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Table of contents
1
Introducing Acronis Backup ..............................................................................................8
1.1
What's new in Update 5 ............................................................................................................ 8
1.2
What's new in Update 4 ............................................................................................................ 8
1.3
What's new in Update 3 ............................................................................................................ 8
1.4
What's new in Update 2 ............................................................................................................ 8
1.5
What's new in Update 1 ............................................................................................................ 8
1.6
What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 ....................................................................... 9
1.7
Acronis Backup components ..................................................................................................... 9
1.7.1
Agent for Linux .............................................................................................................................................. 10
1.7.2
Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 10
1.7.3
Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 10
1.8
About using the product in the trial mode ..............................................................................10
1.9
Supported file systems ............................................................................................................11
1.10
Technical Support ....................................................................................................................11
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Getting started .............................................................................................................. 12
2.1
Using the management console ..............................................................................................13
2.1.1
"Navigation" pane ......................................................................................................................................... 14
2.1.2
Main area, views and action pages .............................................................................................................. 15
2.1.3
Console options ............................................................................................................................................. 18
Understanding Acronis Backup ....................................................................................... 21
3.1
Owners .....................................................................................................................................21
3.2
Credentials used in backup plans and tasks ............................................................................21
3.3
User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................23
3.4
Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................23
3.5
What does a disk or volume backup store? .............................................................................24
3.6
Backup and recovery of logical volumes and MD devices (Linux) ...........................................25
3.6.1
Backing up logical volumes ........................................................................................................................... 25
3.6.2
Backing up MD devices ................................................................................................................................. 26
3.6.3
Backing up hardware RAID arrays (Linux) ................................................................................................... 26
3.6.4
Assembling MD devices for recovery (Linux) .............................................................................................. 27
3.6.5
Recovering MD devices and logical volumes .............................................................................................. 27
3.7
Support for Advanced Format (4K-sector) hard disks .............................................................31
3.8
Support for UEFI-based machines ...........................................................................................32
3.9
Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................32
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Backup .......................................................................................................................... 34
4.1
Back up now .............................................................................................................................34
4.2
Creating a backup plan ............................................................................................................34
4.2.1
Selecting data to back up .............................................................................................................................. 36
4.2.2
Access credentials for source ....................................................................................................................... 37
4.2.3
Source files exclusion .................................................................................................................................... 37
4.2.4
Backup location selection ............................................................................................................................. 39
