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Moving the Acronis Management Server directly is not possible, however there are a few steps that could assist you.

This article applies to:

• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server - Small Business Server Edition
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Workstation
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server - Virtual Edition

Introduction

There is no direct way to move the Acronis Management Server from one machine to another.

If you need to move Acronis Management Server to a different machine, then please proceed as described in this article.

Solution

Planned migration:

1. Export the list of registered machine from the Acronis Management Server:
   • On the machine with the Acronis Management Server, download and unpack exportmachinesfromams.zip;

     (!) Please note, the script was designed to work only with the SQL Express instance, which is installed with Acronis by default.

   • Run the extracted export_machines_from_AMS.bat batch file;

     The list with the exported machines will appear in the same folder from where you have run the batch file. The name of the list will be machine_list(Backup).txt and it will contain a list of your machines.

2. On the new machine, install the Acronis Management Server from the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 installation package;
3. Import the list of the machines to the new Acronis Management Server:
   • Start Acronis Management Console and connect to the new Acronis Management Server;
   • Click Physical machines -> Import machines from file:

     

   • Specify the list with the machines and provide the administrator credentials:

     

     (!) After an Acronis Agent is added to another Acronis Management Server, all group policies are removed from this Agent.

     (!) If you need to enter multiple credential sets to add the machines, then this method will not work. You will have to split the machines up into groups of computers that accept the same credentials.

4. Recreate your vaults. See Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Moving Vaults on Acronis Management Server;
5. Recreate and redeploy your backup policies.

Disaster recovery migration:

If you restore an image of a system with Acronis Management Server on a different machine, make sure that the new machine has the same computer name. This assures that Agents keep the necessary information about group policies.

More information

See also:

• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced: Moving Acronis License Server
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Attaching a Managed Vault Hangs on 0%
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Large Size of Acronis Database on SQL Server