User manual ACRONIS BACKUP RECOVERY 10 SERVER FOR WINDOWS

[. . . ] Acronis® Backup & Recovery TM 10 Server for Windows 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. [. . . ] For example, you may not want database, hidden and system files and folders, as well as files with specific extensions, to be stored in the archive. To specify which files and folders to exclude: Set up any of the following parameters: · Exclude all hidden files and folders Select this check box to skip files and folders with the Hidden attribute. If a folder is Hidden, all of its contents -- including files that are not Hidden -- will be excluded. Exclude all system files and folders Select this check box to skip files and folders with the System attribute. If a folder is System, all of its contents -- including files that are not System -- will be excluded. You can view file or folder attributes in the file/folder properties or by using the attrib command. For more information, refer to the Help and Support Center in Windows. · · Exclude files matching the following criteria Select this check box to skip files whose names match any of the criteria -- called file masks -- in the list; use the Add, Edit, Remove and Remove All buttons to create the list of file masks. in a file mask: The asterisk (*) substitutes for zero or more characters in a file name; for example, the file mask Doc*. txt yields files such as Doc. txt and Document. txt The question mark (?) substitutes for exactly one character in a file name; for example, the file mask Doc?. txt yields files such as Doc1. txt and Docs. txt -- but not the files Doc. txt or Doc11. txt 122 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2009 Exclusion examples Criterion By name By path Mask (*) Mask (?) Example File1. log C:\Finance\test. log *. log my???. log Description Excludes all files named File1. log. Excludes the file named test. log located in the folder C:\Finance Excludes all files with the . log extension. Excludes all . log files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with "my". 6. 2. 7. Archive Specify where the archive will be stored and the name of the archive. 1. Selecting the destination Enter the full path to the destination in the Path field, or select the desired destination in the folders tree. · · · · To back up data to a centralized vault, expand the Centralized group and click the vault. To back up data to a personal vault, expand the Personal group and click the vault. To back up data to a local folder on the machine, expand the Local folders group and click the required folder. To back up data to a network share, expand the Network folders group, select the required networked machine and, then click the shared folder. If the network share requires access credentials, the program will ask for them. Note for Linux users: To specify a Common Internet File System (CIFS) network share which is mounted on a mount point such as /mnt/share, select this mount point instead of the network share itself. · To back up data to an FTP or SFTP server, type the server name or address in the Path field as follows: ftp://ftp_server:port _number or sftp://sftp_server:port number If the port number is not specified, port 21 is used for FTP and port 22 is used for SFTP. After entering access credentials, the folders on the server become available. You can access the server as an anonymous user if the server enables such access. To do so, click Use anonymous access instead of entering credentials. 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. · To back up data to a locally attached tape device, expand the Tape drives group, then click the required device. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2009 123 2. Using the archives table To assist you with choosing the right destination, the table displays the names of the archives contained in each location you select. While you are reviewing the location content, archives can be added, deleted or modified by another user or by the program itself according to scheduled operations. Naming the new archive Once you select the archive destination, the program generates a name for the new archive and displays it in the Name field. Otherwise enter another unique name and click OK. Backing up to an existing archive You can configure the backup plan to back up to an existing archive. To do so, select the archive in the archives table or type the archive name in the Name field. [. . . ] 211) aimed to maintain the optimal balance between a backup archive (p. 217) 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. 29)". 220 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2009 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. [. . . ]