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Table of contents
1 Before installation ...........................................................................................................3
1.1 About using the product in the trial mode ................................................................................ 3
1.2 Licenses for Acronis Backup and Acronis Backup Advanced ..................................................... 3
1.3 Acronis Backup components ..................................................................................................... 5
1.3.1 Agent for Windows ......................................................................................................................................... 5
1.3.2 Management Console ..................................................................................................................................... 6
1.3.3 Bootable Media Builder .................................................................................................................................. 6
1.4 Supported operating systems .................................................................................................... 6
1.5 System requirements ................................................................................................................. 7
2 Installing Acronis Backup .................................................................................................7
2.1 Preparation ................................................................................................................................ 7
2.2 Interactive installation of Acronis Backup ................................................................................. 7
2.2.1 Installation mode ............................................................................................................................................ 8
2.2.2 Specifying credentials for the Acronis service ............................................................................................... 8
2.3 Unattended installation ............................................................................................................. 9
2.4 Configuration script parameters ..............................................................................................10
2.5 Update .....................................................................................................................................12
3 Upgrading from Acronis Backup to Acronis Backup Advanced ......................................... 12
4 Checking for software updates ....................................................................................... 14
5 Uninstallation ................................................................................................................ 14
5.1 Interactive uninstallation .........................................................................................................14
5.2 Unattended uninstallation .......................................................................................................14
5.3 Deleting Acronis Secure Zone ..................................................................................................14