Selecting les/folders

File-level backup is available for physical machines and virtual machines backed up by an agent
installed in the guest system.

A le-level backup is not su cient for recovery of the operating system. Choose le backup if you
plan to protect only certain data (the current project, for example). This will reduce the backup size,
thus saving storage space.

There are two ways of selecting les: directly on each machine or by using policy rules. Either
method allows you to further re ne the selection by setting the le lters.

Direct selection
1. In What to back up, select Files/folders.

2. Click Items to back up.

3. In Select items for backup, select Directly.

4. For each of the machines included in the backup plan:

a. Click Select les and folders.

b. Click Local folder or Network folder.

The share must be accessible from the selected machine.

c. Browse to the required les/folders or enter the path and click the arrow button. If
prompted, specify the user name and password for the shared folder.
Backing up a folder with anonymous access is not supported.

d. Select the required les/folders.

e. Click Done.

Using policy rules

1. In What to back up, select Files/folders.

2. Click Items to back up.

3. In Select items for backup, select Using policy rules.

4. Select any of the prede ned rules, type your own rules, or combine both.
The policy rules will be applied to all of the machines included in the backup plan. If no
data meeting at least one of the rules is found on a machine when the backup starts, the
 backup will fail on that machine.

5. Click Done.

Selection rules for Windows

Full path to a le or folder, for example D:\Work\Text.doc or C:\Windows.

Templates:

[All Files] selects all les on all volumes of the machine.

[All Profiles Folder] selects the folder where all user pro les are located
(typically, C:\Users or C:\Documents and Settings).

Environment variables:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE% selects the folder where the common data of all user pro les
is located (typically, C:\ProgramData or C:\Documents and Settings\All Users).

%PROGRAMFILES% selects the Program Files folder (for example, C:\Program Files).

%WINDIR% selects the folder where Windows is located (for example, C:\Windows).

You can use other environment variables or a combination of environment variables and
text. For example, to select the Java folder in the Program Files folder, type:
%PROGRAMFILES%\Java.

Selection rules for Linux

Full path to a le or directory. For example, to back up le.txt on the volume /dev/hda3
mounted on /home/usr/docs, specify /dev/hda3/ le.txt or /home/usr/docs/ le.txt.

/home selects the home directory of the common users.

/root selects the root user's home directory.

/usr selects the directory for all user-related programs.

/etc selects the directory for system con guration les.

Templates:

[All Profiles Folder] selects /home. This is the folder where all user pro les
are located by default.

Selection rules for macOS

 Full path to a le or directory.

Templates:

[All Profiles Folder] selects /Users. This is the folder where all user pro les
are located by default.

Examples:

To back up le.txt on your desktop, specify /Users/<username>/Desktop/ le.txt, where

<username> is your user name.

To back up all users' home directories, specify /Users.

To back up the directory where the applications are installed, specify /Applications.

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Selecting a destination

Important  Some of the features described in this section were introduced in version 12.5,
which a ects only on-premise deployments. These features are not yet available in cloud
deployments. For more information, refer to "What's new in Acronis Backup".

To select a backup location

1. Click Where to back up.

2. Do one of the following:

Select a previously used or prede ned backup location

Click Add location, and then specify a new backup location.

Supported locations
Cloud storage
Backups will be stored in the cloud data center.

Local folder
If a single machine is selected, browse to a folder on the selected machine or type the
folder path.
If multiple machines are selected, type the folder path. Backups will be stored in this folder
on each of the selected physical machines or on the machine where the agent for virtual
machines is installed. If the folder does not exist, it will be created.

Network folder
This is a folder shared via SMB/CIFS/DFS.
Browse to the required shared folder or enter the path in the following format:

For SMB/CIFS shares: \\<host name>\<path>\ or smb://<host

name>/<path>/

For DFS shares: \\<full DNS domain name>\<DFS root>\<path>

For example, \\example.company.com\shared\files

Then, click the arrow button. If prompted, specify the user name and password for the
shared folder. You can change these credentials at any time by clicking the key icon next to
the folder name.
Backing up to a folder with anonymous access is not supported.
 Acronis Cyber Infrastructure
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure can be used as highly reliable software-de ned storage with
data redundancy and automatic self-healing. The storage can be con gured as a gateway
for storing backups in Microsoft Azure or in one of a variety of storage solutions
compatible with S3 or Swift. The storage can also employ the NFS back-end. For more
information, refer to "About Acronis Cyber Infrastructure".

NFS folder (available for machines running Linux or macOS)

Browse to the required NFS folder or enter the path in the following format:
nfs://<host name>/<exported folder>:/<subfolder>
Then, click the arrow button.
It is not possible to back up to an NFS folder protected with a password.

Secure Zone (available if it is present on each of the selected machines)

Secure Zone is a secure partition on a disk of the backed-up machine. This partition has to
be created manually prior to con guring a backup. For information about how to create
Secure Zone, its advantages and limitations, refer to "About Secure Zone".

SFTP
Type the SFTP server name or address. The following notations are supported:
sftp://<server>
sftp://<server>/<folder>
After entering the user name and password, you can browse the server folders.
In either notation, you can also specify the port, user name, and password:
sftp://<server>:<port>/<folder>
sftp://<user name>@<server>:<port>/<folder>
sftp://<user name>:<password>@<server>:<port>/<folder>
If the port number is not speci ed, port 22 is used.
Users, for whom SFTP access with no password is con gured, cannot back up to SFTP.
Backing up to FTP servers is not supported.

Advanced storage options

Note This functionality is available only with the Acronis Backup Advanced license.

De ned by a script (available for machines running Windows)

You can store each machine's backups in a folder defined by a script. The software
supports scripts written in JScript, VBScript, or Python 3.5. When deploying the backup
plan, the software runs the script on each machine. The script output for each machine
should be a local or network folder path. If a folder does not exist, it will be created
(limitation: scripts written in Python cannot create folders on network shares). On the
Backups tab, each folder is shown as a separate backup location.
 In Script type, select the script type (JScript, VBScript, or Python), and then import, or
copy and paste the script. For network folders, specify the access credentials with the
read/write permissions.
Example. The following JScript script outputs the backup location for a machine in the
format \\bkpsrv\<machine name>:

WScript.echo("\\\\bkpsrv\\" +
WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network").ComputerName);

As a result, the backups of each machine will be saved in a folder of the same name on the
server bkpsrv.

Storage node
A storage node is a server designed to optimize the usage of various resources (such as the
corporate storage capacity, the network bandwidth, and the production servers' CPU load)
that are required to protect enterprise data. This goal is achieved by organizing and
managing the locations that serve as dedicated storages of the enterprise backups
(managed locations).
You can select a previously created location or create a new one by clicking Add location >
Storage node. For information about the settings, refer to "Adding a managed location".
You may be prompted to specify the user name and password for the storage node.
Members of the following Windows groups on the machine where a storage node is
installed have access to all managed locations on the storage node:

Administrators

Acronis ASN Remote Users

This group is created automatically when the storage node is installed. By default,
this group is empty. You can add users to this group manually.

Tape
If a tape device is attached to the backed-up machine or to a storage node, the location list
shows the default tape pool. This pool is created automatically.
You can select the default pool or create a new one by clicking Add location > Tape. For
information about pool settings, refer to "Creating a pool".

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