Acronis Backup & Recovery

Specifying Microsoft SQL servers

When installing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server, you need to specify the Microsoft SQL servers for the management server’s databases:

• The operational SQL server ensures synchronization of the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components and stores the policies configuration.
• The reporting SQL server stores the operation log and statistics. The database stored on this server may become considerably large over time.

For each SQL server, select one of the following:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express that comes with the installation package and installs on the same machine. In this case, an SQL server instance will be created on the machine.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (any edition) previously installed on any machine.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (any edition) previously installed on any machine.

  Recommendations  

For the operational SQL server, we recommend selecting a server that resides on the same machine as the management server—for example, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express that comes with the installation package.

For the reporting SQL server, you can choose the same server as for the operational SQL server, or a different server—not necessarily on the same machine.