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Table of contents
1
Introducing Acronis Backup ..............................................................................................9
1.1
What's new in Update 5 ............................................................................................................ 9
1.2
What's new in Update 4 ............................................................................................................ 9
1.3
What's new in Update 3 ............................................................................................................ 9
1.4
What's new in Update 2 ............................................................................................................ 9
1.5
What's new in Update 1 ............................................................................................................ 9
1.6
What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 .....................................................................10
1.7
Acronis Backup components ...................................................................................................10
1.7.1
Agent for Windows ....................................................................................................................................... 11
1.7.2
Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 11
1.7.3
Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 11
1.8
About using the product in the trial mode ..............................................................................12
1.9
Supported file systems ............................................................................................................12
1.10
Technical Support ....................................................................................................................13
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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 ............................................................................................................................................. 19
Understanding Acronis Backup ....................................................................................... 22
3.1
Owners .....................................................................................................................................22
3.2
Credentials used in backup plans and tasks ............................................................................22
3.3
User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................24
3.4
List of Acronis services .............................................................................................................24
3.5
Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................26
3.6
What does a disk or volume backup store? .............................................................................27
3.7
Backup and recovery of dynamic volumes (Windows) ............................................................28
3.8
Support for Advanced Format (4K-sector) hard disks .............................................................30
3.9
Compatibility with encryption software ..................................................................................30
3.10
Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................31
3.11
Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 ................................................................32
3.12
Support for UEFI-based machines ...........................................................................................34
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Backup .......................................................................................................................... 35
4.1
Back up now .............................................................................................................................35
4.2
Creating a backup plan ............................................................................................................35
4.2.1
Selecting data to back up .............................................................................................................................. 37
4.2.2
Access credentials for source ....................................................................................................................... 38
4.2.3
Source files exclusion .................................................................................................................................... 38
4.2.4
Backup location selection ............................................................................................................................. 40
4.2.5
Access credentials for archive location ........................................................................................................ 42
