Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 350)

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15.3 Creating a centralized backup plan
A centralized backup plan can be applied to both Windows and Linux machines.
The steps required for the creating centralized backup plan are similar to creating a backup plan (p.
54) except the following:
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When selecting what data to back up, you can either select items on the registered machines
directly or use the selection rules. For more information, see "Selecting data to back up" (p. 350).
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When specifying where to store machines' archives, you can select to store:
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All machines' archives in a single location.
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Each machine's archive in the specified folder on the machine.
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Each machine's archive in the machine's Acronis Secure Zone.
For more information, see "Location selection" (p. 356).
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Single-pass disk and application backup (p. 307) is always available for selection. However,
single-pass backup will be applied only to those machines where it is possible. For virtual
machines backed up by Agent for VMware or Agent for Hyper-V, and for other machines that do
not have licenses for single-pass backup, a regular disk-level backup will be created.
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When setting up a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule, you can use the advanced scheduling
settings. For more information, see "Advanced scheduling settings" (p. 90).
15.3.1 Selecting data to back up
To select the data to back up
1. In the Data to back up section, select the type of data you want to be backed up. The list of
available data types depends on the agents running on the machines:
Machines/disks/volumes
To be able to back up this data, you must have Administrator or Backup operator privileges.
Select this option to back up:
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Entire physical machines or their individual disks or volumes, if Acronis Backup Agent for
Windows or Acronis Backup Agent for Linux is installed.
A disk-level backup enables you to recover the entire system in case of severe data
damage or hardware failure. Also, you can individually recover files and folders. The
backup procedure is faster than copying files, and may significantly speed up the backup
process when backing up large volumes of data.
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Microsoft SQL databases by means of single-pass disk and application backup, if Acronis
Backup Agent for SQL is installed.
Agent for SQL enables you to create application-aware disk backups and to recover
Microsoft SQL databases from such backups. For more information, see the "Protecting
Microsoft SQL Server..." (p. 303) section.
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Microsoft Active Directory data by means of single-pass disk and application backup, if
Acronis Backup Agent for Active Directory is installed.
Agent for Active Directory enables you to create application-aware disk backups and to
recover Microsoft Active Directory data from such backups. For more information, see
the "Protecting Microsoft Active Directory ..." (p. 314) section.
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Entire virtual machines residing on a virtualization server or their disks or volumes, if
Acronis Backup Agent for VMware or Acronis Backup Hyper-V is installed.