Acronis Backup & Recovery Advanced Workstation

New Features

What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11?

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 includes a wide range of new features and improvements from usability studies as well as feedback from the field. Please note, not all new features are applicable to all editions.

Disaster Recovery and Data Protection in one unified solution

• Catalog and search capabilities give you granular access to specific data within a backup, so you get the benefits of bare-metal restore and backup in one product
• The unified platform dovetails seamlessly with Acronis’ granular application recovery modules such as for Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server

Reduce long-term storage costs with staging, and add redundancy with multi-destination

• Store multiple backups locally and remotely on disk and in the cloud
• Back up to the cloud directly (D2C) or indirectly (D2D2C1)
• Improved deduplication performance, capacity and scalability offers you even greater savings

More management options

• New alerts with email notifications provide you with a complete list of problems, such as task failures and warnings, such as low disk space
• Configure a backup plan on one machine, export it to an XML file and import it on other machines
• Vault permissions give better control over who can access what data in the vaults
• New command-line interface will be handy for companies looking for automation and integration.

Features

Included components

• Agent for Windows - backup and recovery of Windows desktops
• Bootable Media - CD, DVD or USB flash drive to boot machine from in a case of disaster and perform bare metal recovery
• Management Console - remotely manage Agents for Windows or Linux; and other components
• Management Server - single point of centralized management. Controls and monitors backup across all machines, manages storage nodes, generates alerts and reports
• Storage Node - managed backups and facilitates de-duplication
• PXE Server - allows booting machines from the network to bootable environment for remote restore
• Universal Restore (optional) - Restore or migrate machines to dissimilar hardware
• Deduplication (optional) - Reduce storage requirements and network traffic by backing up only unique blocks of data.

Fast restore of operating system, applications, files and data

• Fast and simple complete disk image backup and recovery
• Individual files and folders backup and recovery
• Allows for easy bare metal recovery to the same, different hardware
• Users can recover data or complete systems while on the road from Acronis Secure Zone
• Recover individual files and folders from image backup

Centralised management

• Use console to manage machines locally or remotely
• Includes Acronis Management Server for single point of centralised management
• Group machines into static on dynamic groups
• Automatically include multiple machines or group of them to backup task
• Monitor backup and recovery activities on all machines from a single place
• Build customisable reports

Unified solution

• Part of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 unified solution
• Used separately or in combination with other Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 products
• Manage with the same console and same instruments as other Acronis Backup & Recovery products

Storage management

• Automatically delete old backup
• Automatically stage backups to low cost storage like tape
• Apply optional deduplication to reduce storage requirements and network traffic
• Save backups in multiple locations to increase reliability

Broad storage support

• USB flash drives and HDDs
• Acronis Secure Zone - a special protected portion on a hard disk
• Local folders, SMB or FTP network shares
• Acronis Online Storage
• CD, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray disks
• ZIP, Rev and other removable media

Secure backups

• Secure backups with 256-bit AES encryption
• Protect Acronis Secure Zone with a password.

System Req.

Supported operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows 7
• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows XP SP2+
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4

Platforms:

• x86 (32 bit)
• x64 (64 bit)

Boot methods:

• BIOS
• UEFI

File systems:

• FAT16/32
• NTFS

Support

Acronis Advantage - Corporate Support Options

Acronis Advantage Standard

• 12x5 support, Monday through to Friday via chat, phone and email
• First response time for critical errors within one business day
• Unlimited support within subscription period (for current version plus one version back)
• Includes software updates and upgrades to new versions during the term of the subscription
• Includes general online training sessions.

Acronis Advantage Premier

• 24x7 support via chat, phone and email
• First response time for critical errors within one hour
• Unlimited support within subscription period (for current version plus one version back)
• Includes software updates and upgrades to new versions during the term of the subscription
• Includes general online training sessions, private sessions available.