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Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis Backup ............................................................................................ 11
1.1 What's new in Update 6 ..........................................................................................................11
1.2 What's new in Update 5 ..........................................................................................................12
1.3 What's new in Update 4 ..........................................................................................................12
1.4 What's new in Update 3 ..........................................................................................................12
1.5 What's new in Update 2 ..........................................................................................................13
1.6 What's new in Update 1 ..........................................................................................................13
1.7 What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 .....................................................................14
1.8 Acronis Backup components ...................................................................................................16
1.8.1 Agent for Windows ....................................................................................................................................... 17
1.8.2 Agent for Linux .............................................................................................................................................. 17
1.8.3 Agent for VMware ......................................................................................................................................... 18
1.8.4 Agent for Hyper-V ......................................................................................................................................... 18
1.8.5 Agent for SQL ................................................................................................................................................. 18
1.8.6 Agent for Active Directory ............................................................................................................................ 19
1.8.7 Components for centralized management ................................................................................................. 19
1.8.8 Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 20
1.8.9 Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 21
1.8.10 Acronis Wake-on-LAN Proxy ........................................................................................................................ 21
1.9 About using the product in the trial mode ..............................................................................21
1.10 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................21
1.11 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................22
2 Getting started .............................................................................................................. 23
2.1 Using the management console ..............................................................................................26
2.1.1 "Navigation" pane ......................................................................................................................................... 27
2.1.2 Main area, views and action pages .............................................................................................................. 29
2.1.3 Console options ............................................................................................................................................. 31
3 Understanding Acronis Backup ....................................................................................... 34
3.1 Owners .....................................................................................................................................34
3.2 Credentials used in backup plans and tasks ............................................................................34
3.3 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................36
3.4 List of Acronis services .............................................................................................................36
3.5 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................39
3.6 What does a disk or volume backup store? .............................................................................40
3.7 About dynamic and logical volumes ........................................................................................41
3.7.1 Backup and recovery of dynamic volumes (Windows) .............................................................................. 41
3.7.2 Backup and recovery of logical volumes and MD devices (Linux) ............................................................. 43
3.8 Support for Advanced Format (4K-sector) hard disks .............................................................49
3.9 Support for UEFI-based machines ...........................................................................................50
3.10 Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 ................................................................50
3.11 Compatibility with encryption software ..................................................................................52
3.12 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................53
