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. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. [. . . ] Do Click the column's header to sort the backup plans and tasks in ascending order. Click it once again to sort the plans and tasks in descending order. Type a plan's/task's name or an owner's name in the field below the corresponding header name. As a result you will see the list of tasks, whose names/owners' names fully or just partly coincide with the entered value. Filter plans and tasks by state, status, type, origin, last result, schedule. In the field below the corresponding header, select the required value from the list. 100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2009 Configuring backup plans and the tasks table By default, the table has six columns that are displayed, others are hidden. If required, you can hide the displayed columns and show hidden ones. To show or hide columns 1. Right-click any column header to open the context menu. The menu items that are ticked off correspond to column headers presented in the table. Click the items you want to be displayed/hidden. Run backup plan The backup plan is considered as running if at least one of its tasks is running. The Run backup plan window lets you run the task of the selected backup plan manually, in spite of its schedule. To run a task of the selected backup plan 1. Select the task of the backup plan you need to run. To make certain of your selection, check the task information gathered in tabs at the bottom of the window. This information is also duplicated in the Task details (p. Click OK. Temporarily disabling a backup plan Temporarily disabling a backup plan is needed when moving archives from one vault to another by means of the third-party file manager. Applies to backup plans that use custom backup schemes only. To disable a backup plan 1. Enter the backup scheme scheduling option and disable the schedule for the desired period by changing the Start date and/or End date parameters. Task details The Task details window (also duplicated on the Information panel) aggregates all information on the selected task. When a task requires user interaction, a message and action buttons appear above the tabs. The message contains a brief description of the problem. The buttons allow you to retry or stop the task or the backup plan. Types of tasks Task name Backup (disk) Backup (file) Backup (virtual machine) Description Backing up disks and volumes Backing up files and folders Backing up an entire virtual machine or its volumes Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2009 101 Recovery (disk) Recovery (file) Recovery (volume) Recovery (MBR) Recovery (disk to existing VM) Recovery (disk to new VM) Recovery (existing VM) Recovery (new VM) Validation (archive) Validation (backup) Validation (vault) Cleanup ASZ creation ASZ management Disk management Compacting Indexing Disk backup recovery File and folder recovery Recovery of volumes from a disk backup Master boot record recovery Recovery of a disk/volume backup to an existing virtual machine Recovery of a disk/volume backup to a new virtual machine Recovery of a virtual machine backup to an existing virtual machine Recovery of a virtual machine backup to a new virtual machine Validation of a single archive Validation of backups Validation of all archives stored in a vault Deleting backups from a backup archive in accordance with retention rules Creating Acronis Secure Zone Resizing, changing password, deleting Acronis Secure Zone Disk management operations Service task performed on a storage node Deduplication task performed by the storage node in the vault after a backup is completed Depending on the type of task and whether it is running or not, a combination of the following tabs will appear: Task The Task tab is common for all types of tasks. It provides general information on the selected task. Archive The Archive tab is available for backup, archive validation and cleanup tasks. [. . . ] 169) or when using Acronis Active Restore (p. 169), 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. 178). V Validation An operation that checks the possibility of data recovery from a backup (p. [. . . ]