| | Compare Product Specs | | Acronis True Image Echo Famly |
| | Product Cost | Enterprise Server | | Workstation | | Server for Windows | | Server for Linux |
| | Price for a copy | $999.00 | $79.99 | $699.00 | $699.00 |
| | Upgrade from previous version | $599.00 | $47.99 | $399.00 | $399.00 |
| |  AMPS
Signing the Acronis Maintenance and Priority Support (AMPS) contract, you can get extra services (including priority phone-based and email-based support) for free or with a considerable discount. | $199.80 | $16.00 | $139.80 | $139.80 |
| | System Protection | | | | |
| |  Disk imaging
Acronis True Image allows you to create an overall copy of your machine, including the operating system, applications, user settings and data. |  |  |  |  |
| |  Differential and incremental backups
Incremental backup is a file containing all changes made to your system since the previous backup; differential backup contains all changes made since the previous full backup. |  |  |  |  |
| |  File-based backups
Specify particular files you want to back up. |  |  |  |  |
| |  Exclude files from backups
Acronis True Image enables you to both, select certain files to be backed up and deselect those you do not need to have a copy of. |  |  |  |  |
| |  Compression
Compress your backups to optimise your storage policies. |  |  |  |  |
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Password Protection for Acronis Secure Zone® |  |  |  |  |
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Industry-standard 256-bit Archive Encryption
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Multi-volume snapshots
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Event-driven backup options
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VMware Consolidated Backup
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| | Recovery | | | | |
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Create bootable media using WinPE and BartPE
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| |  Bare-metal restore of servers
Be sure to restore your server from scratch in case of a hard disk failure: your operating system reinstallation, hardware reconfiguring and data recovery will proceed automatically. |  |  |  |  |
| |  Bare-metal restore of desktop PCs and laptops
Be sure to restore your Desktop PC or laptop from scratch in case of a hard disk failure: your operating system reinstallation, hardware reconfiguring and data recovery will proceed automatically. | |  | | |
| |  Acronis Universal Restore *Acronis Universal restore is a new add-on feature, providing for restoration to dissimilar hardware or to a virtual machine. |  |  |  | |
| |  Restore specific files/folders
You can specify which files and folders you'd like to restore in order to reduce the time of the recovery procedure. |  |  |  |  |
| |  Acronis Active Restore (boot from an image)
If it comes to recovery, you can resume your work in seconds while your system is still being restored from Acronis Secure Zone®. |  |  |  | |
| |  Recovery Manager (boot with F11 key)
You can run Acronis True Image directly from your boot drive even if Windows hasn't loaded yet. All you need to do is press the F11 key on boot-up. |  |  |  |  |
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Mount images in read/write mode
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Convert image files to VMDK or VHD for instant virtualization
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Dynamic Disks Support
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Automatic reboot after restore option
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| | Administration | | | | |
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Image consolidation
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| |  Scheduling
Schedule your backup operations so that they run automatically without interrupting your work. |  |  |  |  |
| |  Notifications (email, pop-up and SNMP)
Just for the sake of having a peace of mind, get notifications stating that your backup operation has been finished. |  |  |  | |
| |  Store events in Windows Event Log
You can have a complete account of all backup and restore operations in one location. |  |  |  | |
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Wake-On-LAN support
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Backup multiple increments throughout a single day
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Schedule periodic backup validation
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Clone existing schedule
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| | User Interface | | | | |
| |  Wizards
Acronis' wizards are extremely intuitive, making the implementation of backup tasks a real pleasure. |  |  |  |  |
| |  Command-line interface, supporting scripts
One of the latest enhancements of the True Image corporate line of products is a command-line interface, supporting scripts. |  |  |  |  |
| | Online Protection | | | | |
| |  Hot imaging / backups
You can image your system and create backups of specific files withuot interrupting your work, which ensures business continuity. |  |  |  |  |
| |  Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
Support
Back up your mission-critical applications, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, on a live server without taking them offline. |  | |  | |
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CPU/Network Bandwidth/Disk Write speed throttling
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| | Storage Media | | | | |
| |  Storage options: DAS, SAN, NAS, RAID, tapes,
network drives, FTP/SFTP, USB and IEEE-1394
(FireWire) storage devices, CDs, DVDs, and
removable drives
Acronis True Image can save backup files to a variety of locations. |  |  |  |  |
| |  Secure Zone ® (special partition)
Acronis Secure Zone® is a secure place to store your backups to; it is a hidden partition on your hard drive, accessed with Acronis wizards only. |  |  |  |  |
| |  Acronis Backup Server
You can optimize the usage of storage resources on your network by means of creating administrator and user profiles and specifying the size, number and the time period to keep backup archives. |  |  | | |
| | Supported Operating Systems and Processors | | | | |
| | 64-bit and 32-bit processors |  |  |  |  |
| | Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows
XP Professional, XP Professional x64 Edition,
2000 Professional |  |  |  | |
| | Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, 2003 Server
x64 Editions, 2000 Advanced Server and
2000 Server |  | |  | |
| | SuSE 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, RedHat 7.3,
8.0, 9.0, Advanced Server 2.1, 3.0, 4.0,
Enterprise Server 3.0, Fedora Core 1, 2, 3, 4,
Mandriva 8.0, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, Slackware 10,
Debian stable and unstable (sarge),
ASPLinux 9.2, 10, 11, Server II, VI, Virtuozzo 2.6.x,
Gentoo, UnitedLinux 1.0, Ubuntu 4.10,
TurboLinux 8.0, 10.0 |  | | |  |
| | Remote Administration | | | | |
| |  Central management console
Central management console has been created to facilitate managing backup tasks from one location. |  |  | | |
| |  Remote installation and configuration
You can remotely install clients and updates on your networked PCs as well as reconfigure user settings on them. |  |  | | |
| |  Group operations
Arrange it for backup and recovery tasks to be automatically applied to a bunch of computers on your network. |  |  | | |
| |  Remote restore
Perform the restoration of your networked PCs remotely. |  |  | | |
| |  PXE support
With the PXE feature, you don't have to create bootable media, being able to boot directly from PXE if it comes to recovery. |  |  | | |
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