Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 11 Workstation

Key Features

Fast Restore of Operating System, Applications, Files and Data

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

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

Backup

• Image Backup

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

• File Backup

  The file-level data protection is based on backing up the user's selection of files and folders. You can recover all files and folders that were backed up or select which of them to recover.

• Full or Fast Incremental or Differential Backups

  Save storage requirements, backup time and traffic by employing differential and incremental backups that store only data that changed. Out Fast Incremental algorithm uses information from NTFS Master File Table (MFT) to calculate difference thus removing the need to read entire disk content, significantly reducing backup time and resources consumption.

• Broad Storage Support

  Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 supports a wide array of storage devices and location including local disk, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN), FTP, optical devices and tapes, as well as the unique Acronis® Secure Zone® and cloud-based Acronis Online Storage.

• Acronis^® Secure Zone^®

  A special protected partition on a hard disk to store backups in.

• Backup to cloud

  Store backups in the cloud with Acronis Backup & Recovery Online.

• Store backups in up to five destinations

  Store backups in multiple different locations — for example backup to a local disk and a copy to a network share.

• Advanced backup scheduling

  Specify timeframes, frequency and intervals for each type of data, and each type of machine. Fine tune parameters to support varying backup priorities, whether for fast-changing databases or for relatively static data stores. Or create backups triggered by various conditions — a user logs on, a computer shuts down, or others

• 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

  Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 takes a ‘snapshot’ of the disk using Acronis’ patented disk imaging technologies, eliminating the need to take a workstations or laptop offline for a backup.

• Sector-by-sector backup

  Stores exact copies of a disk or volume, sector-by-sector, including unused space.

• Excluding files during backup

  Save storage space and time by excluding non-essential files and folders from backups.

• Compression and encryption

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

• 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 is allowed to be used by backup operation.

Recovery

• Bare-metal restore

  Restore workstation or laptop from scratch in the event of a thief or hard disk failure — restore an exact copy of your computer on a new hard drive.

• Restore to dissimilar hardware

  With optional Acronis® Universal Restore™, migrate or restore the whole system to dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine.

• Restore files from disk backup

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

• P2V, V2P and V2V Migrations

  Backup physical machine – restore to virtual, backup virtual – 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.

• Acronis Instant Restore

  Automatically recover latest backup to a stand-by virtual machine ready to be powered on should a disaster happen.

• Disaster Recovery Plan

  Document that is automatically generated when each backup completes with detailed step-by-step instructions

• 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.

• Converting image backups to virtual machine formats

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

• Acronis Active Restore

  Use the system while data is being recovered in background.

• Change SID

  Automatically change Windows SID after restore.

Bare Metal

• Acronis Bootable Media based on Linux Kernel or WinPE

  Use Acronis Bootable Media Builder to build a bootable media to boot from in a case of disaster using CD, DVD or USB flash drive. The media can be based 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.

Management

• 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 machine and data will be recoverable.

• Alerts

  A customizable alerts notifies user about critical issues and potential problems, such as tasks failures or low disk space.

• Tasks History

  For a backup plan see what was running in the past and with what result.

• Import and Export of Backup Plans

  Export backup plans from a file on one machine and import on 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.

• E-mail notifications

  Configure automatic e-mail notifications on new alerts, or on tasks failure or success.

• Recoding events in Windows Event Log

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

• Consolidating incremental or differential backups

  Consolidate incremental and differential backups to save space.

• Command line with scripting support

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

• 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.

Installation

• Upgrade from Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

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

• No reboot

  No reboot required to complete installation.

• Group Policy Support

  Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Workstation 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.

• Password-protection for Acronis^® Secure Zone^®

  Protect your backups stored in Acronis Secure Zone from unauthorized access.

Systems

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

Please review the article for a complete list of supported operating systems and environments.

File Systems

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Workstation can backup and recover the following file systems:

• FAT16/32
• NTFS

In addition to that Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 can back up and recover corrupted or non-supported file systems using the sector-by-sector approach.

Storage

• Hard disk drives
• Networked storage devices (SMB and FTP)
• Acronis Online Storage
• CD / DVD / HD-DVD / Blu-Ray
• ZIP^®, Rev^® and other removable media
• P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, iSCSI, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and USB 1.1 / 2.0 /3.0 drives, PC card

Includes support for 4K sector HDDs.