Understanding centralized management

This section contains an overview of centralized data protection with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. Please be sure you have an understanding of how data is protected on a single machine before reading this section.

In this section

Basic concepts

Setting up centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network

Grouping the registered machines

Policies on machines and groups

Backup policy’s state and statuses

Deduplication

Privileges for centralized management

Communication between Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components

Understanding centralized management