User Guide

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Installation tips
 Both AMS and ASN can be installed on a workstation operating system as well.
 There can be multiple storage nodes on the network. Each of the nodes can manage up to 20
local or remote vaults.
 Multiple Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components can be installed on a machine with a single
installation procedure.
 In an Active Directory domain, you can deploy the components using the Group Policy.
Setting up the storage node
Before using the storage node, make sure that all users that will back up to the node's vaults have
Windows accounts on the node.
 If the node is included in an Active Directory domain, all the domain users will be able to back up
to the node; and all the domain administrators will become node administrators.
 In a workgroup, create a local user account for each user that will back up to the node. Members
of the Administrators group become node administrators. You can add more accounts later as
required.
1. Run the console, connect to the management server.
2. Create a managed vault as described in Operations with centralized vaults (p. 128). Enable
deduplication when creating a managed vault.
Setting up groups and policies
The detailed explanation of when and why you need to organize groups of machines can be found in
the Grouping the registered machines (p. 59) section. Here are some scenarios supported by the
aforementioned Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 implementation.
2.13.2.1 Protecting the servers
You will most likely create individual backup plans on each of the servers depending on their roles.
But it is necessary to perform a full backup of the entire server at least once. You might want to back
up the server during a maintenance window or backup window, after installing or updating software,
before relocation, etc. In our example, there is no need to back up entire servers on a regular basis.
You can manually delete old backups since they are not numerous.
1. Create a policy that backs up [All Volumes] to the managed vault on the storage node. Choose
Back up later, manual start and Full backup type.
2. Create a static group named, say, S_1. Add all the servers to this group. (A storage node can be
added in case the managed vault is not on the local node's drives. Otherwise the archive storage
will be backed up to itself).
3. Apply the policy to the S_1 group. Make sure that the policy has been successfully deployed to
each of the servers. The policy deployment state has to change from Deploying to Deployed and
its status has to be OK. To see the resulting backup plans on each of the servers:
a. navigate to the All machines group or the S_1 group
b. select the server
c. select the Backup plans and tasks tab on the Information pane.
When you need and have the opportunity to back up any of the servers, navigate to the backup plan
as described above, select the plan and run it.