List of Acronis services

During installation, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 creates several services.

Main services present the main components of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5: the agent, the management server, the storage node.
Auxiliary services enable certain functionalities of the main components.
Common services assist multiple Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 components and other Acronis products.

Services of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 components

A main service can run under a dedicated account or under an account you specify during installation. Either account is given privileges that are needed for the service to work. The privileges include a set of user rights, membership in security groups, and the Full Control permissions on respective registry keys in the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Acronis. There are no permissions granted on other registry keys.

The following table lists the services of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 components and the privileges for their accounts.

Service name	Purpose	Account used by the service	Privileges added to the account

Service name	Purpose	Account used by the service	User rights	Group membership	Permissions on registry keys
Services for Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 agents
Acronis Managed Machine Service (Main service)	Backing up and recovering data on the machine	Acronis Agent User (new account) or user-specified account	Log on as a service Adjust memory quotas for a process Replace a process level token Modify firmware environment values	Backup Operators (for any account) Administrators (for new account only)	BackupAndRecovery Encryption Global MMS
Acronis VSS Provider (Auxiliary service; created only for Agent for Windows in a Windows Server operating system)	Using a Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) provider that comes with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5	Local System	No additional privileges
Acronis Removable Storage Management Service (Auxiliary service)	Managing locally attached tape devices. Can be also used by the Storage Node Service.	Local System	No additional privileges
Services for Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Server
Acronis Management Server Service (Main service)	Centrally managing backup operations on multiple machines	AMS User (new account) or user-specified account	Log on as a service	Acronis Centralized Admins	AMS BackupAndRecovery
SQL Server (ACRONIS) (Auxiliary service; created only if a new SQL server is installed)	Running a Microsoft SQL Server that is optionally installed with the management server	Local System	No additional privileges
Acronis Web Server Service (Auxiliary service)	Hosting the management server Web page	Same as for Acronis Management Server Service
Services for Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Storage Node
Acronis Storage Node Service (Main service)	Managing and deduplicating backup archives, maintaining the centralized data catalog	ASN User (new account) or user-specified account	Log on as a service	Backup Operators (for any account) Administrators (for new account only)	ASN BackupAndRecovery Encryption
Acronis Removable Storage Management Service (Auxiliary service)	Managing locally attached tape devices. Can also be used by the Managed Machine Service.	Local System	No additional privileges

Common services

The following services can be used by multiple components of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 and by other Acronis products. These services always run under a system account. No additional privileges are given to the account.


Service name	Purpose	Account used by the service
Services for Acronis PXE Server
Acronis PXE Server Service	Booting machines into Acronis bootable components over the network	Local System
Acronis File Server Service	Providing bootable components for Acronis PXE Server	Local System
Remote-access and scheduling services
Acronis Remote Agent Service	Providing connectivity among Acronis components	Local System (Windows Vista and later) or NetworkService (earlier than Windows Vista)
Acronis Scheduler2 Service	Providing scheduling for tasks performed by Acronis components	Local System

Dependencies on other services

The main services depend on Acronis Scheduler2 Service and on the following standard Windows services: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and Protected Storage. Acronis Managed Machine Service and Acronis Storage Node Service also depend on the Windows Management Instrumentation standard service.

To view the list of dependencies for a service, do the following:

In the Services snap-in, double-click the name of the service.
On the Dependencies tab, examine the This service depends… field.