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Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis Backup ..............................................................................................9
1.1 What's new in Update 6 ............................................................................................................ 9
1.2 What's new in Update 5 ............................................................................................................ 9
1.3 What's new in Update 4 ............................................................................................................ 9
1.4 What's new in Update 3 ............................................................................................................ 9
1.5 What's new in Update 2 ..........................................................................................................10
1.6 What's new in Update 1 ..........................................................................................................10
1.7 What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 .....................................................................10
1.8 Acronis Backup components ...................................................................................................11
1.8.1 Agent for Windows ....................................................................................................................................... 11
1.8.2 Management Console ................................................................................................................................... 12
1.8.3 Bootable Media Builder ................................................................................................................................ 12
1.9 About using the product in the trial mode ..............................................................................12
1.10 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................12
1.11 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................13
2 Getting started .............................................................................................................. 14
2.1 Using the management console ..............................................................................................15
2.1.1 "Navigation" pane ......................................................................................................................................... 16
2.1.2 Main area, views and action pages .............................................................................................................. 17
2.1.3 Console options ............................................................................................................................................. 19
3 Understanding Acronis Backup ....................................................................................... 22
3.1 Owners .....................................................................................................................................22
3.2 Credentials used in backup plans and tasks ............................................................................22
3.3 User privileges on a managed machine ...................................................................................24
3.4 List of Acronis services .............................................................................................................24
3.5 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................26
3.6 What does a disk or volume backup store? .............................................................................27
3.7 Backup and recovery of dynamic volumes (Windows) ............................................................28
3.8 Support for Advanced Format (4K-sector) hard disks .............................................................30
3.9 Compatibility with encryption software ..................................................................................30
3.10 Support for SNMP ....................................................................................................................31
3.11 Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 ................................................................32
3.12 Support for UEFI-based machines ...........................................................................................34
4 Backup .......................................................................................................................... 35
4.1 Back up now .............................................................................................................................35
4.2 Creating a backup plan ............................................................................................................35
4.2.1 Selecting data to back up .............................................................................................................................. 37
4.2.2 Access credentials for source ....................................................................................................................... 38
4.2.3 Source files exclusion .................................................................................................................................... 38
4.2.4 Backup location selection ............................................................................................................................. 40
