Installation guide

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.

Components for a managed machine (agents)

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

managed with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. Agents require a license to perform operations on each

managed machine. Agents have multiple features, or add-ons, that enable additional functionality

and so might require additional licenses.

Components for centralized management

These components, delivered with the Advanced, SBS and Virtual Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

editions, provide the centralized management capability. Usage of these components is not licensed.

Console and tools

The console provides Graphical User Interface and remote connection to the agents and other

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components. With bootable media builders, you can create bootable

media in order to use the agents and other rescue utilities in a rescue environment. Availability of the

agent add-ons in a rescue environment depends on whether an add-on is installed on the machine

where the media builder is working.

1.1.1. Agent for Windows

This agent enables disk-level and file-level data protection under Windows.

Disk backup

Disk-level data protection is based on backing up either a disk or a volume file system as a whole,

along with all the information necessary for the operating system to boot; or all the disk sectors using

the sector-by-sector approach (raw mode). A backup that contains a copy of a disk or a volume in a

packaged form is called a disk (volume) backup or a disk (volume) image. It is possible to recover disks

or volumes as a whole from such backup, as well as individual folders or files.

File backup

File-level data protection is based on backing up files and folders residing on the machine where the

agent is installed or on a network share. Files can be recovered to their original location or to another

place. It is possible to recover all files and folders that were backed up or select which of them to

recover.