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Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis Backup ..............................................................................................8
1.1 What's new in Update 6 ............................................................................................................ 8
1.2 What's new in Update 5 ............................................................................................................ 8
1.3 What's new in Update 4 ............................................................................................................ 8
1.4 What's new in Update 3 ............................................................................................................ 8
1.5 What's new in Update 2 ............................................................................................................ 9
1.6 What's new in Update 1 ............................................................................................................ 9
1.7 What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 ....................................................................... 9
1.8 Acronis Backup components ...................................................................................................10
1.8.1 Agent for Windows ....................................................................................................................................... 10
1.8.2 Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 11
1.8.3 Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 11
1.9 About using the product in the trial mode ..............................................................................11
1.10 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................11
1.11 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................12
2 Getting started .............................................................................................................. 13
2.1 Using the management console ..............................................................................................14
2.1.1 "Navigation" pane ......................................................................................................................................... 15
2.1.2 Main area, views and action pages .............................................................................................................. 16
2.1.3 Console options ............................................................................................................................................. 18
3 Understanding Acronis Backup ....................................................................................... 21
3.1 Owners .....................................................................................................................................21
3.2 Credentials used in backup plans and tasks ............................................................................21
3.3 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................23
3.4 List of Acronis services .............................................................................................................23
3.5 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................25
3.6 What does a disk or volume backup store? .............................................................................26
3.7 Backup and recovery of dynamic volumes (Windows) ............................................................27
3.8 Support for Advanced Format (4K-sector) hard disks .............................................................29
3.9 Support for UEFI-based machines ...........................................................................................29
3.10 Support for Windows 8 ............................................................................................................30
3.11 Compatibility with encryption software ..................................................................................31
3.12 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................32
4 Backup .......................................................................................................................... 33
4.1 Back up now .............................................................................................................................33
4.2 Creating a backup plan ............................................................................................................33
4.2.1 Selecting data to back up .............................................................................................................................. 35
4.2.2 Access credentials for source ....................................................................................................................... 36
4.2.3 Source files exclusion .................................................................................................................................... 36
4.2.4 Backup location selection ............................................................................................................................. 38
