Next-generation disaster recovery solution designed to back up Windows desktops and laptops Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Workstation

Built to protect the intellectual property in desktops and laptops in small enterprises, Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 10 Workstation provides optimized data protection and ease of operation. It creates an exact disk image of your office desktop and allows you to back up key data files and folders. Designed to simplify system restores, users can perform self-service recovery for files and folders in moments without administrator intervention. Even an entire Windows^® system can be restored in minutes using an Acronis one-click restore feature.

With neither extensive training nor highly skilled staff it delivers differentiated value to the organization, so you can easily:

• Minimize downtime and impact to user productivity.
• Minimize training requirement and administrator assistance with intuitive user interface.
• Migrate to new and dissimilar hardware.
• Allow mobile users backing up to practically any location, including FTP.
• Achieve reliable restoration with enhanced archive validation

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation simplifies and automates backup and restore processes across physical and virtual environments, minimizing downtime and increasing user productivity.

Solutions and Benefits

The simple-to-understand user interface, logical workflow, and advanced tools deliver real cost savings and value to the organization so you can easily:

• Fast & SmartReduce helpdesk calls
• SimpleSimplified system migrations to new and dissimilar hardware
• SecureAchieve reliable restoration with enhanced archive validation and data encryption
• EasyFree IT personnel from performing repetitive tasks

Key Features and Technologies

Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 10 Workstation comes complete with remote management as well as flexible scheduling and event-based triggering to cater to meet the needs of the most demanding user environment. With the Universal Restore option, all user data, applications, and settings can be restored to dissimilar hardware in a few simple steps. Support for every major virtualization platform is also included.

• Minimize downtime and improve user productivityWith Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, the contents of the hard drive contents including the operating system, applications and data can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days.
• Flexible backup storage for mobile usersBack up a laptop to a variety of storage devices and locations, including the Acronis^® Secure Zone^™, a partition on the laptop.
• Intuitive user interface and workflow minimizes training requirementsUsers can restore files, folders and even their workstation without administrator assistance or extensive training.
• Simplified system migration to new and dissimilar hardwareRestoring to dissimilar hardware can be easily accomplished with optional Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ Universal Restore^™ software. Move an old system to a new one, complete with all applications, data and settings and be ready to continue operations in minutes.
• Event-based backupBackups can be set to occur based on preset events and conditions such as a new program installation or the addition of a large volume of new data to the system.
• Comprehensive recovery options OS, applications and all data can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days.
• Unique Acronis^® Secure Zone^™ and Startup Recovery Manager simplifies recoveriesRecover directly from a secure partition on the local hard drive on Startup without having to carry boot media.
• Advanced encryption technology ensures data securityProvides the extra data protection you need with supplied industry-standard algorithms or your own customized variants.
• Advanced backup scheduling with policy-based managementDevelop backup plans that work with a company’s daily routines and each employee’s work styles. The scheduled tasks will be launched systematically, keeping the critical data safely protected.
• Acronis^® Advantage^SM support and maintenance programThe Acronis^® AdvantageSM program is an enhanced, multi-level subscription-based support and maintenance program. The first year of Acronis Advantage is included in the license price.

• Recovery options
  • Acronis Startup Recovery ManagerIf your system won’t boot properly, press F11 during the system startup to start Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.
  • Bare-metal restoreRestore your server from scratch in the event of a hard disk failure — restore an exact copy of your computer on a new hard drive.
• Backup options
  • Compression Compress backups to optimize your storage space.
  • Excluding files during backup Save storage space and time by excluding non-essential files and folders from backups.
  • Dual destination backup Store backups into two different locations — backup to a local disk and a copy to a network share.
  • Splitting backups, automatically or manually Split backups into volumes to fit media.
• Backup administration
  • Automated deletion of outdated backups Specify rules to automatically delete backups that are no longer needed.
  • Consolidating incremental or differential backups Consolidate incremental and differential backups to save space.
• Virtualization support
  • Converting image backup to a virtual machineRecover a disk (volume) backup to a new virtual machine of any of the following types: VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation or Citrix XenServer virtual appliance.
• User interface
  • Command line with scripting support Execute tasks and create backups from a command-line interface.
  • Local management console The Acronis interface is intuitive, making Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 10 Workstation easy to install, quick to configure and deploy, and simple to use.
• Backup management
  • Pre/post commandsDefine pre/post backup and data capture commands to integrate Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 with other applications or to temporarily stop some.
  • Event-based backupCreate backups triggered by various conditions — a user logs on, a computer shuts down, or others.
  • Conditions for backupConfigure backup operations to wait until specified conditions are met like a pre-defined time interval or a user logs off.
  • Customizable backup schemeConfigure specific events and conditions for each task.
• Reporting and monitoring
  • Local dashboard Operational overview of the backup and restore processes on a single screen.
  • Recording events in Windows Event Log Store Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 events in Windows Event Logs together with events from other applications. This allows for integration with system management tools like MOM.
• Centralized management
  • 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.
  • Policy-based managementApply backup policies to a machine or a group of machines.
  • Wake-on-LAN supportIf 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 intervalAvoid overloading networks by distributing backup activities within an allowed time window. Automatically shift task start times on each machine.
• Security
  • Password-protection for Acronis^® Secure Zone™Protect your backups stored in Acronis^® Secure Zone™ from unauthorized access.
  • Encrypted backup imagesEncrypt your backups using industry-standard 256-bit AES algorithm to ensure data security.
• Deployment and upgrade options
  • No reboot required to complete installation.

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^™ 10 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 10 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 10 is used to create a transportable image that disassociates the data from the old machine’s underlying hardware. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 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 server, in minutes, by following these steps:

1. Boot your replacement system with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 bootable media you have created and select ‘Recovery’ in the menu.
2. Select the image to restore.
3. Acronis Universal Restore then initiates the restore process, detects the hardware and installs the appropriate drivers for Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL).
4. The result is a perfectly functioning system on a new hardware platform.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore requires Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 to be installed.

Top Features

• Recover — Recover a failed system to different hardware or a virtual server in minutes after unforeseen events.
• Clone and deploy — Clone and deploy operating systems with complete hardware independence
• Migrate — Complete physical-virtual, virtual-physical, physical-physical, or virtual-virtual migrations for system recovery, testing, and other purposes.

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