Acronis® Backup & Recovery ™ 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition Installation Guide
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1. Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 installation documentation helps answer questions that might arise before and during the product installation. 1.1. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components This section contains a list of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components with a brief description of their functionality. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 includes three types of components.
Other operations Conversion to a virtual machine Rather than converting a disk backup to a virtual disk file, which requires additional operations to bring the virtual disk into use, Agent for Windows performs the conversion by recovering a disk backup to a new virtual machine of any of the following types: VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation or Citrix XenServer virtual appliance. Files of the fully configured and operational machine will be placed in the folder you select.
1.1.4. Components for centralized management This section lists the components included in the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 editions that provide the centralized management capability. Besides these components, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agents have to be installed on all machines that need data protection. 1.1.4.1. Management Server Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server is the central server that drives data protection within the enterprise network.
The storage nodes enable creating highly scalable and flexible, in terms of the hardware support, storage infrastructure. Up to 20 storage nodes can be set up, each being able to manage up to 20 vaults. The administrator controls the storage nodes centrally from the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server. Direct console connection to a storage node is not possible.
1.1.4.3. PXE Server Acronis PXE Server allows for booting machines into Acronis bootable components through the network. The network booting: • Eliminates the need to have a technician onsite to install the bootable media into the system that has to be booted • During group operations, reduces the time required for booting multiple machines as compared to using physical bootable media. 1.1.4.4.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node • • • Windows Professional 2000 SP4/XP Professional SP2 • Windows Vista all Editions except for Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium Windows Server 2000/Advanced Server 2000/Server 2003/ SBS 2003/ SBS 2008/ Server 2008 Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003/2008/ x64 Editions Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows • Windows SBS 2003 • Windows SBS 2008 1.3.
To upgrade from the trial version to the standard product you do not need to re-download the software. When the trial period is over, the product GUI displays a notification offering to specify a standard license key. To specify the standard license key for a stand-alone product edition, run the installation package and follow the wizard's instructions. For editions with centralized management you need to install Acronis License Server and import the standard license keys. 1.5.
1.5.3. Specifying credentials for Acronis services The Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server, and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node components run as services. When installing any of these components, you need to specify the account under which the component's service will run. For each service, you can either create a dedicated user account (recommended in most cases) or specify an existing account of a local or domain user—for example: .
• 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. 1.5.5.
1.5.7. Update To update one or more Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components: 1. Run the installation package, containing the updated version of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. 2. Click Install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. 3. Specify the name or IP address of Acronis License Server. 4. Click Update. 5. Follow the on-screen instructions. 1.6. Remote installation (Windows) Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows can be installed remotely.
4. Specify the features of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows that you want to install. Installation of the Deduplication and the Universal Restore add-ons To install the agent with these add-ons, repeat the installation procedure twice. First install the agent and then install the add-ons. Do the same if you are not sure whether the agent is installed. Successful remote installation of the agent and the add-ons in one pass is not guaranteed. 5.
First, the domain administrator configures the agent's setup file by specifying such parameters as the license key to use for the deployments, and the name of Acronis License Server to verify the license key's validity. Then, the domain administrator assigns the setup file for centralized deployment, by creating a Group Policy object.
Step 2: Sharing the folder You now need to share the folder that you created in Step 1. 1. Right-click the folder's name, and then click Sharing and Security. 2. In the folder properties dialog box, click Share this folder. In Share name, you can type an alternative name for the shared folder instead of the default one if necessary. 3. Click Permissions. 4. In the share permissions dialog box, click Add. 5. In the Select Users or Groups dialog box, type Authenticated Users and then click OK. 6.
[/remote_users User1 User2 ... UserN] [/ams_address Management_Server /ams_user Admin_Name Password] The script parameters are the following: /msi_path Full_Path Specifies a full path to the agent's installation package. Enter a local path, such as D:\Acronis\AgentWindows.msi; or a universal naming convention (UNC) path, such as \\server\Acronis\AgentWindows.msi. /serial License_Key Specifies the license key to use when installing the package.
/remote_users User1 User2 ... UserN Specifies the user names that will be added to the Acronis Remote Users group. With this parameter, only the specified users will be added to the group. Separate the user names by spaces. Without this parameter, all members of the Administrators group on the particular machine will be added to the group. Members of the Acronis Remote Users group are allowed to connect to the agent remotely.
Step 2: Configuring the Group Policy object 1. In the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in, expand User Configuration, and then expand Software Settings. 2. Right-click Software installation, then point to New, and then click Package. 3. Select the agent's setup file in the shared folder that you previously created, and then click Open. 4. In the Deploy Software dialog box, click Advanced, and then click OK. 5. On the Deployment tab, under Deployment type, click Assigned. 6.
3. To display more information about used licenses, select Manage used licenses on the sidebar. (This item does not appear while all licenses are free). The Used mode lists all licenses that are acquired. Right-click on the column headings bar to choose the details to display: Product Name, Host Name, Host Address, Serial Number, Acquire Date (date of deployment or installation that used the license) and Renewal Date. You can sort any list using View > Arrange Icons by.
• Acronis True Image for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition. The advanced editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 include Acronis License Server that has to be installed prior to the Echo agents and local versions upgrade. The advanced editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 do not have local versions. Local versions of Acronis True Image Echo are upgraded to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agents.
3. Click Install Acronis License Server on this machine and follow the on-screen instructions. 4. Import the upgrade license keys for Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. 5. If you have not used a license server before, import the old license keys. Result: • The license server contains the old license keys and the newly imported upgrade license keys. 1.9.3.
To import the group server's group tasks 1. On the machine where the management server is installed, log on as a member of the Administrators group. 2. Change the current folder to the folder where the upgrade tool is installed—by default: C:\Program Files\Acronis\UpgradeTool If Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 is installed in a folder other than the default folder, change the path accordingly. 3.
If you want to import the backup server's locations as the storage node's centralized vaults, you must install the storage node on the same machine as the backup server. Importing the backup server's locations as centralized vaults facilitates access to the Acronis True Image Echo archives stored in them. No Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 archives can be created in these vaults. To install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node 1. Run the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 setup file. 2.
To ensure the correct order of starting the services, you can make the storage node service dependent on the backup server service, as described in the corresponding Microsoft Help and Support article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193888. 1.9.6. Upgrading Acronis True Image Echo agents and local versions Installing agents To upgrade Acronis True Image Echo agents and local versions, install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agents on the machines where the old agents and local versions are installed.
Note: The tasks that back up data to Acronis Backup Server or validate archives stored on it will not be imported to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. You can import the old tasks at the time of agent installation (see the installation instructions earlier in this section), or later by using Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Upgrade Tool. This command-line utility is located in the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 installation directory, in the UpgradeTool subdirectory. In Windows: 1.
PXE Server • 7 2.
