User manual ACRONIS BACKUP RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER SBS EDITION

[. . . ] Acronis® Backup & RecoveryTM 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition User's Guide Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2010. "Acronis" and "Acronis Secure Zone" are registered trademarks of Acronis, Inc. "Acronis Compute with Confidence", "Acronis Startup Recovery Manager", "Acronis Active Restore" and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis, Inc. VMware and VMware Ready are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of VMware, Inc. [. . . ] The user whose name is specified will be considered as the archive owner. To specify credentials 1. Select one of the following: Use the plan's credentials The program will access the source data using the credentials of the backup plan account specified in the General section. Use the following credentials The program will access the source data using the credentials you specify. Use this option if the plan account does not have access permissions to the location. You might need to provide special credentials for a network share or a storage node vault. When entering the name of an Active Directory user account, be sure to also specify the domain name (DOMAIN\Username or Username@domain) Password. Click OK. 188 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2010 Warning: According to the original FTP specification, credentials required for access to FTP servers are transferred through a network as plaintext. This means that the user name and password can be intercepted by an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer. 6. 2. 9 Backup schemes Choose one of the available backup schemes: Back up now ­ to create a backup task for manual start and run the task immediately after its creation. Back up later ­ to create a backup task for manual start OR schedule one-time task execution in the future. Simple ­ to schedule when and how often to backup data and specify retention rules. Grandfather-Father-Son ­ to use the Grandfather-Father-Son backup scheme. You set the days of week when the daily backup will be performed and select from these days the day of weekly/monthly backup. Then you set the retention periods for the daily (referred to as "sons"), weekly (referred to as "fathers") and monthly (referred to as "grandfathers") backups. Tower of Hanoi ­ to use the Tower of Hanoi backup scheme, where you schedule when and how often to back up (sessions) and select the number of backup levels (up to 16). By setting up the backup schedule and selecting backup levels, you automatically obtain the rollback period ­ the guaranteed number of sessions that you can go back at any time. The automatic cleanup mechanism maintains the required rollback period by deleting the expired backups and keeping the most recent backups of each level. Custom ­ to create a custom scheme, where you are free to set up a backup strategy in the way your enterprise needs it most: specify multiple schedules for different backup types, add conditions and specify the retention rules. 6. 2. 9. 1 Back up now scheme With the Back up now scheme, the backup will be performed immediately, right after you click the OK button at the bottom of the page. In the Backup type field, select whether you want to create a full, incremental or differential backup (p. 28). 6. 2. 9. 2 Back up later scheme With the Back up later scheme, the backup will be performed only once, at the date and time you specify. Specify the appropriate settings as follows Backup type Date and time The task will be started manually Select the type of backup: full, incremental, or differential. If there is no full backup in the archive, a full backup will be created regardless of your selection. Select this check box, if you do not need to put the backup task on a schedule and wish to start it manually afterwards. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2010 189 6. 2. 9. 3 Simple scheme With the simple backup scheme you just schedule when and how often to back up data and set the retention rule. [. . . ] 350) aimed to maintain the optimal balance between a backup archive (p. 355) scheme that has only three levels of recovery resolution (daily, weekly, monthly resolution), the Tower of Hanoi scheme continuously reduces the time interval between recovery points as the backup age increases. For more information please refer to "Tower of Hanoi backup scheme (p. 35)". U Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) The Acronis proprietary technology that helps boot up Windows on dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine. [. . . ]