Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 352)

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Notes for Linux users: Logical volumes and MD devices are shown under Dynamic
volumes. For more information about backing up such volumes and devices, see "Backup
and recovery of logical volumes and MD devices (Linux)" (p. 42).
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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.
Notes for virtual machines, their disks and volumes
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Backing up entire virtual machines comes in handy when having small (in terms of virtual
disks size) but numerous legacy servers such as those resulting from workload
consolidation. A separate archive will be created for each machine.
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Backing up individual disks or volumes within a virtual machine comes in handy when the
operating system and applications, such as a database server, run on a virtual disk, but
the data, such as a database, is stored on a large capacity physical disk added to the
same machine. You will be able to use different backup strategies for the virtual disk and
the physical storage.
For more information about backing up virtual machines see "Backing up virtual machines".
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Use policy rules for selection – most suitable in cases, when backing up the same data items
on multiple machines. For example, backing up the system volume on every selected
machine.
For more information, see the following sections:
Selection rules for files and folders (p. 352)
Selection rules for volumes (p. 353)
3. Having specified the data to backup, click OK.
15.3.2 Selection rules for files and folders
Define file selection rules, according to which the files and (or) folders will be backed up on the
machines included in the centralized backup plan.
To define file selection rules
1. Select the rule from the drop-down list (or type it manually) and click Add rule. The program
remembers the rules typed manually, and the next time you open the window, these rules will
be available for selection in the list along with the default ones.
2. In the right part of the window, select the check boxes next to the machines or groups you want
to apply the rules to.
Windows
Full path
Point to the folders and files to be backed up. If you specified a path to a file or folder explicitly, the
plan will back up this item on each machine where this exact path will be found.
To include In the Files and folders
column, type or select:
File Text.doc in folder
D:\Work D:\Work\Text.doc
Folder C:\Windows C:\Windows
Environment variables