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You can always find the latest up-to-date list of the third party code and the associated license terms used with the Software and/or Service at http://kb.acronis.com/content/7696 Acronis patented technologies Technologies, used in this product, are covered and protected by one or more U.S. Patent Numbers: 7,047,380; 7,275,139; 7,281,104; 7,318,135; 7,353,355; 7,366,859; 7,475,282; 7,603,533; 7,636,824; 7,650,473; 7,721,138; 7,779,221; 7,831,789; 7,886,120; 7,895,403; 7,934,064; 7,937,612; 7,949,635; 7,953,948; 7,979,690; 8,005,797; 8,051,044; 8,069,320; 8,073,815; 8,074,035; 8,145,607; 8,180,984; 8,225,133; 8,261,035; 8,296,264; 8,312,259; 8,347,137; 8,484,427; 8,645,748; 8,732,121 and patent pending applications. 2 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2015 Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis Backup ..............................................................................................9 1.1 What's new in Update 6 ............................................................................................................ 9 1.2 What's new in Update 5 ............................................................................................................ 9 1.3 What's new in Update 4 ............................................................................................................ 9 1.4 What's new in Update 3 ............................................................................................................ 9 1.5 What's new in Update 2 ..........................................................................................................10 1.6 What's new in Update 1 ..........................................................................................................10 1.7 What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 .....................................................................10 1.8 Acronis Backup components ...................................................................................................11 1.8.1 Agent for Windows ....................................................................................................................................... 11 1.8.2 Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 12 1.8.3 Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 12 1.9 About using the product in the trial mode ..............................................................................12 1.10 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................12 1.11 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................13 2 Getting started .............................................................................................................. 14 2.1 Using the management console ..............................................................................................15 2.1.1 "Navigation" pane ......................................................................................................................................... 16 2.1.2 Main area, views and action pages .............................................................................................................. 17 2.1.3 Console options ............................................................................................................................................. 20 3 Understanding Acronis Backup ....................................................................................... 23 3.1 Owners .....................................................................................................................................23 3.2 Credentials used in backup plans and tasks ............................................................................23 3.3 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................25 3.4 List of Acronis services .............................................................................................................25 3.5 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................27 3.6 What does a disk or volume backup store? .............................................................................28 3.7 Backup and recovery of dynamic volumes (Windows) ............................................................29 3.8 Support for Advanced Format (4K-sector) hard disks .............................................................31 3.9 Compatibility with encryption software ..................................................................................31 3.10 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................32 3.11 Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 ................................................................33 3.12 Support for UEFI-based machines ...........................................................................................35 4 Backup .......................................................................................................................... 36 4.1 Back up now .............................................................................................................................36 4.2 Creating a backup plan ............................................................................................................36 4.2.1 Selecting data to back up .............................................................................................................................. 38 4.2.2 Access credentials for source ....................................................................................................................... 39 4.2.3 Source files exclusion .................................................................................................................................... 39 4.2.4 Backup location selection ............................................................................................................................. 41 3 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2015 4.2.5 Access credentials for archive location ........................................................................................................ 43 4.2.6 Backup schemes ............................................................................................................................................ 43 4.2.7 Archive validation .......................................................................................................................................... 53 4.2.8 Backup plan's credentials ............................................................................................................................. 54 4.2.9 Label (Preserving machine properties in a backup) .................................................................................... 54 4.2.10 Sequence of operations in a backup plan ................................................................................................... 56 4.2.11 Why is the program asking for the password? ........................................................................................... 56 4.3 Simplified naming of backup files ............................................................................................56 4.3.1 The [DATE] variable ....................................................................................................................................... 57 4.3.2 Backup splitting and simplified file naming ................................................................................................. 58 4.3.3 Usage