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Bootable media
A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine (p. 244) as a boot
device) that contains the bootable agent (p. 237) or Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) (p.
248) with the Acronis Plug-in for WinPE (p. 235). A machine can also be booted into the above
environments using the network boot from Acronis PXE Server or Windows Deployment Service
(WDS). These servers with uploaded bootable components can also be thought of as a kind of
bootable media.
Bootable media is most often used to:
recover an operating system that cannot start
access and back up the data that has survived in a corrupted system
deploy an operating system on bare metal
create basic or dynamic volumes (p. 242) on bare metal
back up sector-by-sector a disk that has an unsupported file system
back up offline any data that cannot be backed up online because of restricted access, being
permanently locked by the running applications or for any other reason.
Built-in group
A group of machines permanently located on a management server (p. 245).
Built-in groups cannot be deleted, moved to other groups or manually modified. Custom groups
cannot be created within built-in groups. There is no way to remove a machine from the built-in
group except by removing the machine from the management server.
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Cataloging
Cataloging a backup (p. 236) adds the contents of the backup to the data catalog (p. 240). Backups
are cataloged automatically as soon as they are created. Backups stored on a storage node (p. 246)
are cataloged by the node. Backups stored anywhere else are cataloged by the agent (p. 236). In the
backup options (p. 236), a user can choose between full and fast cataloging. Full cataloging can also
be started manually.
Centralized backup plan
A backup plan (p. 237) that is deployed to a managed machine (p. 244) from the management server
(p. 245). Such plan can be modified only by editing the original backup plan on the management
server.
Centralized management
Management of the Acronis Backup infrastructure through a central management unit known as
Acronis Backup Management Server (p. 245). The centralized management operations include:
creating centralized backup plans (p. 238) for the registered machines (p. 245) and groups of
machines
creating and managing static (p. 246) and dynamic groups (p. 242) of machines (p. 244)
managing the tasks (p. 247) existing on the machines
