Table of Contents1. Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 ......................................................... 61.1. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview ............................................................................ 61.2. Getting started .................................................................................................................... 61.2.1. Using the management console ................................................................................................................. 71.3. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components .................................................................... 131.3.1. Agent for Windows .................................................................................................................................... 131.3.2. Bootable components and media builder ............................................................................................... 141.3.3. Management Console ............................................................................................................................... 151.4. Supported operating systems ........................................................................................... 151.5. Supported file systems ...................................................................................................... 151.6. Hardware requirements .................................................................................................... 161.7. Technical support .............................................................................................................. 162. Understanding Acronis Backup & Recovery 10....................................................... 172.1. Basic concepts ................................................................................................................... 172.2. Full, incremental and differential backups ....................................................................... 212.3. User privileges on a managed machine ............................................................................ 232.4. Owners and credentials .................................................................................................... 232.5. GFS backup scheme .......................................................................................................... 252.6. Tower of Hanoi backup scheme ........................................................................................ 292.7. Retention rules .................................................................................................................. 312.8. Backing up dynamic volumes (Windows).......................................................................... 332.9. Tape support ..................................................................................................................... 362.9.1. Tape compatibility table ............................................................................................................................ 362.9.2. Using a single tape drive............................................................................................................................ 372.10. Proprietary Acronis technologies ...................................................................................... 382.10.1. Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................................. 382.10.2. Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.......................................................................................................... 392.10.3. Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) ................................................. 402.10.4. Acronis Active Restore............................................................................................................................... 413. Options ................................................................................................................ 443.1. Console options................................................................................................................. 443.1.1. Startup page ............................................................................................................................................... 443.1.2. Pop-up messages ....................................................................................................................................... 443.1.3. Time-based alerts ...................................................................................................................................... 453.1.4. Number of tasks ......................................................................................................................................... 453.1.5. Fonts ........................................................................................................................................................... 463.2. Machine options ............................................................................................................... 463.2.1. Event tracing .............................................................................................................................................. 463.2.2. Log cleanup rules ....................................................................................................................................... 483.3. Default backup and recovery options ............................................................................... 493.3.1. Default backup options ............................................................................................................................. 493.3.2. Default recovery options ........................................................................................................................... 70