Acronis Backup for Linux Server - User Guide - Manual (Page 37)

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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.
2. In the tree below the Data to back up section, select the items to back up by selecting check
boxes next to the items.
Selecting a check box for a machine means backing up all the machine's disks. To select individual
disks and/or volumes, expand the machine item and select check boxes next to the disks and/or
volumes.
Notes for Disks/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.
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Note 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. 25).
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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.
3. Having specified the data to backup, click OK.
4.2.2 Access credentials for source
Specify the credentials required for access to the data you are going to back up.
To specify credentials
1. Select one of the following:
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Use the plan's credentials
The program will access the source data using the credentials of the backup plan account
specified in the Plan parameters section.
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Use the following credentials
The program will access the source data using the credentials you specify.
Use this option if the plan's account does not have access permissions to the data.
Specify:

User name. When entering the name of an Active Directory user account, be sure to also
specify the domain name (DOMAIN\Username or Username@domain).
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Password. The password for the account.
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Confirm password. Re-enter the password.
2. Click OK.
4.2.3 Source files exclusion
This option is effective for Windows and Linux operating systems and bootable media.
This option is effective for disk-level backup of NTFS, FAT, Ext3, and Ext4 file systems only. This option
is effective for file-level backup of all supported file systems.