Acronis Backup Recovery Workstation - 10.0 Installation Manual

Acronis® Backup & Recovery ® 10 Workstation

Update 5

Installation Guide

Table of conte nts

1 Before installation .................................................................................................................3

1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components ............................................................................. 3

1.1.1 Agent for Windows ......................................................................................................................................... 3

1.1.2 Management Console ..................................................................................................................................... 4

1.1.3 Bootable Media Builder .................................................................................................................................. 4

1.2 Supported operating systems .................................................................................................... 4

1.3 System requirements ................................................................................................................. 5

1.4 Licensing policy .......................................................................................................................... 5

2 Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 .........................................................................5

2.1 Local installation (Windows) ...................................................................................................... 5

2.1.1 Preparation ...................................................................................................................................................... 6

2.1.2 Installation procedure ..................................................................................................................................... 6

2.1.3 Specifying credentials for Acronis services .................................................................................................... 6

2.1.4 Update.............................................................................................................................................................. 7

2.2 Unattended installation in Windows ......................................................................................... 7

2.3 Configuration script parameters................................................................................................ 8

3 Upgrading from trial to full product version ............................................................................9

3.1 Changing a license ...................................................................................................................10

3.2 Upgrading components for Windows ......................................................................................10

4 Uninstallation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 ................................................................... 11

4.1 Local uninstallation in Windows ..............................................................................................11

4.2 Unattended uninstallation in Windows ...................................................................................11

4.3 Deleting Acronis Secure Zone ..................................................................................................11

1 Before installation

This section answers questions that might arise before the product installation.

1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components

This section contains a list of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components with a brief description of their functionality.

Components for a managed machine (agents)

These are applications that perform data backup, recovery and other operations on the machines managed with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. 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 and remote connection to the agents. Usage of the console is not licensed.

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. Availability of the agent add-ons in a rescue environment depends on whether an add-on is installed on the machine where the media builder is working.

1.1.1 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 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 volumes; changing a disk partitioning style between MBR and GPT or changing a disk label, can be performed either in the operating system or using bootable media.

1.1.1.1 Universal Restore

The Universal Restore add-on enables you to use the restore to dissimilar hardware functionality on the machine where the agent is installed, and create bootable media with this functionality. Universal Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for Windows start-up, such as storage controllers, motherboard or chipset.

1.1.2 Management Console

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console is an administrative tool for local access to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent.

1.1.3 Bootable Media Builder

Acronis Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media. The media builder that installs on Windows can create bootable media based on either Windows Preinstallation Environment, or Linux kernel.

The Universal Restore (p. 4) add-on enables you to create bootable media with the restore to dissimilar hardware functionality. Universal Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for Windows start-up, such as storage controllers, motherboard or chipset.

1.2 Supported operating systems

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows

 Windows 2000 Professional SP4  Windows XP Professional SP2+ (x86, x64)  Windows Vista - all editions (x86, x64)  Windows 7 SP1 - all editions (x86, x64)

Remote connection to the agent is not possible.

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Acronis products do not support systems with Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). Although it is possible to restore a GPT partition with Acronis if Windows is installed on it, the restored system will not be bootable. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can back up and recover operating systems if they are installed in BIOS/MBR mode, even if they run on EFI-capable servers. Most servers have BIOS settings that allow booting the

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