Operation Manual

1 Introducing Acronis Backup

1.1 What's new in Update 6

Improvements added in build 43992

 Support for Windows 10 – Home, Pro, Education, and Enterprise editions.

Note At the time of this hotfix release, Windows 10 is not yet generally available. The tests were performed

with the Windows 10 Insider Preview version. Acronis will perform additional test cycles as soon as

Windows 10 is released.

 Agent for Windows can now back up NFS folders.

 Support for Linux kernel version 3.17, 3.18, 4.0, and 4.1.

 Support for Ubuntu 15.04, Fedora 22, Oracle Linux 7.1, Debian 8.0 and 8.1.

Cloud backup

 It is possible to specify a cloud subscription registration code during local installation of Acronis

Backup in Windows. The subscription is registered automatically if the machine is connected to

the Internet.

Acronis License Server does not accept cloud subscriptions.

 A registered subscription for Server or for PC is activated automatically when the first backup to

cloud starts, if all subscriptions available in your account are the same type and have the same

storage quota.

Deduplication

 3 GB of RAM per 1 TB of unique data are required, instead of 16 GB.

 Faster server-side deduplication.

 Faster compacting of the data store.

To apply the new deduplication algorithm to an old vault, you need to recreate the vault’s

deduplication database. For more information, see "How to migrate to Update 6 deduplication" (p.

237) in the product Help or the User Guide.

 New configuration parameters (p. 230) enable you to choose between the old and new indexing

algorithms and control the storage node memory allocation.

Centralized management

 A centralized vault can be created on an NFS share.

Backup to NFS can be performed by Agent for Linux, Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance), or

Linux-based bootable media.

Virtualization

 Acronis Backup Advanced for VMware supports vSphere 6.

 The memory size of Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) is set automatically, based on the host

memory, when the agent is deployed from the management server.

 Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V fully supports Generation 2 virtual machines.

 Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V can be installed in Windows 8, 8.1 (x64) with Hyper-V.

 Support for Citrix XenServer 6.5, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4, 3.5, and Oracle VM Server

3.3 (by installing an agent into a guest system).