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Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis Backup ............................................................................................ 11
1.1 What's new in Acronis Backup 11.7 .........................................................................................11
1.2 Acronis Backup components ...................................................................................................12
1.2.1 Agent for Windows ....................................................................................................................................... 13
1.2.2 Agent for Linux .............................................................................................................................................. 13
1.2.3 Agent for VMware ......................................................................................................................................... 14
1.2.4 Agent for Hyper-V ......................................................................................................................................... 14
1.2.5 Agent for SQL ................................................................................................................................................. 14
1.2.6 Agent for Active Directory ............................................................................................................................ 15
1.2.7 Components for centralized management ................................................................................................. 15
1.2.8 Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 16
1.2.9 Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 16
1.2.10 Acronis Wake-on-LAN Proxy ........................................................................................................................ 17
1.3 About using the product in the trial mode ..............................................................................17
1.4 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................17
1.5 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................18
2 Getting started .............................................................................................................. 19
2.1 Using the management console ..............................................................................................22
2.1.1 "Navigation" pane ......................................................................................................................................... 23
2.1.2 Main area, views and action pages .............................................................................................................. 25
2.1.3 Console options ............................................................................................................................................. 27
3 Understanding Acronis Backup ....................................................................................... 30
3.1 Owners .....................................................................................................................................30
3.2 Credentials used in backup plans and tasks ............................................................................30
3.3 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................32
3.4 List of Acronis services .............................................................................................................32
3.5 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................35
3.6 What does a disk or volume backup store? .............................................................................36
3.7 About dynamic and logical volumes ........................................................................................37
3.7.1 Backup and recovery of dynamic volumes (Windows) .............................................................................. 37
3.7.2 Backup and recovery of logical volumes and MD devices (Linux) ............................................................. 39
3.8 Support for Advanced Format (4K-sector) hard disks .............................................................45
3.9 Support for UEFI-based machines ...........................................................................................46
3.10 Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 ................................................................46
3.11 Compatibility with encryption software ..................................................................................48
3.12 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................49
4 Backup .......................................................................................................................... 51
4.1 Back up now .............................................................................................................................51
4.2 Creating a backup plan ............................................................................................................51
4.2.1 Selecting data to back up .............................................................................................................................. 53
4.2.2 Access credentials for source ....................................................................................................................... 55
4.2.3 Source files exclusion .................................................................................................................................... 56
