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Product Components

• Bootable components
• Bootable Media Builder
• WinPE ISO Builder

• Agent for Windows
• Management console

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Bootable components

The bootable components of the agent enable operations with reboot, such as recovery of the volume containing the currently active operating system. Once the operations are completed, the machine boots into the operating system again. You can choose not to install the bootable components and perform operations that require reboot using bootable media.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Bootable Media Builder

Acronis Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media with bootable Acronis components based on the Linux kernel.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 WinPE ISO Builder

Acronis WinPE ISO Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media based on Windows pre-installation environment. This tool can be installed only on machines running Windows.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows

This agent enable disk-level and file-level data protection under Windows.

Disk backup

The disk-level data protection is based on backing up either the disk or volume file system as a whole, along with all information necessary for the operating system to boot; or all the disk sectors using the sector-by-sector approach (raw mode.) A backup that contains a copy of a disk or a volume in a packaged form is called a disk (volume) backup or a disk (volume) image. You can recover disks or volumes as a whole from such backup, as well as individual folders or files.

File backup

The file-level data protection is based on backing up the user's selection of files and folders. You can recover all files and folders that were backed up or select which of them to recover.

Other operations

Conversion to a virtual machine

Rather than converting a disk backup to a virtual disk file, which requires additional operations to bring the virtual disk into use, Agent for Windows performs the conversion by recovering a disk backup to a new virtual machine of any of the following types: VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation or Citrix XenServer virtual appliance. 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. Disk management operations, such as cloning disks; converting disks; creating, formatting and deleting volumes; changing a disk partitioning style between MBR and GPT or changing a disk label, can be performed either in the operating system or using bootable media.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console is an administrative tool for remote or local access to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agents and, in the product editions that include the centralized management capability, to the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server.

Using the direct console-agent connection, the administrator sets up and manages local backup plans, recovers data, creates and explores personal archive vaults and performs other direct management operations.

Having connected the console to the management server, the administrator sets up and manages backup policies and accesses other functionality of the management server, that is, performs centralized management.