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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 2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 ................................................................................ 7 1.1 What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 ....................................................................... 7 1.2 Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 components .......................................................................... 8 1.2.1 Agent for Linux.......................................................................................................................................... 8 1.2.2 Management Console .............................................................................................................................. 9 1.2.3 Bootable Media Builder ............................................................................................................................ 9 1.3 Supported file systems .......................................................................................................... 9 1.4 Technical Support ............................................................................................................... 10 2 Getting started ......................................................................................................................... 11 2.1 Using the management console .......................................................................................... 12 2.1.1 "Navigation" pane................................................................................................................................... 13 2.1.2 Main area, views and action pages......................................................................................................... 14 2.1.3 Console options ...................................................................................................................................... 17 3 Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 ......................................................................... 20 3.1 Owners and credentials ...................................................................................................... 20 3.2 User privileges on a managed machine ............................................................................... 21 3.3 Full, incremental and differential backups ........................................................................... 21 3.4 What does a disk or volume backup store? ......................................................................... 23 3.5 Backup and recovery of logical volumes and MD devices (Linux) ......................................... 23 3.5.1 Backing up logical volumes ..................................................................................................................... 23 3.5.2 Backing up MD devices ........................................................................................................................... 24 3.5.3 Backing up hardware RAID arrays (Linux) ............................................................................................... 25 3.5.4 Assembling MD devices for recovery (Linux) .......................................................................................... 25 3.5.5 Recovering MD devices and logical volumes .......................................................................................... 25 3.6 Support for SNMP ............................................................................................................... 29 4 Backup ...................................................................................................................................... 31 4.1 Back up now ....................................................................................................................... 31 4.2 Creating a backup plan........................................................................................................ 31 4.2.1 Selecting data to back up ........................................................................................................................ 33 4.2.2 Access credentials for source ................................................................................................................. 34 4.2.3 Source files exclusion .............................................................................................................................. 34 4.2.4 Access credentials for archive location ................................................................................................... 36 4.2.5 Backup schemes ..................................................................................................................................... 36 4.2.6 Backup location selection ....................................................................................................................... 46 4.2.7 Archive validation ................................................................................................................................... 48 4.2.8 Backup plan's credentials ....................................................................................................................... 48 4.2.9 Label (Preserving machine properties in a backup) ................................................................................ 49 4.2.10 Why is the program asking for the password? ....................................................................................... 50 4.3 Simplified naming of backup files ........................................................................................ 50 4.3.1 Usage examples ...................................................................................................................................... 51 4.3.2 The [DATE] variable ................................................................................................................................ 54 4.3.3 Backup splitting and simplified file naming ............................................................................................ 54 4.4 Scheduling .......................................................................................................................... 55 3 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.4.1 Daily schedule ......................................................................................................................................... 56 4.4.2 Weekly schedule ..................................................................................................................................... 58 4.4.3 Monthly schedule ................................................................................................................................... 60 4.4.4 Conditions ............................................................................................................................................... 62 4.5 Replication and retention of backups .................................................................................. 64 4.5.1 Supported locations ................................................................................................................................ 66 4.5.2 Setting up replication of backups ........................................................................................................... 66 4.5.3 Setting up retention of backups ............................................................................................................. 66 4.5.4 Retention rules for the Custom scheme ................................................................................................. 67 4.5.5 Replication/cleanup inactivity time ........................................................................................................ 69 4.5.6 Usage examples .....................................................................................................................................