Wish you had a single solution for
Disaster Recovery and Data Protection?

The Acronis^® Unified Platform^™

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

Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 is built on a unified platform that supports backup and recovery at both the file and system levels, as well as data protection for physical, virtual and cloud environments. It also supports various backup media, including disk, tape and cloud targets for off-site replication.

This fully integrated platform offers a suite of modules that protect business data and applications with unprecedented ease-of-use. The common code base allows the modules to work together seamlessly or operate standalone, depending on your particular needs.

One solution performs a single-pass backup all at once for all your files, folders, applications and operating systems. You benefit from intuitive, easy-to-implement technology that reduces your IT operating and maintenance costs.

* Available in future releases

Management Console

Performance and productivity at your fingertips!

Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Management Console provides a unified graphical administrative interface for local and remote management of all Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 components. 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 server-level functions and components.

Management Server

Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Management Server is the central server that drives backup and recovery within the enterprise network. It’s a core component of the Unified Platform as it allows holistic management of data protection and disaster recovery across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

The following components can be registered on and managed by the Management Server:

• Agent for Windows
• Agent for Linux
• Agent for ESX(i) – either virtual appliance or Windows-based
• Agent for Hyper-V
• Storage Node
• License Server

The Management Server itself is managed locally or remotely from the Management Console.

• 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

As an administrator, the Management Server provides you with:

• a single entry point to the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 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 catalog 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

If there are multiple Management Servers on your network, they operate independently, manage different machines and use different centralized vaults for storing backups.

Storage Node

Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Storage Node is a server 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, network bandwidth, or your managed machines’ CPU and disk load.

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

Want to free up space by trimming down on duplicate data? With optional Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 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, thus optimizing storage space and minimizing network usage during backups.

The Storage Node provides:

• a centralized shared managed location to store backups using node’s local disk, SAN, NAS, network share or tapes
• shared access, operating tape library and keeping track of tapes
• backups catalog
• a hash database to enable deduplication "at target" or "at source"
• reduced load on production machines by performing resource-intensive tasks such as backup cataloging, validation, cleanup, staging and encryption

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 Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Management Server.

Agent for Windows

Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Agent for Windows is required to enable disk-level and file-level backup and recovery on Windows servers or workstations.

Disk backup

Backup at the disk level consists of safeguarding all data in its entirety, including all the code necessary to reboot your system, run applications and keep all your files where they belong. With Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 for Windows, not only can you recover complete disks or volumes – you can also drill down into the data and retrieve individual files or folders.

File backup

Backing up at the file level is a fast and simple way to secure a selection of files and folders. In case of disaster, you can recover any or all of these files or folders.

The agents can be managed locally or remotely from the Management Console, or registered at Acronis Management Server for centralized management.

Agent for Linux

Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Agent for Linux is required to enable disk-level and file-level backup and recovery on Linux machines.

Disk backup

Backup at the disk level consists of safeguarding all data in its entirety, including all the code necessary to reboot your system, run applications and keep all your files where they belong. With Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 for Linux, not only can you recover complete disks or volumes – you can also drill down into the data and retrieve individual files or folders.

File backup

Backing up at the file level is a fast and simple way to secure a selection of files and folders. In case of disaster, you can recover any or all of these files or folders.

The agents can be managed locally or remotely from the Management Console, or registered at Acronis Management Server for centralized management.

Agent for ESX(i)

This agent is available with Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Virtual Edition license.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Agent for ESX(i) protects virtual machines residing on a VMware^® ESX or ESXi virtualization server. By using VMware vStorage API, the agent allows you to back up and recover virtual machines without having to install agents on each one.

Key benefits:

• Agent-less backup of virtual machines saves resources and management cost
• Simultaneously back up several virtual machines to optimize performance
• LAN-free backup with SAN direct access allows offloading backup traffic from production network and increasing backup speed
• Support for VMware^® vMotion and high availability

• ESX(i) Host
• Virtual Machines
• Agent for ESX(i)
• Windows Machine
• Agent for ESX(i)
• Storage
• Backups

Choose the agent that’s most adapted to your needs:

Virtual Appliance

The default virtual appliance can be automatically or manually imported or deployed directly to a VMware ESX(i) host. The virtual appliance is, in fact, a virtual machine running on a Windows Kernel and containing all Acronis components required to backup and recover virtual machines. This approach is recommended when you don’t need a dedicated physical machine for backup and recovery.

Windows agents for ESX(i)

This agent offers similar features as the virtual appliance including agent-less backup of ESX(i) virtual machines, but installs on a Windows machine. Use this agent if your environment requires a dedicated physical machine to offload backups from ESX(i) hosts, or if Linux cannot be used. The Windows agents for ESX(i) also features direct access to SAN to enable LAN-free backup.

Both virtual appliance and Windows agent for ESX(i) may be managed directly from a Management Console, or registered on Acronis Management Server for centralized management.

One appliance or agent can handle as many ESX(i) hosts as necessary, with ability to add additional appliances or agents when required. Acronis Management Server can automatically deploy appliances to new hosts, and automatically distribute tasks between appliances and agents for optimal performance and load balancing.

Agent for Hyper-V

This agent is available with Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Virtual Edition license.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Agent for Hyper-V protects virtual machines residing on a Microsoft^® Hyper-V™ virtualization server. The agent allows for backing up virtual machines from the host without having to install agents on each virtual machine.

Benefits include:

• Agent-less backup of virtual machines, saving resources and management cost
• Simultaneous backup of several virtual machines to optimize performance
• Support for Hyper-V clusters, including those with Clustered Shared Volumes

The agent be managed directly from a Management Console, or registered on Acronis Management Server for centralized management.

Bootable Media

In case of a disaster, you can easily perform a bare-metal recovery and boot your machine from an Acronis Bootable Media CD, DVD or USB flash drive.

Use Bootable Media to:

• recover an operating system that won’t start up
• access and back up the data that has survived in a corrupted system
• back up a disk, sector by sector, that has an unsupported file system
• create and manage basic or dynamic volumes with Acronis Disk Director Light
• back up offline any data that can’t be backed up online because of restricted access, being permanently locked by the running applications or for any other reason

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.

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

The media includes a Graphical User Interface to guide you though the recovery process and other operations. Additionally, administrators can use the Management Console to connect to the media and perform required operations remotely.

Also, if enabled, Acronis^® Universal Restore™ can help you restore the operating system, Windows or Linux, to dissimilar hardware.

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 on site to install the bootable CD or DVD into the system that has to be booted.

Universal Restore

New! Now for both Windows and Linux

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^® Backup & Recovery^™ 11 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 Backup & Recovery 11 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 Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 is used to create a transportable image that disassociates the data from the old machine’s underlying hardware. Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 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 bootable media you have created and select ‘Recovery’ in the menu.
• Select the image to restore.
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 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.

Top Features

• 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

Deduplication

The Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 11 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 Deduplication module is fully integrated with all versions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 and is enabled by the Storage Node.

Save costs and resources

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 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 Deduplication pays for itself quickly while providing you with protection, availability and peace of mind.

Key features

• Fully integrated with Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 11
  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. Acronis 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 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.

Key Features

Full system recovery

Best-of-breed disk imaging and bare-metal restore technologies allow you to recover your entire system quickly without having to reinstall the operating system and applications.

Integrated data protection

Integrated data protection gives you a data-centric view for granular access to specific data within backups. As a result, you get the benefits of data and system bare-metal recovery in one product with a single-pass backup.

Acronis offers you integrated support for applications such as Microsoft^® Exchange Server or Microsoft^® SQL Server^®. Thanks to deep catalog capabilities, easily browse, search and restore different versions of individual files or emails even from image backups – across all locations, whether local, remote or tape.

Virtual environment support

High-speed, simultaneous, agent-less image-based backups and recoveries for virtual machines are managed from the same console and with the same instruments as physical machines. One Virtual Edition license gives you backup and recovery of an unlimited number of virtual machines on a host, plus V2P and P2V migrations.

Backup and recovery to cloud storage

With Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ Online, ensure your business total protection from theft and natural disaster without a need to buy expensive hardware. It’s fully integrated, works together and is managed from the same console as Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.

One unified solution

All in one powerful solution you can benefit from image-based system recovery for physical and virtual environments, backup for files and applications, search and catalog, as well as disk, tape and cloud- storage options.

What’s more, Acronis solutions support workstations and servers, Windows® or Linux, physical and virtual machines running on VMware^® vSphere/ESX/ESXi, Microsoft^® Hyper-V™, Citrix^® XenServer^®, Red Hat^® Enterprise Virtualization as well as Parallels^® Server 4 Bare Metal.

Backup

Image backup

Disk-level backup is based on saving an image of either the disk or volume as a whole, along with the operating systems, applications and data.

File backup

File-level data protection is based on backing up your users' selection of files and folders. You can recover all files and folders that were backed up or select which of them to recover.

Disk, tape and cloud support

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

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

Gain even greater peace of mind by storing backups to multiple locations. For example, you can back up to a local disk and store a copy on a network server.

Acronis Secure Zone

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

Scheduled and event-based backup with conditions

With our advanced scheduler, your backups run automatically based on time of the 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 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.

Snapshot with VSS support

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 takes a snapshot of the disk using Acronis’ patented disk-imaging technologies, 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.

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.

Initial Seeding to Acronis online storage

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

Pre/post commands

Define pre/post backup and data-capture commands to integrate Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 with other applications or to temporarily stop some.

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.

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, to dissimilar hardware or to a virtual machine.

Restore files from disk backup

You can recover individual folders or files from disk-image backup.

Disaster Recovery Plan

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

Browsing and mounting backups

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

Remote restore

Restore data to your network-based machines easily thanks to intuitive remote access.

Acronis Active Restore

Use the system while data is being recovered in background.

Large-scale recovery from Acronis online storage

To speed up recovery of large amounts of data, instead of downloading all your data over the Web, you can order a hard disk to be mailed to you from our data center.

Change SID

Automatically change Windows SID after restore.

Recovery Environment

Acronis Bootable Media based on Linux Kernel or WinPE

Use Acronis Bootable Media Builder to build bootable media to boot 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.

Custom drivers

Drivers for new hardware can be added to WinPE media at creation time or later, right when booted from the media.

Acronis PXE Serer

Configure Acronis PXE Server to boot from over your network for bare-metal restore.

Virtualization

Broad platform support

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 supports VMware^® vSphere™/ESX/ESXi, Microsoft^® Hyper-V™, Citrix^® XenServer, Red Hat^® Enterprise Virtualization and Parallels^® Server 4 Bare Metal.

One license for an unlimited number of virtual machines

Back up and recover an unlimited number of virtual machines on a single physical host with one Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition license. You’re free to install an agent on every virtual machine or use agent-less backup for supported hypervisors.

Unified management for physical and virtual machines

Benefit from centrally managed protection of your virtual machines, similar to the way you manage physical machines, including grouping and rules in centralized backup plans.

Agentless backups of virtual machines

With the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition license, backup Hyper-V or VMware virtual machines without installing individual agents on every virtual machine, all managed from the centralized management console – just like physical machines.

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.

P2V, V2P and V2V migrations

Back up physical machines and restore to virtual, backup virtual and restore to physical, or even restore virtual machines from one hypervisor to another. This flexibility opens a way to unlimited migrations across physical machines and various virtualization platforms.

VMware

These features are available with Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Virtual Edition license.

Agent-less backup though vStorage API

Because Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 uses VMware^® vStorage API to backup and recover machines from ESX/ESXi hosts, you don’t need to have agents installed in all guest virtual machines, so you save management costs and resources.

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 fully supports such 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 automatically reads it all from the vCenter.

Install agent on a Windows machine or use Virtual Appliance

Agent for VMware vSphere / ESX / ESXi 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 is enough for 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/ESXi 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, one VMware virtual machine doesn’t need to wait until backup of another one completes.

Microsoft Hyper-V

These features are available with Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Virtual Edition license.

Agent-less backup of Microsoft^® Hyper-V™ virtual machines

To back up and recover all your virtual machines on a Hyper-V host, you don’t need to have multiple agents installed in guest virtual machines, so you save management costs and resources.

Hyper-V Clusters support

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 fully supports Hyper-V Clusters, including those built on Clustered Shared Volumes (CVS). Should unplanned failover or migration happen, your machine will continue to be backed up the same way as before.

Simultaneous backup

Even if located on the same host, one Hyper-V virtual machine doesn’t need to wait until backup of another one completes.

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.

Global tree

Because you can see all your resources – such as physical or virtual machines, files or folders – in the same view, you’re able to easily select some or all for backup.

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

Lost in your license keys? Keep them all in a single place and always know how much remains and what machines take what licenses.

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.

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.

Storage Management

Data-centric management

Data comes first. Browse backup vaults to find a version of disk image or file you need.

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.

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.

Deduplication

With Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 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."

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 includes integrated Acronis Disk Director™ Lite, a handy disk-management utility. 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, can be performed either in the operating system or using bootable media.

Deployment and Upgrade

Upgrade from Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

Seamlessly install Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 over Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. All settings and configuration will be preserved.

Managing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agents

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Management Server and Storage Node are compatible with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agents, so there’s no need to upgrade all agents at once.

Remote installation and configuration

Remotely install agents and updates on your networked 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 agents may be deployed though Group Policy or other tool supporting MSI format. Included Group Policy Administrative Template may be used to centrally configure settings on a client machines.

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^®

Protect your backups stored in Acronis Secure Zone from 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.

Overview

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	Individual machines			Centralized and remote management				Cloud storage
Options and features	Workstation	Server for Windows	Server for Linux	Advanced Workstation	Advanced Server	Advanced Server SBS Edition	Virtual Edition	Online for Workstation	Online for Server	Online for Virtual Machines
Image backup
File backup							*
Bare-metal restore
Restore to dissimilar hardware or VM
Guided disaster recovery plan
Backup to disk / network share
Backup to tape
Backup to Acronis Online Storage
Remote and centralized management
Backup catalog and search
Data deduplication
Agent-less VM backup and recovery
Unlimited VMs per host
Supported Operating Systems
Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2000Pro
Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2
Windows Server 2003 / 2003 R2
Windows 2000 Server
Windows Small Business Server 2011
Windows Small Business Server 2008
Windows Small Business Server 2003 / 2003 R2
Linux

* Requires agent to be installed in a VM

For windows server

If your server is virtualized we recommend looking at Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition.

Legend:
- supported
- add-on required

	Server for Windows	Advanced Server	Online for Server
Image backup
File backup
Bare-metal restore
Backup to disk / network share
Backup to tape and tape libraries
Backup to Acronis Online Storage
Remote and centralized management
Backup Catalog and Search
Restore to Dissimilar Hardware or VM
Deduplication

For windows workstation

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- supported
- add-on required

	Workstation	Advanced Workstation	Online for Workstation
Image backup
File backup
Bare-metal restore
Backup to disk / network share
Backup to tape and tape libraries
Backup to Acronis Online Storage
Remote and centralized management
Backup Catalog and Search
Restore to Dissimilar Hardware or VM
Deduplication

For virtual environments

Legend:
- supported
- add-on required

	Advanced Server (for comparison)	Virtual Edition	Online for Virtual Machines
Backup to disk / network share
Backup to tape and tape libraries
Backup to Acronis Online Storage
Remote and centralized management
Backup Catalog and Search
Restore to Dissimilar Hardware or VM
Deduplication
VMs per host included in one license	4	Unlimited	Unlimited
Backup and recover virtual machines with Agent for Windows or Linux
Agentless backup for VMware
Agentless backup for Hyper-V
Unlimited P2V, V2P and V2V migrations

Unified Solution

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 consists of products for various systems, all integrated, working in unified fashion and managed from the same console:

Legend:
- supported
- add-on required

Solution for	Advanced Workstation	Advanced Server	Advanced Server SBS Edition	Virtual Edition
Workstations
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Windows 2000 Professional
Servers
Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2
Windows Server 2003 R2 / 2003 R2
Windows 2000 Server
Linux Server
Small business servers
Windows Small Business Server 2011
Windows Small Business Server 2008
Windows Small Business Server 2003/2003R2
Virtual machines
VMware vSphere / ESX / ESXi / vCloud
Microsoft Hyper-V
Citrix XenServer
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / KVM
Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal

Components

Legend:
- supported
- add-on required

	Individual machines			Centralized and remote management				Online
	Workstation	Server for Windows	Server for Linux	Advanced Workstation	Advanced Server	Advanced Server SBS Edition	Virtual Edition	for Workstation	for Server	for Virtual Machines
Bootable Media
Agent for Windows *
Agent for Linux *
Agent for ESX(i)
Agent for Hyper-V
Management Console (remote)
Management Server
Storage Node
PXE Server

* Management console for local management is always included with Agent for Windows and Agent for Linux