Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - Installation Guide - Manual (Page 22)

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Store the backups of other machines on this machine.
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Storage Node
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Command-Line Tool
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Connect to remote machines.
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Management Console
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Bootable Media Builder
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Components for Remote Installation*
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Command-Line Tool
* The components are installed only if the setup file is in a local folder.
Specifying credentials for Acronis services
The following Acronis Backup components run as services: Acronis Backup agents, Acronis Backup
Management Server, and Acronis Backup Storage Node. When installing any of these components,
you need to specify the account under which the component's service will run.
All Acronis Backup agents installed on a machine use the common Acronis Managed Machine Service, also
referred to as the agent service.
For each service, you can choose to create a new user account or specify an existing account of a
local or domain user; for example: .\LocalUser or DomainName\DomainUser
By default, the setup program will create a new dedicated account for each of the services.
When to consider an existing account?
New accounts fit most cases. Consider existing accounts in the following cases:
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The machine is a domain controller in an Active Directory domain.
You must specify existing accounts (or the same account) for each service. For security reasons,
the setup program does not automatically create new accounts on a domain controller.
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You are installing an agent on a failover cluster node.
When installing an agent on a failover cluster node, such as a Hyper-V cluster node or a cluster
node of Microsoft Exchange Server, specify an existing account of a domain user for the agent
service. The account must have administrative privileges on each of the cluster nodes. With this
account the agent will be able to access the clustered resources on any of the nodes.
Alternatively, you can choose to create a new account for the agent. Then, when creating
centralized backup plans or recovery tasks, you will need to specify credentials for the domain
account with the necessary privileges.
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You want the management server to use an existing Microsoft SQL server.
Specify an existing account for the management server service if the management server and the
SQL server are installed on different machines and you want to use Windows Authentication for
the SQL server. For more details, see “Specifying Microsoft SQL servers” (p. 23).
Privileges for accounts
Both existing and newly created accounts are given the following privileges:
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The accounts for the agent service and the storage node service are included in the Backup
Operators group.
New accounts for the agent service and the storage node service are also included in the
Administrators group. If you specify an existing account for the storage node service, we