User manual ACRONIS BACKUP RECOVERY 10 WORKSTATION

[. . . ] Acronis® Backup & Recovery TM 10 Workstation 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. [. . . ] 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. Use the Refresh button to refresh the list of archives. 3. 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. The name commonly looks like Archive(1). The generated name is unique within the selected location. If you are satisfied with the automatically generated name, click OK. Otherwise enter another unique name and click OK. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2009 123 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. If the archive is protected with a password, the program will ask for it in the pop-up window. By selecting the existing archive, you are meddling in the area of another backup plan that uses the archive. This is not an issue if the other plan is discontinued, but in general you should follow the rule: "one backup plan - one archive". Doing the opposite will not prevent the program from functioning but is not practical or efficient, except for some specific cases. Why two or more plans should not back up to the same archive 1. Backing up different sources to the same archive makes using the archive difficult from the usability standpoint. When it comes to recovery, every second counts, but you might be lost in the archive content. Backup plans that operate with the same archive should back up the same data items (say, both plans back up volume C. ) 2. Applying multiple retention rules to an archive makes the archive content in some way unpredictable. Since each of the rules will be applied to the entire archive, the backups belonging to one backup plan can be easily deleted along with the backups belonging to the other. You should especially not expect the classic behavior of the GFS and Tower of Hanoi backup schemes. Normally, each complex backup plan should back up to its own archive. 6. 2. 8. Access credentials for archive location Specify credentials required for access to the location where the backup archive will be stored. The user whose name is specified will be considered as the archive owner. To specify credentials 1. Select one of the following: o 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. [. . . ] 206) or when using Acronis Active Restore (p. 206), 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. 215). V Validation An operation that checks the possibility of data recovery from a backup (p. [. . . ]