Acronis Snap Deploy 4 is not compatible with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 PXE Server

This article applies to:

• Acronis Snap Deploy 4

Symptoms

1. You have OS Deploy Server of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 installed on the same machine with Acronis PXE Server of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
2. Multicast mode is selected. Connecting Acronis Snap Deploy Agents to the OS Deploy Server results in numerous error entries in the log

   Failed to start multicast session on FileServer

3. The deployment is not possible.

Cause

Acronis PXE Server and OS Deploy Server are incompatible. They both use the same module - FileServer, which is responsible for TCP sessions. The versions of FileServer are different for Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 and Acronis Snap Deploy 4. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 FileServer is incompatible with OS Deploy Server of Acronis Snap Deploy 4.

Solution

As a workaround, install Acronis PXE Server and OS Deploy Server on two separate machines.

More information

Acronis Development Team is working on fixing this issue. This article will be updated when the issue is fixed.

See also Acronis Snap Deploy 4.