Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 11 Server for Windows

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, or virtual machine
• Backup and recovery individual folders or network shares
• Recover individual files and folders from image backup
• Convert backups to virtual machines format

Broad storage support

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

Broad Platform Support

• Physical or VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, Red Hat or Parallels virtual machines
• BIOS and UEFI systems
• MBR and GPT disks, basic and dynamic

Increase reliability and secure archives

• Save backups in multiple destinations
• Save backup to Acronis Backup & Recovery Online cloud-based storage
• Secure backups with 256-bit AES encryption

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 server, optical devices and tapes, as well as the unique Acronis^® Secure Zone^® partition and cloud-based Acronis Online Storage.

Offsite 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.

Acronis^® Secure Zone^®

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

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 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

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 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 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 server and data will be recoverable.

Alerts

A customizable alerts notifies administrator 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 Server for Windows 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 Server 2008 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 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.

Virtual Machines

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Server for Windows can be run on a physical machine or supported virtual machine:

• VMware vSphere / ESX / ESXi and Workstation
• Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual PC
• Citrix XenServer
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) and KVM
• Parallels Workstation and Server 4 Bare Metal

File Systems

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Server for Windows 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.