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2. Proceed to the window where you are asked how you want to use this machine and select the I
want to manually select the Acronis components and customize the installation process check
box.
3. In the components tree, select Agent for Exchange. Agent for Windows is selected automatically.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions.
Details. When prompted to assign logon accounts to the Acronis services, in Acronis Managed
Machine Service (agent), select Use an existing account and specify the account that has
administrative privileges on each of the cluster nodes. Alternatively, you can choose to create a
new account for the agent. Then, when creating centralized backup plans or recovery tasks, you
will need to specify credentials for the domain account that has the necessary privileges.
If you installed the management server, choose to register Agent for Exchange on it during
installation.
2.8 Installation of Agent for SQL
Agent for SQL enables you to create single-pass disk and application backups and to recover
Microsoft SQL databases from them.
Agent for SQL can only be installed on a machine running Microsoft SQL Server. Remote installation
of the agent is not possible.
The agent is included in the setup program of Acronis Backup Advanced.
The agent is installed with Agent for Windows (p. 6) or on a machine where Agent for Windows is
already installed.
Licenses required
Agent for SQL requires one of the following licenses:
Acronis Backup Advanced for SQL
Acronis Backup Advanced for SharePoint
Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials
Acronis Backup Advanced for VMware / Hyper-V / RHEV / Citrix XenServer / Oracle VM
Acronis Backup Advanced Universal License
Each of these licenses enables you to install Agent for Windows on the same machine. If Agent for
Windows is already installed, you can install Agent for SQL by using one of the add-on licenses:
Acronis Backup Advanced for SQL Add-On
Acronis Backup Advanced for SharePoint Add-On.
To use the product in the trial mode, you do not need licenses.
Installation
Install the agent in the same way as Agent for Windows. For detailed step-by-step instructions, refer
to the "Interactive installation of Acronis Backup Advanced" (p. 20) section of the installation
documentation.
Credentials for Microsoft SQL instances
During the installation, you are asked to specify the sysadmin credentials for each Microsoft SQL
instance installed on the machine. These credentials are required to grant the sysadmin role to the
agent service account.
