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1.2.1.1 Universal Restore

The Universal Restore add-on enables you to use the restore to dissimilar hardware functionality on

the machine where the agent is installed and create bootable media with this functionality. Universal

Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for the operating system start-up, such as

storage controllers, motherboard or chipset.

1.2.2 Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server enables you to back up and

recover Microsoft Exchange databases or individual mailboxes. The agent uses Microsoft VSS to

ensure the consistency of the backed up databases. Recovery of the smaller data items (e-mails,

calendar events or notes) is available from both database and mailbox backups.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server is referred to as Agent for

Exchange later in this document.

1.2.3 Agent for Microsoft SQL Server (single-pass)

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Microsoft SQL Server (single-pass) enables you to create

single-pass disk and application backups and to recover Microsoft SQL databases from them. The

databases can be recovered directly to a running SQL Server instance or extracted to a folder on a file

system.

The agent uses Microsoft VSS to ensure the consistency of the backed-up databases. After a

successful backup, the agent can truncate the SQL Server transaction log.

The agent is installed as an add-on to Agent for Windows (p. 4).

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Microsoft SQL Server (single-pass) is also referred to as

Agent for SQL (single-pass) in this document.

1.2.4 Management Console

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Console is an administrative tool for local access to

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 agent. Remote connection to the agent is not possible.

1.2.5 Bootable Media Builder

Acronis Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media. The media builder

that installs on Windows can create bootable media based on either Windows Preinstallation

Environment, or Linux kernel.

The Universal Restore (p. 5) add-on enables you to create bootable media with the restore to

dissimilar hardware functionality. Universal Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for

Windows start-up, such as storage controllers, motherboard or chipset.

1.3 Supported operating systems

Important: See "Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012" for details and limitations of this

support.