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Table of contents
1
Introducing Acronis Backup ............................................................................................ 11
1.1
What's new in Update 5 ..........................................................................................................11
1.2
What's new in Update 4 ..........................................................................................................11
1.3
What's new in Update 3 ..........................................................................................................11
1.4
What's new in Update 2 ..........................................................................................................12
1.5
What's new in Update 1 ..........................................................................................................12
1.6
What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 .....................................................................13
1.7
Acronis Backup components ...................................................................................................15
1.7.1
Agent for Windows ....................................................................................................................................... 16
1.7.2
Agent for Linux .............................................................................................................................................. 16
1.7.3
Agent for VMware ......................................................................................................................................... 17
1.7.4
Agent for Hyper-V ......................................................................................................................................... 17
1.7.5
Agent for SQL ................................................................................................................................................. 17
1.7.6
Agent for Active Directory ............................................................................................................................ 18
1.7.7
Components for centralized management ................................................................................................. 18
1.7.8
Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 19
1.7.9
Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 20
1.7.10 Acronis Wake-on-LAN Proxy ........................................................................................................................ 20
1.8
About using the product in the trial mode ..............................................................................20
1.9
Supported file systems ............................................................................................................20
1.10
Technical Support ....................................................................................................................21
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Getting started .............................................................................................................. 22
2.1
Using the management console ..............................................................................................25
2.1.1
"Navigation" pane ......................................................................................................................................... 26
2.1.2
Main area, views and action pages .............................................................................................................. 28
2.1.3
Console options ............................................................................................................................................. 30
Understanding Acronis Backup ....................................................................................... 33
3.1
Owners .....................................................................................................................................33
3.2
Credentials used in backup plans and tasks ............................................................................33
3.3
User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................35
3.4
List of Acronis services .............................................................................................................35
3.5
Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................38
3.6
What does a disk or volume backup store? .............................................................................39
3.7
About dynamic and logical volumes ........................................................................................40
3.7.1
Backup and recovery of dynamic volumes (Windows) .............................................................................. 40
3.7.2
Backup and recovery of logical volumes and MD devices (Linux) ............................................................. 42
3.8
Support for Advanced Format (4K-sector) hard disks .............................................................48
3.9
Support for UEFI-based machines ...........................................................................................49
3.10
Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 ................................................................49
3.11
Compatibility with encryption software ..................................................................................51
3.12
Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................52
