Operation Manual

 The Grandfather-Father-Son and Tower of Hanoi backup schemes are now available when

backing up to Acronis Online Backup Storage.

Tapes (only for advanced editions, now called Acronis Backup Advanced)

 File-level recovery is possible from disk backups stored on tapes.

This feature can be enabled or disabled by setting the corresponding tape management option (p.

126).

Centralized management

 Vault selection in Data catalog (p. 136)

You can select the vault to recover the data from, if the backed-up data has multiple replicas

stored in more than one managed vault.

Linux

 Support for Linux kernel up to 3.6

 Support for the following Linux distributions:

 Ubuntu 11.04, 11.10, 12.04

 Fedora 15, 16, 17

 Debian 6

 CentOS 6.x

 Support for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) (p. 50)

Back up a UEFI-based machine running Linux and recover it to the same or a different UEFI-based

machine.

Bootable media

 New Linux kernel version (3.4.5) in Linux-based bootable media. The new kernel makes for better

hardware support.

Usability

 Support for 800x600 screen resolution

1.8 Acronis Backup components

Acronis Backup includes the following main types of components.

Components for a managed machine (agents)

These are applications that perform data backup, recovery and other operations on the machines

managed with Acronis Backup. Agents require a license to perform operations on each managed

machine.

Components for centralized management

These components, included in Acronis Backup Advanced, provide centralized management

capability. Usage of these components is not licensed.

Console

The console provides Graphical User Interface to other Acronis Backup components. Usage of the

console is not licensed.