Release Notes for Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange build 176About Acronis Recovery for Microsoft ExchangeAcronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange offers a fast and reliable disaster recovery solution to protect your Microsoft Exchange data. Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange provides proven database backup technology that will drastically reduce disaster recovery time so you can be running again in minutes instead of hours and document level backup, which provides incredible flexibility that allows backing up only individual mailboxes / public folders, and using message filters to reduce an archive size and duration of a backup process. One-step Recovery and Automated Recovery to Point-of-Failure reduce downtime and assist your organization in improving your Recovery Time Objective (RTO). Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange is an excellent complement to the award-winning Acronis True Image suite of disaster recovery and system migration products that use patented disk-imaging technology. Together they deliver comprehensive server system backup and restore plus full Microsoft Exchange database protection — a winning disaster recovery plan combination. Please refer to Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange documentation for more information. User’s guide for users and administrators is available here: http://download.acronis.com/pdf/DatabaseBackupExchange_ug.en.pdf Key Benefits and FeaturesAcronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange is the fastest backup and restore purpose-built solution on the market. It provides granular restore from the database level allowing for recovery of information stores, individual storage groups, mailboxes or specific emails. You get the best of both worlds: a very fast solution with the flexibility to recover at a very detailed level. Combined with Near Continuous Data Protection (CDP), Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange can restore to the point just prior to failure. All this at a price/performance point that is attractive to enterprise and small/medium sized businesses alike. - Granular Restore. Recover a mail server, mailbox or single mail message from the database or brick level backup.
- Database and Brick Level Backup/Restore. Flexibility and speed based on need.
- Near Continuous Data Protection (NCDP). Continuously back up transactions to enable the complete restoration of Microsoft Exchange Server databases with minimum data loss.
- Active RestoreTM. Access mailbox while database is being restored.
- Dial-Tone Recovery. Restore email service quickly to basic dial tone capabilities.
- Guided Disaster Recovery. ARME automatically creates a step-by-step disaster recovery plan that will guide a user through a recovery.
- Centralized Management. Better control of backup and restore process from a single location.
- Easy Administration. Full database backup and restore with a single click using wizard-driven GUI.
- A Full Range of Recovery Options. Enable recovery of data from the last known archive, a particular point-in-time, or from the Exchange server’s point-of-failure.
- High Speed Performance. Multiple levels of compression to reduce backup time and save storage space.
- Password Protected Archives. Protects backed up database image for electronic transport.
- Flexible Storage Options. Choose where your archives are automatically copied, be it on a local hard drive, network share, FTP server, or other external device.
- Resource Management.
Manage system resource performance with CPU and bandwidth throttling.
System RequirementsAcronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange requires the following hardware:
- Pentium processor or higher
- Mouse or other pointing device (recommended).
- Exchange Server a minimum between 512 and 2048MB of RAM, depending on exchange version (for detailed requirements, please refer to the Exchange Server documentation).
Supported operating systems for Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Agent
- Windows®2000 SP 4 Rollup 1
- Windows® Server 2003 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, Small Business Server.
- Windows® Server 2008 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, Essential Business Server (Beta), Small Business Server (Beta).
Supported operating systems for Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Management Console
- Windows® 2000 SP 4
- Windows® XP SP 2, SP 3
- Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition
- Windows® Server 2003 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, Small Business Server.
- Windows Vista (all editions)
- Windows® Server 2008 Standard Edition, Essential Business Server, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, Small Business Server - beta version.
Supported Microsoft Exchange Server versions:
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 (6.0) SP4
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 (MAPI/CDO needs to be installed), x64 version only
Installation notes- Install Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Console on Administrator Computer.
- Install Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Agent on computer where Microsoft Exchange Server is installed.
- Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects (MAPI/CDO) need to be installed to support Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Use the following link to download the latest MAPI/CDO version: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E17E7F31-079A-43A9-BFF2-0A110307611E&displaylang=en
Known Issues and Limitations of the Version- Incremental backup does not support Backup Server location if Acronis Backup Server version is 8163 or lower.
Acronis Backup Server must be updated to the version 8163 or higher.
- Bare Metal Restore is not supported under Windows 2008 if Acronis True Image Echo version is 8163 or lower.
Acronis True Image Echo must be updated to the version 8163 or higher.
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