User manual ACRONIS BACKUP RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED WORKSTATION

[. . . ] Acronis® Backup & RecoveryTM 10 Advanced Workstation 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. [. . . ] If the archive is protected with a password, the program will ask for it in the pop-up window. By selecting the existing archive, you are meddling in the area of another backup plan that uses the archive. This is not an issue if the other plan is discontinued, but in general you should follow the rule: "one backup plan - one archive". Doing the opposite will not prevent the program from functioning but is not practical or efficient, except for some specific cases. Why two or more plans should not back up to the same archive 1. Backing up different sources to the same archive makes using the archive difficult from the usability standpoint. When it comes to recovery, every second counts, but you might be lost in the archive content. Backup plans that operate with the same archive should back up the same data items (say, both plans back up volume C. ) 2. Applying multiple retention rules to an archive makes the archive content in some way unpredictable. Since each of the rules will be applied to the entire archive, the backups belonging to one backup plan can be easily deleted along with the backups belonging to the other. You should especially not expect the classic behavior of the GFS and Tower of Hanoi backup schemes. Normally, each complex backup plan should back up to its own archive. 6. 2. 8 Access credentials for archive location Specify credentials required for access to the location where the backup archive will be stored. 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. [. . . ] 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. [. . . ]