User manual ACRONIS BACKUP RECOVERY 10 SERVER FOR LINUX

[. . . ] Acronis® Backup & Recovery TM 10 Server for Linux User's Guide Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2009. "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. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] Once the other task unlocks the resource, the waiting task enters the Running state. A task may also change to the Waiting state when the event specified by the schedule occurs but the condition set in the backup plan is not met. Need interaction Any running task can put itself into the Need interaction state when it needs human interaction such as changing media or ignoring a read error. The next state may be Stopping (if the user chooses to stop the task) or Running (on selecting Ignore/Retry or another action, such as Reboot, that can put the task to the Running state. ) Stopping The user can stop a running task or a task that needs interaction. In this case, since the task is not running, "stop" means removing it from the queue . Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2009 95 Task state diagram Task statuses A task can have one of the following statuses: Error; Warning; OK. A task status is derived from the result of the last run of the task. Status 1 Error How it is determined Last result is "Failed" How to handle Identify the failed task -> Check the task log to find out the reason of the failure, then do one or more of the following: · · · · 2 Warning Last result is "Succeeded with warning" Last result is "Succeeded", "-", or "Stopped" Remove the reason of the failure -> [optionally] Start the failed task manually Edit the failed task to prevent its future failure Edit the local plan to prevent its future failure in case a local plan has failed Edit the backup policy on the management server in case a centralized plan has failed View the log to read the warnings -> [optionally] Perform actions to prevent the future warnings or failure. The "-" state means that the task has never been started or has been started, but has not finished yet and so its result is not available. 3 OK 96 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2009 6. 1. 2. 2. Working with backup plans and tasks Actions on backup plans and tasks The following is a guideline for you to perform operations with backup plans and tasks. To Create a new backup plan, or a task Do Click New, then select one of the following: · · · Backup plan (p. 138) View details of a plan/task Backup plan Click View details. 101) window, review the task details. View plan's/task's log Backup plan Click View log. You will be taken to the Log (p. Running the backup plan starts the selected task of that plan immediately in spite of its schedule and conditions. Why can't I run the backup plan? · Do not have the appropriate privilege Without the Administrator privileges on the machine, a user cannot run plans owned by other users. Task Click Run. The task will be executed immediately in spite of its schedule and conditions. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2009 97 Stop a plan/task Backup plan Click Stop. Stopping the running backup plan stops all its tasks. Generally, stopping the task aborts its operation (backup, recovery, validation, exporting, conversion, migration). To complete the operation you will have to run the task over again. · recovery task (from the disk backup): The target volume will be deleted and its space unallocated ­ you will get the same result if the recovery is unsuccessful. To recover the "lost" volume, you will have to run the task once again. recovery task (from the file backup): The aborted operation may cause changes in the destination folder. Some files may be recovered, but some not, depending on the moment when you stopped the task. To recover all the files, you will have to run the task once again. · 98 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2009 Edit a plan/task Backup plan Click Edit. Backup plan editing is performed in the same way as creation (p. 107), except for the following limitations: It is not always possible to use all scheme options, when editing a backup plan if the created archive is not empty (i. e. 1 2 It is not possible to change the scheme to Grandfather-Father-Son or Tower of Hanoi. If the Tower of Hanoi scheme is used, it is not possible to change the number of levels. In all other cases the scheme can be changed, and should continue to operate as if existing archives were created by a new scheme. Why can't I edit the backup plan? · · The backup plan is currently running. Do not have the appropriate privilege Without the Administrator privileges on the machine, a user cannot edit plans owned by other users. · The backup plan has a centralized origin. [. . . ] 172) aimed to maintain the optimal balance between a backup archive (p. 178) 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. 28)". Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2009 181 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. [. . . ]