Acronis Backup for PC - User Guide - Manual (Page 232)

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Activity
An action performed by Acronis Backup for achievement of some user goal. Examples: backing up,
recovery, exporting a backup, cataloging a vault. An activity may be initiated by a user or by the
software itself. Execution of a task (p. 242) always causes one or more activities.
Agent (Acronis Backup Agent)
An application that performs data backup and recovery and enables other management operations
on the machine (p. 240), such as task management and operations with hard disks.
The type of data that can be backed up depends on the agent type. Acronis Backup includes the
agents for backing up disks and files and the agents for backing up virtual machines residing on
virtualization servers.
Archive
See Backup archive (p. 232).
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Backup
A backup is the result of a single backup operation (p. 232). Physically, it is a file or a tape record that
contains a copy of the backed-up data as of a specific date and time. Backup files created by Acronis
Backup have a TIB extension. The TIB files which are the result of a backup export (p. 239) or
consolidation (p. 235) are also called backups.
Backup archive (Archive)
A set of backups (p. 232) created and managed by a backup plan (p. 232). An archive can contain
multiple full backups (p. 239) as well as incremental (p. 239) and differential backups (p. 236).
Backups belonging to the same archive are always stored in the same location. If the backup plan
includes replication (p. 242) or moving of backups to multiple locations, the backups in each location
form a separate archive.
Backup operation
An operation that creates a copy of the data that exists on a machine's (p. 240) hard disk for the
purpose of recovering or reverting the data to a specified date and time.
Backup options
Configuration parameters of a backup operation (p. 232), such as pre/post backup commands,
maximum network bandwidth allotted for the backup stream or data compression level. Backup
options are a part of a backup plan (p. 232).
Backup plan (Plan)
A set of rules that specify how the given data will be protected on a given machine. A backup plan
specifies:
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what data to back up