User manual ACRONIS BACKUP RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER VIRTUAL EDITION

[. . . ] Acronis® Backup & Recovery 10TM Advanced Server Virtual Edition 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. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. [. . . ] Use the right part of the window to view details on the selected virtual machine. 200) window, select the virtual machine disks or volumes. Backing up volumes within a virtual machine is similar to backing up a physical machine's volumes. The virtual machine configuration will be also backed up. Backing up a virtual machine's volumes yields a standard disk backup (p. Having Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows or for Linux, you can mount its volumes, recover individual files from this backup, and recover disks and volumes from the backup to a physical machine. The virtual machine configuration, stored in a virtual machine backup, will be suggested by default at recovering the backup content to a new virtual machine. Limitations A Hyper-V virtual machine that uses at least one pass-through disk (a physical disk, either local or SAN-LUN, attached to the virtual machine) cannot be backed up from the host. To back up such machine or its disks, install Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux on the machine. A SAN-LUN disk attached to an ESX/ESXi virtual machine in the "Physical compatibility" mode, cannot be backed up from the host while the virtual machine is online (running). To back up such disk, either stop the machine or install Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux on the machine. 6. 2. 5 Access credentials for source Specify the credentials required for access to the data you are going to backup. 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's account does not have access permissions to the data. 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. 6. 2. 6 Exclusions Set up exclusions for the specific types of files you do not wish to back up. 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. 202 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2010 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. You can use one or more wildcard characters * and ? [. . . ] 368) or when using Acronis Active Restore (p. 368), because these features are primarily meant for instant data recovery on the same machine. Universal Restore is not available when recovering Linux. Unmanaged vault Any vault (p. 377). V Validation An operation that checks the possibility of data recovery from a backup (p. [. . . ]