“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.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
VMware and VMware Ready are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the
United States and/or other jurisdictions.
Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners.
Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit
permission of the copyright holder.
Distribution of this work or derivative work in any standard (paper) book form for commercial
purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder.
DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS,
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, ARE DISCLAIMED, EXCEPT TO THE
EXTENT THAT SUCH DISCLAIMERS ARE HELD TO BE LEGALLY INVALID.
Third party code may be provided with the Software and/or Service. The license terms for such
third-parties are detailed in the license.txt file located in the root installation directory. You can
always find the latest up-to-date list of the third party code and the associated license terms used
with the Software and/or Service at http://kb.acronis.com/content/7696
1.2.1Agent for Windows ................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2.3Bootable Media Builder ............................................................................................................................ 6
1.3 Supported operating systems ............................................................................................... 6
1.4 System requirements ............................................................................................................ 7
This section answers questions that might arise before the product installation.
1.1 Types of licenses (stand-alone and advanced
editions)
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 licensing is based on the number of machines backed up by the
product.
Stand-alone editions
These are the following editions:
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Server for Windows
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Server for Linux
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Workstation
The stand-alone editions are designed for backing up the data of a single machine. With any of the
above licenses, you can install all the product components on the same machine only. You will be
asked for the license key of any of the above editions during the product installation.
Advanced editions (editions with centralized management)
These editions are designed for backing up multiple machines. In addition to components that need
to be installed on a backed up machine, these editions include a management server that enables
centralized management, and storage nodes for storing backed up data on them. Unlike stand-alone
editions, advanced editions allow remote connection to a backed up machine.
As with stand-alone editions, a separate license is required for every machine you want to back up.
During installation of a licensed component (agent), you can either specify a license server or enter a
license key manually. Installation of other components is not licensed. For example, you can install as
many storage nodes as you wish - up to 50.
Components of stand-alone editions do not interact with the components of advanced editions.
1.2 Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 components
This section contains a list of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 components with a brief description of
their functionality.
These are applications that perform data backup, recovery and other operations on the machines
managed with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11. Agents require a license to perform operations on
each managed machine. Agents have multiple features, or add-ons, that enable additional
functionality and so might require additional licenses.
Console
The console provides Graphical User Interface to the agents. Usage of the console is not licensed. In
stand-alone editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11, the console is installed together with the
agent and cannot be disconnected from it.
Bootable Media Builder
With Bootable Media Builder, you can create bootable media in order to use the agents and other
rescue utilities in a rescue environment. In stand-alone editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11,
Bootable Media Builder is installed together with the agent. All add-ons to the agent, if installed, will
be available in a rescue environment.
1.2.1 Agent for Windows
This agent enables disk-level and file-level data protection under Windows.
Disk backup
Disk-level data protection is based on backing up either a disk or a volume file system as a whole,
along with all the information necessary for the operating system to boot; or all the disk sectors using
the sector-by-sector approach (raw mode). A backup that contains a copy of a disk or a volume in a
packaged form is called a disk (volume) backup or a disk (volume) image. It is possible to recover
disks or volumes as a whole from such backup, as well as individual folders or files.
File backup
File-level data protection is based on backing up files and folders residing on the machine where the
agent is installed or on a network share. Files can be recovered to their original location or to another
place. It is possible to recover all files and folders that were backed up or select which of them to
recover.
Other operations
Conversion to a virtual machine
Rather than converting a disk backup to a virtual disk file, which requires additional operations to
bring the virtual disk into use, Agent for Windows performs the conversion by recovering a disk
backup to a new virtual machine of any of the following types: VMware Workstation, Microsoft
Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation, Citrix XenServer Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) or Red Hat
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). Files of the fully configured and operational machine will be
placed in the folder you select. You can start the machine using the respective virtualization software
or prepare the machine files for further usage.
Disk management
Agent for Windows includes Acronis Disk Director Lite - a handy disk management utility. Disk
management operations, such as cloning disks; converting disks; creating, formatting and deleting