Installation of the command-line utility

Products with local management only (Acronis Backup)

If you have installed Acronis Backup, the command-line utility is already on your machine. Only local management of this machine is available. This means that any command or script for this machine can be run only locally.

Products with centralized management (Acronis Backup Advanced)

Acronis Backup Advanced enables you to perform local, remote and centralized management of any machine where an Acronis Backup agent is installed.

As with Management Console, you install the command-line utility on the machine from which you prefer to operate (run commands or scripts). The machine may run Windows or Linux. Using the command-line utility, you can manage a Windows machine from a machine running Linux or vice versa.

Installation steps

In Linux, the command-line utility is installed by default with Management Console or Agent for Linux.

In Windows, you install the utility from the setup file as a separate component. To access this component in the installer, select the I want to manually select the Acronis components and customize the installation process check box. Or, you can extract and run the corresponding .msi file.

To install the command-line utility from the .msi file:

  1. Run the Acronis Backup setup program.
  2. Click Extract installation files.
  3. Select the check box corresponding to the AcronisCommandLineTool.msi file.
  4. Specify the folder where to extract the file.
  5. Click Extract.
  6. After the file is successfully extracted, click Finish.
  7. Go to the folder where the AcronisCommandLineTool.msi file is extracted, and launch the file.
  8. Follow the Install Wizard instructions on the screen.

Installation paths

The default installation paths are: