Adding a machine to the Acronis Management Server fails with "The machine has already been registered". However the machine is not in the Acronis Management Server
Agent
Cloned machines have the same ID. Change the instance ID in Windows Registry to fix the issue
There are either not enough rights to back up the remote machine, or Acronis Agent serial key did not register properly
Run the remote installation wizard and install Acronis Backup & Recovery 11/11.5 Agent on top of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent or on a clean machine
Exécution de l'assistant d'installation à distance et installation d'Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5/11 Agent pour remplacer Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent ou installer sur une machine vierge
Make sure you have ports 9876 and 25001 open
This article applies to:
- Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5 (Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5)
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 11
Symptoms
- You start remote installation of Acronis components.
- Installation fails with the following error messages:
Failed to get information about remote machine
Failed to connect to the service
Failed to connect to Windows service
Allow Acronis Managed Machine Service some time to initialize
The "CredStorage" subkey in the registry is broken
Logs are not imported to Acronis Management Server after re-adding the agent
Préparation de la machine pour l'installation à distance des composants d'Acronis Backup
The most probable cause is that the specified address is incorrect or the machine is unavailable
License server is not accessible or the license is already in use
The remote machine is inaccessible
Symptoms
- You are attempting to install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows or Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced;
- The installation starts, but then rolls back;
- In the installation log you search for the Return value 3 entry (for operating systems in English) and you see the following error entries:
(!) For complete information on how to analyze installation logs, please see Analyzing Installation Logs of Acronis Products Based on MSI Technology.
You need configure the system restored to dissimilar hardware before you can boot it
If for some reason you do not know the name of the agent who performed the operation, you can always check it in the Activities tab. To do this, click on the activity and the agent's name will be displayed in the activity details.
This is a known issue. Just stop the activity
Symptoms
- You have a virtual environment protected with Agent for VMware or Agent for Hyper-V
- When a backup plan is applied to two or more virtual machines, activities for backup progress are not shown on virtual machines; instead they are shown on Agent that runs on hypervisor level.
- Alternatively, warnings or activities are shown on incorrect virtual machine
Cause
Specifics of product architecture.
Install the necessary Acronis Agents
Installation of Acronis Agent for Linux fails with "Segmentation Fault". To fix this issue, transfer the installation files with WinSCP or via Samba share
Download 32-bit installer and add it to remote installation folder
Info text For Acronis Cyber Protect 15, see Acronis Cyber Protect 15: Agent installation on a 32-bit machine fails with "Failed to download installation file 'resource.xml' from the server."
Symptoms
- You have installed Management Server of build 16342 or updated the existing Management Server to this build.
- You launch the installation file of Build 16342 on a machine to install or update Agent locally.
- You specify the IP address or name of the Acronis Management Server where the agent should be registered. Connection fails with the following error:
Failed to connect to machine. HTTP status code: 500" error.
Symptoms
1. You installed Management Server and Agent of Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 on the same machine,
2. When you try to add machine using Add button in Devices tab, error message appears:
You cannot remotely install the agent on the same machine that performs the remote installation. Please install the agent on this machine locally
Prepare machines for remote installation of Acronis Backup Advanced components
This article applies to Acronis Backup Advanced 11.7. For newer versions of the product, the same information can be found in product documentation:
- Acronis Cyber Protect 15: see Adding a machine running Windows
- Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5: see Adding a machine running Windows
Preparation
Symptoms
- You try to install Acronis Backup on your Debian machine.
- You cannot install neither 64-bit version, nor 32-bit version of Acronis Backup.
- Installation fails with :
Please use installer compatible with x86_64 OS.
Symptoms
You try to install Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 or Acronis Cyber Protect 15 on a machine where a NIC is disconnected or missing. Both Management Server and Agent are selected for installation.
At 99% of installation progress you get an error:
Registration failed.
Backup agent: "Failed to connect to the management server"
Manual registration fails with an error: ZmqGW return empty AMS addresses list
Cause
Issue in the product.
Acronis True Image restores LVM volumes as non-LVM partitions. You will need to take extra steps to make the restored system bootable. You can also restore LVM volumes to prepared LVMs
Symptoms
Acronis Agent remote installation or update fails with the following error:
Failed to verify the security certificate of the file
%ProgramData%\Acronis\InstallationLogs\%Date%\bootstrapper.log file contains the following error:
Symptoms
- You want to install an agent in an environment with a proxy.
- You have configured proxy according to the user guide (Acronis Cyber Protect 15)
- Agent registration fails with the following error:
503 service unavailable