Acronis Backup & Recovery^® 11.5

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 of 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
• CD, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray disks
• ZIP^®, Rev^® and other removable media
• Acronis Cloud Storage

Broad Platform Support

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

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, or snapshot, 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.

Applications support with VSS

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 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.

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 11.5 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 Acronis Cloud Storage.

Offsite backup to cloud

Store backups of Windows server or workstation in the cloud with Acronis Backup & Recovery Online.

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 share or in a cloud.

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 11.5 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

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 11.5 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.

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, to dissimilar hardware or to a virtual machine.

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 11.5.

Custom drivers

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

Change SID

Automatically change Windows SID after restore.

Acronis Active Restore

Use the system while data is being recovered in background.

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

Data Recovery

Search

Easily find a file or folder 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 drug-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.

Exchange

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 single mailbox

Mailbox level recovery directly from database level backup

Mailboxes and emails can be recovered directly from database level backup; no third party tools or using recovery database (RDB) is required.

Restore to disk and PST

Recovery to a live Microsoft Exchange server is not the only scenario possible. Extracting mailbox content for audit or litigation is as easy as recovery using "PST" format as a destination. Or, you can 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.

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 11.5 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 or 11

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

No reboot

No reboot required to complete installation.

Group Policy Support

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 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.

Overview

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Windows

Best Backup for Windows Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Windows is best for image- and file-based backup of a Windows server. It is designed for small business with limited or no IT personnel and where centralized management is not a requirement.

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.

Recovery to dissimilar hardware  

Acronis Universal Restore can help you restore your Windows server to dissimilar hardware.

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  

See complete list of features

Need centralized and unified management across physical, virtual and cloud environments, tape support or deduplication? No problem! Go with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform Agent for Windows now or upgrade later when you feel like you need it.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server SBS Edition

Best backup for Microsoft SBS Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server SBS Edition is a special edition created specifically for Microsoft SBS Server. It allows disk-and file-based backup and disaster recovery of your servers, with all data and applications.

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.

Recovery to dissimilar hardware  

Included at not additional cost, Acronis Universal Restore can help you restore your SBS server to dissimilar hardware.

Granular file recovery  

Search and recover individual files from disk image backup.

Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory and SharePoint support  

Support for Microsoft VSS-aware applications, including single-pass backup for Microsoft SQL Server.

Microsoft Exchange Server support  

Support for Microsoft Exchange Server backup and granular recovery.

Near-CDP protection for Exchange  

Near-continuous data protection for Microsoft Exchange Server.

Unified centralized management for server and workstations backup  

With additional Agents for Windows - centrally manage backup of you SBS server and your laptops and desktops from the same unified management interface.

See complete list of features

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Linux

Best Backup for Linux Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Linux is best for image- and file-based backup of Linux servers. It is designed for small business with limited or no IT personnel and where centralized management is not a requirement.

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.

Recovery to dissimilar hardware  

Acronis Universal Restore can help you restore your Linux server to dissimilar hardware.

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  

See complete list of features

Need centralized and unified management across physical, virtual and cloud environments, tape support or deduplication? No problem! Go with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform Agent for Linux now or upgrade later when you feel like you need it.

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 Microsoft Exchange Server deployments. It Backup and recovery of Microsoft Exchange databases and mailboxes has never been easier.

Database and Mailbox level backup  

Backup entire database or just an individual mailbox

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.

Support for Exchange 2010, 2007, 2003  

Support for Microsoft Exchange Server version 2010, 2007, 2003.

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

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Windows

Best Backup for Microsoft Active Directory

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Windows 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 Server for Windows product.

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

Best Solution for Microsoft SQL Server – 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 copies.

Confidence in your data recovery  

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

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Windows

Best Backup for Microsoft SharePoint Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Windows 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 Server for Windows product.

Desktop or Laptop

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Windows

Best Backup for Windows Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Windows is best for image- and file-based backup of a Windows server. It is designed for small business with limited or no IT personnel and where centralized management is not a requirement.

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.

Recovery to dissimilar hardware  

Acronis Universal Restore can help you restore your Windows server to dissimilar hardware.

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  

See complete list of features

Need centralized and unified management across physical, virtual and cloud environments, tape support or deduplication? No problem! Go with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform Agent for Windows now or upgrade later when you feel like you need it.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Linux

Best Backup for Linux Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Linux is best for image- and file-based backup of Linux servers. It is designed for small business with limited or no IT personnel and where centralized management is not a requirement.

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.

Recovery to dissimilar hardware  

Acronis Universal Restore can help you restore your Linux server to dissimilar hardware.

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  

See complete list of features

Need centralized and unified management across physical, virtual and cloud environments, tape support or deduplication? No problem! Go with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Platform Agent for Linux now or upgrade later when you feel like you need it.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Workstation

Best backup for laptop or desktop

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Workstation provides disk-and file-based backup and disaster recovery for your desktop or laptop. It is designed for small business with limited IT personnel and where centralized management is not a requirement.

Minimize downtime and improve productivity  

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Workstation 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 just individual file or folder accidently deleted or lost.

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  

With optional Acronis Universal Restore, you can quickly recover or migrate entire systems, complete with applications, data and settings, to dissimilar hardware, and be ready to continue operations in minutes.

See complete list of features

Need centralized management for multiple laptops or desktops or deduplication? No problem! Go with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Workstation now or upgrade later when you feel like you need it.

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.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server SBS Edition

Best backup for Microsoft SBS Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server SBS Edition is a special edition created specifically for Microsoft SBS Server. It allows disk-and file-based backup and disaster recovery of your servers, with all data and applications.

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.

Recovery to dissimilar hardware  

Included at not additional cost, Acronis Universal Restore can help you restore your SBS server to dissimilar hardware.

Granular file recovery  

Search and recover individual files from disk image backup.

Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory and SharePoint support  

Support for Microsoft VSS-aware applications, including single-pass backup for Microsoft SQL Server.

Microsoft Exchange Server support  

Support for Microsoft Exchange Server backup and granular recovery.

Near-CDP protection for Exchange  

Near-continuous data protection for Microsoft Exchange Server.

Unified centralized management for server and workstations backup  

With additional Agents for Windows - centrally manage backup of you SBS server and your laptops and desktops from the same unified management interface.

See complete list of features

Acronis Backup & Recovery Online

Easy-to use, affordable cloud storage for secure offsite protection of files and system images.

Acronis offers you both local and secure offsite backups in the cloud using the Acronis Backup & Recovery^® Online service and Acronis Backup & Recovery^® 11.5 software together with Acronis Backup & Recovery^® Online service. You get the best of both worlds and complete two-layer data protection.

Easy-to-Use Interface Provides Unified Management for local and online backups

• Manage all backup and recovery options for physical and virtual machines and local, network, and offsite storage all from one interface.
• Add an extra level of protection easily by using combination of local and online backup policies for PCs / workstations, servers and virtual machines.

Secure, Redundant, Reliable Datacenters

• Multiple Acronis datacenters are located in the U.S.A and Europe (France) equipped with UPS and backup generators.
• Physical security ensured via high fences, 24x7 security personnel, and video surveillance with 90day archiving.
• Backup data stored on multiple hardware servers (similar to RAID) with additional Reed–Solomon error correction.

Military-Grade Data Encryption

• Data transfers encrypted using SSL. Military-grade AES-256 encryption protect backups stored in our datacenters.
• Option to create a unique encryption key which ensures only you can access your backup data.

Upload your full backup quickly with Optional Initial Seeding Service

• In case of a slower internet connections or very large backup, create an encrypted local backup on an external disk drive and physically ship it to Acronis.
• Thereafter incremental backups consume less bandwidth and can easily be transmitted via your Internet connection within the backup window.

Large Scale Recovery Option Available for Even Faster Recovery

• Acronis will load your servers’ backups onto an external hard disk drive and physically ship it to you. This can be much faster than waiting to recover hundreds of gigabytes via your Internet connection.

Flexible Licensing

• Available in annual subscriptions of 250GB and 500GB for workstations, 1TB and 1.5 TB for servers, and 2TB, 3TB and 4TB for VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V hosts.
• Storage can be increased via a single click from your Online Storage Account.

Add-ons

Cloud Backup

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 Backup

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 online disaster recovery:

• Cost efficient - add off-site protection to your backup strategy without significant investment.
• Easy-to-start - оnce you have Acronis Backup & Recovery Online installed, activate a trial or purchase a subscription for cloud storage and start getting double benefit from a single software.
• Military-grade secure - 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.
• 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 these common issues 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 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.