Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 builds on the success that Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 has established by bringing enterprise-class capabilities to the small business market at an affordable price in an easy-to-use package.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 continues the trend of expanding the backup and recovery capabilities in physical, virtual and cloud environments. The following is a summary of the product's new features and enhancements.
All editions
The new installer makes the installation procedure simple and clear.
The redesigned product's UI lets you perform any operation easier, faster and more intuitively.
Store a backup in multiple locations (possibly off-site) for redundancy. Move or copy backups to a cheaper or off-site storage automatically. Set a replication time window if you do not want copying or moving to occur during business hours.
Select data from a vault by browsing either the archives and backups (in the Archive view) or the backed up data (in the Data view).
A new alert system has been introduced for both local and centralized management. Select the alerts you want to observe. Set up e-mail notifications about various types of alerts.
Full support for UEFI-based systems and GPT disks. Recovery of BIOS-based systems to UEFI-based systems and vice versa.
When recovering disks or volumes, the software automatically eliminates volume misalignment – a situation that occurs when volume clusters are not aligned with disk sectors.
Solid State Drives (SSD) require a specific partition alignment for optimal performance. The required alignment is set automatically during recovery, but you can change it manually if required.
When recovering disks or volumes, the software automatically maps the selected disk/volumes to the target disks in the optimal manner.
The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) can use hardware-based providers for taking snapshots.
Using bootable media, you can apply Acronis Universal Restore to an operating system without performing the recovery.
LVM structure is saved in a backup and can be recovered.
Recover Linux systems to dissimilar hardware.
Export a backup plan to an .xml file and import it to a different machine.
Export a backup plan from one machine and deploy it as an .xml file to multiple machines.
The software can generate a disaster recovery plan and send it via e-mail right after a backup creation. The plan contains step-by-step instructions on how to recover.
Convert an incremental or differential backup to a full one.
Provides backup and recovery automation. Includes remote management.
The management console automatically checks for updates upon each start and provides notification once the newer version is available.
All advanced editions
The centralized data catalog lets you easily find the required version of data in the centralized managed vaults and select it for recovery.
You can select different data items within each machine included in a centralized backup plan. You can also select entire machines or groups of machines, use templates and environmental variables.
Improved deduplication performance: 2.5 to 5 times faster. File backups are now deduplicated at a block level, which dramatically speeds up their deduplication at target.
No dependency on Windows Removable Storage Manager. Manage tape media directly from the product’s UI. Enhanced support for tape libraries. The ability to utilize more than one tape drive for parallel backups.
Specify user accounts that will have user and administrator rights for centralized managed vaults.
The management server lets you install agents to a number of machines in parallel.
The management server handles licenses on its own. There is no need to install a separate license server.
When installing an agent, you can enter the license key instead of specifying the license server. As soon as the machine is registered on the management server, the key will be added to the list of licenses handled by the server.
A web server component is installed together with the management server. Use the management server web page to download and install Acronis components.
Virtual Edition
A Windows version of Agent for ESX(i) enables you to off-load backups from a ESX(i) host.
Back up and recover clustered virtual machines, including those located on Windows 2008 R2 Cluster Shared Volumes.
An agent can simultaneously back up as many as 10 virtual machines. The exact number is defined by the user.
Add a dedicated virtual disk to Agent for ESX(i) (Virtual Appliance) and do backups directly to this storage, omitting LAN.
Protect your virtual environment with as many agents as you want, from one agent for all hosts to one agent for each machine. The management server evenly distributes virtual machines among the agents; or, you can bind the agents with the machines manually.
Just include ESX(i) virtual machines in a backup plan. The agents will be deployed and configured in the background, if you allowed this when configuring integration with the vCenter Server.
Conversion of an incremental backup updates the standby machine instead of creating it from scratch.