Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 351)

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Backing up an entire virtual machine, its disks, or volumes yields a standard disk backup
(p. 435). In addition, this backup stores the virtual machine configuration. This
configuration will be suggested by default when recovering the backup content to a new
virtual machine. For more information about backing up virtual machines see "Backing
up virtual machines".
Folders/files
Available if Acronis Backup Agent for Windows or Acronis Backup Agent for Linux is installed.
Select this option to back up specific files and folders.
A file-level backup is not sufficient for recovery of the operating system. Choose file backup if
you plan to keep safe only certain data (the current project, for example). This will reduce
the archive size, thus saving storage space.
In order to recover your operating system along with all the settings and applications, you
have to perform a disk backup.
Microsoft Exchange Information Store
Available if Acronis Backup Agent for Exchange is installed.
Select this option to back up information store, individual storage groups or databases of
Microsoft Exchange servers. In case of disaster, you will be able to recover lost or corrupted
databases or storage groups. Also, you can individually recover mailboxes, public
folders, single emails, contacts, calendar events, and other items.
To be able to back up Exchange data, a domain user account that has administrative
privileges on the Exchange server is required. In a cluster, the account must have
administrative privileges on each of the cluster’s nodes.
For more information about backing up Microsoft Exchange data see "Backing up Microsoft
Exchange Server data".
Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes
Available if Acronis Backup Agent for Exchange is installed.
Select this option to back up individual mailboxes and public folders without backing up the
entire Microsoft Exchange database. By using the exclusion filters, you can specify items to
be skipped during mailbox backups.
To be able to back up Exchange data, a domain user account that has administrative
privileges on the Exchange server is required. In a cluster, the account must have
administrative privileges on each of the cluster’s nodes.
For more information about backing up Microsoft Exchange data see "Backing up Microsoft
Exchange Server data".
2. Choose how to select the items:
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Select items directly (default) – recommended in cases, when backing up different data
items on multiple machines. For example, FolderA on Machine1, FolderB on Machine2,
FolderC on Machine3, etc.
Microsoft Exchange server's data items to back up are selected directly. Selection of
Exchange data items by using the policy rules is not supported.
To back up all items of the selected data type present on a machine, select the check box
next to the machine. To back up individual data items, expand the machine and select check
boxes next to the required items.
Notes for physical machines, their disks and volumes
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If your operating system and its loader reside on different volumes, always include both
volumes in the backup. The volumes must also be recovered together; otherwise there is
a high risk that the operating system will not start.