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Update 5

Acronis® Backup & Recovery ® 10

Workstation

Installation Guide

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Acronis® Backup & Recovery ® 10 Workstation Update 5 Installation Guide
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Table of contents 1 Before installation .................................................................................................................3 1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .............................................................................3 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 2 1.2 Supported operating systems ....................................................................................................4 1.3 System requirements.................................................
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1 Before installation This section answers questions that might arise before 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. 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.
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Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation, Citrix XenServer Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) or Red Hat KVM. Files of the fully configured and operational machine will be placed in the folder you select. You can start the machine using the respective virtualization software or prepare the machine files for further usage. Disk management Agent for Windows includes Acronis Disk Director Lite - a handy disk management utility.
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installation CD in BIOS/MBR mode instead of EFI mode. The MBR mode ensures that after installation the boot disk is partitioned in MBR standard, not GPT. 1.
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2.1.1 Preparation Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 uses TCP port 9876 for local installation and for communication between components. The setup program automatically opens this port through Windows Firewall. If you use a different firewall, make sure that the port is open for both incoming and outgoing requests through that firewall. 2.1.2 Installation procedure Do the following to install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: 1. Run the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 setup file. 2.
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If the machine is part of an Active Directory domain, make sure that the domain's security policies do not prevent the account from having the above listed user rights. Important: After the installation, do not specify a different user account for the agent service. Otherwise, the agent may stop working. 2.1.4 Update To update one or more Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components: 1. 2. 3. 4. Run the installation package, containing the updated version of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.
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5. Do either of the following, depending on whether you are installing, reinstalling, or updating the component:  If you are installing the component, run Windows Installer (the msiexec program) specifying the names of both the installation package and (if needed) the transform as follows: When installing Agent for Windows: msiexec /i c:\AcronisAgentWindows.msi TRANSFORMS=AcronisAgentWindows.mst /qb Otherwise (in this example, when installing the Universal Restore feature): msiexec /i c:\AcronisUniversa
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Avoid using this parameter when installing the component through Group Policy, because the “current user” in such installation is typically a system account. /target_dir Installation_Folder Specifies the folder where to install the component. Without this parameter, the component will be installed to the default folder: %ProgramFiles%\Acronis\BackupAndRecovery Agent-specific parameters The following parameters are effective only when installing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows.
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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 requesting you specify a standard license key. To specify the standard license key, use the Change License window in the management console, or run the setup program and follow its instructions. 3.1 Changing a license By changing the license, you switch to a different version or edition of the product.
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4 Uninstallation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 This section describes uninstallation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. 4.1 Local uninstallation in Windows To uninstall Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, use the product uninstallation program (and not the Add or Remove Programs tool of Windows). To uninstall Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 1. Click Start -> All Programs -> Acronis -> Uninstall Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. 2.