User Guide

Set up a centralized backup policy and apply it to the All machines group. This way you will deploy

backup plans on each machine with a single action. Select Actions > Create backup policy from the

top menu and then refer to the context help.

 Grouping the machines registered on the management server

Group the registered machines by appropriate parameters, create several policies and apply each

policy to the appropriate group of machines. For more information please refer to "Grouping the

registered machines (p. 59)".

The comprehensive example of advanced centralized management is provided in the "Setting up

centralized data protection in a heterogeneous network (p. 55)" section.

1.2.1 Using the management console

As soon as the console connects to a managed machine (p. 369) or to a management server (p. 370),

the respective items appear across the console's workspace (in the menu, in the main area with the

Welcome screen, the Navigation pane, the Actions and tools pane) enabling you to perform agent-

specific or server-specific operations.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console - Welcome screen

Key elements of the console workspace

Name Description

Navigation pane Contains the Navigation tree and the Shortcuts bar and lets you navigate to

the different views (see the Navigation pane (p. 11) section.)

Actions and tools pane Contains bars with a set of actions that can be performed and tools (see the