User Manual

One Powerful
Solution for Every
Type of Need!
Disaster Recovery and Data Protection now in
one solution
Choose Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 standalone
editions to help you address your backup and disaster
recovery needs. By using Acronis’ easy-to-use, patented
disk imaging technology, servers and workstations can
be restored in minutes, not hours or days helping to keep
your business up and running. Protect your operating
system, applications and files from everyday occurrences
such as individual file loss all the way up to entire system
failure due to natural disaster, human error or theft.
Whether you need an affordable standalone solution
for local servers or workstations, or advanced
capabilities for centralized management, Acronis
Backup & Recovery 11 is the right choice. And we offer
you seamless support to guide you in your transition
from physical to virtual and into the cloud, without
adding complexity or heavy costs.
Enhanced! Application Support
You can opt for the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 for
Microsoft Exchange Server* and for SQL Server*special
editions to enhance your capabilities with Microsoft
Exchange Server or Microsoft SQL Server. In addition to
being able to search and restore email or files, you can
restore your entire Exchange database in case of loss
or corruption. When disaster strikes, you can perform a
bare-metal recovery of the whole Exchange Server to a
different type of hardware if required.
Cloud Support
What opportunities does the cloud have in store for
you? Acronis helps you take your first steps into the
cloud by helping you to back up your data to online
storage and as you build confidence, you can gradually
increase your usage of the cloud. Acronis offers
the same interface across all your heterogeneous
environments for simplicity and ease of use.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Online provides
you with an affordable and fully secure offsite
data center. For an easy start, you can use our
Initial Seeding service which allows a disk-based
shipment of your data to our datacenter where it
will be uploaded for future retrieval. In case of
disaster, you’ll retrieve your data and resume your
activities easily. For full scale recovery, opt for our
Large Scale Recovery service where your data will
be shipped back to you securely on a disk within an
SLA determined time frame.
Centralized and Remote Management
Choose Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 advanced
editions if you need to manage multiple servers,
workstations or virtual machines in either one or
various locations, or if you want to search for files,
folders or single database items such as emails or
mailbox. With a central management server, you can
simplify and control backup and recovery operations
for thousands of machines.
Enhanced! Virtualization Support
With Acronis, going virtual is a breeze. Place as
many virtual machines on a physical host as you
need and, through a single low-priced license,
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition
supports an unlimited number of migrations to
and from the host. You can place an agent into the
virtual machine and manage it exactly as you would
a physical machine. You can also use a single host-
based agent for VMware
®
vSphere
®
or Microsoft
Hyper-V
®
to manage all virtual machines on a host
at once to simplify administration and reduce your
overhead costs.
* Available in future releases