ir na etr bere Mesa re Ene tte eis ero deese Ete ee eer an Eno og 158 6 8 2 Connecting to a machine booted from media esses eene tnnt tn snnt nnn 160 6 8 3 Working under bootable media eese eene tn tnnt ta trata tnis tasas rasan 160 6 8 4 List of commands and utilities available in Linux based bootable media 161 6 8 5 Recovering MD devices and logical volumes eese nennen ennt tn nnns nn nns 162 dora 166 1 Introducing Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 1 1 Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 overview Based on Acronis patented disk imaging and bare metal restore tec
73. Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 101 state means that the task has never been started or Stopped has been started but has not finished yet and so its result is not available 6 1 2 2 Working with backup plans and tasks Actions on backup plans and tasks The following is a guideline for you to perform operations with backup plans and tasks To Do View details of a plan task Backup plan Click View details In the Plan Details p 108 window review the plan details Task Click View details In the Task Details p 106 window review the task details View plan s task s log Backup plan Click amp View log You will be taken to the Log p 109 view containing the list of the plan related log entries Task Click amp View log You will be taken to the Log p 109 view containing the list of the task related log entries Run a plan task Backup plan Click b Run In the Run Backup Plan p 105 window select the task you need to be run Running the backup plan starts the selected task of that plan immediately in spite of its schedule and conditions Why can t I run the backup plan e Do not have the appropriate privilege Without the Administrator privileges on the machine a user cannot run plans owned by other users The task will be executed immediately in spite of its schedule and conditions 102 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Stop a plan task Edit a plan task Backu
74. Create a backup plan p 168 To do so you have to specify at the very least the data to be protected and the location where the backup archive p 167 will be stored This will create a minimal backup plan consisting of one task p 179 that will create a full backup p 167 of your data every time the task is manually started A complex backup plan might consist of multiple tasks which run on schedule create full incremental or differential backups p 21 perform archive maintenance operations such as backup validation p 180 or deleting outdated backups archive cleanup p 171 You can customize backup operations using various backup options such as pre post backup commands network bandwidth throttling error handling or notification options 6 Use the Backup plans and tasks page to view information about your backup plans and tasks and monitor their execution Use the Log page to browse the operations log 7 The location where you store backup archives is called a vault p 180 Navigate to the Vaults page to view information about your vaults Navigate further to the specific vault to view archives and backups and perform manual operations with them mounting validating deleting viewing contents You can also select a backup to recover data from it Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 17 The following diagram illustrates the notions discussed above For more definitions please refer to the Glossary 18 Bootable
75. EE e vena E ege PR ETE ene 32 Backing up LVM volumes Linux reres eroe a A AA 34 Backing up RAID arrays LINUX cc cccccsssccecssscececssscececssssececsesececessececsesececsessecseesaaeees 36 Tape support xcti eee 38 Tape comipatibility table 5 31 5 3 tre cried eerte rr mE PIRE Ea a E E A aa RENTE FE CREE Erga era o OE Aged 38 Using sirnigle tape driVe s eoi roe eere tre etti erre einer ev eei NEVER EYE Yee ae ERU EXTR 39 Proprietary Acronis technologies eese eene enne enne nnne 40 Acronis SCCUPE Aoi 40 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager sess enne nnne nn ennt nne th seni tantis sense ta sisi ra stas e natans trn sa 41 OPTIONS 1 00 43 GCOMSOlE options sie ti ei ER E ERE eiie et Ri RETE Startup page eot ee top ice aD deer e qe niet ere e Pot ek e etn At nd eared nte bo pe ent Pop up messages Time based alerts Numberof CaSKS OEC FOIE eR H Machine optiorns e c RR A ES E P I YEREER VE ee sauseideseacadevsaneeeas Event tracilig o Rete esten eh Ree Len eG Cr aeir aeia 45 Default backup and recovery options ccccccccccsssssesssseceeecessssecneaeceesesseessaaeeeeeeseessesenaeees 47 Default backup options rrr pret ete derer eee esee ende ren season aaia 47 Defa lt recovery options rere eoe rnes eric eet i testeedecaiges AA e Peak ur
76. MP managers You can choose the types of events to be sent You can override the settings set here exclusively for the events that occur during backup or during recovery in the Default backup and recovery options p 47 In this case the settings set here will be effective for operations other than backup and recovery such as archive validation or cleanup Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 45 You can further override the settings set in the default backup and recovery options when creating a backup plan or a recovery task The settings you obtain in this case will be plan specific or task specific Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 provides the following Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP objects to SNMP management applications 1 3 6 1 4 1 24769 100 200 1 0 string identifying the type of event Information Warning Error 1 3 6 1 4 1 24769 100 200 2 0 string containing the text description of the event it looks identical to messages published by Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 in its log The preset is Disabled To set up sending SNMP messages 1 Select the Send messages to SNMP server check box 2 Specify the appropriate options as follows o Types of events to send choose the types of events All events Errors and warnings or Errors only o Server name IP type the name or IP address of the host running the SNMP management application the messages will be sent to o Community type the name
77. R e eene a 67 MEI CERE E 76 Personal EI CE M M 77 Working with the Personal vault view esses eene eene tnn nn enne nnns tas nn stantis 78 Actions on personal vaults 4 2 4 2 1 4 2 2 4 2 3 4 2 4 5 1 5 2 5 3 5 4 5 4 1 5 4 2 5 4 3 6 1 6 1 1 6 1 2 6 1 3 6 2 6 2 1 6 2 2 6 2 3 6 2 4 6 2 5 6 2 6 6 2 7 6 2 8 6 2 9 6 2 10 6 3 6 3 1 6 3 2 6 3 3 6 3 4 6 3 5 6 3 6 6 3 7 6 3 8 6 3 9 6 4 6 4 1 6 4 2 6 4 3 6 4 4 6 4 5 6 4 6 6 5 6 5 1 6 5 2 6 5 3 6 5 4 COMMON operations ectetuer e e e detenti ebd iie Operations with archives stored in a vault Operations with backups ccccsccscsscssssecssesesscsscssesscecssesessesscecsessessessesaueaseaseeseess Deleting archives and backups ccccsccscscssesesscsscsscsscsssssesessesscssssessesaessesessaseeeesees Filtering and sorting archives sees enne tentent a iae Earsmmuee AS 84 Daily schedule 5 onore ere m eiiis 85 Weekly scheqdule 2 e trat t na Ine eR RR RR SNR E tas 87 Monthly sched le ett t eee ese vue eate eerte dee di eges 89 Why is the program asking for the password sessi enint nnne tn nnne nn traen 114 Backup plan s credentials entente iita eene ede e pre eere nion SOUF Ce TYPO nouam et ere i tete lec ete dete qoot be eed e e ee eRe Item
78. This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems This option is not available when operating under the bootable media This option determines the program behavior when any of the backup plan s tasks fails The preset is Continue executing the backup plan Stop executing the backup plan The plan s schedule will be temporarily disabled so that you have time to find out and eliminate the cause of the failure None of the plan s tasks will start on schedule until you resume the plan execution with the button in the Backup plans and tasks view 64 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Continue executing the backup plan The plan s tasks will be executed on schedule as though the failure did not occur In addition the program can try to execute the failed task again Select the Restart a failed task check box and specify the number of attempts and the time interval between the attempts The program stops trying as soon as an attempt completes successfully OR the specified number of attempts is performed depending on which comes first Failed Failed Succeded nns Idle Running Idle Idle Task state Lo Interval between attempts t N 3 none of attempts succeeded Failed Failed Failed Failed Idle Running Idle Running Idle Running Idle Task state If the task fails because of a mistake in the backup plan you can edit the plan while the task is in the Idle state While the task is runn
79. Type Origa Man w An ug Bacup plan Local Comp Local EP Local machine Machine12 sone x d up ec Ssdup le Loca Task for vakdabon after Validation ar Local Task for vaidetion after Validation Ar Local Validation v Local Vaksen vak Local Tasks view Common way of working with views Generally every view contains a table of items a table toolbar with buttons and the Information panel e Use filtering and sorting capabilities to search the table for the item in question e Inthe table select the desired item e Inthe Information panel collapsed by default view the item s details Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 11 e Perform actions on the selected item There are several ways of performing the same action on selected items o By clicking the buttons on the table toolbar o By clicking in the items in the Item s name Actions bar on the Actions and Tools pane o By selecting the items in the Actions menu o By right clicking the item and selecting the operation in the context menu Action pages An action page appears in the main area when clicking any action item in the Actions menu or in the Actions bar on the Actions and tools pane It contains steps you need to perform in order to create and launch any task or a backup plan or backup policy c Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Connected to This Machine Local Connection O Po 5 Hoos Bus or Ott J Acronis LI C
80. a hard disk if several on which to create the zone The unallocated space is selected by default The program displays the total space available for the Acronis Secure Zone 2 Ifyou need to allocate more space for the zone you can select volumes from which free space can be taken Again the program displays the total space available for the Acronis Secure Zone depending on your selection You will be able to set the exact zone size in the Acronis Secure Zone Size p 153 window 3 Click OK 6 7 1 2 Acronis Secure Zone Size Enter the Acronis Secure Zone size or drag the slider to select any size between the minimum and the maximum ones The minimum size is approximately 50MB depending on the geometry of the hard disk The maximum size is equal to the disk s unallocated space plus the total free space on all the volumes you have selected in the previous step If you have to take space from the boot or the system volume please bear the following in mind e Moving or resizing of the volume from which the system is currently booted will require a reboot e Taking all free space from a system volume may cause the operating system to work unstably and even fail to start Do not set the maximum zone size if the boot or the system volume is selected 6 7 1 3 Password for Acronis Secure Zone Setting up a password protects the Acronis Secure Zone from unauthorized access The program will ask for the password at any operation relating to th
81. a malefactor by using encrypted vaults p 175 Storage node side cleanup Cleanup p 171 performed by a storage node p 178 according to the backup plans p 168 that produce the archives p 167 stored in a managed vault p 176 Being an alternative to the agent side cleanup p 167 the cleanup on the storage node side relieves the production servers of unnecessary CPU load 178 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Since the cleanup schedule exists on the machine p 176 the agent p 167 resides on and therefore uses the machine s time and events the agent has to initiate the storage node side cleanup every time the scheduled time or event comes To do so the agent must be online The following table summarizes the cleanup types used in Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Cleanup Storage node side Schedule set by Backup plan Backup plan Retention rules set by Backup plan Backup plan Storage node side validation Validation p 180 performed by a storage node p 178 according to the backup plans p 168 that produce the archives p 167 stored in a managed location p 176 Being an alternative to the agent side validation p 167 the validation on the storage node side relieves the production servers of unnecessary CPU load T Task In Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 a task is a set of sequential actions to be performed on a managed machine p 176 when a certain time comes or a certain event oc
82. a set of centralized tasks p 170 that will carry out the plan Backup scheme A part of the backup plan p 168 that includes the backup schedule and optionally the retention rules and the cleanup p 171 schedule For example perform full backup p 175 monthly on the last day of the month at 10 00AM and incremental backup p 176 on Sundays at 10 00PM Delete backups that are older than 3 months Check for such backups every time the backup operation is completed Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 provides the ability to use well known optimized backup schemes such as GFS p 175 and Tower of Hanoi p 179 to create a custom backup scheme or back up data once Bootable agent A bootable rescue utility that includes most of the functionality of the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent p 167 Bootable agent is based on Linux kernel A machine p 176 can be booted into a bootable agent using either bootable media p 169 or Acronis PXE Server Operations can be configured and controlled either locally through the GUI or remotely using the console p 171 Bootable media A physical media CD DVD USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine p 176 BIOS as a boot device that contains the bootable agent p 169 or Windows Preinstallation Environment WinPE p 180 with the Acronis Plug in for WinPE p 166 A machine can also be booted into the above environments using the network boot from Acronis PXE Server
83. ackup plan exists on Before creating a schedule be sure the machine s date and time settings are correct Schedule To define when a task has to be executed you need to specify an event or multiple events The task will be launched as soon as any of the events occurs The table below lists the events available under Linux operating system Events Time Daily Weekly Monthly Time passed since the last successful backup has completed specify the length of time System startup Condition For backup operations only you can specify a condition or multiple conditions in addition to the events Once any of the events occurs the scheduler checks the condition and runs the task if the condition is met With multiple conditions all of them must be met simultaneously to enable task execution The table below lists the conditions available under Linux operating system Condition run the task only if Archive location is available The task run time is within the specified time interval The specified period of time has passed since the last successful backup completed The scheduler behavior in case the event occurs but the condition or any of multiple conditions is not met is defined by the Task start conditions p 63 backup option What ifs e What if an event occurs and a condition if any is met while the previous task run has not completed The event will be ignored e What if an event occurs while the scheduler is wai
84. ailable 3 If the location will never be available on workdays at 9PM the task never starts 5 4 2 Fits time interval Restricts a backup task s start time to a specified interval Example A company uses different locations on the same network attached storage for backing up users data and servers The workday starts at 8AM and ends at 5 PM Users data should be backed up as soon as the users log off but not earlier than 4 30 PM and not later than 10 PM Every day at 11 PM the company s servers are backed up So all the users data should be preferably backed up before this time in order to free network bandwidth By specifying the upper limit as 10 PM it is supposed that the backing up of users data does not take more than one hour If a user is still logged on within the specified time interval or logs off at any other time do not back up the users data i e skip task execution e Event When logging off The following user Any user e Condition Fits the time interval from 04 30 00 PM until 10 00 00 PM e Task start conditions Skip the task execution As a result 1 if the user logs off between 04 30 00 PM and 10 00 00 PM the backup task will start immediately following the logging off 2 if the user logs off at any other time the task will be skipped Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 93 What if What if a task is scheduled to be executed at a certain time and this time is outside the specified
85. alized management capability to the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Server The console has two distributions for installation on Windows and installation on Linux While both distributions enable connection to any Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 agent and Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Server we recommend that you use the console for Windows if you have a choice between the two The console that installs on Linux has limited functionality e remote installation of Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 components is not available e the Active Directory related features such as browsing the AD are not available 1 4 Supported operating systems Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Console Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent for Linux e Linux with kernel 2 4 18 or later including 2 6 x kernels and glibc 2 3 2 e Various Linux distributions for the exact list see the man page for the trueimagecmd utility among which support for the following Linux distributions is especially considered SuSE 9 3 SuSE 10 0 SLES 9 0 RedHat 9 0 Fedora Core 4 Fedora Core 5 Enterprise Server 3 0 Mandrake 10 x Slackware 10 Debian Sarge ASPLinux 10 Gentoo Ubuntu 4 10 e x64 versions of the above Linux distributions and other Linux distributions are also supported The agent for Linux is in fact a 32 bit executable For authentication the agent uses system libraries 32 bit versions of which are not always installed b
86. ally selects the corresponding check boxes Mon Tue Wed Thu and Fri and leaves the remaining ones unchanged 2 Once at 09 00 00 PM 3 Effective From empty If you have created the task say on Monday at 11 30 AM the task will be started on the same day at 9 PM If the task was created say on Friday after 9 PM then it will be started for the first time on the nearest workday Monday in our example at 9 PM End date empty The task will be restarted for an indefinite number of weeks This schedule is widely used when creating a custom backup scheme The Workdays like schedule is added to the incremental backups while the full backup is scheduled to be performed one day in the week For more details see the Full and incremental backups plus cleanup example in the Custom backup scheme p 127 section Several weekly schedules for one task In the case when the task needs to be run on different days of the weeks with different time intervals consider adding a dedicated schedule to every desired day of the week or to several days 88 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 For example you need the task to be run with the following schedule e Monday twice at 12 PM noon and 9 PM e Tuesday every 3 hours from 9 AM till 9 PM e Wednesday every 3 hours from 9 AM till 9 PM e Thursday every 3 hours from 9 AM till 9 PM e Friday twice at 12 PM and 9 PM i e same as on Monday e Saturday once at 9 PM e Sunday once
87. also saved on the media You can change the settings except for the MAC address or configure the settings for a non existent NIC if need be Once the bootable agent starts on the server it retrieves the list of available NICs This list is sorted by the slots the NICs occupy the closest to the processor on top The bootable agent assigns each known NIC the appropriate settings identifying the NICs by their MAC addresses After the NICs with known MAC addresses are configured the remaining NICs are assigned the settings that you have made for non existent NICs starting from the upper non assigned NIC You can customize bootable media for any machine and not only for the machine where the media is created To do so configure the NICs according to their slot order on that machine NIC1 occupies the slot closest to the processor NIC2 is in the next slot and so on When the bootable agent starts on that machine it will find no NICs with known MAC addresses and will configure the NICs in the same order as you did Example The bootable agent could use one of the network adapters for communication with the management console through the production network Automatic configuration could be done for this connection Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 159 Sizeable data for recovery could be transferred through the second NIC included in the dedicated backup network by means of static TCP IP settings 6 8 1 2 Network port While cr
88. ame Q domain Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 e Password The password for the account 2 Click OK To learn more about using credentials in Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 see the Owners and credentials p 23 section To learn more about operations available depending on the user privileges see the User privileges on a managed machine p 23 section 6 3 2 Archive selection Selecting the archive 1 Enter the full path to the location in the Path field or select the desired folder in the folders tree o Ifthe archive is stored in a centralized vault expand the Centralized group and click the vault o Ifthe archive is stored in a personal vault expand the Personal group and click the vault o Ifthe archive is stored in a local folder on the machine expand the Local folders group and click the required folder If the archive is located on removable media e g DVDs first insert the last DVD and then insert discs in order starting from the first one when the program prompts o Ifthe archive is stored on a network share expand the Network folders group then select the required networked machine and then click the shared folder If the network share requires access credentials the program will ask for them Note for Linux users To specify a Common Internet File System CIFS network share which is mounted on a mount point such as mnt share select this mount point instead of the network share itself
89. ans All actions can also be accessed in the respective menu items A menu item appears on the menu bar when you select an item in any of the navigation views Vault 15 actions A wt validate Log A ER Delete View details Explore Ep Save selected to file Archive 1 actions GR Create H Save allto file S Validate e Create Acronis Secure Zone A Clear log XM Delete i Refresh Refresh eo Refresh Examples of Item name actions bars Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 9 Actions Contains a list of common operations that can be performed on a managed machine or on a management server Always the same for all views Clicking the operation opens the respective action page see the Action pages p 12 section All the actions can also be accessed in the Actions menu Actions A Q Backup Recover W Validate Ba Create personal location QE Create ASZ continue Actions 2 Mount image Q Create backup policy Q Manage mounted images Ss Add centralized location Actions bar on a managed machine and on a management server Tools Contains a list of the Acronis tools Always the same across all the program views All the tools can also be accessed in the Tools menu Tools By Create bootable media S Install Acronis components Tools bar Help Contains a list of help topics Different views and action pages of Acronis Backup amp
90. archives to vault B manually by means of a third party file manager 3 Edit the backup plans that use vault A redirect their destination to vault B 4 Inthe vaults tree select vault B to check whether the archives are displayed If not click Refresh 5 Delete vault A 4 2 Common operations 4 2 1 Operations with archives stored in a vault To perform any operation with an archive you have to select it first If the archive is protected with a password you will be asked to provide it 80 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 All the operations described below are performed by clicking the corresponding buttons on the toolbar These operations can be also accessed from the Archive name actions bar on the Actions and tools pane and from the Archive name actions item of the main menu respectively The following is a guideline for you to perform operations with archives stored in a vault To Validate an archive Delete a single archive or multiple archives Delete all archives in the vault Do Click validate The Validation p 144 page will be opened with the pre selected archive as a source Validation of an archive will check all the archive s backups 1 Select the archive or one of the archives you want to delete 2 Click X Delete The program duplicates your selection in the Backups deletion p 82 window that has check boxes for each archive and each backup Review the selection and correct if need
91. at 9 PM Combining the identical times the following three schedules can be added to the task First schedule 1 Every 1 week s on Mon Fri 2 Every 9 hours From 12 00 00 PM Until 09 00 00 PM 3 Effective From not set To not set Second schedule 1 Every 1 week s on Tue Wed Thu 2 Every 3 hours From 09 00 00 AM until 09 00 00 PM 3 Effective From not set To not set Third schedule 1 Every 1 week s on Sat Sun 2 Once at 09 00 00 PM 3 Effective From not set To not set 5 3 Monthly schedule Monthly schedule is effective in Windows and Linux operating systems To specify a monthly schedule In the Schedule area select the appropriate parameter as follows Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 89 Months lt gt Select a certain month s you want to run the task in Days lt gt Select specific days of the month to run the task on You can also select the last day of the month irrespective of its actual date On lt gt lt gt Select specific days of the weeks to run the task on In the During the day execute the task area select one of the following Once at lt gt Set up the time at which the task will be run once Every lt gt Set up how many times the task will be run during the specified time interval For example setting the task frequency to Every 1 hour From 10 00 00 AM until 10 00 00 PM allows the task to be run 12 times
92. ault can be organized on a local or networked drive detachable media or a tape device attached to the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Storage Node There are no settings for limiting a vault size or number of backups in a vault You can limit the size of each archive using cleanup but the total size of archives stored in the vault is limited by the storage size only Why create vaults We recommend that you create a vault in each destination where you are going to store backup archives This will ease your work as follows Quick access to the vault You will not have to remember paths to the folders where the archives are stored When creating a backup plan or a task that requires selection of an archive or an archive destination place the list of vaults will be available for quick access without drilling down through the folders tree Easy archive management A vault is available for access from the Navigation pane Having selected the vault you can browse the archives stored there and perform the following archive management operations e geta list of backups included in each archive e recover data from a backup e examine backup content e validate all archives in the vault or individual archives or backups e mount a volume backup to copy files from the backup to a physical disk e safely delete archives and backups from the archives Creating vaults is highly recommended but is not obligatory You may choose not to use the shortcu
93. backup of each level is stored at a time e Higher density of more recent backups Parameters You can set up the following parameters of a Tower of Hanoi scheme Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 125 Schedule Set up a daily p 85 weekly p 87 or monthly p 89 schedule Setting up schedule parameters allows creating simple schedules example of a simple daily schedule a backup task will be run every 1 day at 10 AM as well as more complex schedules example of a complex daily schedule a task will be run every 3 days starting from January 15 During the specified days the task will be repeated every 2 hours from 10 AM to 10 PM Thus complex schedules specify the sessions on which the scheme should run In the discussion below days can be replaced with scheduled sessions Number of levels Select from 2 to 16 backup levels See the example stated below for details Roll back period The guaranteed number of sessions that one can go back in the archive at any time Calculated automatically depending on the schedule parameters and the numbers of levels you select See the example below for details Example Schedule parameters are set as follows e Recur Every 1 day e Frequency Once at 6 PM Number of levels 4 This is how the first 14 days or 14 sessions of this scheme s schedule look Shaded numbers denote backup levels es pep E M Backups of different levels have different types e Last level in this
94. backup operation p 168 such as pre post backup commands maximum network bandwidth allotted for the backup stream or data compression level Backup options are a part of a backup plan p 168 Backup plan Plan A set of rules that specify how the given data will be protected on a given machine A backup plan specifies e what data to back up e where to store the backup archive p 167 the backup archive name and location e the backup scheme p 169 that includes the backup schedule and optionally the retention rules e optionally the archive validation rules p 180 e the backup options p 168 For example a backup plan can contain the following information e back up volume C this is the data the plan will protect e name the archive MySystemVolume and place it to server backups this is the backup archive name and location e perform full backup monthly on the last day of the month at 10 00AM and incremental backup on Sundays at 10 00PM Delete backups that are older than 3 months this is a backup scheme e validate the last backup immediately after its creation this is a validation rule e protect the archive with a password this is an option Physically a backup plan is a bundle of tasks p 179 configured for execution on a managed machine p 176 A backup plan can be created directly on the machine local plan or appears on the machine as a result of a backup policy p 168 deployment cen
95. ce the successful completion of the last backup the scheduler will wait until 12 hours pass and then will start the task 2 if the free space changes by more than 1GB after 12 hours pass since the last backup successful completion the backup task will start immediately 3 if the free space never changes by more than 1GB the task will never start You can start the backup manually if need be in the Backup plans and tasks view 94 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 6 Direct management This section covers operations that can be performed directly on a managed machine by using the direct console agent connection The content of this section is applicable to both stand alone and advanced editions of Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 6 1 Administering a managed machine This section describes the views that are available through the navigation tree of the console connected to a managed machine and explains how to work with each view 6 1 1 Dashboard Use the Dashboard to estimate at a glance whether the data is successfully protected on the machine The dashboard shows the summary of Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 agent s activities and enables you to rapidly identify and resolve any issues Alerts The alerts section draws your attention to issues that have occurred on the machine and offers you ways of fixing or examining them The most critical issues are displayed on the top If there are no alerts or warnings at the mo
96. chine options define the general behavior of all Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 agents operating on the managed machine and so the options are considered machine specific To access the machine options connect the console to the managed machine and then select Options Machine options from the top menu 3 2 1 Event tracing It is possible to send log events generated by the agent s operating on the managed machine to the specified SNMP managers If you do not modify the event tracing options anywhere except for here your settings will be effective for each local backup plan and each task created on the machine You can override the settings set here exclusively for the events occurred during backup or during recovery see Default backup and recovery options p 47 In this case the settings set here will be effective for operations other than backup and recovery such as archive validation or cleanup You can further override the settings set in the default backup and recovery options when creating a backup plan or a recovery task The settings you obtain in this case will be plan specific or task specific 3 2 1 1 SNMP notifications This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems This option is not available when operating under the bootable media The option defines whether the agent s operating on the managed machine have to send the log events to the specified Simple Network Management Protocol SN
97. cify e User name When entering the name of an Active Directory user account be sure to also specify the domain name DOMAIN Username or Username domain e Password The password for the account 2 Click OK Warning As appears from the original FTP specification credentials required for access to FTP servers are transferred through a network as plaintext This means that the user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer 6 2 9 Backup schemes Choose one of the available backup schemes e Back up now to create a backup task for manual start and run the task immediately after its creation e Back up later to create a backup task for manual start OR schedule one time task execution in the future e Simple to schedule when and how often to backup data and specify retention rules e Grandfather Father Son to use the Grandfather Father Son backup scheme The scheme does not allow data to be backed up more than once a day You set the days of week when the daily backup will be performed and select from these days the day of weekly monthly backup Then you set the retention periods for the daily referred to as sons weekly referred to as fathers and monthly referred to as grandfathers backups The expired backups will be deleted automatically 120 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 e Tower of Hanoi to use the Tower of Hanoi backup scheme where you schedu
98. covering Linux Unmanaged vault Any vault p 180 that is not a managed vault p 176 V Validation An operation that checks the possibility of data recovery from a backup p 167 Validation of a file backup imitates recovery of all files from the backup to a dummy destination The previous product versions considered a file backup valid when the metadata contained in its header was consistent The current method is time consuming but much more reliable Validation of a volume backup calculates a checksum for every data block saved in the backup This procedure is also resource intensive While the successful validation means a high probability of successful recovery it does not check all factors that influence the recovery process If you back up the operating system only a test recovery under the bootable media to a spare hard drive can guarantee successful recovery in the future Validation rules A part of the backup plan p 168 Rules that define when and how often to perform validation p 180 and whether to validate the entire archive p 167 or the latest backup in the archive Vault A place for storing backup archives p 167 A vault can be organized on a local or networked drive or detachable media such as an external USB drive There are no settings for limiting a vault size or the number of backups in a vault You can limit the size of each archive using cleanup p 171 but the total size of archives stored in t
99. covering multiple files from a file backup taken without snapshot each file will be reverted to the moment when it was actually copied to the backup You also specify the destination where to recover the data You can customize the recovery operation using recovery options such as pre post recovery commands error handling or notification options The following diagram illustrates data recovery under the operating system online No backup can proceed on the machine while the recovery operation is taking place If required you can connect the console to another machine and configure a recovery operation on that machine This ability remote Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 19 parallel recovery first appeared in Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 the previous Acronis products do not provide it Managed Machine Vault Console Control Backup Plan 1 Task 1 F Backup 1 Full backup l F Backup 2 F Backup 0 Create Backup Plan 2 Task 1 Full backup Bootable media Task 2 F Backup 0 Differential backup oa Backup 1 Restore task D Backup 3 Restore Data2 from ipso F Backup 5 Recovery using bootable media Recovery over a volume locked by the operating system such as the volume where the operating system resides requires a reboot to the bootable environment which is a part of the agent After the recovery is completed the recovered operating system goes online automatically 20 Copyri
100. cronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Console and Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent 2 Startthe console Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 6 Linux Log in as root or log in as an ordinary user and then switch user as required Start the console with the command usr sbin acronis console 3 Connectthe console to the machine where the agent is installed Where to go from here For what to do next see Basic concepts p 17 For understanding of the GUI elements see Using the management console p 7 1 2 1 Using the management console As soon as the console connects to a managed machine p 176 or to a management server p 176 the respective items appear across the console s workspace in the menu in the main area with the Welcome screen the Navigation pane the Actions and tools pane enabling you to perform agent specific or server specific operations Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Connected to This Machine Local Connection Welcome to Machinei2 The console is connected to the managed machine Choose the action to perform or the tool to use To i Machiet2 check for warnings and review statistics navigate to the Dashboard view vatbord Backup plans and tasks SED vaks Log gt Disk management Shortcuts t Back up Actions Create a backup plan to protect data on the machine Recover the data from a backup archive created by your backup pin EP Local machine Machine
101. curs The actions are described in an xml script file The start condition schedule exists in the protected registry keys Tower of Hanoi A popular backup scheme p 169 aimed to maintain the optimal balance between a backup archive p 167 size and the number of recovery points p 177 available from the archive Unlike the GFS p 175 scheme that has only three levels of recovery resolution daily weekly monthly resolution the Tower of Hanoi scheme continuously reduces the time interval between recovery points as the backup age increases This allows for very efficient usage of the backup storage For more information please refer to Tower of Hanoi backup scheme p 29 U Universal Restore Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Universal Restore The Acronis proprietary technology that helps boot up Windows on dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine The Universal Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for the operating system start up such as storage controllers motherboard or chipset The Universal Restore is not available Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 179 e when the machine is booted with Acronis Startup Recovery Manager p 166 using F11 or e the image being recovered is located in Acronis Secure Zone p 166 or e when using Acronis Active Restore p 166 because these features are primarily meant for instant data recovery on the same machine Universal Restore is not available when re
102. d Windows Preinstallation Environment WinPE and Acronis Plug in for WinPE that is a modification of Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent that can run in the preinstallation environment WinPE proved to be the most convenient bootable solution in large environments with heterogeneous hardware Advantages e Using Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 in Windows Preinstallation Environment provides more functionality than using Linux based bootable media Having booted PC compatible hardware into WinPE you can use not only Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent but also PE commands and scripts and other plug ins you ve added to the PE Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 157 e PE based bootable media helps overcome some Linux related bootable media issues such as support for certain RAID controllers or certain levels of RAID arrays only Media based on PE 2 x that is Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 kernel allows for dynamic loading of the necessary device drivers 6 8 1 Bootable Media Builder To enable creating physical media the machine must have a CD DVD recording drive or allow a flash drive to be attached To enable PXE or WDS RIS configuration the machine must have a network connection Bootable Media Builder can also create an ISO image of a bootable disk to burn it later on a blank disk When using the media builder you have to specify 1 The Acronis bootable components to be placed on the media o Universa
103. d by the program on the managed machine 8 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Shortcuts bar The Shortcuts bar appears under the navigation tree It offers you an easy and convenient way of connection to the machines in demand by adding them as shortcuts To add a shortcut to a machine 1 Connectthe console to a managed machine 2 Inthe navigation tree right click the machine s name a root element of the navigation tree and then select Create shortcut If the console and agent are installed on the same machine the shortcut to this machine will be added to the shortcuts bar automatically as Local machine Machine name 12 12 Actions and tools pane The Actions and tools pane enables you to easily and efficiently work with Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 The pane s bars provide quick access to program s operations and tools All items of the Actions and tools bar are duplicated in the program menu Bars Item s name actions Contains a set of actions that can be performed on the items selected in any of the navigation views Clicking the action opens the respective action page p 12 Items of different navigation views have their own set of actions The bar s name changes in accordance with the item you select For example if you select the backup plan named System backup in the Backup plans and tasks view the actions bar will be named as System backup actions and will have the set of actions typical to backup pl
104. d differential backups will wait until all users are logged off and users are idle respectively Finally we create retention rules for the archive let us retain only backups that are no older than six months and let the cleanup be performed after each backup task and also on the last day of every month Retention rules Delete backups older than 6 months Apply the rules After backing up On schedule Cleanup schedule Monthly on the Last day of All months at 10 00 PM By default a backup is not deleted as long as it has dependent backups that must be kept For example if a full backup has become subject to deletion but there are incremental or differential backups that depend on it the deletion is postponed until all the dependent backups can be deleted as well For more information see Retention rules p 32 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 129 Resulting tasks Any custom scheme always produces three backup tasks and in case the retention rules are specified a cleanup task Each task is listed in the list of tasks either as Scheduled if the schedule has been set up or as Manual if the schedule has not been set up You can manually run any backup task or cleanup task at any time regardless of whether it has a schedule In the first of the previous examples we set up a schedule only for full backups However the scheme will still result in three backup tasks enabling you to manually start a backup of any type
105. dentials 23 77 133 145 P Password for Acronis Secure Zone 152 153 Personal vault 166 172 177 Personal vaults 41 77 Physical machine 170 177 Plan 177 Policy 177 Pop up messages 43 Post backup command 52 Post data capture command 54 Post recovery command 70 Pre Post commands 48 51 53 68 69 Pre Post data capture commands 48 52 Pre backup command 51 Pre data capture command 53 Pre recovery command 69 Proprietary Acronis technologies 40 R Recovering data 81 130 Recovering MD devices and logical volumes 35 37 131 162 Recovery point 175 177 179 Recovery priority 68 70 Registered machine 44 171 177 178 Registration 178 Result confirmation 153 154 Retention rules 32 121 128 129 171 Run backup plan 102 105 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 S Scheduling 63 84 121 130 148 Selecting disks and volumes 115 Selecting files and folders 116 Selection rule 168 178 Setting up SNMP services on the receiving machine 46 Simple scheme 121 SNMP notifications 45 49 59 68 73 Source files exclusion 47 50 Source type 109 113 115 Startup page 43 Static group 170 178 Storage node Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Storage Node 170 171 172 175 176 177 178 179 Storage node side cleanup 176 178 Storage node side validation 176 178 179 Supported file systems 15 Supported
106. dule 1 Months December January February 2 On lt All gt lt All workdays gt 3 Once at 10 00 00 PM 4 Effective From 11 01 2009 To not set Second schedule 1 Months March April May September October November 2 On lt All gt lt All workdays gt 3 Every 12 hours From 12 00 00 AM Until 12 00 00 PM Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 91 4 Effective From 11 01 2009 To not set Third schedule 1 Months June July August 2 Days 1 15 3 Once at 10 00 00 PM 4 Effective From 11 01 2009 To not set 5 4 Conditions Conditions add more flexibility to the scheduler enabling to execute backup tasks with respect to certain conditions Once a specified event occurs see the Scheduling section for the list of available events the scheduler checks the specified condition and executes the task if the condition is met The scheduler behavior in case the event occurs but the condition or any of multiple conditions is not met is defined by the Task start conditions p 63 backup option There you can specify how important the conditions are for the backup strategy e conditions are obligatory put the backup task run on hold until all the conditions are met e conditions are preferable but a backup task run has higher priority put the task on hold for the specified time interval If the time interval lapses and the conditions are still not met run the task anyway With th
107. e following order of moves ES Sod BE SRE BEES GG EHEEEEE aT Ta Tae Ta Dat fal Tal Ta fat fal The Tower of Hanoi backup scheme is based on the same patterns It operates with Sessions instead of Moves and with Backup levels instead of Rings Commonly an N level scheme pattern contains N th power of two sessions So the five level Tower of Hanoi backup scheme cycles the pattern that consists of 16 sessions moves from 1 to 16 in the above figure The table shows the pattern for the five level backup scheme The pattern consists of 16 sessions nese ABBR RE BE lal Tat fal fal Tal Pal al fel tt EOE s ST Ls Silili E The Tower of Hanoi backup scheme implies keeping only one backup per level All the outdated backups have to be deleted So the scheme allows for efficient data storage more backups accumulate toward the present time Having four backups you can recover data as of today yesterday half a week ago or a week ago For the five level scheme you can also recover data backed up two weeks ago So every additional backup level doubles the maximal roll back period for your data Tower of Hanoi by Acronis The Tower of Hanoi backup scheme is generally too complex to mentally calculate the next media to be used But Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 provides you with automation of the scheme usage You can set up the backup scheme while creating a backup plan Acronis implementation for the scheme has the following
108. e and under which conditions to perform a differential backup If the archive contains no full backups at the time of the task run a full backup is created instead of the differential backup Specifies what retention rules will be applied to the archive For example the cleanup procedure can be set up to delete all backups older than six months Specifies when to apply the retention rules p 32 For example the cleanup procedure can be set up to run after each backup and also on schedule This option is available only if you have set at least one retention rule in Retention rules Specifies a schedule for archive cleanup For example the cleanup can be scheduled to start on the last day of each month This option is available only if you selected On schedule in Apply the rules The following scheme yields a full backup performed every Friday night Full backup Schedule Weekly every Friday at 10 00 PM Here all parameters except Schedule in Full backup are left empty All backups in the archive are kept indefinitely no archive cleanup is performed Full and incremental backup plus cleanup With the following scheme the archive will consist of weekly full backups and daily incremental backups We further require that a full backup begin only after all users have logged off 128 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Full backup Schedule Weekly every Friday at 10 00 PM Full backup Conditions User is
109. e maximum size of the archive Every time a retention rule is applied the program compares the actual archive size with the value you set and deletes the oldest backups to keep the archive size within this value The diagram below shows the archive content before and after the deletion Archive Archive F Backup 3 F Backup 4 F Backup 5 Maximum size 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 improperly too small or a regular backup turns out to be too large To protect the recent backups from deletion select the Never delete backups younger than check box and specify the maximum age of backups that must be retained The diagram below illustrates the resulting rule Retention rule 2 is applied Never delete backups younger than I t I Delete if the maximum archive size is exceeded Do not delete Combination of rules 1 and 2 You can limit both the backups lifetime and the archive size The diagram below illustrates the resulting rule Never delete backups younger than t Delete if the maximum l a i 3 M 1 Do not delete J archive size is exceeded i Example Delete backups older than 3 Months Keep the archive size within 200GB Never delete backups younger than 10 Days e Every time the retenti
110. e zone and the archives located there such as data backup and recovery validating archives using the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager with the F11 key resizing and deleting the zone Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 153 To set up a password 1 Choose Use password 2 Inthe Enter the password field type a new password 3 Inthe Confirm the password field re type the password 4 Click OK To disable password 1 Choose Do not use 2 Click OK 6 7 1 4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is a modification of the bootable agent p 169 residing on the system disk and configured to start at boot time on pressing F11 It eliminates the need for a separate media or network connection to start the bootable rescue utility Activate Enables the boot time prompt Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager If the system fails to boot you will be able to start the bootable rescue utility by pressing F11 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager activation overwrites the Master Boot Record MBR with its own boot code You will have to reactivate third party boot loaders if installed Under Linux consider installing the LILO or GRUB loader to a Linux root or boot partition boot record instead of the MBR before activation Otherwise i reconfigure these boot loaders manually after activation i Do not activate Disables boot time prompt Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
111. eating bootable media you have an option to pre configure the network port that the bootable agent listens for incoming connection The choice is available between e the default port e the currently used port e the new port enter the port number If the port has not been pre configured the agent uses the default port number 9876 This port is also used as default by the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Console 6 8 2 Connecting to a machine booted from media Once a machine boots from bootable media the machine terminal displays a startup window with the IP address es obtained from DHCP or set according to the pre configured values Remote connection To connect to the machine remotely select Connect Manage a remote machine in the console menu and specify one of the machine s IP addresses Provide the user name and password if these have been configured when creating the bootable media Local connection Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Console is always present on the bootable media Anyone who has physical access to the machine terminal can run the console and connect Just click Run management console in the bootable agent startup window 6 8 3 Working under bootable media Operations on a machine booted with bootable media are very similar to backup and recovery under the operating system The difference is as follows 1 Disk letters seen under Windows style bootable media might differ from the
112. ecure Zone see the Personal vaults p 77 section Upgrade from Acronis True Image Echo When upgrading from Acronis True Image Echo to Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Acronis Secure Zone will keep the archives created with Echo The zone will appear in the list of personal vaults and the old archives will be available for recovery To upgrade the activated Acronis Startup Recovery Manager deactivate it and activate again No action is needed to upgrade the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager if it is not activated 2 11 2 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager A modification of the bootable agent p 169 can be placed on a system disk and configured to start at boot time when F11 is pressed This eliminates the need for rescue media or network connection to start the bootable rescue utility This feature has the trade name Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is especially useful for mobile users If a failure occurs the user reboots the machine hits F11 on prompt Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and performs data recovery in the same way as with ordinary bootable media The user can also back up using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager while on the move Acronis Secure Zone p 40 is at hand for backup and recovery operations Activation and deactivation of the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager The operation that enables using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is called activation You are
113. ed on the managed machine Click any personal vault in the vaults tree to open the detailed view of this vault p 78 and to take actions on the vault p 79 archives p 80 and backups p 81 stored in there 4 1 Personal vaults A vault is called personal if it was created using direct connection of the console to a managed machine Personal vaults are specific for each managed machine Personal vaults are visible to any user that can log on to the system A user s right to back up to a personal vault is defined by the user s permission for the folder or device where the vault is located A personal vault can be organized on detachable or removable media Acronis Secure Zone is considered as a personal vault available to all users that can log on the system Personal vaults can be used by local backup plans or local tasks Centralized backup plans cannot use personal vaults except for Acronis Secure Zone Sharing a personal vault Multiple machines can refer to the same physical location say to the same shared folder but each of the machines has its own shortcut in the Vaults tree Users that back up to a shared folder can see and manage each other s archives according to their access permissions for that folder To ease archive identification the Personal vault view has the Owner column that displays the owner of each archive To find out more about the owner concept see Owners and credentials p 23 Metadata The meta folder i
114. en Filtering and sorting log entries The following is a guideline for you to filter and sort log entries Display log entries for a given time period Filter log entries by type Filter log entries by the original backup plan or managed entity type Filter log entries by task managed entity machine code owner Sort log entries by date and time 1 Inthe From field select the date starting from which to display the log entries 2 Inthe To field select the date up to which to display the log entries Press or release the following toolbar buttons o to filter error messages A to filter warning messages to filter information messages Under the Backup plan or Managed entity type column header select the backup plan or the type of managed entity from the list Type the required value task name machine name owner name etc in the field below the respective column header As a result you will see that the list of log entries fully or just partly coincide with the entered value Click the column s header to sort the log entries in ascending order Click it once again to sort the log entries in descending order Configuring the log table By default the table has seven columns that are displayed others are hidden If required you can hide the shown columns and show the hidden ones To show or hide columns 1 Right click any column header to open the context menu The menu items that are ticked
115. ending order Filter plans tasks by name or Type a plan s task s name or an owner s name in the field below the owner corresponding header name As a result you will see the list of tasks whose names owners names fully or just partly coincide with the entered value Filter plans and tasks by In the field below the corresponding header select the required value from state status type origin the list last result schedule Configuring backup plans and the tasks table By default the table has six columns that are displayed others are hidden If required you can hide the displayed columns and show hidden ones To show or hide columns 1 Right click any column header to open the context menu The menu items that are ticked off correspond to column headers presented in the table 2 Click the items you want to be displayed hidden Run backup plan The backup plan is considered as running if at least one of its tasks is running The Run backup plan window lets you run the task of the selected backup plan manually in spite of its schedule Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 105 To run a task of the selected backup plan 1 Select the task of the backup plan you need to run To make certain of your selection check the task information gathered in tabs at the bottom of the window This information is also duplicated in the Task details p 106 window 2 Click OK Temporarily disabling a backup plan Temporari
116. ent and minimum values The minimum size is approximately 50MB depending on the geometry of the hard disk o typing an exact value in the Acronis Secure Zone Size field 4 Click OK see 2 Deleting Acronis Secure Zone Acronis Secure Zone deletion will automatically disable Acronis Startup Recovery Manager if it is activated and destroy all backups stored in the zone To delete the zone without uninstalling the program proceed as follows 1 Inthe Acronis Secure Zone Actions bar on the Actions and tools pane select Delete 2 Inthe Delete Acronis Secure Zone window select volumes to which you want to add the space freed from the zone and then click OK If you select several volumes the space will be distributed proportionally to each partition If you do not select any volume the freed space becomes unallocated After you click OK Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 will start deleting the zone When removing Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 agent from the system you have two options to keep Acronis Secure Zone along with its contents which will enable data recovery on booting from bootable media or remove Acronis Secure Zone 156 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 6 8 Bootable media Bootable media Bootable media is physical media CD DVD USB drive or other media supported by a machine BIOS as a boot device that boots on any PC compatible machine and enables you to run Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent either
117. ent console 3 Onthe toolbar click Actions and then click Start shell Alternatively you can press CTRL ALT F2 4 f necessary examine the structure of volumes which are stored in the archive by using the trueimagecmd utility Also you can use the trueimagemnt utility to mount one or more of these volumes as if they were regular volumes see Mounting backup volumes later in this topic 5 Create the volume structure according to that in the archive by using the mdadm utility for MD devices the lvm utility for logical volumes or both 162 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Note Logical Volume Manager utilities such as pvcreate and vgcreate which are normally available in Linux are not included in the bootable media environment so you need to use the lvm utility with a correspondent command lvm pvcreate lvm vgcreate etc 6 If you previously mounted the backup by using the trueimagemnt utility use this utility again to unmount the backup see Mounting backup volumes later in this topic 7 Return to the management console by pressing CTRL ALT F1 or by running the command bin product Do not reboot the machine at this point Otherwise you will have to create the volume structure again 8 Click Recover then specify the path to the archive and other required parameters and then click OK Note This procedure does not work when connected to Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Bootable Agent remotely becau
118. ent user The tasks will run under the credentials with which the user who starts the tasks is logged on If any of the tasks has to run on schedule you will be asked for the current user s password on completing the plan creation o Use the following credentials 114 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 The tasks will always run under the credentials you specify whether started manually or executed on schedule Specify e User name When entering the name of an Active Directory user account be sure to also specify the domain name DOMAINNUsername or Username 2 domain e Password The password for the account 2 Click OK To learn more about operations available depending on the user privileges see the Users privileges on a managed machine p 23 section 6 2 3 Source type Select the type of data you want to be backed up on the managed machine The list of available data types depends on the agents managing on the machine Files Available if the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent for Windows or for Linux is installed Select this option to back up specific files and folders If you are not concerned about recovery of the operating system along with all the settings and applications but plan to keep safe only certain data the current project for example choose file backup This will reduce the archive size thus saving storage space Disks volumes Available if the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent for Wi
119. entials and then switch user as required 2 4 Owners and credentials This section explains the concept of owner and the meaning of a backup plan s or task s credentials Plan task owner A local backup plan owner is the user who created or last modified the plan A centralized backup plan owner is the management server administrator who created or last modified the centralized policy that spawned the plan Tasks belonging to a backup plan either local or centralized are owned by the backup plan owner Tasks that do not belong to a backup plan such as the recovery task are owned by the user who has created or last modified the task Managing a plan task owned by another user Having Administrator privileges on the machine a user can modify tasks and local backup plans owned by any user registered in the operating system When a user opens a plan or task for editing which is owned by another user all passwords set in the task are cleared This prevents the modify settings leave passwords trick The program displays a Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 23 warning each time you are trying to edit a plan task last modified by another user On seeing the warning you have two options e Click Cancel and create your own plan or task The original task will remain intact e Continue editing You will have to enter all credentials required for the plan or task execution Archive owner An archive owner is the user w
120. equired check box to send notification during the operation when user interaction is required is always selected 4 Click Send Test WinPopup Message to check if the settings are correct 3 3 2 5 Event tracing It is possible to send log events of the recovery operations performed on the managed machine to the specified SNMP managers SNMP notifications This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems This option is not available when operating under the bootable media The option defines whether the agent s operating on the managed machine have to send the log events of the recovery operations to the specified Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP managers You can choose the types of events to be sent Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 provides the following Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP objects to SNMP management applications 1 3 6 1 4 1 24769 100 200 1 0 string identifying the type of event Information Warning Error 1 3 6 1 4 1 24769 100 200 2 0 string containing the text description of the event it looks identical to messages published by Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 in its log The preset is Use the setting set in the Machine options To select whether to send the recovery operations events to the SNMP managers Choose one of the following e Use the setting set in the Machine options to use the setting specified for the machine For more information refe
121. er Backup plans the Backup plans and tasks view will be opened with backup plans filtered by the Local origin 6 1 1 1 Tasks need interaction This window accumulates all the tasks that require user interaction in one place It enables you to specify your decision such as to confirm reboot or to retry after freeing up the disk space on each of the tasks Until at least one task requires interaction you can open this window at any time from the managed machine s Dashboard p 95 If you select the check box for the Do not show this window when tasks require interaction I will see this information in the tasks details and dashboard parameter the tasks will be displayed on the Dashboard among other alerts and warnings Alternatively you can review the task execution states in the Backup plans and tasks p 97 view and specify your decision on each task in the Information panel or in the Task details p 106 window 6 1 2 Backup plans and tasks The Backup plans and tasks view keeps you informed of data protection on a given machine It lets you monitor and manage backup plans and tasks A backup plan is a set of rules that specify how the given data will be protected on a given machine Physically a backup plan is a bundle of tasks configured for execution on a managed machine To find out what a backup plan is currently doing on the machine check the backup plan execution state p Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 97 98
122. ery 10 Management Server To specify these settings click Change in the Advanced settings area All the settings you made are displayed in the Result field at the bottom of the window Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 87 Examples One day in the week schedule Run the task every Friday at 10PM starting from a certain date say 05 14 2009 and ending after six months The schedule s parameters are thus set up as follows 1 Every 1 week s on Fri 2 Once at 10 00 00 PM 3 Effective From 05 13 2009 The task will be started on the nearest Friday at 10 PM To 11 13 2009 The task will be performed for the last time on this date but the task itself will still be available in the Tasks view after this date If this date were not a Friday the task would be last performed on the last Friday preceding this date This schedule is widely used when creating a custom backup scheme The One day in the week like schedule is added to the full backups while the incremental backups are scheduled to be performed on workdays For more details see the Full and incremental backups plus cleanup example in the Custom backup scheme p 127 section Workdays schedule Run the task every week on workdays from Monday through Friday During a workday the task starts only once at 9 PM The schedule s parameters are thus set up as follows 1 Every 1 week s on lt Workdays gt selecting the lt Workdays gt check box automatic
123. es an option to take a raw image that is copy all the disk sectors which enables imaging of unsupported file systems 172 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Disk group A number of dynamic disks p 173 that store the common configuration data in their LDM databases and therefore can be managed as a whole Normally all dynamic disks created within the same machine p 176 are members of the same disk group As soon as the first dynamic disk is created by the LDM or another disk management tool the disk group name can be found in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services dmio Boot Info Primary Disk Group Name The next created or imported disks are added to the same disk group The group exists until at least one of its members exists Once the last dynamic disk is disconnected or converted to basic the group is discontinued though its name is kept in the above registry key In case a dynamic disk is created or connected again a disk group with an incremental name is created When moved to another machine a disk group is considered as foreign and cannot be used until imported into the existing disk group The import updates the configuration data on both the local and the foreign disks so that they form a single entity A foreign group is imported as is will have the original name if no disk group exists on the machine For more information about disk groups please refer to the following Micros
124. es as well as the zero track with the master boot record 6 2 4 2 Selecting files and folders To select files and or folders for backing up 1 Expand the local folders tree items in order to view its nested folders and files 2 Select an item by checking the corresponding check box in the tree Selecting a check box for a folder means that all its content files and folders will be backed up That is also the case for new files that will appear there in the future A file based backup is not sufficient for recovery of the operating system In order to recover your operating system you have to perform a disk backup 116 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Use the table in the right part of the window to browse and select the nested items Selecting the check box beside the Name column s header automatically selects all items in the table Clearing this check box automatically deselects all items 3 Click OK 6 2 5 Access credentials for source Specify the credentials required for access to the data you are going to backup To specify credentials 1 Select one ofthe following o Use the plan s credentials The program will access the source data using the credentials of the backup plan account specified in the General section o Use the following credentials The program will access the source data using the credentials you specify Use this option if the plan s account does not have access permissions to the data Speci
125. etails e Inthe log table select the log entry or log entries to take action on it See the Actions on log entries p 110 section for details e Use the Information panel to review detailed information on the selected log entry The panel is collapsed by default To expand the panel click the A chevron The content of the panel is also duplicated in the Log entry details p 111 window Opening the Log with pre filtered log entries Having selected items in other administration views Dashboard Backup plans and tasks you can open the Log view with pre filtered log entries for the item in question Thus you do not have to configure filters in the log table yourself Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 109 p EM ee SEE EEE Dashboard Backup plans and tasks 6 1 3 1 In the calendar right click on any highlighted date and then select _ View log The Log view appears with the list of log entries already filtered by the date in question Select a backup plan or a task and then click View log The Log view will display a list of the log entries related to the selected plan or task Actions on log entries All the operations described below are performed by clicking the corresponding items on the log toolbar All these operations can also be performed with the context menu by right clicking the log entry or with the Log actions bar on the Actions and tools pane The following is a guideline f
126. eted or modified Click Refresh to update the vault information with the most recent changes Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 79 4 1 2 1 Creating a personal vault To create a personal vault 1 Inthe Name field type a name for the vault being created 2 Optional In the Comments field add a description of the vault 3 Inthe Path field click Change In the opened Personal Vault Path window specify a path to the folder that will be used as the vault 4 Click OK As a result the created vault appears in the Personal group of the vaults tree 4 1 2 2 Merging and moving personal vaults What if I need to move the existing vault from a one place to another Proceed as follows 1 Make sure that none of the backup plans uses the existing vault while moving files or temporary disable p 106 schedules of the given plans 2 Move the vault folder with all its archives to a new place manually by means of a third party file manager 3 Create a new vault 4 Edit the backup plans and tasks redirect their destination to the new vault 5 Delete the old vault How can I merge two vaults Suppose you have two vaults A and B in use Both vaults are used by backup plans You decide to leave only vault B moving all the archives from vault A there To do this proceed as follows 1 Make sure that none of the backup plans uses vault A while merging or temporarily disable p 106 schedules of the given plans 2 Move the
127. etter from a drop down list e With the default AUTO selection the first unused letter will be assigned to the volume e If you select NO no letter will be assigned to the recovered volume hiding it from the OS You should not assign letters to volumes that are inaccessible to Windows such as to those other than FAT and NTFS 6 3 6 3 File destination To specify a destination 1 Select a location to recover the backed up files to o Original location files and folders will be recovered to the same path s as they are in the backup For example if you have backed up all files and folders in C Documents Finance Reports the files will be recovered to the same path If the folder does not exist it will be created automatically o New location files will be recovered to the location that you specify in the tree The files and folders will be recovered without recreating a full path unless you clear the Recover without full path check box 2 Click OK Exclusions Set up exclusions for the specific types of files you do not wish to be overwritten during recovery To specify which files and folders to exclude Set up any of the following parameters e Exclude all hidden files and folders Select this check box to skip files and folders with the Hidden attribute If a folder is Hidden all of its contents including files that are not Hidden will be excluded e Exclude all system files and folders Select this chec
128. explicitly selected for recovery For example assume that you selected the folder MyFolder and the file MyFile tmp outside that folder and selected to skip all tmp files In this case all tmp files in the folder MyFolder will be skipped during the recovery process but the file MyFile tmp will not be skipped Overwriting Choose what to do if the program finds in the target folder a file with the same name as in the archive e Overwrite existing file this will give the file in the backup priority over the file on the hard disk e Overwrite existing file if it is older this will give priority to the most recent file modification whether it be in the backup or on the disk e Do not overwrite existing file this will give the file on the hard disk priority over the file in the backup If you allow overwriting files you still have an option to prevent overwriting p 139 e hidden files and folders e system files and folders e any files you specify by name or using wildcards e any folder you specify by path 6 3 7 Access credentials for destination To specify credentials 1 Select one of the following o Use the task credentials The program will access the destination using the credentials of the task account specified in the General section o Use the following credentials 140 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 The program will access the destination using the credentials you specify Use this optio
129. ficult from the usability standpoint When it comes to recovery every second counts but you might be lost in the archive content Backup plans that operate with the same archive should back up the same data items say both plans back up volume C 2 Applying multiple retention rules to an archive makes the archive content in some way unpredictable Since each of the rules will be applied to the entire archive the backups belonging Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 119 to one backup plan can be easily deleted along with the backups belonging to the other You should especially not expect the classic behavior of the GFS and Tower of Hanoi backup schemes Normally each complex backup plan should back up to its own archive 6 2 8 Access credentials for archive location Specify credentials required for access to the location where the backup archive will be stored The user whose name is specified will be considered as the archive owner To specify credentials 1 Select one of the following o Use the plan s credentials The program will access the source data using the credentials of the backup plan account specified in the General section o Use the following credentials The program will access the source data using the credentials you specify Use this option if the plan account does not have access permissions to the location You might need to provide special credentials for a network share or a storage node vault Spe
130. file system at the logical volume To boot the system change the loader configuration and etc fstab so that LVM is not used and reactivate your boot loader as described in the Bootability troubleshooting p 141 J section When recovering a logical volume over a attic MBR volue you can resize ethe resulting volume Before recovering logical volumes to a target machine with no correspondent logical volume structure for example to recover to bare metal you need to manually create the logical volumes and groups by using the lvm command and then perform the recovery either in Linux or in bootable media You do not need to create the volume structure if it already exists on the machine such is the case when some data on the volume was lost but no hard disks were replaced For detailed instructions on how to recover logical volumes see Recovering MD devices and logical volumes p 162 How to select logical volumes to back up Logical volumes appear at the end of the list of volumes available for backup Basic volumes included in logical volumes are also shown in the list with None in the Type column If you select to back up such partitions the program will image it sector by sector Normally it is not required To back up all available disks specify all logical volumes plus basic volumes not belonging to them A logical volume is a GPT GUID partition table partition Logical volumes are displayed under Dynamic amp GPT Volumes
131. folders group select the required networked machine and then click the shared folder If the network share requires access credentials the program will ask for them e To select FTP or SFTP server expand the corresponding group and click the appropriate folder on the server As appears from the original FTP specification credentials required for access to FTP servers are transferred through a network as plaintext This means that the user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer Using the archives table To assist you with choosing the right location the table displays the names of the archives contained in each location you select While you are reviewing the location content archives can be added deleted or modified by another user or by the program itself according to scheduled operations Use the Refresh button to refresh the list of archives You can switch between displaying archives by names and displaying the physical representation of the archives as TIB files using the Show archives and Show TIB files buttons 6 4 5 Access credentials for source Specify the credentials required for access to the location where the backup archive is stored To specify credentials 1 Select one of the following o Use the task credentials Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 147 The program will access the location using the credentials of the task account specified in the General section o U
132. for 6 months Here is how your archive would appear after the backup plan is launched if all the backups were full and so could be deleted as soon as the scheme requires The left column shows days of the week For each day of the week the content of the archive after the regular backup and the subsequent cleanup is shown D stands for the backup that is considered Daily W stands for the backup that is considered Weekly M stands for the backup that is considered Monthly Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 27 jeu wo ro we m et ou e Wo roo we ro f Fat Yat Mo ro wo rt ra eut Ja wo Too ru re aut Total D D D W D D D D W D D D DW D D D D M schedule Mon Tue We Thu Fn Sat Sun Mon Tue We Thu wW Fri wW Sat wW Sun wW Mon wW Tue wW We wW W Thu W W Fri W Sat W Sun W Mon Ww Tue wW We W Thu wW W Fri Ww Sat W An ideal archive created according to the GFS scheme Schedule Workdays at 8 00 PM Weekly Monthly Friday Keep daily backups 7 days Keep weekly backups 2 weeks ooococeo ooo o 00 0 vu UU COC fo cooucouce 2 week 7 days gt oo 0u 0 000 W W W W W je Keep daly cu Co VOU CC ooo 000 0c 90 00 000 j Xeep weekly oovoeoucoocpe 90 00 00 0 COOOGUOCOCCGU Ooooococcd M oo CC Cg oOo 00 0 OOCOCc cc Keep monthly backups 6 months Starting from the third week weekly backups will be regularly deleted A
133. from 10 AM to 10 PM during one day From lt gt Until lt gt In the Effective area set the following settings From lt gt Set up a date when this schedule will be enabled an effective date If this check box is cleared the task will be started on the nearest day and time you have specified above To lt gt Set up a date when this schedule will be disabled If this check box is cleared the task will be run for an indefinite number of months Advanced scheduling settings are available only for machines registered on Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Server To specify these settings click Change in the Advanced settings area All the settings you made are displayed in the Result field at the bottom of the window Examples Last day of every month schedule Run the task once at 10 PM on the last day of every month The schedule s parameters are set up as follows 1 Months lt All months gt 2 Days Last The task will run on the last day of every month despite its actual date 3 Once at 10 00 00 PM 4 Effective From empty To empty This schedule is widely used when creating a custom backup scheme The Last day of every month schedule is added to the full backups while the differential backups are scheduled to be performed once a week and incremental on workdays For more details see the Monthly full weekly differential and daily incremental backups plus cleanup example
134. fter 6 months monthly backups will start to be deleted The diagram for weekly and monthly backups will look similar to the week based timescale The resulting archive real In reality the archive content will somewhat differ from the ideal scheme When using the incremental and differential backup methods you cannot delete a backup as soon as the scheme requires if later backups are based on this backup Regular consolidation is unacceptable because it takes too much system resources The program has to wait until the scheme requires the deletion of all the dependent backups and then deletes the entire chain Here is how the first month of your backup plan will appear in real life F stands for full backup Dif stands for differential backup I stands for incremental backup 28 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 The backups that outlive their nominal lifetime because of dependencies are marked pink The initial full backup will be deleted as soon as all differential and incremental backups based on this backup are deleted Te pepe Tess Ee 9 e Fre eT e e reve TT Tee o rers P ee Tt 5 D p pw DDDDNw DDDDW DDDODODM schedule Mon F Tue F We F Thu F Fi F 1 I Dif Sat F Oi Sn F I Di Mon F Of T Tue Di gs We FOOL 0E l o Tu F D d d Fi F D l 1 l I Ol Sa F Di 1 i l O Sun F or hsc tot oo Mo F Dif 1 i ot D
135. fy e User name When entering the name of an Active Directory user account be sure to also specify the domain name DOMAIN Username or Username domain e Password The password for the account 2 Click OK 6 2 6 Exclusions Set up exclusions for the specific types of files you do not wish to back up For example you may not want database hidden and system files and folders as well as files with specific extensions to be stored in the archive To specify which files and folders to exclude Set up any of the following parameters e Exclude all hidden files and folders Select this check box to skip files and folders with the Hidden attribute If a folder is Hidden all of its contents including files that are not Hidden will be excluded e Exclude all system files and folders Select this check box to skip files and folders with the System attribute If a folder is System all of its contents including files that are not System will be excluded You can view file or folder attributes in the file folder properties or by using the attrib command For more information refer to the Help and Support Center in Windows e Exclude files matching the following criteria Select this check box to skip files whose names match any of the criteria called file masks in Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 117 the list use the Add Edit Remove and Remove All buttons to create the list of file masks Yo
136. g the Show archives and Show TIB files buttons 3 Click OK 6 3 3 Data type Choose what type of data to recover from the selected disk backup e Disks to recover disks e Volumes to recover volumes e Files to recover specific files and folders 6 3 4 Content selection The representation of this window depends on the type of data stored in the archive 6 3 4 1 Disks volumes selection To select a backup and disks volumes to recover 1 Select one of the successive incremental backups by its creation date and time Thus you can revert the disk data to a certain moment in time Specify the items to recover By default all items of the selected backup will be selected If you do not want to recover certain items just uncheck them To obtain information on a disk volume right click it and then click Information 2 Click OK Selecting an MBR You will usually select the disk s MBR if o The operating system cannot boot o The disk is new and does not have an MBR o Recovering custom or non Windows boot loaders such as LILO and GRUB o The disk geometry is different to that stored in the backup There are probably other times when you may need to recover the MBR but the above are the most common When recovering the MBR of one disk to another Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 recovers Track O which does not affect the target disk s partition table and partition layout Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 automatical
137. g the log or the errors and warnings displayed on the Dashboard Click Test Command to check if the command is correct 3 3 1 4 Pre Post data capture commands This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems The option enables you to define the commands to be automatically executed before and after data capture that is taking the data snapshot performed by Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 at the beginning of the backup procedure 52 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 The following scheme illustrates when the pre post data capture commands are executed Backup gt Pre backup Pre data a Post data Post backup command capture ar gt capture command command command If the Volume Shadow Copy Service option is enabled the commands execution and the Microsoft VSS actions will be sequenced as follows Before data capture commands VSS Suspend Data capture VSS Resume After data capture commands Using the pre post data capture commands you can suspend and resume a database or application that is not compatible with VSS As opposed to the Pre Post commands p 51 the pre post data capture commands will be executed before and after the data capture process which takes seconds while the entire backup procedure may take much longer depending on the amount of data to be backed up Therefore the database or application idle time will be minimal
138. g the signature of the source hard disk If you recover the same disk signature you don t need to re create or edit the tasks created previously o Some installed applications use disk signature for licensing and other purposes e Keep existing The program will leave the existing NT signature of the target hard disk as is 6 3 6 2 Volumes Available volume destinations depend on the agents operating on the machine Recover to Physical machine The selected volumes will be recovered to the physical disks of the machine the console is connected to On selecting this you proceed to the regular volume mapping procedure described below Volume Letter Disk Volume p 137 Sequentially map each of the source volumes to a volume or an unallocated space on the destination disk Size p 138 Optional Change the recovered volume size location and other properties Volume destination To specify a destination volume 1 Select a volume or unallocated space where you want the selected volume to be recovered to The destination volume unallocated space should be at least the same size as the uncompressed image data 2 Click OK All the data stored on the target volume will be replaced by the backed up data so be careful and watch out for non backed up data that you might need When using bootable media Disk letters seen under Windows style bootable media might differ from the way Windows identifies drives For
139. gecmd e trueimagemnt Linux commands and utilities busybox ifconfig readcd cat init reboot cdrecord insmod rm chmod iscsiadm rmmod chown kill route chroot kpartx scp cp in scsi_id dd ls sed df lspci sg map26 dmesg lvm sh dmraid mc Sleep e2fsck mdadm ssh e2label mkdir sshd echo mke2fs strace Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 161 egrep mknod swapoff fdisk mkswap swapon fsck more sysinfo fxload mount tar gawk mtx tune2fs gpm mv udev grep parted udevinfo growisofs pccardctl udevstart grub ping umount gunzip pktsetup uuidgen halt poweroff vconfig hexdump ps vi hotplug raidautorun zcat 6 8 5 Recovering MD devices and logical volumes To recover Linux Software RAID devices known as MD devices and or devices created by Logical Volume Manager LVM known as logical volumes you need to manually create the correspondent volume structure before starting the recovery The following are a general procedure for recovering MD devices and logical volumes by using a Linux based bootable media and an example of such recovery You can use a similar procedure in Linux To recover MD devices and logical volumes 1 Bootthe machine from a Linux based bootable media Tip To create a Linux based bootable media run Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Console in Windows or Linux on the toolbar click Tools and then click Create bootable media 2 Click Acronis Bootable Agent Then click Run managem
140. ght Acronis Inc 2000 2009 If the machine fails to boot or you need to recover data to bare metal you boot the machine using the bootable media and configure the recovery operation in the same way as the recovery task The following diagram illustrates the recovery using the bootable media Managed Machine uL AN Bootable Agent AL Archive 1 Console RAM F Backup 1 F Backup 2 F Backup 0 Restore p operation D Backup 3 l Backup 4 Restore Data2 from Backup 4 F Backup 5 2 2 Full incremental and differential backups Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 provides the capability to use popular backup schemes such as Grandfather Father Son and Tower of Hanoi as well as to create custom backup schemes All backup schemes are based on full incremental and differential backup methods The term scheme in fact denotes the algorithm of applying these methods plus the algorithm of the archive cleanup Comparing backup methods with each other does not make much sense because the methods work as a team in a backup scheme Each method should play its specific role according to its advantages A competent backup scheme will benefit from the advantages of all backup methods and lessen the influence of all the methods shortcomings For example weekly differential backup facilitates archive cleanup because it can be easily deleted along with the weekly set of daily incremental backups depending on it Bac
141. guments field specify the command s execution arguments if required 4 Depending on the result you want to obtain select the appropriate options as described in the table below 5 Click Test command to check if the command is correct Check box Selection Fail the task if the command Selected Cleared Selected Cleared execution fails Do not recover until the Selected Selected Cleared Cleared command execution is complete Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 69 Result Preset Perform the N A Perform the recovery after recover Perform the recovery y i the command is concurrently with only after the 3 executed despite the command command is l i i execution failure execution and successfully or success irrespective of the executed Fail the command task if the command z execution result execution failed Post recovery command To specify a command executable file to be executed after the recovery is completed 1 Inthe Command field type a command or browse to a batch file 2 In the Working directory field specify a path to a directory where the command batch file will be executed 3 Inthe Arguments field specify the command execution arguments if required 4 If successful execution of the command is critical for you select the Fail the task if the command execution fails check box In case the command execution fails the task run result will be set to Failed When the check box is not selec
142. h as Reboot that can put the task to the Running state Stopping 100 The user can stop a running task or a task that needs interaction The task changes to the Stopping state and then to the Idle state A waiting task can also be stopped In this case since the task is not running stop means removing it from the queue Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Task state diagram Need user interaction Task completed The other task is completed 1 Waiting for condition 2 Waiting when another task locks the necessary resources Task statuses A task can have one of the following statuses Error Warning OK A task status is derived from the result of the last run of the task BL NE How it is determined How to handle Last result is Failed Identify the failed task gt Check the task log to find out the reason of the failure then do one or more of the following Remove the reason of the failure optionally Start the failed task manually e Edit the failed task to prevent its future failure e Edit the local plan to prevent its future failure in case a local plan has failed Edit the backup policy on the management server in case a centralized plan has failed Last result is View the log to read the warnings optionally Perform Succeeded with actions to prevent the future warnings or failure warning Last result is No action is required Succeeded or The
143. he Advanced view check box What to recover Archive p 133 Select the archive to recover data from Data type p 134 Applies to disk recovery Choose the type of data you need to recover from the selected disk backup Content p 134 Select the backup and content to be recovered Access credentials p 135 Optional Provide credentials for the archive location if the task account does not have the right to access it To access this option select the Advanced view check box Where to recover This section appears after the required backup is selected and the type of data to recover is defined The parameters you specify here depend on the type of data being recovered Disks p 135 Volumes p 137 Files p 139 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 131 You may have to specify credentials for the destination Skip this step when operating on a machine booted with bootable media Access credentials p 140 Optional Provide credentials for the destination if the task credentials do not enable recovery of the selected data To access this option select the Advanced view check box When to recover Recover p 141 Select when to start recovery The task can start immediately after its creation be scheduled for a specified date and time in the future or simply saved for manual execution Recovery options Settings Optional Customize the recovery operation by configuring the recovery options such as p
144. he preset is Normal The optimal data compression level depends on the type of data being backed up For example even maximum compression will not significantly reduce the archive size if the archive contains essentially compressed files such as jpg pdf or mp3 However formats such as doc or xls will be compressed well To specify the compression level Select one of the following Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 55 e None the data will be copied as is without any compression The resulting backup size will be maximal e Normal recommended in most cases e High the resulting backup size will typically be less than for the Normal level e Maximum the data will be compressed as much as possible The backup duration will be maximal You may want to select maximum compression when backing up to removable media to reduce the number of blank disks required 33 1 7 Backup performance Use this group of options to specify the amount of network and system resources to allocate to the backup process Backup performance options might have a more or less noticeable effect on the speed of the backup process This depends on the overall system configuration and the physical characteristics of devices the backup is being performed from or to Backup priority This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems The priority of a process running in a system determines the amount of CPU and system reso
145. he specified root partition Log in as root or log in as a user and switch user sudo su Edit the GRUB configuration file if the number of the partition where the operating system resides has changed Otherwise skip this step a Open the GRUB configuration file usually boot grub grub conf or etc grub conf vim boot grub grub conf b Find the record root hdX Y in the section corresponding to the current kernel In this record X number of the disk Y number of partition on this disk Change X and Y according to the new location of the root C Save the configuration file In VIM this is done by simultaneously pressing esc wq enter 3 Execute the command for activating GRUB grub 4 Eject the CD and reboot LILO 1 Perform step 1 described above 2 Edit the LILO configuration file if the number of the partition where the operating system resides has changed Otherwise skip this step a Open the LILO configuration file etc lilo conf vim etc lilo conf b Edit the record root dev hdXY or rootz dev sdXY for a SCSI disk in the section corresponding to the current kernel In this record Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 143 X disk number a for the first disk b for the second disk etc Y number of the partition on this disk Change X and Y according to the new location of the root For example root dev hda1 C Save the configuration file 3 Execute the command
146. he vault is limited by the storage size only Virtual machine On Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Server a machine p 176 is considered virtual if it can be backed up from the virtualization host without installing an agent p 167 on the machine A virtual machine appears on the management server after registration of the virtualization server that hosts the machine provided that Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 agent for virtual machines is installed on that server 180 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 W WinPE Windows Preinstallation Environment A minimal Windows system based on any of the following kernels e Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 PE 1 5 e Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 PE 1 6 e Windows Vista PE 2 0 e Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 PE 2 1 WinPE is commonly used by OEMs and corporations for deployment test diagnostic and system repair purposes A machine can be booted into WinPE via PXE CD ROM USB flash drive or hard disk The Acronis Plug in for WinPE p 166 enables running the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent p 167 in the preinstallation environment Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 181 Index A Access credentials 149 150 Access credentials for archive location 113 120 Access credentials for destination 132 140 Access credentials for location 131 135 Access credentials for source 113 117 145 147 Acroni
147. hen F11 is pressed Acronis Startup Recovery Manager eliminates the need for rescue media or network connection to start the bootable rescue utility Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 166 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is especially useful for mobile users If a failure occurs the user reboots the machine hits F11 on prompt Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and performs data recovery in the same way as with ordinary bootable media Limitations cannot be organized on a dynamic disk p 173 requires manual configuration of boot loaders such as LILO and GRUB requires re activation of third party loaders Agent Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent An application that performs data backup and recovery and enables other management operations on the machine p 176 such as task management and operations with hard disks The type of data that can be backed up depends on the agent type Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 includes the agents for backing up disks and files and the agents for backing up virtual machines residing on virtualization servers Agent side cleanup Cleanup p 171 performed by an agent p 167 according to the backup plan p 168 that produces the archive p 167 Agent side cleanup is performed in unmanaged vaults p 180 Agent side validation Validation p 180 performed by an agent p 167 according to the backup plan p 168 that produces the archive p 167 Agent side validatio
148. her processes e High to maximize the recovery process speed by taking resources from the other processes 3 9 9 File level security This option is effective only for recovery from file level backup of Windows files This option defines whether to recover NTFS permissions for files along with the files The preset is Recover files with their security settings If the file NTFS permissions were preserved during backup you can choose whether to recover the permissions or let the files inherit the NTFS permissions from the folder to which they are recovered 3 3 2 4 Notifications Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 provides the ability of notifying users about recovery completion through e mail or the messaging service E mail This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems This option is not available when operating under the bootable media The option enables you to receive e mail notifications about the recovery task s successful completion failure or need for interaction along with the full log of the task The preset is Disabled To configure e mail notification 1 Select the Send e mail notifications check box to activate notifications 2 In the E mail addresses field type the e mail address to which notifications will be sent You can enter several addresses separated by semicolons 3 Under Send notifications select the appropriate check boxes as follows o When backup completes successfully to
149. hnical Support as follows to the extent that electronic services are available you may electronically access at no additional charge Support services for the Software which Acronis shall endeavor to make available twenty four 24 hours a day seven 7 days per week Such electronic services may include but are not limited to user forums software specific information hints and tips bug fix retrieval via the internet software maintenance and demonstration code retrieval via a WAN accessible FTP server and access to a problem resolution database via Acronis customer support system Support shall consist of supplying telephone or other electronic support to you in order to help you locate and on its own correct problems with the Software and supplying patches updates and other changes that Acronis at its sole discretion makes or adds to the Software and which Acronis makes generally available without additional charge to other licensees of the Software that are enrolled in Support Upon mutual agreement by both parties Acronis shall i supply code corrections to you to correct Software malfunctions in order to bring such Software into substantial conformity with the published operating specifications for the most current version of the Software unless your unauthorized modifications prohibit or hamper such corrections or cause the malfunction Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 15 or ii supply code corrections to correct ins
150. hnologies Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 succeeds Acronis True Image Echo as the next generation disaster recovery solution Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Server for Linux inherits the benefits of the Acronis True Image Echo product family e Backup of an entire disk or volume including the operating system all applications and data e Bare metal recovery to any hardware e File and folder backup and recovery Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Server for Linux offers new benefits that help organizations meet challenging Recovery Time Objectives while reducing both capital expense and software maintenance costs e Leveraging existing IT infrastructure Backward compatibility and an easy upgrade from Acronis True Image Echo e Highly automated data protection All round planning of data protection backup retention and validation of backups within a backup policy Built in Tower of Hanoi and Grandfather Father Son backup schemes with customizable parameters A variety of events and conditions can be chosen to trigger a backup e Redesigned GUI Dashboard for quick operational decision making Overview of all configured and running operations with color coding for successful and failed operations e Additional bootable media facilities Linux and Acronis command line utilities are available on bootable media to create the logical volumes structure before starting recovery 1 2 Getting started Direct management 1 Install A
151. ho saved the archive to the destination To be more precise this is the user whose account was specified when creating the backup plan in the Where to back up step By default the plan s credentials are used Plan s credentials and task credentials Any task running on a machine runs on behalf of a user When creating a plan or a task you have the option to explicitly specify an account under which the plan or the task will run Your choice depends on whether the plan or task is intended for manual start or for executing on schedule Manual start You can skip the Plan s Task credentials step Every time you start the task the task will run under the credentials with which you are currently logged on Any person that has administrative privileges on the machine can also start the task The task will run under this person s credentials The task will always run under the same credentials regardless of the user who actually starts the task if you specify the task credentials explicitly To do so on the plan task creation page 1 Select the Advanced view check box 2 Select General gt Plan s Task credentials gt Change 3 Enter the credentials under which the plan task will run Scheduled or postponed start The plan task credentials are mandatory If you skip the credentials step you will be asked for credentials after finishing the plan task creation Why does the program compel me to specify credentials A schedu
152. hu F Sat Su Mo Tue We Thu Fri Sat Total schedule Daily task FLO OE Fn OE Oh eas Eth OL ss od Oe Weekly ak Di Di jT Monthly ask OS FF Backup tasks created according to the GFS scheme by Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Schedule Workdays at 8 00 PM Weekly Monthly Friday D D D D W D D D D W D D DDW D D D DM Keep backups Daily This step defines the retention rule for daily backups The cleanup task will run after each daily backup and delete all daily backups that are older than you specify 26 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Keep backups Weekly This step defines the retention rule for weekly backups The cleanup task will run after each weekly backup and delete all weekly backups that are older than you specify The weekly backups retention period cannot be less than the daily backups retention period It is usually set several times longer Keep backups Monthly This step defines the retention rule for monthly backups The cleanup task will run after each monthly backup and delete all monthly backups that are older than you specify The monthly backups retention period cannot be less than the weekly backups retention period It is usually set several times longer You have the option to keep the monthly backups infinitely The resulting archive ideal Assume you select to keep daily backups for 7 days weekly backups for 2 weeks and monthly backups
153. ials Provide credentials for the account under which the task will run To specify credentials 1 Select one of the following o Rununder the current user The task will run under the credentials with which the user who starts the tasks is logged on If the task has to run on schedule you will be asked for the current user s password on completing the task creation o Use the following credentials The task will always run under the credentials you specify whether started manually or executed on schedule Specify e User name When entering the name of an Active Directory user account be sure to also specify the domain name DOMAIN Username or Username domain e Password The password for the account 2 Click OK To learn more about using credentials in Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 see the Owners and credentials p 23 section Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 145 To learn more about operations available depending on the user privileges see the User privileges on a managed machine p 23 section 6 4 2 Archive selection Selecting the archive 1 Enter the full path to the location in the Path field or select the desired folder in the folders tree o Ifthe archive is stored in a centralized vault expand the Centralized group and click the vault o Ifthe archive is stored in a personal vault expand the Personal group and click the vault o Ifthe archive is stored in a local folder on the machine expand
154. ied Bootloader GRUB and was recovered from a normal not from a raw that is sector by sector backup One part of the GRUB loader resides either in the first several sectors of the disk or in the first several sectors of the volume The rest is on the file system of one of the volumes System bootability can be recovered automatically only when the GRUB resides in the first several sectors of the disk and on the file system to which direct access is possible In other cases the user has to manually reactivate the boot loader Solution Reactivate the boot loader You might also need to fix the configuration file e The system uses Linux Loader LILO and was recovered from a normal not from a raw that is sector by sector backup LILO contains numerous references to absolute sector numbers and so cannot be repaired automatically except for the case when all data is recovered to the sectors that have the same absolute numbers as on the source disk Solution Reactivate the boot loader You might also need to fix the loader configuration file for the reason described in the previous item e The system loader points to the wrong volume This may happen when system or boot volumes are not recovered to their original location Solution Modification of the boot ini or the boot bcd files fixes this for Windows loaders Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 does this automatically and so you are not likely to experience the problem For the GRUB and
155. if Te F Dif IT i Of Eod We F Dif EUN o Id og Tu F Dif Dif roto Fi F Dif Io ott Di Sa F Dif I l l l Dif n F Dif I od Dit Mo F Dif Eod tot Di I Te F Dif 1 t t 1 Di 1 We F Dif tl i pr itt Tu F Dif Dif Do gd og Fi F Dif Io 0d gd F Sa F Dif o od gd F An archive created according to the GFS scheme by Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Schedule Workdays at 8 00 PM Weekly Monthly Friday Keep daily backups 7 days Keep weekly backups 2 weeks Keep monthly backups 6 months 2 6 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme The need to have frequent backups always conflicts with the cost of keeping such backups for a long time The Tower of Hanoi ToH backup scheme is a useful compromise Tower of Hanoi overview The Tower of Hanoi scheme is based on a mathematical puzzle of the same name In the puzzle a series of rings are stacked in size order the largest on the bottom on one of three pegs The goal is to move the ring series to the third peg You are only allowed to move one ring at a time and are prohibited from placing a larger ring above a smaller ring The solution is to shift the first ring every Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 29 other move moves 1 3 5 7 9 11 the second ring at intervals of four moves moves 2 6 10 the third ring at intervals of eight moves moves 4 12 and so on For example if there are five rings labeled A B C D and E in the puzzle the solution gives th
156. il server SSL and TLS encryption types are available for selection o Some Internet service providers require authentication on the incoming mail server before being allowed to send something If this is your case select the Log on to incoming mail server check box to enable a POP server and to set up its settings e Incoming mail server POP enter the name of the POP server e Port set the port of the POP server By default the port is set to 110 e User name enter the user name e Password enter the password o Select the Use the specified outgoing mail server check box to enable an SMTP server and to set up its settings e Outgoing mail server SMTP enter the name of the SMTP server e Port set the port of the SMTP server By default the port is set to 25 e User name enter the user name e Password enter the password 6 Click Send test e mail message to check if the settings are correct Messenger service WinPopup This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems on the sending machine and only for Windows on the receiving machine This option is not available when operating under bootable media 58 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 The option enables you to receive WinPopup notifications about the backup task s successful completion failure or need for interaction The preset is Disabled Before configuring WinPopup notifications make sure the Messenger service
157. ilable for example a DVD is inserted the task can run unattended Reset archive bit The option is effective only for file level backup in Windows operating systems and in bootable media The preset is Disabled In Windows operating systems each file has the File is ready for archiving attribute available by selecting File gt Properties gt General gt Advanced gt Archive and Index attributes This attribute also known as the archive bit is set by the operating system each time the file is changed and can be reset by backup applications each time they include the file in a backup The archive bit value is used by various applications such as databases When the Reset archive bit check box is selected Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 will reset the archive bits of all files being backed up Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 itself does not use the archive bit value When performing incremental or differential backup it determines whether a file has changed by the file size and the date time when the file was last saved Restart the machine automatically after backup is finished This option is available only when operating under bootable media The preset is Disabled When the option is enabled Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 will restart the machine after the backup process is completed For example if the machine boots from a hard disk drive by default and you select this check box the machine will be restarted and
158. imated file size Such might be the case when the backup is placed on FAT16 and FAT32 file systems that have a 4GB file size limit If the destination disk runs out of free space while creating the backup the task enters the Need interaction state You have the ability to free additional space and retry the operation If you do so the resulting backup will be split into the parts created before and after the retry e When backing up to removable media CD DVD or a tape device locally attached to the managed machine The task will enter the Need interaction state and ask for a new media when the previous one is full Fixed size Enter the desired file size or select it from the drop down list The backup will then be split into multiple files of the specified size This comes in handy when creating a backup that you plan to burn to multiple CDs or DVDs later on You might also want to split the backup destined to an FTP server since data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the backup to be split into files no more than 2GB in size 3 3 1 12 Media components This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems when the backup destination is removable media When backing up to removable media you can make this media work as regular Linux based bootable media p 169 by writing additional components to it As a result you will not need a separate rescue disc The preset is None selected Select the check
159. in a Linux based environment or Windows Preinstallation Environment WinPE without the help of an operating system Bootable media is most often used to e recover an operating system that cannot start e access and back up the data that has survived in a corrupted system e deploy an operating system on bare metal e create basic or dynamic volumes on bare metal e backup sector by sector a disk with an unsupported file system e back up offline any data that cannot be backed up online because of restricted access being permanently locked by the running applications or for any other reason A machine can be booted into the above environments either with physical media or using the network boot from Acronis PXE Server Windows Deployment Services WDS or Remote Installation Services RIS These servers with uploaded bootable components can be thought of as a kind of bootable media too You can create bootable media or configure the PXE server or WDS RIS using the same wizard Linux based bootable media Linux based media contains Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Bootable Agent based on Linux kernel The agent can boot and perform operations on any PC compatible hardware including bare metal and machines with corrupted or non supported file systems The operations can be configured and controlled either locally or remotely using the management console PE based bootable media PE based bootable media contains a minimal Windows system calle
160. in information on a volume right click it and then click Information 3 Click OK 6 5 3 Access credentials To specify credentials 1 Select one of the following o Use the current user credentials The program will access the location using the credentials of the current user o Use the following credentials The program will access the location using the credentials you specify Use this option if the current user account does not have access permissions to the location You might need to provide special credentials for a network share or a storage node vault Specify 150 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 e User name When entering the name of an Active Directory user account be sure to also specify the domain name DOMAINNUsername or Username 2Q domain e Password The password for the account 2 Click OK As appears from the original FTP specification credentials required for access to FTP servers are transferred through a network as plaintext This means that the user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer 6 5 4 Volume selection Select the volumes to mount and configure the mounting parameters for each of the selected volumes as follows 1 Select the check box for each volume you need to mount 2 Click on the selected volume to set its mounting parameters o Access mode choose the mode you want the volume to be mounted in e Read only enables exploring and
161. in the Custom backup scheme p 127 section Season schedule 90 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Run the task on all workdays during the northern autumn seasons of 2009 and 2010 During a workday the task is performed every 6 hours from 12 AM midnight till 6 PM The schedule s parameters are set up as follows 1 Months September October November 2 On all lt workdays gt 3 Every 6 hours From 12 00 00 AM Until 06 00 00 PM 4 Effective From 08 30 2009 Actually the task will be started on the first workday of September By setting up this date we just define that the task must be started in 2009 To 12 01 2010 Actually the task will end on the last workday of November By setting up this date we just define that the task must be discontinued in 2010 after autumn ends in the northern hemisphere Several monthly schedules for one task In the case when the task needs to be run on different days or weeks with different time intervals depending on the month consider adding a dedicated schedule to every desired month or several months Suppose that the task goes into effect on 11 01 2009 e During northern winter the task runs once at 10PM on every workday e During northern spring and autumn the task runs every 12 hours on all workdays e During northern summer the task runs every first and fifteenth of every month at 10 PM Thus the following three schedules are added to the task First sche
162. incorrectly scheduled plan or plans It makes sense to edit the plan in this case No action is required Backup plan statuses A backup plan can have one of the following statuses Error Warning OK A backup plan status is derived from the results of the last run of the plans tasks BL NN How it is determined How to handle At least one task has failed Otherwise see 2 At least one task has succeeded with warnings Otherwise see 3 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Identify the failed tasks Check the tasks log to find out the reason of the failure then do one or more of the following e Remove the reason of the failure gt optionally Start the failed task manually e Edit the local plan to prevent its future failure in case a local plan has failed e Edit the backup policy on the management server in case a centralized plan has failed When creating a backup plan or policy the administrator can turn on the option to stop executing the backup plan as soon as the backup plan gets the Error status The backup plan s execution can be resumed using the Restart button View the log to read the warnings gt optionally Perform actions to prevent the future warnings or failure 99 All the tasks are No action is required Note that a backup plan can be OK in completed successfully case none of the tasks has been started yet or some of the tasks are stopped or being stopped These situa
163. ing you have to stop it prior to editing the backup plan 3 3 1 17 Additional settings Specify the additional settings for the backup operation by selecting or clearing the following check boxes Overwrite data on a tape without prompting for user confirmation This option is effective only when backing up to a tape device The preset is Disabled When starting backup to a non empty tape in a locally attached tape device the program will warn that you are about to lose data on the tape To disable this warning select this check box Dismount media after backup has finished This option is effective in Windows and Linux operating systems This option is effective when backing up to a removable media CD DVD tape or floppy disk The preset is Disabled The destination CD DVD can be ejected or the tape can be dismounted after the backup is completed Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 65 Ask for the first media while backing up to removable media This option is effective only when backing up to removable media The option defines whether to display the Insert First Media prompt when backing up to removable media The preset is Enabled When the option is enabled backing up to removable media may be not possible if the user is away because the program will wait for someone to press OK in the prompt box Hence you should disable the prompt when scheduling a backup to removable media Then if the removable media is ava
164. ing Acronis Secure Zone 155 Incremental backup 167 169 171 176 Introducing Acronis amp Backup amp Recovery 10 6 Items to back up 113 115 L List of commands and utilities available in Linux based bootable media 161 164 Local backup plan 40 172 176 Local task 172 176 Location is available 92 Location selection 145 147 Log 102 109 184 Log entry details 109 111 M Machine 167 168 169 170 173 174 176 177 178 179 180 Machine options 45 60 73 Main area views and action pages 8 11 Managed machine 7 17 44 166 168 170 172 176 178 179 Managed vault 172 175 176 178 179 180 Management Console 14 Management server Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Server 7 44 168 170 171 172 174 177 178 Managing Acronis Secure Zone 153 155 Managing mounted images 151 Media builder 96 177 Media components 48 61 Merging and moving personal vaults 80 Messenger service WinPopup 49 58 68 72 Monthly schedule 89 126 Mounting an image 148 N Network connection speed 48 57 Network port 158 160 Network settings 158 159 Notifications 57 71 NT signature 136 Number of tasks 44 O Operations with archives stored in a vault 77 78 80 Operations with backups 77 78 81 Operations with panes 10 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Options 43 Overwriting 140 Owners and cre
165. ing virtual machine Recovery of a disk volume backup to a new virtual machine Recovery of a virtual machine backup to an existing virtual machine Recovery of a virtual machine backup to a new virtual machine Validation of a single archive Validation of backups Validation of all archives stored in a vault Deleting backups from a backup archive in accordance with retention rules Creating Acronis Secure Zone Resizing changing password deleting Acronis Secure Zone Disk management operations Service task performed on a storage node Depending on the type of task and whether it is running or not a combination of the following tabs will appear Task The Task tab is common for all types of tasks It provides general information on the selected task Archive The Archive tab is available for backup archive validation and cleanup tasks Provides information on the archive its name type size where it is stored etc Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 107 Backup The Backup tab is available for recovery backup validation and export tasks Provides details on the selected backup when it was created its type full incremental differential information on the archive and the vault the backup is stored in Settings The Settings tab displays information on scheduling and the options changed against the default values Progress The Progress tab is available while the task is running It is common for all types
166. inistrator creates a centralized vault the vault name and path to the vault are distributed to all machines registered p 177 on the server The shortcut to the vault appears on the machines in the Centralized vaults list Any backup plan p 168 existing on the machines including local plans can use the centralized vault On a machine that is not registered on the management server a user having the privilege to back up to the centralized vault can do so by specifying the full path to the vault If the vault is managed the user s archives will be managed by the storage node as well as other archives stored in the vault Cleanup Deleting backups p 167 from a backup archive p 167 in order to get rid of outdated backups or prevent the archive from exceeding the desired size Cleanup consists in applying to an archive the retention rules set by the backup plan p 168 that produces the archive This operation checks if the archive has exceeded its maximum size and or for expired backups This may or may not result in deleting backups depending on whether the retention rules are violated or not For more information please refer to Retention rules p 32 Console Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Console A tool for remote or local access to Acronis agents p 167 and Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Server p 176 Having connected the console to the management server the administrator sets up and manages
167. ions with vaults see the Vaults p 76 section 6 7 2 1 Increasing Acronis Secure Zone To increase Acronis Secure Zone 1 On the Manage Acronis Secure Zone page click Increase 2 Select volumes from which free space will be used to increase the Acronis Secure Zone 3 Specify the new size of the zone by Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 155 o dragging the slider and selecting any size between the current and maximum values The maximum size is equal to the disk s unallocated space plus the total free space of all selected partitions o typing an exact value in the Acronis Secure Zone Size field When increasing the size of the zone the program will act as follows o first it will use the unallocated space Volumes will be moved if necessary but not resized Moving of locked volumes requires a reboot o If there is not enough unallocated space the program will take free space from the selected volumes proportionally reducing the volumes size Resizing of locked partitions requires a reboot Reducing a system volume to the minimum size might prevent the machine s operating system from booting 4 Click OK 6 7 2 2 Decreasing Acronis Secure Zone To decrease Acronis Secure Zone 1 Onthe Manage Acronis Secure Zone page click Decrease 2 Select volumes that will receive free space after the zone is decreased 3 Specify the new size of the zone by o dragging the slider and selecting any size between the curr
168. is setting the program will automatically handle the situation when the conditions are not met for too long and further delaying the backup is undesirable e backup task start time matters skip the backup task if the conditions are not met at the time when the task should be started Skipping the task run makes sense when you need to back up data strictly at the specified time especially if the events are relatively often Adding multiple conditions Multiple conditions must be met simultaneously to enable task execution Location is available Location is available means that the destination specified for storing archives on a networked drive is accessible for creating a backup 92 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Example Backing up data to the networked location is performed on workdays at 9PM If the location is not available at that moment for instance due to maintenance work skip the backup and wait for the next workday to start the task It is assumed that the backup task should not be started at all rather than failed e Event Weekly Every 1 week s on lt workdays gt Once at 09 00 00 PM e Condition Location is available e Task start conditions Skip the task execution As a result 1 If 9PM comes and the archive location is available the backup task starts right on time 2 If 9PM comes but the archive location is unavailable the backup task will start on the next workday if the location is av
169. is started on both the machine executing the task and the machine that will receive messages The Messenger service is not started by default in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family Change the service Startup mode to Automatic and start the service To configure WinPopup notifications 1 Select the Send WinPopup notifications check box 2 In the Machine name field enter the name of the machine to which notifications will be sent Multiple names are not supported Under Send notifications select the appropriate check boxes as follows o When backup completes successfully to send notification when the backup operation is completed successfully o When backup fails to send notification when the backup operation is failed The When user interaction is required check box to send notification during the operation when user interaction is required is always selected Click Send test WinPopup message to check if the settings are correct dod Event tracing It is possible to send log events of the backup operations performed on the managed machine to the specified SNMP managers SNMP notifications This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems This option is not available when operating under the bootable media The option defines whether the agent s operating on the managed machine have to send the log events of the backup operations to the specified Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP
170. is used for SFTP After entering access credentials the folders on the server become available Click the appropriate folder on the server You can access the server as an anonymous user if the server enables such access To do so click Use anonymous access instead of entering credentials As appears from the original FTP specification credentials required for access to FTP servers are transferred through a network as plaintext This means that the user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer o Ifthe archive is stored on a locally attached tape device expand the Tape drives group then click the required device In the table to the right of the tree select the archive The table displays the names of the archives contained in each vault folder you select While you are reviewing the location content archives can be added deleted or modified by another user or by the program itself according to scheduled operations Use the Refresh button to refresh the list of archives You can switch between displaying archives by names and displaying the physical representation of the archives as TIB files using the Show archives and Show TIB files buttons Click OK 6 5 2 Backup selection To select a backup 1 Select one of the backups by its creation date time 2 To assist you with choosing the right backup the bottom table displays the volumes contained in the selected backup To obta
171. itioning style from MBR to GPT and vice versa or changing disk label Adding this component to the media will enable you to prepare the disk configuration on a machine before recovering the data 3 3 1 13 Error handling These options are effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media These options enable you to specify how to handle errors that might occur during backup Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode The preset is Disabled With the silent mode enabled the program will automatically handle situations requiring user interaction except for handling bad sectors which is defined as a separate option If an operation cannot continue without user interaction it will fail Details of the operation including errors if any can be found in the operation log Re attempt if an error occurs The preset is Enabled Number of attempts 5 Interval between attempts 30 seconds When a recoverable error occurs the program re attempts to perform the unsuccessful operation You can set the time interval and the number of attempts The attempts will be stopped as soon as the operation succeeds OR the specified number of attempts is performed depending on which comes first For example if the backup destination on the network becomes unavailable or not reachable the program will attempt to reach the destination every 30 seconds but no more than 5 times The attempts will be stopped as soon
172. k box to skip files and folders with the System attribute If a folder is System all of its contents including files that are not System will be excluded You can view file or folder attributes in the file folder properties or by using the attrib command For more information refer to the Help and Support Center in Windows e Exclude files matching the following criteria Select this check box to skip files whose names match any of the criteria called file masks in the list use the Add Edit Remove and Remove All buttons to create the list of file masks You can use one or more wildcard characters and in a file mask The asterisk substitutes for zero or more characters in a file name for example the file mask Doc txt yields files such as Doc txt and Document txt Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 139 The question mark substitutes for exactly one character in a file name for example the file mask Doc txt yields files such as Doc1 txt and Docs txt but not the files Doc txt or Doc11 txt Exclusion examples EHE COME ECCE File1 log Excludes all files named File1 log By path C Finance test log Excludes the file named test log located in the folder C Finance Mask Excludes all files with the log extension Mask my log Excludes all log files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my The above settings are not effective for the files or folders that were
173. king up with the full incremental or differential backup method results in a backup p 167 of the corresponding type Full backup A full backup stores all data selected for backup A full backup underlies any archive and forms the base for incremental and differential backups An archive can contain multiple full backups or consist Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 21 of only full backups A full backup is self sufficient you do not need access to any other backup to recover data from a full backup It is widely accepted that a full backup is the slowest to do but the fastest to restore With Acronis technologies recovery from an incremental backup may be not slower than recovery from a full one A full backup is most useful when e you need to roll back the system to its initial state e this initial state does not change often so there is no need for regular backup Example An Internet cafe school or university lab where the administrator often undoes changes made by the students or guests but rarely updates the reference backup in fact after installing software updates only The backup time is not crucial in this case and the recovery time will be minimal when recovering the systems from the full backup The administrator can have several copies of the full backup for additional reliability Incremental backup An incremental backup stores changes to the data against the latest backup You need access to other backups from
174. kup stream or the backup archive compression level If you do nothing in this section the default values p 47 will be used After any of the settings is changed against the default value a new line that displays the newly set value appears The setting status changes from Default to Custom Should you modify the setting again the line will display the new value unless the new value is the default one When the default value is set the line disappears and so you always see only the settings that differ from the default values in this section of the Create backup plan page To reset all the settings to the default values click Reset to default After you have performed all the required steps click OK to create the backup plan After that you might be prompted for the password p 114 The plan you have created will be accessible for examination and managing in the Backup plans and tasks p 97 view 6 2 1 Why is the program asking for the password A scheduled or postponed task has to run regardless of users being logged on In case you have not explicitly specified the credentials under which the task s will run the program proposes using your account Enter your password specify another account or change the scheduled start to manual 6 2 2 Backup plan s credentials Provide the credentials for the account under which the plan s tasks will run To specify credentials 1 Select one of the following o Run under the curr
175. kup volume 1 Use the list command to list the volumes which are stored in the backup For example trueimagecmd list filename smb server backups linux machine tib The output will contain lines similar to the following Num Idx Partition Flags Start Size Type Disk 1 Table i2 Table Disk 2 Table i2 Table Dynamic amp GPT Volumes DYN14 my volgroup my logvol 12533760 Ext2 You will need the volume s index given in the Idx column in the next step Use the mount command specifying the volume s index in the i parameter For example trueimagemnt mount mnt filename smb server backups linux machine tib i 4 This command mounts the logical volume DYN1 whose index in the backup is 4 on the mount point mnt To unmount a backup volume Use the unmount command specifying the volume s mount point as a parameter For example trueimagemnt unmount mnt Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 165 Glossary A Acronis Active Restore The Acronis proprietary technology that brings a system online immediately after the system recovery is started The system boots from the backup p 172 and the machine becomes operational and ready to provide necessary services The data required to serve incoming requests is recovered with the highest priority everything else is recovered in the background Limitations e the backup must be located on the local drive any device available through the BIOS except for network b
176. l Restore can be enabled if Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Universal Restore is installed on the machine where the media is created Otherwise a free or used license for Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Universal Restore must be present on Acronis License Server or you have to enter the license key for Universal Restore 2 optional The timeout interval for the boot menu plus the component that will automatically start on timeout o If not configured the Acronis loader waits for someone to select whether to boot the operating system if present or the Acronis component o If you set say 10 sec for the bootable agent the agent will launch 10 seconds after the menu is displayed This enables unattended onsite operation when booting from a PXE server or WDS RIS 3 optional Remote logon settings o user name and password to be entered on the console side at connection to the agent If you leave these fields empty the connection will be enabled on typing any symbols in the prompt window 4 optional Network settings p 159 o TCP IP settings to be assigned to the machine network adapters 5 optional Network port p 160 o the TCP port that the bootable agent listens for incoming connection 6 The type of media to create You can o create CD DVD or other bootable media such as removable USB flash drives if the hardware BIOS allows for boot from such media o build an ISO image of a bootable disc to burn it later on
177. lance between a backup archive p 167 size and the number of recovery points p 177 available from the archive GFS enables recovering with daily resolution for the last several days weekly resolution for the last several weeks and monthly resolution for any time in the past For more information please refer to GFS backup scheme p 24 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 175 Image The same as Disk backup p 172 Incremental backup A backup p 167 that stores changes to the data against the latest backup You need access to other backups from the same archive p 167 to restore data from an incremental backup L Local backup plan A backup plan p 168 created on a managed machine p 176 using direct management p 172 Local task A task p 179 belonging to a local backup plan p 176 or a task that does not belong to any plan such as a recovery task A local task belonging to a backup plan can be modified by editing the plan only other local tasks can be modified directly M Machine A physical or virtual computer uniquely identified by an operating system installation Machines with multiple operating systems multi boot systems are considered as multiple machines Managed machine A machine p 176 either physical or virtual where at least one Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent p 167 is installed Managed vault A centralized vault p 170 managed by a storage node p 178 Archives p 1
178. le as well This enables us to go as far back as 11 days which is the best case scenario The following day however a new third level differential backup is created and the old full backup is deleted This gives us only a four day recovery interval which turns out to be the worst case scenario On day 14 the interval is five days It increases on subsequent days before decreasing again and so ERR IER EH E IE EA E Sd EE B Beeeeeee The roll back period shows how many days we are guaranteed to have even in the worst case For a four level scheme it is four days 6 2 9 6 Custom backup scheme At a glance e Custom schedule and conditions for backups of each type e Custom schedule and retention rules Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 127 Parameters Parameter Full backup Incremental Differential Retention rules Apply the rules only if the retention rules are set Cleanup schedule only if On schedule is selected Examples Weekly full backup Meaning Specifies on what schedule and under which conditions to perform a full backup For example the full backup can be set up to run every Sunday at 1 00 AM as soon as all users are logged off Specifies on what schedule and under which conditions to perform an incremental backup If the archive contains no backups at the time of the task run a full backup is created instead of the incremental backup Specifies on what schedul
179. le when and how often to back up sessions and select the number of backup levels up to 16 In this scheme the data can be backed up more than once a day By setting up the backup schedule and selecting backup levels you automatically obtain the rollback period the guaranteed number of sessions that you can go back at any time The automatic cleanup mechanism maintains the required rollback period by deleting the expired backups and keeping the most recent backups of each level e Custom to create a custom scheme where you are free to set up a backup strategy in the way your enterprise needs it most specify multiple schedules for different backup types add conditions and specify the retention rules 6 2 9 1 Back up now scheme With the Back up now scheme the backup will be performed immediately right after you click the OK button at the bottom of the page In the Backup type field select whether you want to create a full incremental or differential backup p 21 6 2 9 2 Back up later scheme With the Back up later scheme the backup will be performed only once at the date and time you specify Specify the appropriate settings as follows Backup type Select the type of backup full incremental or differential If there is no full backup in the archive a full backup will be created regardless of your selection Date and time Specify when to start the backup The task will be Select this check box if you do not need
180. led or postponed task has to run anyway regardless if any user is logged on or not for example the system is at the Windows Welcome screen or a user other than the task owner is logged on It is sufficient that the machine be on that is not in standby or hibernate at the scheduled task start time That s why the Acronis scheduler needs the explicitly specified credentials to be able to start the task 2 5 GFS backup scheme This section covers implementation of the Grandfather Father Son GFS backup scheme in Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 With this backup scheme you are not allowed to back up more often than once a day The scheme enables you to mark out the daily weekly and monthly cycles in your daily backup schedule and set 24 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 the retention periods for the daily monthly and weekly backups The daily backups are referred to as sons weekly backups are referred to as fathers the longest lived monthly backups are called grandfathers GFS as a tape rotation scheme GFS was initially created and is often referred to as a tape rotation scheme Tape rotation schemes as such do not provide automation They just determine e how many tapes you need to enable recovery with the desired resolution time interval between recovery points and roll back period e which tapes you should overwrite with the forthcoming backup Tape rotation schemes enable you to get by with the minimal number
181. letion window displays the same tab as for the vaults view but with check boxes for each archive and backup The archive or backup you have chosen to delete has the check mark Review the archive or backup that you have selected to delete If you need to delete other archives and backups select the respective check boxes then click Delete selected and confirm the deletion The filters in this window are from the archives list of the vault view Thus if some filters have been applied to the archives list only the archives and backups corresponding to these filters are displayed here To see all content clean all the filter fields What happens if delete a backup that is a base of an incremental or differential backup To preserve archive consistency the program will consolidate the two backups For example you delete a full backup but retain the next incremental one The backups will be combined into a single full backup which will be dated the incremental backup date When you delete an incremental or differential backup from the middle of the chain the resulting backup type will be incremental Please be aware that consolidation is just a method of deletion but not an alternative to deletion The resulting backup will not contain data that was present in the deleted backup and was absent from the retained incremental or differential backup There should be enough space in the vault for temporary files created during consolidation Backups
182. logged off Incremental Schedule Weekly every workday at 9 00 PM Also let all backups older than one year be deleted from the archive and let the cleanup be performed upon creating a new backup Retention rules Delete backups older than 12 months Apply the rules After backing up By default a one year old full backup will not be deleted until all incremental backups that depend on it become subject to deletion too For more information see Retention rules p 32 Monthly full weekly differential and daily incremental backups plus cleanup This example demonstrates the use of all options available in the Custom scheme Suppose that we need a scheme that will produce monthly full backups weekly differential backups and daily incremental backups Then the backup schedule can look as follows Full backup Schedule Monthly every Last Sunday of the month at 9 00 PM Incremental Schedule Weekly every workday at 7 00 PM Differential Schedule Weekly every Saturday at 8 00 PM Further we want to add conditions that have to be satisfied for a backup task to start This is set up in the Conditions fields for each backup type Full backup Conditions Location available Incremental Conditions User is logged off Differential Conditions User is idle As a result a full backup originally scheduled at 9 00 PM may actually start later as soon as the backup location becomes available Likewise backup tasks for incremental an
183. lure or success with warnings When displaying of pop up messages is disabled you can review the task execution states and results in the Tasks view The preset is Enabled for all results To make a setting for each result successful completion failure or success with warnings individually select or clear the respective check box 3 1 3 Time based alerts Last backup This option is effective when the console is connected to a managed machine p 176 or to the management server p 176 The option defines whether to alert if no backup was performed on a given machine for a period of time You can configure the time period that is considered critical for your business The preset is alert if the last successful backup on a machine was completed more than 5 days ago The alert is displayed in the Alerts section of the Dashboard When the console is connected to the management server this setting will also control the color scheme of the Last backup column s value for each machine Last connection This option is effective when the console is connected to the management server or to a registered machine p 177 The option defines whether to alert if no connection was established between a registered machine and the management server for a period of time so indicating that the machine might not be centrally managed for instance in the case of network connection failure to that machine You can configure the length of time that
184. ly disabling a backup plan is needed when moving archives from one vault to another by means of the third party file manager Applies to backup plans that use custom backup schemes only To disable a backup plan 1 Click 4 Edit 2 Enter the backup scheme scheduling option and disable the schedule for the desired period by changing the Start date and or End date parameters Task details The Task details window also duplicated on the Information panel aggregates all information on the selected task When a task requires user interaction a message and action buttons appear above the tabs The message contains a brief description of the problem The buttons allow you to retry or stop the task or the backup plan 106 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Types of tasks Task name Backup disk Backup file Backup virtual machine Recovery disk Recovery file Recovery volume Recovery MBR Recovery disk to existing VM Recovery disk to new VM Recovery existing VM Recovery new VM Validation archive Validation backup Validation vault Cleanup ASZ creation ASZ management Disk management Compacting Description Backing up disks and volumes Backing up files and folders Backing up an entire virtual machine or its volumes Disk backup recovery File and folder recovery Recovery of volumes from a disk backup Master boot record recovery Recovery of a disk volume backup to an exist
185. ly updates Windows loaders after recovery so there is no need to recover the MBR and Track 0 for Windows systems unless the MBR is damaged 134 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 6 3 4 2 Files selection To select a backup and files to recover 1 Select one of the successive incremental backups by its creation date time Thus you can revert the files folders to a specific moment in time 2 Specify the files and folders to recover by selecting the corresponding check boxes in the archives tree Selecting a folder automatically selects all its nested folders and files Use the table to the right of the archives tree to select the nested items Selecting the check box for the Name column s header automatically selects all items in the table Clearing this check box automatically deselects all the items 3 Click OK 6 3 5 Access credentials for location Specify the credentials required for access to the location where the backup archive is stored To specify credentials 1 Select one of the following o Use the task credentials The program will access the location using the credentials of the task account specified in the General section o Use the following credentials The program will access the location using the credentials you specify Use this option if the task account does not have access permissions to the location You might need to provide special credentials for a network share or a storage node vault Specify
186. m 03 00 00 PM Until 07 00 00 PM 3 Effective From 09 20 2009 To not set 5 2 Weekly schedule Weekly schedule is effective in Windows and Linux operating systems To specify a weekly schedule In the Schedule area select the appropriate parameter as follows Every week s on Specify a certain number of weeks and the days of the week you want the task to be run For example with the Every 2 week s on Mon setting the task will be performed on Monday of every other week In the During the day execute the task area select one of the following Once at lt gt Set up the time at which the task will be run once Every lt gt Set up how many times the task will be run during the specified time interval For example setting the task frequency to Every 1 hour From 10 00 00 AM until 10 00 00 PM allows the task to be run 12 times from 10 AM to 10 PM during one day From lt gt Until lt gt In the Effective area set the following settings From Set up a date when this schedule will be enabled an effective date If this check box is cleared the task will be started on the nearest day and time you have specified above To Set up a date when this schedule will be disabled If this check box is cleared the task will be run for an indefinite number of weeks Advanced scheduling settings are available only for machines registered on Acronis Backup amp Recov
187. m may be unbootable e The machine BIOS is configured to boot from another HDD Solution Configure the BIOS to boot from the HDD where the operating system resides e The system was recovered on dissimilar hardware and the new hardware is incompatible with the most critical drivers included in the backup Solution for Windows Recover the volume once again When configuring recovery opt for using Acronis Universal Restore and specify the appropriate HAL and mass storage drivers e Windows was recovered to a dynamic volume that cannot be bootable Solution Recover Windows to a basic simple or mirrored volume e A system volume was recovered to a disk that does not have an MBR When you configure recovery of a system volume to a disk that does not have an MBR the program prompts whether you want to recover the MBR along with the system volume Opt for not recovering only if you do not want the system to be bootable Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 141 Solution Recover the volume once again along with the MBR of the corresponding disk e The system uses Acronis OS Selector Because the Master Boot Record MBR can be changed during the system recovery Acronis OS Selector which uses the MBR might become inoperable If this happens reactivate Acronis OS Selector as follows Solution Boot the machine from the Acronis Disk Director s bootable media and select in the menu Tools Activate OS Selector e The system uses GRand Unif
188. me you have specified above To Set up a date when this schedule will be disabled If this check box is cleared the task will be run for an indefinite number of days Advanced scheduling settings are available only for machines registered on Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Server To specify these settings click Change in the Advanced settings area All the settings you made are displayed in the Result field at the bottom of the window Examples Simple daily schedule Run the task every day at 6PM The schedule s parameters are thus set up as follows 1 Every 1 day s 2 Once at 06 00 00 PM 3 Effective Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 85 From not set The task will be started on the current day if it has been created before 6PM If you have created the task after 6 PM the task will be started for the first time on the next day at 6 PM To not set The task will be performed for an indefinite number of days Three hour time interval lasting for three months schedule Run the task every three hours The task starts on a certain date say September 15 2009 and ends after three months The schedule s parameters are thus set up as follows 1 Every 1 day s 2 Every 3 hours From 12 00 00 AM midnight Until 09 00 00 PM thus the task will be performed 8 times a day with a 3 hour time interval After the last daily recurrence at 9 PM the next day comes and the task star
189. media Managed Machine Vault Backup Plan 1 E Backup 0 Task 1 F Backup 1 Full backup F Backup 2 Backup Plan 2 Task 1 Full backup Task 2 Differential backup Task 3 Incremental backup Task 4 Validate archive Task 5 Cleanup archive Maintain archive Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Backup using bootable media You can boot the machine using the bootable media configure the backup operation in the same way as a simple backup plan and execute the operation This will help you extract files and logical volumes from a system that failed to boot take an image of the offline system or back up sector by sector an unsupported file system Managed Machine Vault Bootable Agent RAM Archive 1 F Backup 0 F Backup 1 F Backup 2 Backup Operation Full backup of Data 2 Recovery under operating system When it comes to data recovery you create a recovery task on the managed machine You specify the vault then select the archive and then select the backup referring to the date and time of the backup creation or more precisely to the time when the creation has started In most cases the data will be reverted to that moment Examples of exceptions to this rule Recovering a database from a backup that contains the transaction log a single backup provides multiple recovery points and so you can make additional selections Re
190. ment the system displays No alerts or warnings Types of alerts The table below illustrates the types of messages you may observe Description Offer Comment o X tasks failed Showtasks Show tasks will open the Backup plans and Tasks view with failed tasks where you can examine the reason of failure o X task s need s user Showtasks Each time a task needs human interaction the Dashboard interaction shows a message to inform you what action has to be performed for example insert new CD or Stop Retry Ignore on an error o License check failed X days Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent periodically checks remaining until the software whether its license is available on Acronis License Server stops working Please make After the Agent is unable to check for the license for X sure you have a valid license more days it will stop working until a successful check on Acronis License Server The Agent checks for the license when it starts and then every 1 5 days as specified by the configuration parameters o Cannot check the license key For the past X days Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent for X days Either Acronis for Windows was unable to check whether its license is License Server was available on Acronis License Server This is probably due Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 95 unavailable or the license key data was corrupted Check connectivity to the server and run Acronis License Server to manage
191. n be also accessed from the Vault name actions bar on the Actions and Tools pane and from the Vault name actions item of the main menu respectively The following is a guideline for you to perform operations with personal vaults To Do Create a personal Click B Create vault The procedure of creating personal vaults is described in depth in the Creating a personal vault p 80 section Change user account Click Change user for accessing a vault 8 In the appearing dialog box provide the credentials required for accessing the vault S8 Create Acronis Secure Click Create Acronis Secure Zone Zone The procedure of creating the Acronis Secure Zone is described in depth in the Creating Acronis Secure Zone p 152 section Explore a vault s Click Q Explore content In the appearing Explorer window examine the selected vault s content Validate a vault Click V validate You will be taken to the Validation p 144 page where this vault is already pre selected as a source The vault validation checks all the archives stored in the vault Delete a vault Click X Delete The deleting operation actually removes only a shortcut to the folder from the Vaults view The folder itself remains untouched You have the option to keep or delete archives contained in the folder Refresh vault table Click G Refresh information While you are reviewing the vault content archives can be added to the vault del
192. n if the task account does not have access permissions to the destination Specify e User name When entering the name of an Active Directory user account be sure to also specify the domain name DOMAINNUsername or Username 2 domain e Password The password for the account 2 Click OK 6 3 8 When to recover Select when to start the recovery task e Recover now the recovery task will be started immediately after you click the final OK e Recover later the recovery task will be started at the date and time you specify If you do not need to schedule the task and wish to start it manually afterwards select the Task will be started manually do no schedule the task check box 6 3 9 Bootability troubleshooting If a system was bootable at the time of backup you expect that it will boot after recovery However the information the operating system stores and uses for booting up may become outdated during recovery especially if you change volume sizes locations or destination drives Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 automatically updates Windows loaders after recovery Other loaders might also be fixed but there are cases when you have to re activate the loaders Specifically when you recover Linux volumes it is sometimes necessary to apply fixes or make booting changes so that Linux can boot and load correctly Below is a summary of typical situations that require additional user actions Why a recovered operating syste
193. n is performed in unmanaged vaults p 180 Archive See Backup archive p 167 B Backup The result of a single backup operation p 168 Physically it is a file or a tape record that contains a copy of the backed up data as of specific date and time Backup files created by Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 have a TIB extension The TIB files resulting from backup consolidation p 171 are also called backups Backup archive Archive A set of backups p 167 created and managed by a backup plan p 168 An archive can contain multiple full backups p 175 as well as incremental p 176 and differential backups p 172 Backups belonging to the same archive are always stored in the same location Multiple backup plans can back up the same source to the same archive but the mainstream scenario is one plan one archive Backups in an archive are entirely managed by the backup plan Manual operations with archives validation p 180 viewing contents mounting and deleting backups should be performed using Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Do not modify your archives using non Acronis tools such as Windows Explorer or third party file managers Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 167 Backup operation An operation that creates a copy of the data that exists on a machine s p 176 hard disk for the purpose of recovering or reverting the data to a specified date and time Backup options Configuration parameters of a
194. nd Remove All buttons to create the list of file masks You can use one or more wildcard characters and in a file mask The asterisk substitutes for zero or more characters in a file name for example the file mask Doc txt yields files such as Doc txt and Document txt The question mark substitutes for exactly one character in a file name for example the file mask Doc txt yields files such as Doc1 txt and Docs txt but not the files Doc txt or Doc11 txt Exclusion examples By name File1 log Excludes all files named File1 log By path C Finance test log Excludes the file named test log located in the folder C Finance Mask Excludes all files with the log extension Mask my log Excludes all log files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my 50 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 The above settings are not effective for the files or folders that were explicitly selected for backup For example assume that you selected the folder MyFolder and the file MyFile tmp outside that folder and selected to skip all tmp files In this case all tmp files in the folder MyFolder will be skipped during the backup process but the file MyFile tmp will not be skipped 3 3 1 3 Pre Post commands This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and PE based bootable media The option enables you to define the commands to be automatically executed before and after the
195. ndows or for Linux is installed Select this option to back up disks and or volumes To be able to back up disks or volumes you must have Administrator or Backup operator privileges Backing up disks and volumes enables you to recover the entire system in case of severe data damage or hardware failure The backup procedure is faster than copying files and may significantly speed up the backup process when it comes to backing up large volumes of data Note for Linux users We recommend that you unmount any volumes that contain non journaling file systems such as the ext2 file system before backing them up Otherwise these volumes might contain corrupted files upon recovery recovery of these volumes with resize might fail 6 2 4 Items to back up The items to backup depend on the source type p 115 selected previously 6 2 4 1 Selecting disks and volumes To specify disks volumes to back up 1 Select the check boxes for the disks and or volumes to back up You can select a random set of disks and volumes Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 115 If your operating system and its loader reside on different volumes always include both volumes in the backup The volumes must also be recovered together otherwise there is a high risk that the operating system will not start 2 Optional To create an exact copy of a disk or volume on a physical level select the Back up sector by sector check box The resulting backup
196. niffer o Ifthe archive is stored on a locally attached tape device expand the Tape drives group then click the required device 2 In the table to the right of the tree select the archive The table displays the names of the archives contained in each vault folder you select While you are reviewing the location content archives can be added deleted or modified by another user or by the program itself according to scheduled operations Use the Refresh button to refresh the list of archives You can switch between displaying archives by names and displaying the physical representation of the archives as TIB files using the Show archives and Show TIB files buttons 146 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 3 Click OK 6 4 3 Backup selection To specify a backup to validate 1 Inthe upper pane select a backup by its creation date time The bottom part of the window displays the selected backup content assisting you to find the right backup 2 Click OK 6 4 4 Location selection To select a location Enter the full path to the location in the Path field or select the desired location in the folders tree e To select a centralized vault expand the Centralized group and click the appropriate vault e To select a personal vault expand the Personal group and click the appropriate vault e To select a local folder expand the Local folders group and click the required folder e To select a network share expand the Network
197. o Ifthe archive is stored on an FTP or SFTP server type the server name or address in the Path field as follows ftp ftp_server port number or sftp sftp_server port number If the port number is not specified port 21 is used for FTP and port 22 is used for SFTP After entering access credentials the folders on the server become available Click the appropriate folder on the server You can access the server as an anonymous user if the server enables such access To do so click Use anonymous access instead of entering credentials As appears from the original FTP specification credentials required for access to FTP servers are transferred through a network as plaintext This means that the user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer o Ifthe archive is stored on a locally attached tape device expand the Tape drives group then click the required device 2 In the table to the right of the tree select the archive The table displays the names of the archives contained in each vault folder you select Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 133 While you are reviewing the location content archives can be added deleted or modified by another user or by the program itself according to scheduled operations Use the Refresh button to refresh the list of archives You can switch between displaying archives by names and displaying the physical representation of the archives as TIB files usin
198. o the zone including using the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager p 166 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager p 154 Optional To enable using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager select Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager activation overwrites the Master Boot Record MBR with its own boot code You will have to reactivate third party boot loaders if installed Under Linux consider installing the LILO or GRUB loader to a Linux root or boot partition boot 152 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 record instead of the MBR before activation Otherwise reconfigure these boot loaders manually after activation To disable Acronis Startup Recovery Manager select Do not activate You can activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager later from the Manage Acronis Secure Zone p 155 page After you configure the required settings click OK In the Result confirmation p 154 window review the expected layout and click OK to start creating the zone 6 7 1 1 Acronis Secure Zone Disk The Acronis Secure Zone can be located on any fixed hard drive Acronis Secure Zone is always created at the end of the hard disk A machine can have only one Acronis Secure Zone Acronis Secure Zone is created using unallocated space if available or at the expense of the volumes free space The Acronis Secure Zone cannot be organized on a dynamic disk or a disk using the GPT partitioning style To allocate space for Acronis Secure Zone 1 Choose
199. of the SNMP community to which both the host running SNMP management application and the sending machine belong The typical community is public To disable sending SNMP messages clear the Send messages to SNMP server check box The messages are sent over UDP The next section contains additional information about Setting up SNMP services on the receiving machine p 46 3 2 1 2 Setting up SNMP services on the receiving machine Windows To install the SNMP service on a machine running Windows 1 Start gt Control Panel gt Add or Remove Programs gt Add Remove Windows Components 2 Select Management and Monitoring Tools 3 Click Details 4 Select the Simple Network Management Protocol check box 5 Click OK You might be asked for Immib2 dll that can be found on the installation disc of your operating system 46 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Linux To receive SNMP messages on a machine running Linux the net snmp for RHEL and SUSE or the snmpd for Debian package has to be installed SNMP can be configured using the snmpconf command The default configuration files are located in the etc snmp directory e etc snmp snmpd conf configuration file for the Net SNMP SNMP agent e etc snmp snmptrapd conf configuration file for the Net SNMP trap daemon 3 3 Default backup and recovery options 3 3 1 Default backup options Each Acronis agent has its own default backup options Once an agent is installed
200. of the program window and lets you perform all the operations available on both panes Menu items change dynamically 1024x768 or higher display resolution is required for comfortable work with the management console LALL Navigation pane The navigation pane includes the Navigation tree and the Shortcuts bar Navigation tree The Navigation tree enables you to navigate across the program views Views depend on whether the console is connected to a managed machine or to the management server Views for a managed machine When the console is connected to a managed machine the following views are available in the navigation tree Machine name Root of the tree also called a Welcome view Displays the name of the machine the console is currently connected to Use this view for quick access to the main operations available on the managed machine o e Dashboard Use this view to estimate at a glance whether the data is successfully protected on the managed machine o e Backup plans and tasks Use this view to manage backup plans and tasks on the managed machine run edit stop and delete plans and tasks view their states and statuses monitor plans o amp Vaults Use this view to manage personal vaults and archives stored in there add new vaults rename and delete the existing ones validate vaults explore backup content mount backups as virtual drives etc o Log Use this view to examine information on operations performe
201. oft knowledge base article 222189 Description of Disk Groups in Windows Disk Management http support microsoft com kb 222189 EN US Dynamic disk A hard disk managed by Logical Disk Manager LDM that is available in Windows starting with Windows 2000 LDM helps flexibly allocate volumes on a storage device for better fault tolerance better performance or larger volume size A dynamic disk can use either the master boot record MBR or GUID partition table GPT partition style In addition to MBR or GPT each dynamic disk has a hidden database where the LDM stores the dynamic volumes configuration Each dynamic disk holds the complete information about all dynamic volumes existing in the disk group which makes for better storage reliability The database occupies the last 1MB of an MBR disk On a GPT disk Windows creates the dedicated LDM Metadata partition taking space from the Microsoft Reserved Partition MSR Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 173 Disk 1 LDM database 1MB Disk2 Protec Microsoft LDM tive MBR Reserved database Partition MSR LDM Metadata partition 1MB Dynamic disks organized on MBR Disk 1 and GPT Disk 2 disks For more information about dynamic disks please refer to the following Microsoft knowledge base articles Disk Management Windows XP Professional Resource Kit http technet microsoft com en us library bb457110 aspx 816307 Best practices for using dynamic disk
202. on rules are applied the program will delete all backups created more than 3 months or more exactly 90 days ago e If after the deletion the archive size is more than 200GB and the oldest backup is older than 10 days the program will delete that backup e Then if necessary the next old backup will be deleted until the archive size decreases to the preset limit or the oldest backup age reaches 10 days Deleting backups with dependencies Both retention rules presume deleting some backups while retaining the others What if the archive contains incremental and differential backups that depend on each other and on the full backups they are based on You cannot say delete an outdated full backup and keep its incremental children Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 33 When deletion of a backup affects other backups one of the following rules is applied e Retain the backup until all dependent backups become subject to deletion The outdated backup will be kept until all backups that depend on it also become outdated Then all the chain will be deleted at once during the regular cleanup This mode helps to avoid the potentially time consuming consolidation but requires extra space for storing backups whose deletion is postponed The archive size and or the backup age can exceed the values you specify e Consolidate the backup The program will consolidate the backup that is subject to deletion with the next dependent backup For
203. onis Inc 2000 2009 Source The Source tab provides the following information on the data selected for backup e Source type the type of data p 115 selected for backing up e Items to back up items selected to back up and their size Destination The Destination tab provides the following information e Location name of the vault or path to the folder where the archive is stored e Archive name name of the archive e Archive comments comments on the archive if provided Settings The Settings tab displays the following information e Backup scheme the selected backup scheme and all its settings with schedules e Validation if selected events before or after which the validation is performed and validation schedule e Backup options backup options changed against the default values 6 1 3 Log The Log stores the history of operations performed by Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 on the machine or actions a user takes on the machine using the program For instance when a user edits a task the respective entry is added to the log When the program executes a task it adds multiple entries With the log you can examine operations results of tasks execution including reasons for failure if any Way of working with log entries e Use filters to display the desired log entries You can also hide the unneeded columns and show the hidden ones See the Filtering and sorting log entries p 111 section for d
204. oot e does not work with Linux images Acronis Plug in for WinPE A modification of Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent for Windows that can run in the preinstallation environment The plug in can be added to a WinPE p 180 image using Acronis WinPE ISO Builder The resulting bootable media p 169 can be used to boot any PC compatible machine and perform with certain limitations most of the direct management p 172 operations without help of an operating system Operations can be configured and controlled either locally through the GUI or remotely using the console p 171 Acronis Secure Zone A secure volume for storing backup archives p 167 within a managed machine p 176 Advantages e enables recovery of a disk to the same disk where the disk s backup resides e offers a cost effective and handy method for protecting data from software malfunction virus attack operator error e eliminates the need for a separate media or network connection to back up or recover the data This is especially useful for mobile users e can serve as the primary location for dual destination backup Limitation Acronis Secure Zone cannot be organized on a dynamic disk p 173 or a disk using the GPT partitioning style Acronis Secure Zone is considered as a personal vault p 177 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ASRM A modification of the bootable agent p 169 residing on the system disk and configured to start at boot time w
205. operating systems 14 T Tape compatibility table 38 Tape support 38 Task 17 168 170 176 179 Task credentials 132 144 145 Task details 97 98 102 106 Task failure handling 48 64 Task start conditions 48 63 84 92 100 Task states 98 100 Task statuses 98 101 Tasks need interaction 97 Technical support 15 185 Temporarily disabling a backup plan 80 106 Time since last backup 94 Time based alerts 44 Tower of Hanoi 169 179 Tower of Hanoi backup scheme 29 179 Tower of Hanoi scheme 125 U Understanding Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 17 Understanding states and statuses 98 Universal Restore Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Universal Restore 39 179 Unmanaged vault 167 180 User privileges on a managed machine 23 115 133 146 Using a single tape drive 39 Using the management console 7 V Validating vaults archives and backups 79 81 82 144 Validation 17 167 179 180 Validation rules 168 180 Vault 17 40 155 177 180 Vaults 34 76 144 155 Views 11 Virtual machine 170 180 Volume destination 136 137 Volume properties 137 138 Volume selection 149 151 Volumes 131 137 W Weekly schedule 87 126 186 When to recover 132 141 When to validate 145 148 Why is the program asking for the password 114 WinPE Windows Preinstallation Environment 166 169 181 Working
206. or Microsoft Remote Installation Service RIS These servers with uploaded bootable components can also be thought of as a kind of bootable media Bootable media is most often used to e recover an operating system that cannot start e access and back up the data that has survived in a corrupted system Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 169 e deploy an operating system on bare metal e create basic or dynamic volumes p 174 on bare metal e back up sector by sector a disk that has an unsupported file system e back up offline any data that cannot be backed up online because of restricted access being permanently locked by the running applications or for any other reason Built in group A group of machines that always exists on a management server p 176 A management server has two built in groups that contain all machines of each type All physical machines p 177 All virtual machines p 180 Built in groups cannot be deleted moved to other groups or manually modified Custom groups cannot be created within built in groups There is no way to remove a physical machine from the built in group except for deleting the machine from the management server Virtual machines are deleted as a result of their host server deletion A backup policy p 168 can be applied to a built in group C Centralized backup plan A backup plan p 168 that appears on the managed machine p 176 as a result of deploying a backup policy p
207. or you to perform actions on log entries C Select a single log entry Select multiple log entries View a log entry s details Save the selected log entries to a file Save all the log entries to a file Save all the filtered log entries to a file 110 non contiguous hold down CTRL and click the log entries one by one contiguous select a single log entry then hold down SHIFT and click another entry All the entries between the first and last selections will be selected too Select a log entry Do one of the following Click window View Details The log entry s details will be displayed in a separate Expand the Information panel by clicking the chevron Select a single log entry or multiple log entries Click F Save Selected to File In the opened window specify a path and a name for the file Make sure that the filters are not set Click H Save All to File In the opened window specify a path and a name for the file Set filters to get a list of the log entries that satisfy the filtering criteria Click A Save All to File In the opened window specify a path and a name for the file As a result the log entries of that list will be saved Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Delete all the log entries LUN Click Clear Log All the log entries will be deleted from the log and a new log entry will be created It will contain information about who deleted the entries and wh
208. p plan Click a Stop Stopping the running backup plan stops all its tasks Thus all the task operations will be aborted Task Click lasl Stop What will happen if I stop the task Generally stopping the task aborts its operation backup recovery validation exporting conversion migration The task enters the Stopping state first then becomes Idle The task schedule if created remains valid To complete the operation you will have to run the task over again recovery task from the disk backup The target volume will be deleted and its space unallocated you will get the same result if the recovery is unsuccessful To recover the lost volume you will have to run the task once again recovery task from the file backup The aborted operation may cause changes in the destination folder Some files may be recovered but some not depending on the moment when you stopped the task To recover all the files you will have to run the task once again Backup plan Click Edit Backup plan editing is performed in the same way as creation p 112 except for the following limitations It is not always possible to use all scheme options when editing a backup plan if the created archive is not empty i e contains backups 1 It is not possible to change the scheme to Grandfather Father Son or Tower of Hanoi 2 Ifthe Tower of Hanoi scheme is used it is not possible to change the number of levels In all other
209. pe will appear The content of a non empty tape will be overwritten on prompt You have an option to disable prompts see Additional settings p 65 Workaround In case you want to keep more than one archive on the tape for example back up volume C and volume D separately choose incremental backup mode instead of a full backup when you create an initial backup of the second volume In other situations incremental backup is used for appending changes to the previously created archive You might experience short pauses that are required to rewind the tape Low quality or old tape as well as dirt on the magnetic head might lead to pauses that can last up to several minutes Limitations 1 Multiple full backups within one archive are not supported 2 Individual files cannot be recovered from a disk backup 3 Backups cannot be deleted from a tape either manually or automatically during cleanup Retention rules and backup schemes that use automatic cleanup GFS Tower of Hanoi are disabled in the GUI when backing up to a locally attached tape 4 Personal vaults cannot be created on tape devices 5 Because the presence of an operating system cannot be detected in a backup located on a tape Acronis Universal Restore p 179 is proposed at every disk or volume recovery even when recovering a Linux or non system Windows volume 6 Acronis Active Restore p 166 is not available when recovering from a tape Copyright Acronis
210. ps that directly depend on it become subject to deletion as well This is why you might see a weekly or a monthly backup remain in the archive for a few days past its expected expiration date If the schedule starts with a daily or a weekly backup a full backup is created instead Examples Each day of the past week each week of the past month Let us consider a GFS backup scheme that many may find useful e Backup files every day including weekends e Beable to recover files as of any date over the past seven days e Have access to weekly backups of the past month e Keep monthly backups indefinitely Backup scheme parameters can then be set up as follows e Start backup at 11 00 PM e Back up on All days e Weekly monthly Saturday for example e Keep backups o Daily 1 week o Weekly 1 month o Monthly indefinitely As a result an archive of daily weekly and monthly backups will be created Daily backups will be available for seven days since creation For instance a daily backup of Sunday January 1 will be Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 123 available through next Sunday January 8 the first weekly backup the one of Saturday January 7 will be stored on the system until February 7 Monthly backups will never be deleted Limited storage If you do not want to arrange a vast amount of space to store a huge archive you may set up a GFS scheme so as to make your backups more short lived at the same time ensuring that yo
211. r Owner of the plan Date and time presentation varies depending on your locale settings 6 2 Creating a backup plan Before creating your first backup plan p 168 please familiarize yourself with the basic concepts p 17 used in Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 To create a backup plan perform the following steps General Plan name Optional Enter a unique name for the backup plan A conscious name lets you identify the plan among others Plan s credentials p 114 Optional The backup plan will run on behalf of the user who is creating the plan You can change the plan account credentials if necessary To access this option select the Advanced view check box 112 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Comments Optional Type a description of the backup plan To access this option select the Advanced view check box What to backup Source type p 115 Select the type of data to back up The type of data depends on the agents installed on the machine Items to backup p 115 Specify the data items to back up A list of items to backup depends on the data type specified previously Access credentials p 117 Optional Provide credentials for the source data if the plan s account does not have access permissions to the data To access this option select the Advanced view check box Exclusions p 117 Optional Set up exclusions for the specific types of files you do not wish to back up To
212. r by the program itself according to scheduled operations Use the Refresh button to refresh the list of archives You can switch between displaying archives by names and displaying the physical representation of the archives as TIB files using the Show archives and Show TIB files buttons 3 Naming the new archive Once you select the archive destination the program generates a name for the new archive and displays it in the Name field The name commonly looks like Archive 1 The generated name is unique within the selected location If you are satisfied with the automatically generated name click OK Otherwise enter another unique name and click OK Backing up to an existing archive You can configure the backup plan to back up to an existing archive To do so select the archive in the archives table or type the archive name in the Name field If the archive is protected with a password the program will ask for it in the pop up window By selecting the existing archive you are meddling in the area of another backup plan that uses the archive This is not an issue if the other plan is discontinued but in general you should follow the rule one backup plan one archive Doing the opposite will not prevent the program from functioning but is not practical or efficient except for some specific cases Why two or more plans should not back up to the same archive 1 Backing up different sources to the same archive makes using the archive dif
213. r to Machine options p 45 e Send SNMP notifications individually for recovery operation events to send the events of the recovery operations to the specified SNMP managers o Types of events to send choose the types of events to be sent All events Errors and warnings or Errors only o Server name IP type the name or IP address of the host running the SNMP management application the messages will be sent to o Community type the name of SNMP community to which both the host running SNMP management application and the sending machine belong The typical community is public Click Send test message to check if the settings are correct Do not send SNMP notifications to disable sending the log events of the recovery operations to SNMP managers Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 73 3 3 2 6 Error handling These options are effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media These options enable you to specify how to handle errors that might occur during recovery Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode The preset is Disabled With the silent mode enabled the program will automatically handle situations requiring user interaction where possible If an operation cannot continue without user interaction it will fail Details of the operation including errors if any can be found in the operation log Re attempt if an error occurs The preset is Enabled Number of at
214. r volumes as a whole from such backup as well as individual folders or files File backup File level data protection is based on backing up files and directories residing on the machine where the agent is installed or on a network share accessed using the smb or nfs protocol Files can be recovered to their original location or to another place It is possible to recover all files and directories that were backed up or select which of them to recover Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 13 1 3 11 Bootable components and media builder Bootable components of the agent enable operations with reboot such as recovery of the volume containing the currently active operating system Once the operations are completed the machine boots into the operating system again The bootable components are based on the Linux kernel You can choose not to install the bootable components and perform operations that require reboot using bootable media Acronis Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media p 169 containing the bootable components The media builder delivered with Agent for Linux creates bootable media that represents volumes and network in the Linux like style hda1 sdb2 smb server share 1 3 2 Management Console Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Console is an administrative tool for remote or local access to Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 agents and in the product editions that include the centr
215. re post recovery commands recovery priority error handling or notification options If you do nothing in this section the default values p 67 will be used After any of the settings is changed against the default value a new line that displays the newly set value appears The setting status changes from Default to Custom Should you modify the setting again the line will display the new value unless the new value is the default one When the default value is set the line disappears and so you always see only the settings that differ from the default values in the Settings section Clicking Reset to default resets all the settings to default values After you complete all the required steps click OK to create the commit creating of the recovery task 6 3 1 Task credentials Provide credentials for the account under which the task will run To specify credentials 1 Select one of the following o 132 Run under the current user The task will run under the credentials with which the user who starts the tasks is logged on If the task has to run on schedule you will be asked for the current user s password on completing the task creation Use the following credentials The task will always run under the credentials you specify whether started manually or executed on schedule Specify e User name When entering the name of an Active Directory user account be sure to also specify the domain name DOMAINNUsername or Usern
216. reate backup plan Create a backup plan to protect data on this machine v Advanced vew General Plan name Backup 4 9 2009 4 31 48 AM Plan s credentials Run as Administrator current user Change Comments Some additional infromation on the backup plan being cerated 5 What to back up Source type Disks volumes Y Items to back up 13 99 GB Al 2 volumes Change NTFS C New Volume E Excusions tmp bak Change Where to back up Access credent ls Adminstrator plan s credentials Change Archive comments wi i uieii Action page Create backup plan Using controls and specifying settings The action pages offer two ways of representation basic and advanced The basic representation hides such fields as credentials comments etc When the advanced representation is enabled all the available fields are displayed You can switch between the views by selecting the Advanced view check box at the top of the action page Most settings are configured by clicking the respective Change links to the right Others are selected from the drop down list or typed manually in the page s fields 12 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 General Plan name Backup 2 25 2009 7 41 21 AM Plan s credentials Run as Administrator current user Change Comments __ Action page Controls 1 3 Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 components
217. reating multiple incremental backups 22 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 An incremental or differential backup created after disk defragmentation might be considerably larger than usual because defragmentation changes file locations on the disk and the backup reflects these changes It is recommended that you re create a full backup after disk defragmentation The following table summarizes the advantages and shortcomings of each backup type as they appear based on common knowledge In real life these parameters depend on numerous factors such as the amount speed and pattern of data changes the nature of the data the physical specifications of the devices the backup recovery options you set to name a few Practice is the best guide to selecting the optimal backup scheme Parameter Full backup Differential backup Incremental backup Storage space Maximal Medium Minimal Creation time Maximal Medium Minimal Recovery time Minimal Medium Maximal 2 3 User privileges on a managed machine When managing a machine running Linux the user has or obtains the root privileges and so can e Back up and recover any data or the entire machine having full control over all Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 agent operations and log files on the machine e Manage local backup plans and tasks owned by any user registered in the operating system To avoid routine logging on to the system as root the root user can log on with the ordinary user cred
218. redentials the program will ask for them Note for Linux users To specify a Common Internet File System CIFS network share which is mounted on a mount point such as mnt share select this mount point instead of the network share itself e To back up data to an FTP or SFTP server type the server name or address in the Path field as follows ftp ftp_server port _number or sftp sftp_server port number If the port number is not specified port 21 is used for FTP and port 22 is used for SFTP 118 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 After entering access credentials the folders on the server become available Click the appropriate folder on the server You can access the server as an anonymous user if the server enables such access To do so click Use anonymous access instead of entering credentials As appears from the original FTP specification credentials required for access to FTP servers are transferred through a network as plaintext This means that the user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer e To back up data to a locally attached tape device expand the Tape drives group then click the required device 2 Using the archives table To assist you with choosing the right destination the table displays the names of the archives contained in each location you select While you are reviewing the location content archives can be added deleted or modified by another user o
219. rential backup stores changes to the data against the latest full backup p 175 You need access to the corresponding full backup to recover the data from a differential backup Direct management Any management operation that is performed on a managed machine p 176 using the direct console p 171 agent p 167 connection as opposed to centralized management p 170 when the operations are configured on the management server p 176 and propagated by the server to the managed machines The direct management operations include e creating and managing local backup plans p 176 e creating and managing local tasks p 176 such as recovery tasks e creating and managing personal vaults p 177 and archives stored there e viewing the state progress and properties of the centralized tasks p 170 existing on the machine e viewing and managing the log of the agent s operations e disk management operations such as clone a disk create volume convert volume A kind of direct management is performed when using bootable media p 169 Some of the direct management operations can also be performed via the management server GUI This presumes however either an explicit or an implicit direct connection to the selected machine Disk backup Image A backup p 167 that contains a sector based copy of a disk or a volume in a packaged form Normally only sectors that contain data are copied Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 provid
220. resulting from consolidation always have maximum compression 82 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 4 2 4 Filtering and sorting archives The following is a guideline for you to filter and sort archives in the archives table To Do Sort backup archives by any Click the column s header to sort the archives in ascending order column T Click it once again to sort the archives in descending order Filter archives by name In the field below the corresponding column s header type the archive name owner or machine the owner name or the machine name As a result you will see the list of the archives whose names owner names or machine names fully or just partly coincide with the entered value Configuring the archives table By default the table has seven columns that are displayed others are hidden If required you can hide the displayed columns and show hidden ones To show or hide columns 1 Right click any column header to open the context menu The menu items that are ticked off correspond to column headers presented in the table 2 Click the items you want to be displayed hidden Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 83 5 Scheduling Acronis scheduler helps the administrator adapt backup plans to the company s daily routine and each employee s work style The plans tasks will be launched systematically keeping the critical data safely protected The scheduler uses local time of the machine the b
221. riority p 56 HDD writing speed p 56 Network connection speed p 57 Fast incremental differential backup p 60 Backup splitting p 60 Media components p 61 Error handling p 62 Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode Re attempt if an error occurs Ignore bad sectors Dual destination p 62 Task start conditions p 63 Task failure handling p 64 Additional settings p 65 Overwrite data on a tape without prompting user for confirmation Dismount media after backup is finished 48 T Dest HDD Dest network share Dest removable media Dest local Dest Tape Dest removable media Dest HDD Dest network share Dest removable media Dest local Dest Tape Dest removable media Dest HDD Dest HDD Dest network share Dest network share Dest Tape Dest Tape Dest Dest removable removable media media Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Ask for first media while Dest Dest Dest Dest creating backup archives on removable removable removable removable removable media media media media media Validate backup after 5 creation Reboot after the backup i Create full backups as synthetic backups Notifications E mail p 57 i j Win Pop up p 58 T Event tracing SNMP p 59 2 E 3 2 L 1
222. ry 10 is readable on a tape device attached to a machine with ABR10 ABR10 ABR10 ABR10 Bootable Agent for Agent for Storage Media Windows Bootable Media ATIE 9 1 Tape written on a locally attached tape device tape drive or tape library by ATIE 9 5 ATIE 9 7 ABR10 t Agent for ATIE 9 1 Windows NIESE z ATIE 9 7 ABR10 t Agent for Linux ATIE 9 1 ATIE 9 5 ATIE 9 7 ABR10 Tape written Backup Server ATIE 9 1 ona tape ATIE 9 5 device through ATIE 9 7 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 EE Storage Node ABR10 E 2 10 2 Using a single tape drive A tape drive that is locally attached to a managed machine can be used by local backup plans as a storage device The functionality of a locally attached autoloader or tape library is limited to the ordinary tape drive This means that the program can only work with the currently mounted tape and you have to mount tapes manually Backup to a locally attached tape device When creating a backup plan you are able to select the locally attached tape device as the backup destination An archive name is not needed when backing up to a tape An archive can span multiple tapes but can contain only one full backup and an unlimited number of incremental backups Every time you create a full backup you start with a new tape and create a new archive As soon as the tape is full a dialog window with a request to insert a new ta
223. s Active Restore 39 166 180 Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 components 13 Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 overview 6 Acronis Plug in for WinPE 166 169 181 Acronis Secure Zone 40 41 152 166 180 Acronis Secure Zone Disk 152 153 Acronis Secure Zone Size 152 153 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager 41 131 152 154 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ASRM 152 166 180 Action pages 9 10 12 Actions on backup plans and tasks 98 102 Actions on log entries 109 110 Actions on personal vaults 77 78 79 Additional settings 39 48 65 68 74 Administering a managed machine 95 Agent Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent 17 167 169 171 172 175 176 178 179 180 181 Agent for Linux 13 Agent side cleanup 167 178 Agent side validation 167 179 Archive 113 118 166 167 Archive protection 47 49 Archive selection 131 133 145 146 149 Archive validation 114 130 B Back up later scheme 121 Back up now scheme 121 Backing up LVM volumes Linux 34 Backing up RAID arrays Linux 36 Backup 17 21 167 171 172 175 176 180 Backup archive Archive 17 167 168 171 172 175 176 177 178 179 180 Backup operation 167 168 Backup options 168 175 Backup performance 56 Backup plan Plan 17 112 167 168 169 170 171 176 177 178 179 180 Backup plan details 98 102 108 Backup plan execution states
224. s created during backup in every personal vault This folder contains additional information about archives and backups stored in the vault such as archive owners or the machine name If you accidentally delete the meta folder it will be automatically recreated next time you access the vault But some information like owner names and machine names may be lost Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 77 4 1 1 Working with the Personal vault view This section briefly describes the main elements of the Personal vault view and suggests the ways to work with them Vault toolbar The toolbar contains operational buttons that let you perform operations with the selected personal vault See the Actions on personal vaults p 79 section for details Pie chart with legend The pie chart lets you estimate the vault s load it shows the proportion of the vault s free space and occupied space free space space on the storage device where the vault is located For example if the vault is located on a hard disk the vault free space is free space of the appropriate volume occupied space total size of backup archives and their metadata if it is located in the vault Other files that may be put to this folder by a user are not counted The legend displays the following information about the vault e full path to the vault e total number of archives and backups stored in the vault e theratio of the occupied space to the original data si
225. s multiple disk devices or MD devices and hardware RAID arrays Software RAID arrays Software RAID arrays or MD devices combine several volumes and make solid block devices dev md0 dev md1 dev md31 information of which is stored in etc raidtab or in dedicated areas of those volumes Backup You can back up active mounted software arrays in the same way as logical volumes The arrays appear at the end of the list of volumes available for backup Basic volumes included in software arrays are listed as if they had a corrupted file system or do not have a file system at all Backing up such volumes does not make sense when a software array is mounted as it won t be possible to recover them Example Here is an example of a volumes list obtained with the list command The GUI displays a similar table The system has RAID 1 configured on two basic volumes sdc1 sdd1 Num Partition Flags Start Size Type Daliste ile 1 1 sdal Pri Act 63 208782 EXEO 1 2 sda2 Ene 208845 S550920 ReiserFS l 3 sdas Dea 15759763 WONS Linux Swap IDskighe 29 Table 0 Table 36 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Unallocated il 16771859 Unallocated Dakisike 38 3 4 see Deal 63 1 7595 1 312 pes Unallocated 167551795 16065 Unallocated Disk 4 4 1 sddl Poan 63 1 6755 1 312 None Unallocated 167553795 16065 Unallocated DiS KES Table 0 Table Unallocated 1 1 5 2 TALS 5
226. s on Windows Server 2003 based computers http support microsoft com kb 816307 Dynamic group A group of machines p 176 which is populated automatically by the management server p 176 according to membership criteria specified by the administrator Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 offers the following membership criteria e Operating system e Active Directory organization unit e P address range A machine remains in a dynamic group as long as the machine meets the group s criteria The machine is removed from the group automatically as soon as e the machine s properties change so that the machine does not meet the criteria anymore OR e the administrator changes the criteria so that the machine does not meet them anymore There is no way to remove a machine from a dynamic group manually except for deleting the machine from the management server 174 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Dynamic volume Any volume located on dynamic disks p 173 or more precisely on a disk group p 172 Dynamic volumes can span multiple disks Dynamic volumes are usually configured depending on the desired goal e toincrease the volume size a spanned volume e to reduce the access time a striped volume e to achieve fault tolerance by introducing redundancy mirrored and RAID 5 volumes E Encrypted archive A backup archive p 167 encrypted according to the Advanced Encryption Standard AES When the encryption option and a
227. s option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems This option is not available when operating under the bootable media The option enables you to receive e mail notifications about the backup task s successful completion failure or need for interaction along with the full log of the task The preset is Disabled Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 57 To configure e mail notification 1 2 Select the Send e mail notifications check box to activate notifications In the E mail addresses field type the e mail address to which notifications will be sent You can enter several addresses separated by semicolons Under Send notifications select the appropriate check boxes as follows o When backup completes successfully to send a notification when the backup task has completed successfully o When backup fails to send a notification when the backup task has failed The When user interaction is required check box is always selected For the e mail message to include the log entries related to the backup select the Add full log to the notification check box Click Additional e mail parameters to configure additional e mail parameters as follows then click OK o From type the e mail address of the user from whom the message will be sent If you leave this field empty messages will be constructed as if they are from the destination address o Use encryption you can opt for encrypted connection to the ma
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229. se the command shell is not available in this case Example Suppose that you previously performed a disk backup of a machine with the following disk configuration e The machine has two 1 gigabyte and two 2 gigabyte SCSI hard disks mounted on dev sda dev sdb dev sdc and dev sdd respectively e The first and second pairs of hard disks are configured as two MD devices both in the RAID 1 configuration and are mounted on dev mdO0 and dev md1 respectively e A logical volume is based on the two MD devices and is mounted on dev my_volgroup my_logvol The following picture illustrates this configuration Idevisdc Idevisdd Idevisda Idevisdb Idevimd0 Idevi md1 Idevimy volgroup my logvol Do the following to recover data from this archive Step 1 Creating the volume structure Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 163 7 Boot the machine from a Linux based bootable media In the management console press CTRL ALT F2 Run the following commands to create the MD devices mdadm create dev md level 1 raid devices 2 dev sd ab mdadm create dev md1 level 1 raid devices 2 dev sd cd Run the following commands to create the logical volume group lvm pvcreate dev md dev md1 lvm vgcreate my volgroup dev md dev md1 lvm vgdisplay The output of the Ivm vgdisplay command will contain lines similar to the following Volume group VG Name my volgroup VG Access read write VG Status
230. se the following credentials The program will access the location using the credentials you specify Use this option if the task account does not have access permissions to the location You might need to provide special credentials for a network share or a storage node vault Specify e User name When entering the name of an Active Directory user account be sure to also specify the domain name DOMAIN Username or Username domain e Password The password for the account 2 Click OK As appears from the original FTP specification credentials required for access to FTP servers are transferred through a network as plaintext This means that the user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer 6 4 6 When to validate As validation is a resource intensive operation it makes sense to schedule validation to the managed machine s off peak period On the other hand if you prefer to be immediately informed whether the data is not corrupted and can be successfully recovered consider starting validation right after the task creation Choose one of the following e Now to start the validation task right after its creation that is after clicking OK on the Validation page e Later to start the one time validation task at the date and time you specify Specify the appropriate parameters as follows o Date and time the date and time when to start the task o The task will be started manually do no
231. selected in the previous step Each 1st 2nd and 3rd backup created on this day of the week will be considered as a weekly backup Each 4th backup created on this day of the week will be considered as a monthly backup Backups created on the other days will be considered as daily backups Assume you select Friday for Weekly Monthly backup Here is the total schedule marked out according to the selection D stands for the backup that is considered Daily W stands for the backup that is considered Weekly M stands for the backup that is considered Monthly eu ue ree we ro ra jeu uo roo ro e oum o Tuo We mo ea Jon ou o Tuo we mu ri fat Total D D D D W D D DDW D DD DW D D D D M schedule eo o_o The schedule marked out according to the GFS scheme Schedule Workdays at 8 00 PM Weekly Monthly Friday Acronis uses incremental and differential backups that help save storage space and optimize the cleanup so that consolidation is not needed In terms of backup methods weekly backup is differential Dif monthly backup is full F and daily backup is incremental I The first backup is always full The Weekly Monthly parameter splits the total schedule into daily weekly and monthly schedules Assume you select Friday for Weekly Monthly backup Here is the real schedule of the backup tasks that will be created Su Mo Tue We Thu Fri Sat Su Mo Tue We Thu Fri Sat Su Mo Tue We T
232. send a notification when the backup task has completed successfully o When backup fails to send a notification when the backup task has failed The When user interaction is required check box is always selected 4 Forthe e mail message to include the log entries related to the backup select the Add full log to the notification check box Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 71 5 Click Additional e mail parameters to configure additional e mail parameters as follows then click OK o From type the e mail address of the user from whom the message will be sent If you leave this field empty messages will be constructed as if they are from the destination address o Use encryption you can opt for encrypted connection to the mail server SSL and TLS encryption types are available for selection o Some Internet service providers require authentication on the incoming mail server before being allowed to send something If this is your case select the Log on to incoming mail server check box to enable a POP server and to set up its settings e Incoming mail server POP enter the name of the POP server e Port set the port of the POP server By default the port is set to 110 e User name enter the user name e Password enter the password o Select the Use the specified outgoing mail server check box to enable an SMTP server and to set up its settings e Outgoing mail server SMTP enter the name of the SMTP
233. server e Port set the port of the SMTP server By default the port is set to 25 e User name enter the user name e Password enter the password Click Send test e mail message to check if the settings are correct Messenger service WinPopup This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems This option is not available when operating under bootable media The option enables you to receive WinPopup notifications about about the recovery task s successful completion failure or need for interaction The preset is Disabled Before configuring WinPopup notifications make sure the Messenger service is started on both the machine executing the task and the machine that will receive messages The Messenger service is not started by default in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family Change the service Startup mode to Automatic and start the service To configure WinPopup notifications 1 Select the Send WinPopup notifications check box 2 In the Machine name field enter the name of the machine to which notifications will be sent Multiple names are not supported 3 Under Send notifications select the appropriate check boxes as follows 72 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 o When recovery completes successfully to send notification when the recovery task has completed successfully o Whenrecovery fails to send notification when the recovery task has failed The When user interaction is r
234. suggested to activate the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager when creating Acronis Secure Zone p 152 Once the Acronis Secure Zone is created you can activate or deactivate the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager at any time using the Manage Acronis Secure Zone action The deactivation will disable the boot time prompt Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager This means you will need bootable media in case the system fails to boot Limitations Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 41 e Cannot be organized on a dynamic disk or a disk using the GPT partitioning style e Requires manual configuration of boot loaders such as LILO and GRUB after activation e Requires re activation of third party loaders after activation 42 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 This section covers Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 options that can be configured using Graphical User Interface The content of this section is applicable to both stand alone and advanced editions of Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 3 1 Console options The console options define the way information is represented in the Graphical User Interface of Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 To access the console options select Options Console options from the top menu 3 1 1 Startup page This option defines whether to show the Welcome screen or the Dashboard upon connection of the console to a managed machine or to the management
235. t schedule the task select this check box if you wish to start the task manually later e On schedule to schedule the task To learn more about how to configure the scheduling parameters please see the Scheduling p 84 section 6 5 Mounting an image Mounting volumes from a disk backup image lets you access the volumes as though they were physical disks Multiple volumes contained in the same backup can be mounted within a single mount operation The mount operation is available when the console is connected to a managed machine running either Windows or Linux Mounting volumes in the read write mode enables you to modify the backup content that is save move create delete files or folders and run executables consisting of one file 148 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Limitation Mounting of volume backups stored on Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Storage Node is not possible To mount an image perform the following steps Source Archive p 149 Specify the path to the archive location and select the archive containing disk backups Backup p 150 Select the backup Access credentials p 150 Optional Provide credentials for the archive location To access this option select the Advanced view check box Mount settings Volumes p 151 Select volumes to mount and configure the mount settings for every volume assign a letter or enter the mount point choose the read write or read only access mode
236. ted the command execution result does not affect the task execution failure or success You can track the command execution result by exploring the log or the errors and warnings displayed on the Dashboard 5 Click Test command to check if the command is correct eep in mind that the path to the batch file and the working directory you specify must exist an from the managed machine after the recovery is completed dedu Recovery priority This option is effective for both Windows and Linux operating systems This option is not available when operating under the bootable media The priority of a process running in a system determines the amount of CPU and system resources allocated to that process Decreasing the recovery priority will free more resources for other applications Increasing the recovery priority might speed up the recovery process by requesting the operating system to allocate more resources to the application that will perform the recovery However the resulting effect will depend on the overall CPU usage and other factors like disk I O speed or network traffic The preset is Normal 70 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 To specify the recovery process priority Select one of the following e Low to minimize resources taken by the recovery process leaving more resources to other processes running on the machine e Normal to run the recovery process with normal speed allocating resources on a par with ot
237. tempts 5 Interval between attempts 30 seconds When a recoverable error occurs the program re attempts to perform the unsuccessful operation You can set the time interval and the number of attempts The attempts will be stopped as soon as the operation succeeds OR the specified number of attempts is performed depending on which comes first For example if the network location becomes unavailable or not reachable the program will attempt to reach the location every 30 seconds but no more than 5 times The attempts will be stopped as soon as the connection is resumed OR the specified number of attempts is performed depending on which comes first amd Additional settings Specify the additional settings for the recovery operation by selecting or clearing the following check boxes Set current date and time for recovered files This option is effective only when recovering files The preset is Enabled This option defines whether to recover the files date and time from the archive or assign the files the current date and time Validate backup before recovery The preset is Disabled This option defines whether to validate a backup to ensure that the backup is not corrupted before data is recovered from it Check file system after recovery This option is effective only when recovering disks or volumes 74 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 When operating under bootable media this option is not effective for the NTFS file
238. the following e Click Writing speed stated as a percentage of the maximum speed of the destination hard disk and then drag the slider or select a percentage in the box e Click Writing speed stated in kilobytes per second and then enter the writing speed in kilobytes per second Network connection speed This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media This option is available when a location on the network network share managed vault or an FTP SFTP server is selected as the backup destination The option defines the amount of network connection bandwidth allocated for transferring the backup data By default the speed is set to maximum i e the software uses all the network bandwidth it can get when transferring the backup data Use this option to reserve a part of the network bandwidth to other network activities The preset is Maximum To set the network connection speed for backup Do any of the following e Click Transferring speed stated as a percentage of the estimated maximum speed of the network connection and then drag the slider or type a percentage in the box e Click Transferring speed stated in kilobytes per second and then enter the bandwidth limit for transferring backup data in kilobytes per second 3 3 1 8 Notifications Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 provides the ability of notifying users about backup completion through e mail or the messaging service E mail Thi
239. the operating system will start as soon as the bootable agent has finished creating the backup 66 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Deduplicate the backup only after transferring it to the vault do not deduplicate at source This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media when the backup destination is a deduplicating vault The preset is Disabled Enabling this option turns off deduplicating backups at source meaning that deduplication will be performed by Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Storage Node after the backup is saved to the vault this is called deduplication at target Turning off deduplication at source may lead to faster backup processes but greater network traffic and heavier load of the storage node The eventual size of the backup in the vault is independent of whether deduplication at source is turned on Deduplication at source and deduplication at target are described in Deduplication overview 3 3 2 Default recovery options Each Acronis agent has its own default recovery options Once an agent is installed the default options have pre defined values which are referred to as presets in the documentation When creating a recovery task you can either use a default option or override the default option with the custom value that will be specific for this task only You can also customize a default option itself by changing its value against the pre defined one The new
240. ting for the condition required by the previous event The event will be ignored Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 84 e What if the condition is not met for a very long time If delaying a backup is getting risky you can force the condition tell the users to log off or run the task manually To automatically handle this situation you can set the time interval after which the task will run regardless of the condition 5 1 Daily schedule Daily schedule is effective in Windows and Linux operating systems To specify a daily schedule In the Schedule area select the appropriate parameter as follows Every day s Set up the certain number of days you want the task to be run For example if you set Every 2 day s the task will be started on every other day In the During the day execute the task area select one of the following Once at lt gt Set up the time at which the task will be run once Every lt gt Set up how many times the task will be restarted during the specified time interval For example setting the task frequency to Every 1 hour From 10 00 00 AM until 10 00 00 PM allows the task to run 12 times from 10 AM to 10 PM during one day From lt gt Until lt gt In the Effective area set the following settings From Set up a date when this schedule will be enabled an effective date If this check box is cleared the task will be started on the nearest day and ti
241. tions can operate for example for creating temporary files The program will not decrease a volume where free space is or becomes less than 2596 of the total volume size Only when all volumes on the disk have 2596 or less free space will the program continue decreasing the volumes proportionally As is apparent from the above setting the maximum possible zone size is not advisable You will end up with no free space on any volume which might cause the operating system or applications to work unstably and even fail to start 6 7 2 Managing Acronis Secure Zone Acronis Secure Zone is considered as a personal vault p 180 Once created on a managed machine the zone is always present in the list of Personal vaults Centralized backup plans can use Acronis Secure Zone as well as local plans If you have used the Acronis Secure Zone before please note a radical change in the zone functionality The zone does not perform automatic cleanup that is deleting old archives anymore Use backup schemes with automatic cleanup to back up to the zone or delete outdated archives manually using the vault management functionality With the new Acronis Secure Zone behavior you obtain the ability to e list archives located in the zone and backups included in each archive e examine backup content e mounta volume backup to copy files from the backup to a physical disk e safely delete archives and backups from the archives To learn more about operat
242. tions are considered as normal Task states A task can be in one of the following states Idle Waiting Running Stopping Need interaction The initial task state is Idle Once the task is started manually or the event specified by the schedule occurs the task enters either the Running state or the Waiting state Running A task changes to the Running state when the event specified by the schedule occurs AND all the conditions set in the backup plan are met AND no other task that locks the necessary resources is running In this case nothing prevents the task from running Waiting A task changes to the Waiting state when the task is about to start but another task using the same resources is already running In particular more than one backup or recovery task cannot run simultaneously on a machine A backup task and a recovery task also cannot run simultaneously Once the other task unlocks the resource the waiting task enters the Running state A task may also change to the Waiting state when the event specified by the schedule occurs but the condition set in the backup plan is not met See Task start conditions p 63 for details Need interaction Any running task can put itself into the Need interaction state when it needs human interaction such as changing media or ignoring a read error The next state may be Stopping if the user chooses to stop the task or Running on selecting Ignore Retry or another action suc
243. tored on the target disk will be replaced by the backed up data so be careful and watch out for NT signature When the MBR is selected along with the disk backup you need to retain operating system bootability on the target disk volume The operating system must have the system volume information e g volume letter matched with the disk NT signature which is kept in the MBR disk record But two disks with the same NT signature cannot work properly under one operating system if there are two disks having the same NT signature and comprising of a system volume on a machine at the startup the operating system runs from the first disk discovers the same signature on the second one automatically generates a new unique NT signature and assigns it to the second disk As a result all the volumes on the second disk will lose their letters all paths will be invalid on the disk and programs won t find their files The operating system on that disk will be unbootable To retain system bootability on the target disk volume choose one of the following e Create new The program will generate a new NT signature for the target hard disk drive e Recover from backup The program will replace the NT signature of the target hard disk with one from the disk backup Recovering the disk signature may be desirable due to the following reasons 136 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 o Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 creates scheduled tasks usin
244. tralized plan p 170 Backup policy Policy A backup plan template created by the management server p 176 administrator and stored on the management server A backup policy contains the same rules as a backup plan but might not explicitly specify what data items to back up Instead selection rules p 178 such as environment variables can be used Because of this flexible selection a backup policy can be centrally applied to multiple machines If a data item is specified explicitly e g dev sda or C Windows the policy will back up this item on each machine where this exact path is found 168 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 By applying a policy to a group of machines the administrator deploys multiple backup plans with a single action The workflow when using policies is as follows 1 The administrator creates a backup policy 2 Theadministrator applies the policy to a group of machines or a single machine p 176 3 The management server deploys the policy to the machines 4 On each machine the agent p 167 installed on the machine finds data items using the selection rules For example if the selection rule is All volumes the entire machine will be backed up 5 On each machine the agent installed on the machine creates a backup plan p 168 using other rules specified by the policy Such backup plan is called a centralized plan p 170 6 On each machine the agent installed on the machine creates
245. ts and always specify the full path to the archive vault All of the above operations except for archive and backup deletion can be performed without creating vaults The operation of creating a vault results in adding the vault name to the Vaults section of the Navigation pane Centralized and personal vaults A centralized vault is a networked location allotted by the management server administrator to serve as storage for the backup archives A centralized vault can be managed by a storage node managed vault or be unmanaged Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 76 A vault is called personal if it was created using direct connection of the console to a managed machine Personal vaults are specific for each managed machine Way of working with the Vaults view amp Vaults on the navigation pane top element of the vaults tree Click this item to display groups of centralized and personal vaults PS Centralized This group is available when the console is connected to a managed machine or to a management server Expand this group to display a list of centralized vaults added by the management server administrator Click any centralized vault in the vaults tree to open the detailed view of this vault and to take actions on the vault archives p 80 and backups p 81 stored in there E Personal This group is available when the console is connected to a managed machine Expand this group to display a list of personal vaults creat
246. ts over again from midnight 3 Effective From 09 15 2009 If September 15 2009 is the current date of the task s creation and say 01 15 PM is the task s creation time the task will be started when the nearest time interval comes at 03 00 PM in our example To 12 15 2009 On this date the task will be performed for the last time but the task itself is still available in the Tasks view Several daily schedules for one task There are some cases when you might need the task to be run several times a day or even several times a day with different time intervals For such cases consider adding several schedules to a single task For example suppose that the task has to be run every 3rd day starting from 09 20 2009 five times a day e first at 8 AM e second at 12 PM noon e third at 3 PM e fourth at 5 PM e fifth at 7 PM The obvious way is to add five simple schedules If you spend one minute for examination you can think out a more optimal way As you can see the time interval between the first and the second task s recurrences is 4 hours and between the third fourth and fifth is 2 hours In this case the optimal way is to add two schedules to the task First daily schedule 1 Every 3 day s 2 Every 4 hours 86 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 From 08 00 00 AM Until 12 00 00 PM 3 Effective From 09 20 2009 To not set Second daily schedule 1 Every 3 day s 2 Every 2 hour s Fro
247. u can use one or more wildcard characters and in a file mask The asterisk substitutes for zero or more characters in a file name for example the file mask Doc txt yields files such as Doc txt and Document txt The question mark substitutes for exactly one character in a file name for example the file mask Doc txt yields files such as Doc1 txt and Docs txt but not the files Doc txt or Doc11 txt Exclusion examples CUBE CINE ECCE File1 log Excludes all files named File1 log C Finance test log Excludes the file named test log located in the folder C Finance Mask Excludes all files with the log extension Mask my log Excludes all log files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my 6 2 7 Archive Specify where the archive will be stored and the name of the archive 1 Selecting the destination Enter the full path to the destination in the Path field or select the desired destination in the folders tree To back up data to a centralized vault expand the Centralized group and click the vault To back up data to a personal vault expand the Personal group and click the vault To back up data to a local folder on the machine expand the Local folders group and click the required folder To back up data to a network share expand the Network folders group select the required networked machine and then click the shared folder If the network share requires access c
248. ubstantial problems at the next general release of the Software More information about contacting Acronis Technical Support is available at the following link http www Acronis com enterprise support 16 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 2 Understanding Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 This section attempts to give its readers a clear understanding of the product so that they can use the product in various circumstances without step by step instructions 2 1 Basic concepts Please familiarize yourself with the basic notions used in the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 graphical user interface and documentation Advanced users are welcome to use this section as a step by step quick start guide The details can be found in the context help Backup under operating system 1 To protect data on a machine install Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 agent p 167 on the machine which becomes a managed machine p 176 from this point on 2 To be able to manage the machine using Graphical User Interface install Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Management Console p 171 on the same machine or any machine from which you prefer to operate If you have the standalone product edition skip this step since in your case the console installs with the agent 3 Runthe console To be able to recover the machine s operating system if the system fails to start create bootable media p 169 4 Connectthe console to the managed machine 5
249. ur information can be recovered in case of an accidental data loss Suppose that you need to e Perform backups at the end of each working day e Be able to recover an accidentally deleted or inadvertently modified file if this has been discovered relatively quickly e Have access to a weekly backup for 10 days after it was created e Keep monthly backups for half a year Backup scheme parameters can then be set up as follows e Start backup at 6 00 PM e Back up on Workdays e Weekly monthly Friday e Keep backups o Daily 1 week o Weekly 10 days o Monthly 6 months With this scheme you will have a week to recover a previous version of a damaged file from a daily backup as well as 10 day access to weekly backups Each monthly full backup will be available for six months since the creation date Work schedule Suppose you are a part time financial consultant and work in a company on Tuesdays and Thursdays On these days you often make changes to your financial documents statements and update the spreadsheets etc on your laptop To back up this data you may want to e Track changes to the financial statements spreadsheets etc performed on Tuesdays and Thursdays daily incremental backup e Have a weekly summary of file changes since last month Friday weekly differential backup e Havea monthly full backup of your files Moreover assume that you want to retain access to all backups including the daily ones for at least
250. urces allocated to that process Decreasing the backup priority will free more resources for other applications Increasing the backup priority might speed up the backup process by requesting the operating system to allocate more resources like the CPU to the backup application However the resulting effect will depend on the overall CPU usage and other factors like disk in out speed or network traffic The preset is Low To specify the backup process priority Select one of the following e Low to minimize resources taken by the backup process leaving more resources to other processes running on the machine e Normal to run the backup process with normal speed allocating resources on a par with other processes e High to maximize the backup process speed by taking resources from other processes HDD writing speed This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media This option is available when an internal fixed hard disk of the machine being backed up is selected as the backup destination Backing up to a fixed hard disk for example to Acronis Secure Zone may slow performance of the operating system and applications because of the large amounts of data that needs to be written to the disk You can limit the hard disk usage by the backup process to the desired level 56 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 The preset is Maximum To set the desired HDD writing speed for backup Do any of
251. ve Due to this exceeding the archive size that may occur between the cleanup task runs will not be critical for the business process The rarer the cleanup runs the more space you need to store backups that outlive their lifetime The Vaults p 76 page provides you with information about free space available in each vault Check this page from time to time If the free space which in fact is the storage device free space approaches zero you might need to toughen the restrictions for some or all archives residing in this vault 2 8 Backing up LVM volumes Linux This section explains in brief how you would back up and recover volumes managed by Linux Logical Volume Manager LVM called logical volumes using Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent for Linux can access back up and recover such volumes when running in Linux with 2 6 x kernel or a Linux based bootable media 34 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 You can back up data of one or more logical volumes and recover it to a previously created logical volume or a basic MBR disk or volume likewise it is also possible to recover the data of a basic volume to a logical volume In each case the program stores and recovers volume contents only The type or other properties of the target volume will not change A system recovered from c a 1 logical volume backup to c a 1 basic MBR disk cannot boot because its kernel tries to mount the root
252. w Right click the object to validate archive backup or vault and select Validate from the context menu The Validation page will be opened with the pre selected object as a source All you need to do is to select when to validate and optionally provide a name for the task To create a validation task perform the following steps General Task name Optional Enter a unique name for the validation task A conscious name lets you quickly identify the task among the others Credentials p 145 144 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Optional The validation task will run on behalf of the user who is creating the task You can change the task credentials if necessary To access this option select the Advanced view check box What to validate Validate Choose an object to validate Archive p 146 in that case you need to specify the archive Backup p 147 specify the archive first and then select the desired backup in this archive Vault p 147 select a vault or other location which archives to validate Access Credentials p 147 Optional Provide credentials for accessing the source if the task account does not have enough privileges to access it To access this option select the check box for Advanced view When to validate Validate p 148 Specify when and how often to perform validation After you configure all the required settings click OK to create the validation task 6 4 1 Task credent
253. way Windows identifies drives For example the D drive under the rescue utility might correspond to the E drive in Windows Be careful To be on the safe side it is advisable to assign unique names to the volumes 2 The Linux style bootable media shows local disks and volumes as unmounted sda1 sda2 3 There is no Navigation tree in the media GUI Use the Navigation menu item to navigate between views 4 Tasks cannot be scheduled in fact tasks are not created at all If you need to repeat the operation configure it from scratch 160 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 5 The log lifetime is limited to the current session You can save the entire log or the filtered log entries to a file 6 Centralized vaults are not displayed in the folder tree of the Archive window To access a managed vault type the following string in the Path field bsp node address vault name To access an unmanaged centralized vault type the full path to the vault s folder After entering access credentials you will see a list of archives located in the vault 6 8 4 List of commands and utilities available in Linux based bootable media Linux based bootable media contains the following commands and command line utilities which you can use when running a command shell To start the command shell press CTRL ALT F2 while in the bootable media s management console Acronis command line utilities e Acronis e asamba e lash e trueima
254. y also from a disk backup PE only PE only de Windows recovery Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 2321 Pre Post commands This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and PE based bootable media The option enables you to define the commands to be automatically executed before and after the data recovery Example of how you can use the pre post commands e launch the Checkdisk command in order to find and fix logical file system errors physical errors or bad sectors to be started before the recovery starts or after the recovery ends The program does not support interactive commands i e commands that require user input for example pause To specify pre post commands 1 Enable pre post commands execution by checking the following options o Execute before the recovery o Execute after the recovery 2 Doanyofthe following o Click Edit to specify a new command or a batch file o Select the existing command or the batch file from the drop down list 3 Click OK Pre recovery command To specify a command batch file to be executed before the recovery process starts 1 In the Command field type a command or browse to a batch file The program does not support interactive commands i e commands that require user input for example pause 2 Inthe Working directory field specify a path to a directory where the command batch file will be executed 3 Inthe Ar
255. y default with 64 bit distributions When using the agent on a 64 bit RedHat based distribution such as RHEL CentOS Fedora or Scientific Linux make sure that the following 32 bit packages are installed in the system pam i386 libselinux i386 libsepol i386 These packages should be available in the repository of your Linux distribution 14 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Remote connection to the agent is not possible 1 5 Supported file systems Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 can back up and recover the following file systems with the following limitations e FAT16 32 e NTFS e Ext2 Ext3 e ReiserFS3 particular files cannot be recovered from disk backups located on Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Storage Node e ReiserFS4 volume recovery without the volume resize capability particular files cannot be recovered from disk backups located on Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Storage Node e XFS volume recovery without the volume resize capability particular files cannot be recovered from disk backups located on Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Storage Node e JFS particular files cannot be recovered from disk backups located on Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Storage Node e Linux SWAP Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 can back up and recover corrupted or non supported file systems using the sector by sector approach 1 6 Technical support As part of a purchased annual Support charge you are entitled to Tec
256. y fourth Friday and weekly backups run on all other Fridays e Monthly Grandfather backups are full e Weekly Father backups are differential e Daily Son backups are incremental Parameters You can set up the following parameters of a Grandfather Father Son GFS scheme Start backup at Specifies when to start a backup The default value is 12 00 PM Back up on Specifies the days on which to perform a backup The default value is Workdays Weekly Monthly Specifies which of the days selected in the Back up on field you want to reserve for weekly and monthly backups A monthly backup will be performed every fourth such day The default value is Friday 122 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 Keep backups Specifies how long you want the backups to be stored in the archive A term can be set in hours days weeks months or years For monthly backups you can also select Keep indefinitely if you want them to be saved forever The default values for each backup type are as follows Daily 1 week recommended minimum Weekly 1 month 1 month for keeping backups is equal to four weeks Monthly indefinitely The retention period for weekly backups must exceed that for daily backups the monthly backups retention period must be greater than the weekly backups retention period We recommend setting a retention period of at least one week for daily backups At all times a backup is not deleted until all backu
257. y hard disks Physical drives that are part of hardware RAID arrays may be listed alongside other disks as if they had a bad partition table or no partition table at all Backing up such disks does not make sense as it won t be possible to recover them Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 37 2 10 Tape support Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 supports tape libraries autoloaders SCSI and USB tape drives as storage devices A tape device can be locally attached to a managed machine in this case the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent writes and reads the tapes or accessed through the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Storage Node Storage nodes ensure fully automatic operation of tape libraries and autoloaders Backup archives created using different ways of access to tape have different formats A tape written by a storage node cannot be read by an agent Linux based and PE based bootable media allow for backup and recovery using both local access and access through the storage node Backups created using the bootable media can be recovered with the Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 Agent running in the operating system 2 10 1 Tape compatibility table The following table summarizes the readability of tapes written by Acronis True Image Echo and Acronis True Image 9 1 product families in Acronis Backup amp Recovery 10 The table also illustrates the compatibility of tapes written by various components of Acronis Backup amp Recove
258. ze Vault content The Vault content section contains the archives table and toolbar The archives table displays archives and backups that are stored in the vault Use the archives toolbar to perform actions on the selected archives and backups The list of backups is expanded by clicking the plus sign to the left of the archive s name All the archives are grouped by type on the following tabs e The Disk archives tab lists all the archives that contain disk or volume backups images e The File archives tab lists all the archives that contain file backups Related sections Operations with archives stored in a vault p 80 Operations with backups p 81 Filtering and sorting archives p 83 Bars of the Actions and tools pane e Vault Name The Actions bar is available when clicking the vault in the vaults tree Duplicates actions of the vault s toolbar 78 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2009 e Archive Name The Actions bar is available when you select an archive in the archives table Duplicates actions of the archives toolbar e Backup Name The Actions bar is available when you expand the archive and click on any of its backups Duplicates actions of the archives toolbar 4 1 2 Actions on personal vaults To perform any operation except for creation with a vault you must select it first All the operations described below are performed by clicking the corresponding buttons on the toolbar These operations ca

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