Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

This section attempts to give its readers a clear understanding of the product so that they can use the product in various circumstances without step-by-step instructions.

In this section

Basic concepts

User privileges on a managed machine

Owners and credentials

Full, incremental and differential backups

GFS backup scheme

Tower of Hanoi backup scheme

Retention rules

Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows)

Backing up LVM volumes and MD devices (Linux)

Backing up hardware RAID arrays (Linux)

Backing up virtual machines

Tape support

Support for SNMP

Proprietary Acronis technologies

Understanding centralized management

Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10