Acronis Backup & Recovery^® 11.5 Advanced Platform

Benefits

A single unified solution for backup, data recovery and disaster recovery across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Recover Quickly  

Through Acronis’ patented disk-imaging technology, you can recover an entire Windows or Linux system within minutes.

Recover to Any Hardware  

Using Acronis Universal Restore, you can recover to the same or dissimilar hardware, or a virtual machine.

Recover Anything  

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform is built to support a diverse range of operating systems, platforms and applications.

Manage Centrally  

Utilize centralized management across all platform components and agents. Centralized management scales up to thousands of servers.

Improve Reliability with Cloud  

Store backups in cloud storage for extra layer of protection.

New Features

New Features

New in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, including granular recovery
• Backup staging to Acronis Cloud
• CBT support for VMware vSphere
• Remote installation on Linux servers
• Fast and simple P2V migration for RHEV servers
• File recovery from disk images stored on tapes

Backup

Image backup

Disk-level snapshot saves an image of either the disk or volume as a whole, along with the operating systems, applications and data. It is available for both physical and virtual machines, including agentless backup.

File backup

File-level backup allows you to backup selected files and folders.

Microsoft Exchange Information Store backup

Backup entire Microsoft Exchange Information Store or individual mailboxes.

Applications support with VSS

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 takes a snapshot of the disk using Acronis’ patented disk-imaging technology, eliminating the need to take a server offline for a backup. It also utilizes Windows Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) to notify applications and guarantee application-level consistency.

Full or fast incremental or differential backups

Reduce storage requirements, backup time and traffic by employing differential and incremental backups that store only the data that has changed.

Our fast incremental algorithm uses information from NTFS Master File Table (MFT) to calculate differences, thus removing the need to read entire disk content, significantly reducing backup time and resources consumption.

Store backups in up to five destinations

Store backups to multiple locations - back up to a local disk and store a copy on a network share or in the cloud.

Scheduled and event-based backup with conditions

With our advanced scheduler, your backups run automatically based on the time of day, day of the week, or month of the year. You can create backups triggered by various conditions, such as a user logging on or a computer shutting down. You can also configure backup operations to wait until specified conditions are met, like a pre-defined time interval or when a user logs off.

Backup schemes

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 has a set of pre-defined industry-standard schemes like Grandfather-Father-Son or Tower-of-Hanoi. Custom schemes may be configured with advanced settings.

Sector-by-sector backup

This feature stores exact copies of your disk or volume, sector-by-sector, including unused space.

Excluding files during backup

This feature saves you storage space and time by excluding non-essential files and folders from your backups.

Compression and encryption

Compress backups to optimize your storage space or encrypt them for additional level of security.

Wake-on-LAN support

If a machine is off when a backup is scheduled to start, the machine can be powered on automatically with Wake-on-LAN functionality.

Pre or post commands

Define pre or post backup and data-capture commands to integrate Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 with other applications or to temporarily stop some services.

Automatic or manual splitting of backups

Split backups into multiple files to fit media.

Network bandwidth and disk-write speed throttling

Limit impact on a disk or network by limiting the bandwidth that can be used by backup operation.

Disaster Recovery

Bare-metal restore

Restore your server from scratch in the event of a hard-disk failure – restore an exact copy of your computer on a new hard drive.

Restore Windows or Linux to dissimilar hardware

With optional Acronis Universal Restore, migrate or restore your entire system, Windows or Linux machines, to dissimilar hardware or to a virtual machine.

Acronis Bootable Media based on Linux Kernel or WinPE

Use Acronis Bootable Media Builder to build media to start machine from in a case of disaster using CD, DVD or USB flash drive. The media can be based on Linux Kernel on WinPE.

Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

If your system won’t boot properly, press F11 during the system startup to start Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5.

Custom drivers

Drivers for new hardware can be added to WinPE media at the time of creation or later.

Remote restore

Remote access allows you to easily restore your network-based machines.

PXE Server

Acronis PXE Server lets you boot machines from your network into the Acronis recovery environment (either based on Windows Kernel or WinPE) for bare-metal restore.

By booting from your network, you don’t need a technician onsite to install the bootable CD or DVD into the system.

Change SID

Automatically change Windows SID after restore.

Acronis Active Restore

Use the system while data is being recovered in the background.

Disaster Recovery Plan

This document is generated automatically after each backup and offers you detailed, step-by-step instructions to get you up-and-running quickly.

Data Recovery

Centralized backups catalog

The backups catalog shows data from backups across all managed vaults in a single view.

Search

Easily find a file or folder in a catalog by its name, size or created/changed date.

Restore files from disk backup

You can recover individual folders or files from disk-image backup, including those stored on tapes.

Browsing and mounting backups

Browse backups with Windows Explorer as if they were ordinary folders and drag-and-drop or copy-paste files and folders from them. Disk image can even be mounted as a drive letter in read-only or read/write mode.

Migration

Any-to-any migrations

Backup physical machines and restore to virtual, backup virtual and restore to physical, or restore virtual machines from one hypervisor to another. This flexibility enables unlimited migrations across physical machines and various virtualization platforms. Acronis Universal Restore ensures that Linux or Windows machines boot on a new hardware.

Converting image backups to virtual-machine formats

Convert backup images to virtual machines compatible with VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Red Hat or Parallels formats.

Acronis Instant Restore

Automatically recover the latest backup to a standby virtual machine ready to be powered on in the event of a disaster.

Centralized Management

Centralized management

Add physical or virtual machines to Acronis Management Server and centrally manage all operations from a single console on the network.

Unified management for physical and virtual machines

Centrally manage protection of your virtual machines, similar to the way you manage physical machines. This includes grouping and rules in centralized backup plans.

Data-centric management

View your resources in a Global Tree or browse backup vaults to find a version of disk image, virtual machine, file or email.

Centralized backup plans

Create a backup plan that spans across multiple machines, physical or virtual.

Grouping machines into static or dynamic groups

Put machines into nested groups, manually or by other criteria such as OS, IP range, or membership in an active directory.

Rules in backup plans

Define rules in the backup plans to automatically include machines or groups of machines in the backup.

Import and export of backup plans

Export backup plans from a file on one machine and import them into another. The file is in XML format and can be customized manually. Import of backup plans can be automated by placing the file to a dedicated folder on a machine.

License server

Keep all of your license keys in one place and always know how many remain, and what machines take what licenses.

Distributing backups within time interval

Avoid overloading networks by distributing backup activities within an allowed time window. Automatically shift task start times on each machine.

Command line with scripting support

Execute tasks and create backups from a command-line interface.

Reporting and Monitoring

Dashboard

On a single screen, see operational overview of all configured machines, backup plans, tasks and backups locations.

Alerts

Customizable alerts notify your administrator about critical issues and potential problems, such as task failures or low disk space.

Reports

Customizable and pre-defined reports give you details of different aspects of backup and recovery operations.

Tasks history

For a backup plan – either local or centralized – see what was running in the past and with what result.

Email notifications

Configure automatic email notifications on new alerts, or on task failures or successes.

Recoding events in Windows Event Log

Log events can be viewed locally from the console or configured to be duplicated to Windows Event Log.

Microsoft Exchange Server

Support for Exchange 2010, 2007, 2003

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 for Microsoft Exchange Server supports Microsoft Exchange Server versions 2010, 2007, 2003.

Database- and mailbox-level backup

Backup and restore entire Exchange Information Store, individual storage groups and databases, or a single mailbox.

Transparent Exchange Cluster support

When deployed on clustered Microsoft Exchange Server, the entire cluster is represented as a single entity in the user interface. Backup tasks are transparently deployed to the correct cluster members, and database stays protected no matter how many replicas it has, or if the database has been migrated.

Database Availability Group (DAG), Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) and Single Copy Cluster (SCC) implementations are supported.

Mailbox level recovery directly from database level backup

Emails and other mailbox content will be automatically indexed during the backup time and then will be searchable through Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 catalogue.

Mailboxes and emails can be recovered directly from database-level backup with no third-party tools or use of recovery database (RDB) required.

Express Full Backup

When using Storage Node as a destination for your backups (Acronis Storage Node is a storage management component included into Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform), you may use Express Full Backup for your databases protection. In this mode, the modifications in Exchange Server databases will be tracked between backups, and during the next Full backup only those changes will be copied from the production server and stored.

This method has efficiency of transaction log backup, but without the drawback of lengthy and unreliable recovery due to the need to replay long chain of the transaction logs.

Restore to disk and PST

Recover mailbox content for audit or litigation by using PST format as a destination. You can also export the entire Exchange database or storage group, including .edb and .log files to a disk folder, and then use Exchange tools for verification, repair and data extraction.

VMware vSphere

All platform features

All platform features, such as centralized management, monitoring, reporting and deduplication, work seamlessly with VMware vSphere virtual machines.

Agentless backup though vStorage API

Because Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 uses VMware vStorage API to backup and recover machines from ESX/ESX(i) hosts, you don’t need to have agents installed in all guest virtual machines, so you save management costs and resources.

Change Block Tracking

Support for VMware CBT makes incremental backup as fast as possible.

VMware vMotion and VMware HA compatibility

If you’re looking to migrate machines between ESX(i) hosts, or use a High Availability solution from VMware, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 fully supports these environments.

VMware vCenter integration

Acronis Management Server connects to VMware vCenter to display virtual machines the way you configured them to be displayed. You don’t need to add virtual machines manually or re-create groups you already have – Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 automatically reads it all from the vCenter.

Install agent on a Windows machine or use Virtual Appliance

Agent for VMware vSphere ESX(i) can be automatically installed directly on an ESX(i) host as a virtual appliance, or on a Windows machine to offload processing from the host. One agent can support multiple ESX(i) hosts, and more agents can be added if required.

LAN-free backup

Avoid backup traffic going through your Local Area Network. With hot-plug functionality, virtual appliance connects snapshots as its virtual disks and accesses the data though a native ESX/ESX(i) mechanism. Windows-based agent reads data directly from SAN storage, freeing resources on ESX(i) hosts.

Simultaneous backup

Even if managed by the same agent, backups of several virtual machines can run at the same time.

Unlimited migrations

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere license includes unlimited migrations to-and-from a host.

One license for an unlimited number of virtual machines

Backup and recover an unlimited number of virtual machines on a single ESX(i) host with one Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere license. You can install an Agent for Windows or Linux on every virtual machine or use Agent for ESX(i) for agentless backup.

Microsoft Hyper-V

All platform features

All platform features, such as centralized management, monitoring, reporting and deduplication, work seamlessly with Hyper-V virtual machines.

Agentless backup of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines

You don’t need multiple agents installed in guest virtual machines inorderto backup and recover all your virtual machines on a Hyper-V host. This saves you management costs and resources.

Hyper-V Cluster support

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 fully supports Hyper-V Clusters, including those built on Clustered Shared Volumes (CVS). Should unplanned failover or migration occur, your machine will continue to be properly backed up.

Simultaneous backup

Even if located on the same host, backups of several virtual machines can run at the same time.

Unlimited migrations

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Hyper-V license includes unlimited migrations to-and-from a host.

One license for an unlimited number of virtual machines

Backup and recover an unlimited number of virtual machines on a single Hyper-V server with one Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Hyper-V license. You can install an Agent for Windows or Linux on every virtual machine or use Agent for Hyper-V for agentless backup.

Hyper-V host backup

In addition to virtual machines, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Hyper-V license provides protection for the Hyper-V host itself with Agent for Windows, including bare-metal recovery and recovery to dissimilar hardware.

RHEV

All platform features

All platform features, such as centralized management, monitoring, reporting and deduplication, work seamlessly with RHEV virtual machines.

Integration with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager

Auto-discover and display Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization VMs through integration with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.

One license for an unlimited number of virtual machines

Backup and recover an unlimited number of virtual machines on a single RHEV host with one Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for RHEV license.

Three free migrations with trial license

A trial version of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for RHEV allows free migration of up to three servers to-or-from a RHEV host.

Unlimited migrations in purchased version

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for RHEV license includes unlimited migrations to-and-from a host.

Citrix XenServer

All platform features

All platform features, such as centralized management, monitoring, reporting and deduplication, work seamlessly with XenServer virtual machines.

One license for an unlimited number of virtual machines

Backup and recover an unlimited number of virtual machines on a single XenServer host with one Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Citrix XenServer.

Unlimited migrations

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Citrix XenServer license includes unlimited migrations to-and-from a host.

Parallels

All platform features

All platform features, such as centralized management, monitoring, reporting and deduplication, work seamlessly with Parallels virtual machines.

One license for an unlimited number of virtual machines

Backup and recover an unlimited number of virtual machines on a single Parallels host with one Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Parallels.

Unlimited migrations

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Parallels license includes unlimited migrations to-and-from a host.

Deployment and Upgrade

Upgrade from Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 or 11

Seamlessly install Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 over Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 or 11. All settings and configuration will be preserved.

Managing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 and 11 Agents

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Server and Storage Node are compatible with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 and 11 Agents, eliminating the need to upgrade all agents at once.

Remote installation and configuration

Remotely install agents and updates on your Windows or Linux machines.

No reboot

There’s no reboot required to complete installation.

Importing machines from text file or Active Directory

Import a list of machines form a text file or Active Directory straight to Acronis Management Sever.

Group policy support

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 agents may be deployed though Group Policy or other tools supporting MSI format. Included Group Policy Administrative Template may be used to centrally configure settings on a client machine.

Security

Encrypted backup images

Encrypt your backups using industry-standard 256-bit AES algorithm to ensure data security.

Encrypted network communications

Ensure data is safe during backups across the network. All remote communications are SSL-encrypted by default.

Password protection for Acronis Secure Zone

Password-protect your backups stored in Acronis Secure Zone to prevent unauthorized access.

User group to control remote access

Assign access to specific authorized groups, ensuring that only they can connect to machines remotely or execute centralized management.

Configurable ports

All port numbers used may be changed.

Storage

Unified Backup Format

Recover to any backup to any hardware, hypervisor or platform. All platform agents, such as agents for Windows, Linux, VMware and Hyper-V, use the unified format, which is fully compatible between agents.

Disk, tape and cloud support

Backups may be stored on a disk, network folder or FTP, CD/DVD/Blu-ray, tape or in the cloud with Acronis Backup & Recovery Online.

Deduplication

With Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Deduplication, eliminate redundancy by ensuring that only unique data is being transmitted and stored. File- and block-level deduplication reduces storage volumes by up to 90%, and can be performed either "at target" or "at source."

Automated deletion of outdated backups

Specify rules to automatically delete backups that are no longer needed.

Staging to 2nd-tier storage

Automatically move backups to another location instead of deleting them. Up to five stages are supported.

Manual or scheduled validation

Enhanced archive validation confirms that your backups are complete and your server and data will be recoverable.

Consolidating incremental or differential backups

Consolidate incremental and differential backups to save space.

Integrated Acronis Disk Director Light

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 includes integrated Acronis Disk Director Lite, Allowing you to perform disk management operations, such as cloning disks; converting disks; creating, formatting and deleting volumes; changing a disk partitioning style between MBR and GPT; or changing a disk label. This can be performed either in the operating system or using bootable media.

Acronis Secure Zone

A special protected partition on your hard disk is used to store backups.

Cloud

Backup to Acronis Cloud Storage

With an optional Acronis Backup & Recovery Online subscription, backups can be stored in a secured cloud datacenter.

Staging to cloud

You can automatically copy local backups to Acronis Cloud Storage to protect from disasters that may affect both data and local backups.

Large-scale recovery from Acronis Cloud Storage

To speed-up recovery of large amounts of data, you can order a hard disk to be mailed to you from our data center.

Initial Seeding to Acronis Cloud Storage

Mail a hard disk with your initial full backup to a datacenter and perform only incremental backups over the Internet.

Agents

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform includes a number of agents that can be used for backup and recovery of various types of data, applications and systems.

Physical servers:

• Windows
• Linux

Virtual servers:

• VMware vSphere
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
• Citrix XenServer
• Parallels Server Bare Metal

Applications:

• Microsoft Exchange Server
• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft SharePoint Server

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure:

• VMware View
• Citrix XenDesktop

Laptops and desktops:

• Windows workstations
• Backup for Mac

All agents integrate seamlessly with all other platform components for unified centralized management, and can be used separately, or in any combination, to adapt to your unique needs.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server for Windows

Best Backup for Windows Server

Agent for Windows is best for image- and file-based backup of Windows servers. It seamlessly integrates with other platform components for centralized management and reporting, cataloging with search, and disks, tape and cloud support.

Fast and easy image backup  

Disk image backup, or snapshot, of entire server with bare metal recovery support.

File backup  

Backup and recover individual files and folders, including files on network shares.

Bare-metal recovery  

The image backup can be easily recovered to a bare-metal machine in minutes.

Granular file recovery  

Search and recover individual files from disk image backup.

Excluding unused blocks and files  

Support for all major file systems, MBR and GPT, BIOS and UEFI  

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Agent for Windows is included with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server for Windows license.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server for Linux

Best Backup for Linux Server

Agent for Linux is best for image- and file-based backup of Linux servers. It seamlessly integrates with other platform components allowing for centralized management and reporting, cataloging with search, and disks and tape support.

Fast and easy image backup  

Disk image backup, or snapshot, of entire server with bare metal recovery support.

File backup  

Backup and recover individual files and folder, including files on network shares.

Bare-metal recovery  

The image backup can be easily recovered to a bare-metal machine in minutes.

Granular file recovery  

Search and recover individual files from disk image backup.

Excluding unused blocks and files  

Support for all major file systems, LVM, MBR and GPT, BIOS and UEFI  

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Agent for Linux is included with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server for Linux license.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere

Best Backup for VMware vSphere

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform gives you unprecedented flexibility when it comes to the protection of VMware vSphere virtual machines.

Backup of VMware virtual machines is seamlessly integrated with other platform components allowing centralized management, reporting, cataloging with search, and other platform features.

Agentless VM backup with Agent for ESX(i)  

Reliable and cost-effective agentless backup of VMware vSphere virtual machines.

Agent-based VM backup with Agent for Windows  

For special virtual machines, such as machines with RDM disks, Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux can be installed onto a virtual machine to backup it in the same way as a physical machine.

vCenter Integration  

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 reads a list of virtual machines from VMware vCenter and presents it to you exactly in the same view as you see in vCenter.

Scalability  

Get virtually unlimited scalability by adding new Agents for ESX(i) whenever you need them.

Migration with unified backup format  

Recover images taken from physical servers or other hypervisors to VMware and vice versa.Unlimited number of migrations to-and-from the host are included with a license.

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Agent for ESX(i) is included with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere license. The license is per ESX(i) host and allows backup and recovery of all virtual machines on the host - either agentless with Agent for ESX(i) or with guest-based Agent for Windows. The license also includes unlimited number of migrations to-and-from the host.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Hyper-V

Best Backup for Microsoft Hyper-V

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform allows fast, flexible and cost-effective backup and recovery of Hyper-V virtual machines and host.

Agentless VM backup with Agent for Hyper-V  

Backup and recovery are performed by host-based agent and do not require installing agents inside virtual machines.

Agent-based VM backup with Agent for Windows  

For special virtual machines, such as machines with Pass-through Disks, Agent for Windows can be installed onto a virtual machine to backup the same as a physical machine.

Hyper-V Host Backup  

Ensure that a physical Hyper-V host itself can be recovered in the case of a disaster by backing up the host with operating system and configuration by Agent for Windows. At no additional cost.

Centralized Management  

Multiple Agents for Hyper-V are managed centrally by Acronis Management Server – giving you a consolidated view and control over your entire infrastructure.

Migration with unified backup format  

Recover images taken from physical servers or other hypervisors to Hyper-V and vice versa.Unlimited number of migrations to and from the host is included with a license.

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Agent for Hyper-V is included with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Hyper-V license. The license is per Hyper-V host and allows backup and recovery of all virtual machines on the host - either agentless with Agent for Hyper-V or with guest-based Agent for Windows. The license also includes unlimited number of migrations to-and-from the host.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for RHEV

Best Backup for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Accelerate Your Journey to Red Hat^® Enterprise Virtualization

Organizations of all sizes are migrating physical servers and virtual machines (VMs) running on other hypervisors to Red Hat^® Enterprise Virtualization to reduce costs. Mission-critical software applications running Red Hat^® Enterprise Linux^® or a Microsoft^® Windows^® OS inside a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization VM need to be available around the clock. Compliance policies require that IT departments can recover data rapidly if loss occurs.

Already overburdened IT departments need a flexible solution that can deliver results quickly in this demanding environment. Certified P2V and V2V migration tools significantly reduce the time and expense of migrations. A solution including both disaster recovery and data protection capabilities is essential - sometimes recovering an entire virtual machine is the best approach, while other times only certain applications, documents, or files need to be recovered.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Multi-Hypervisor provides IT administrators with outstanding Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization certified migration, disaster recovery, and data protection tools. Acronis has already helped businesses move nearly one million servers between physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Key Features

Migration

• 3 P2V or V2V migrations of production workloads to Red Hat^® Enterprise Virtualization in trial version
• Unlimited P2V, V2V, and V2P migrations in purchased version

Hypervisor Support

• Single product supports Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, VMware vSphere^™, Microsoft^® Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal, KVM
  

Disaster Recovery and Data Protection

• Backup entire system including Red Hat^® Enterprise Linux^® or Microsoft^® Windows^®, applications, and data
• Recover an entire VM image or just selected files and folders using built-in catalog and search features

Centralized Management

• Auto-discover and display Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization VMs through integration with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 3
• Unified backup for physical and virtual machines

Remote Agent Deployment

• Remotely deploy Acronis software agents to enable Backup & Recovery of VMs running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, other Linux, and Windows operating systems

Backup Options

• Options for excluding files, compression, and backup verification ensure optimal use of storage and memory resources
• Deduplication available as an add-on

Secure Backups

• Government-grade 256-bit data encryption prevents unauthorized access and supports compliance requirements

Licensing

• Purchase one license per host machine for backup, recovery, and migration of unlimited number of virtual machines to that host

Storage Media

• Backup to a large variety of media including disk, removable devices, networked storage devices (SMB / FTP / NFS), tape and tape autoloaders

Additional Resources

January 18, 2012 Press Release:
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Enters Market with Backing of Strong ISV Ecosystem

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Citrix XenServer

Best Backup for Citrix XenServer

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform supports backup and recovery of Citrix XenServer virtual machines with Agent for Windows or Linux installed inside virtual machines. The agent is tested and certified to be fully compatible with Citrix XenServer.

We even have a special license! A host-based license of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Citrix XenServer allows:

• Backup and recovery of any number of virtual machines on Citrix XenServer host
• Unlimited migrations to-and-from the host at no additional cost
• Flexibility of any-to-any recovery with unified backup format and included Acronis Universal Restore
• Windows and Linux support

Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux used for backup of CitrixXen virtual machines is seamlessly integrated with other platform components allowing centralized management, reporting, cataloging with search, and other platform features, as well as broad storage support.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Parallels

Best Backup for Parallels Server Bare Metal

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform supports backup and recovery of virtual machines running on Parallels Server Bare Metal with Agent for Windows or Linux installed inside virtual machines. The agent is tested and certified to be fully compatible with Parallels.

We even have a special license! A host-based license of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for Parallels allows:

• Backup and recovery of any number of virtual machines on Parallels host
• Unlimited migrations to-and-from the host at no additional cost
• Flexibility of any-to-any recovery with unified backup format and included Acronis Universal Restore
• Windows and Linux support

Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux used for backup of Parallels virtual machines is seamlessly integrated with other platform components allowing centralized management, reporting, cataloging with search, and other platform features, as well as broad storage support.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 for Microsoft Exchange Server

Best Backup for Microsoft Exchange Server

Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server is the best product for standalone and clustered Microsoft Exchange Server deployments. It seamlessly integrates with other platform components for centralized management and reporting, cataloging with search, and disks and tape support.

Transparent Microsoft Exchange cluster support  

Support for Database Availability Group (DAG), Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) and Single Copy Cluster (SCC) implementations of Microsoft Exchange Clusters.

Mailbox recovery directly from database-level backup  

Search and recover mailboxes or individual emails from database-level backup

Flexibility  

Acronis can help you with a complex recovery scenario.

Express Full Backup  

Create backups faster and use less storage space.

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Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server is included with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 for Microsoft Exchange Server license.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server for Windows

Best Backup for Microsoft Active Directory

Agent for Windows Server provides transparent support for any VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) aware software, including Microsoft Active Directory. No need to deploy, manage and monitor multiple backup plans and solutions to have your operating system, files and Active Directory data protected. With Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5, just one backup does it all.

Microsoft Active Directory data backup "> 

Microsoft SQL Server data backup is integrated with disk backup.

Active directory store recovery  

Recover an Active Directory database.

Microsoft Active Directory backup and restore functionality is available with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server for Windows license.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server for Windows with Microsoft SQL Server

Best Solution for Microsoft SQL Server – now with single-pass backup

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 for Microsoft SQL Server is the best and the most innovative product on the market for Microsoft SQL Server deployments. The patent-pending Acronis single-pass technology combines two backups in one, eliminating the need for separate strategies for data protection and disaster recovery on Microsoft SQL Servers.

Stress-free multiple backups  

Fewer backups to manage and a minimal-touch approach translates to more reliable backup

Faster backup and less storage  

Complete your backup faster, using less storage for backup archives.

Confidence in your data recovery  

When something goes wrong, the last thing you want is multi-page instructions

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server for Windows

Best Backup for Microsoft SharePoint Server

Agent for Windows Server provides transparent support for Microsoft SQL Server where SharePoint keeps most of its data, as well as for any VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) aware software. One type of backup is sufficient for any server in your SharePoint farm – Web Front End server, database server, Application server or any other role in the farm.

Microsoft SQL Server data backup  

SharePoint content databases/Microsoft SQL Server data backup is integrated with disk backup.

Protect any role in SharePoint farm  

Protect any role in your SharePoint farm with one backup.

Server and database recovery  

Recover individual servers, roles or content databases.

Microsoft SharePoint Server backup and restore functionality is available with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server for Windows license.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Workstation

Best Backup for Laptops and Desktops

Data does not only exist on servers and in databases. Your employees use their laptop or desktop disk to store documents and other valuable information.

Also think about possible productivity loss caused by viruses or hardware failure, especially when your users are no a road.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Workstation provides disk-and file-based backup and disaster recovery for business desktops and laptops with centralized management capability.

With Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Workstation license you can:

Minimize downtime and improve productivity  

Agent for Windows takes a snapshot of the disk using Acronis’ patented disk-imaging technology.

Recover quickly  

Once required, the image containing operating system, applications and data, can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days. Or recover individual files or folders that have been accidently deleted or lost.

Allows user self-service  

Intuitive user interface and workflow allows users to restore files, folders and their entire systems without administrator assistance or extensive training.

Backup even while on the road  

Backup a laptop to a variety of storage devices and locations, including the Acronis Secure Zone, a special protected partition on a hard drive. Additionally, protect from theft or hardware failure by storing backups to Acronis Cloud Storage.

Recover or migrate to dissimilar hardware  

It may be hard to find similar hardware after a failure. With optional Acronis Universal Restore you can quickly recover or migrate entire systems, complete with all applications, data and settings, to dissimilar hardware, and be ready to continue operations in minutes.

Centralized Management  

Manage and monitor backup and recovery operation centrally from Acronis Management Server. You can also perform recovery remotely by connecting directly to a machine from a Management Console.

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Backup of laptops and desktops seamlessly integrates with other platform components, allowing features such as centralized management and reporting, cataloging with search, and disks, tape and cloud support. Advanced Platform allows for unified management of workstations backup together with other supported agents, such as Windows and Linux servers, applications or virtual machines – all from the same console.

Advanced Platform

How can a single backup solution be perfectly adapted to all types of hardware, operating systems and environments, including physical, virtual and cloud?

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform is a unified solution that supports backup and recovery at both the file and system levels for physical, virtual and cloud environments. It also supports various backup media, including disk, tape and cloud targets for off-site replication.

Centralized Management  

Flexibility  

Catalogue with Search  

Multi-destination, Staging and Retention  

Deduplication  

Management Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery^® 11.5 Management Server is the central server that drives backup and recovery within the enterprise network. A core component of the platform, it allows holistic management of backups, disaster recovery and data recovery across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

As an administrator, the Management Server provides you with:

• A single management point to the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 infrastructure
• An easy way to configure backup on numerous physical and virtual machines using centralized backup plans and grouping
• Advanced client machine management – physical or virtual – with status information and details
• Integration with VMware vCenter to discover virtual machines for protection
• Management of storage resources such as Storage Nodes
• Simple access to backup catalogue to find and retrieve precise data in your backups
• An intuitive dashboard, offering you a clear overview of your entire system
• Global alerts, monitoring and reporting

All platform components and agents can be registered on and managed by the Management Server.

• ESX(i) Host
• Virtual Machines
• Agent for ESX(i)
• Hyper-V Host
• Virtual Machines
• Agent for Hyper-V
• Acronis Management Server
• Management Console
• Acronis Storage Node
• Acronis Storage Node
• File Server Linux
• MS SQL Server Windows
• MS Exchange Server Windows

Management Console

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Console provides a unified interface for local and remote management of all platform components and agents. Install it on any Windows or Linux machine and use it to manage the software’s components, either locally or remotely.

By using the direct console-agent connection, you can set up and manage local backup plans, recover data, create and explore personal archive vaults, and performs other direct-management operations on Windows or Linux machines, ESX(i) or Hyper-V^™, or remotely on bootable media.

When you connect the console to the Management Server, you can perform centralized management tasks quickly and easily, including setting up and managing backup plans and accessing all functions and components.

Storage Node

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Storage Node is a platform component able to store and manage backups from other machines on your network. By offloading processing from your production machines, it optimizes various resources, such as storage and network bandwidth, and minimizes your managed machines’ CPU and disk load.

The Storage Node provides:

• A centralized shared managed location to store backups
• Backups catalogue
• Deduplication "at target" or "at source"
• Shared access, operating tape library and keeping track of tapes
• Reduced load on production machines by performing resource-intensive tasks such as backup cataloging, validation, cleanup, staging and encryption

All platform components and agents can be registered on and managed by the Management Server.

• ESX(i) Host
• Virtual Machines
• Agent for ESX(i)
• Machine
• Agent
• Acronis Storage Node
• Backups
• Backups
• Tape library
• Network Share
• NAS Device

With optional Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Deduplication a vault on a storage node can be configured as a deduplication vault. This means that identical data will be backed up to this vault only once, optimizing storage space and minimizing network usage during backups.

These storage nodes allow for a highly scalable and flexible storage infrastructure. Up to 50 storage nodes can be set up, each one able to manage up to 20 vaults. The administrator controls the storage nodes centrally via Management Server.

Bootable Media

Acronis Bootable Media is can be used to:

• Recover an operating system that won’t start up
• Access and backup the data that has survived in a corrupted system
• Backup a disk, sector-by-sector, that has an unsupported file system
• Create and manage basic or dynamic volumes with Acronis Disk Director Light
• Backup data that cannot be backed up on a live machine because of restricted access or application locks

Bootable Media can be based either on Linux Kernel or WinPE. Use Acronis Bootable Media Builder to create and customize the bootable media, including network configuration, password, custom drivers and other settings.

Agents

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform agents perform backup and recovery of systems, data or application databases.

* Including servers running as RHEV, Citrix or Parallels virtual machines

**Agent for Windows and Agent for Linux are also included with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition licenses for agent-based virtual machines and host backup.

Options

Cloud Storage

Acronis Backup & Recovery Online is a fast, secure and cost-efficient offsite data protection service from the leader in local and online disaster recovery.

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Universal Restore

Acronis Universal Restore is a fully integrated module that restores servers or workstations to different hardware or to a virtual machine.

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Deduplication

The deduplication option offers you affordable block-level software deduplication capability for your workstations and servers.

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Cloud Storage

Acronis Backup & Recovery Online subscription gives you a fast, secure and cost-efficient cloud-based backup and recovery service from the leader in local and cloud disaster recovery:

• Cost efficient - add off-site protection to your backup strategy without significant investment.
• Easy-to-start - оnce you have Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 installed, activate a trial or purchase a subscription for cloud storage and start getting double benefit from a single software.
• Military-grade security - data is hosted at highly secure datacenters and split across multiple servers - similar to RAID - with additional software protection. You can encrypt sensitive data using government grade 256-bit AES before uploading to the Internet.
• Perfect replacement of tape - no management overheads, much faster to restore and no risk of failure because of tape damage.

Universal Restore

• Recover — Recover a failed system to different hardware or to virtual machines in minutes after unforeseen events.
• Migrate — Complete physical-virtual, virtual-physical, physical-physical, or virtual-virtual migrations for system recovery, testing, and other purposes.
• Fix – load new hardware drivers and replace HAL to make system bootable after replacing hardware such as motherboard or storage controller or moving HDD to another machine.
• Clone and deploy — Clone and deploy operating systems with complete hardware independence

What happens when a system’s hardware fails or needs to be retired? How do you move the valuable applications and data to a new system or hardware after disaster strikes? How do you quickly restore a system after the hardware has changed?

Acronis solves this common issue with Acronis® Universal Restore™, a fully integrated module that restores servers or workstations to different hardware or to a virtual machine, providing highly flexible disaster recovery and migration options.

The Acronis Universal Restore module prepares you for even the most unforeseen events without requiring administrators to purchase and maintain identical spare machines.

The process begins when a platform agent is used to create a transportable image that disassociates the data from the old machine’s underlying hardware. Acronis Universal Restore loads in the new hardware’s own drivers so that the image from the previous hardware platform will allow the machine to be flawlessly restored to a different hardware platform, complete with operating system, applications, data and all previous settings. Recovery can be implemented to an existing system, to a new system with different hardware, or to a virtual machine, in minutes, by following these steps:

• Boot your replacement system with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 bootable media you have created and select ‘Recovery’ in the menu.
• Select the image to restore.
• Acronis Universal Restore then initiates the restore process, detects the hardware and installs the appropriate drivers for Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL).
• The result is a perfectly functioning system on a new hardware platform.

Deduplication

The Acronis Backup & Recovery^® 11.5 Deduplication option offers you affordable block-level software deduplication capability for your workstations and servers, helping you maximize the use of your storage infrastructure while saving costs and increasing capacity.

With Acronis deduplication, cut data-storage requirements up to 90% by eliminating replicas of the same file or block on either the source or target. If data already exists on the storage node, then only a link is created to associate the data with the backup client.

Both file and disk backups can benefit from deduplication, including compatibility with bare-metal recovery and recovery to dissimilar hardware with Acronis^® Universal Restore^™.

The Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Deduplication module is fully integrated with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform and is enabled by the Storage Node.

Save costs and resources

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Deduplication brings storage-efficient backup and recovery to organizations of all sizes, helping you reduce costs in four ways:

• Priced per machine, rather than by storage capacity or number of CPUs
• Reduces the volume of disk storage needed for backups
• Increases the number of backups you can save within existing data storage
• Frees network data-transmission bandwidth and optimizes data-transfer speeds

Key benefits

Lower overall cost of storage

By eliminating redundant data backup, you can save on storage space and ultimately floor space and operation costs by managing fewer disks.

Promotes a "greener" IT operations

Deduplicated data is more environmentally efficient because it reduces the amount of electricity consumed and equipment needed to perform backups.

Faster recoveries

By storing more backups on a local disk, instead of slow tapes or other media, you benefit from faster recovery times as well as greater cost-saving potential.

Simpler compliance

Because government and corporate requirements generate massive amounts of data, deduplication reduces the cost of maintaining it and therefore helps you achieve compliance more efficiently.

Rapid return on investment

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Deduplication pays for itself quickly while providing you with protection, availability and peace of mind.

Key features

Fully integrated with Acronis Backup & Recovery^® 11.5 Advanced Platform

Because the deduplication functionality with backup for servers and workstations is already integrated into the solution, a machine failure won’t force you or your administrator to carry out a time-consuming rebuild before regaining access to deduplicated data. The integration gives you full recovery in minutes rather than hours or days. Compare that with offerings from other vendors whose deduplication products are incompatible with their disaster recovery solutions and can result in a system failure that makes deduplicated files inaccessible for hours, or even days.

Multi-type backups

Deduplication can be applied to both disk and file backups, including full, incremental or differential.

Flexible costs

Some companies price their deduplication products based on the amount of data that is deduplicated, making it difficult to gauge the total cost of ownership. Pricing for Acronis Backup & Recovery^® 11.5 Deduplication is per protected machine, offering a flexible cost adapted to both large and small organizations.

Seamless hardware compatibility

As a software-only solution, Acronis works with generally available storage hardware, so it bypasses the need for costly proprietary hardware.

Easy to use

Acronis deduplication functions are carefully designed to make operation simple. Activating them is as easy as ticking a checkbox in the vault configuration.

Highly secure

Stored deduplicated data needs special protection so it can’t be compromised. Acronis stores deduplication components separately, with special safeguards to prevent direct deletions of multi-instance data. You can also encrypt deduplicated data and limit vault access only to those with passwords.

Source or target deduplication

Choose where the deduplication process is done: at either the source machine or Storage Node.