Overview

Based on Acronis patented disk imaging and bare metal restore technologies, Acronis  Backup & Recovery  10 Advanced Server is the next generation of the Acronis True Image disaster recovery family for physical and virtual environments. It simplifies and automates backup and restore processes across Windows and Linux environments, and remotely monitors and manages geographically distributed servers and workstations. With Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server , the operating system, applications and all data can be recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days.

Engineered for enterprises of all sizes, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server scales to thousands of machines. It provides organizations with advanced data backup and system recovery capabilities such as: data deduplication, enhanced security, operations dashboard, policy-based management, among others.

Organizations can leverage Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server s functional power and exceptional ease of use to simplify their backup and recovery processes while improving their ability to meet challenging Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs). In addition, Acronis offers several options that can be used to further enhance the functionality of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10:

• Acronis  Backup & Recovery  10 Deduplication option enhances the benefits of disk-to-disk server backup by reducing the amount of redundant data that is backed up, saving on storage costs and optimizing storage capacity.
• Additionally, with the Acronis  Backup & Recovery  10 Universal Restore  option, administrators can quickly automate the recovery process, even when recovering to dissimilar hardware or virtual machines.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server works with both physical and virtual machines using an agent-based approach. For additional ways to backup and restore virtual hosts, Acronis  Backup & Recovery  10 Advanced Server VirtualEdition offers a more comprehensive, agent-less and host based approach to server backup for both a host and multiple virtual machines.

Key features and technologies

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.

• Automatic or manual splitting of backups

  Split backups into volumes to fit media.

Recovery options

• Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

  If your system wont boot properly, press F11 during the system startup to start Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.

• 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.

• Remote restore

  Perform remote restores of your networked machines.

• Restore to dissimilar hardware-optional

  With Acronis Universal Restore, migrate or restore the whole system to dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine.

Virtualization support

• Converting image backups to virtual machine formats

  Convert backup images to virtual machine formats compatible with VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Parallels environments.

• Backup your server including virtual machines

  In addition to backing up your server, Acronis  Backup & Recovery  10 Advanced Server allows Agents to be installed on up to four virtual machines on the same host server.

• Manage virtual machines protection with policies

  Centrally managed protection of virtual machines, similar to the way you manage protection of physical machines, including grouping and policy-based.

Backup management

• Templates for backup rotation schemes

  Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 has a set of pre-defined industry-standard schemes like Grandfather-Father-Son or Tower-of-Hanoi.

• Pre/post commands

  Define pre/post backup and data capture commands to integrate Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 with other applications or to temporarily stop some.

• Event-based backup

  Create backups triggered by various conditions a user logs on, a computer shuts down, or others.

• Conditions for backup

  Configure backup operations to wait until specified conditions are met like a pre-defined time interval or a user logs off.

• Customizable backup scheme

  Configure specific events and conditions for each task.

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 management

  Apply backup policies to a machine or a group of machines.

• Wake-on-LAN support

  If 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 interval

  Avoid overloading networks by distributing backup activities within an allowed time window. Automatically shift task start times on each machine.

Reporting and monitoring

• Centralized dashboard

  Operational overview of all configured machines on a single screen.

• Shipping log events into centralized log

  See events from all managed machines in the Acronis Management Server log, even if the event is from a machine that is not available.

Backup administration

• Automated deletion of outdated backups

  Specify rules to automatically delete backups that are no longer needed.

• Backup validation and consolidation by Acronis Storage Node

  Validation and consolidation can be performed by Acronis Storage Node to offload these resource-intensive operations from the production machine.

• Consolidating incremental or differential backups

  Consolidate incremental and differential backups to save space.

Deployment and upgrade options

• Remote installation and configuration

  Remotely install clients and updates on your networked machines.

• No reboot

  No reboot required to complete installation.

User interface

• Command line with scripting support

  Execute tasks and create backups from a command-line interface.

• Centralized management console

  Centrally manage all operations from a single console on the network.

Security

• User group to control remote access

  Assign access to specific groups ensure only authorized groups can access machines remotely.

• Password-protection for Acronis Secure Zone

  Protect your backups stored in Acronis Secure Zone from unauthorized access.

• User group to allow centralized management

  Set a security group that is allowed access to the Acronis Management Server.

• Encrypted network communications

  Ensure data is safe during backups across the network all remote communications are encrypted by default.

• Backup encryption by Acronis Storage Node

  In addition to client-side encryption, Acronis Storage Node can also centrally encrypt archives.

• Configurable ports

  All port numbers used may be changed.