Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 11 Advanced Server SBS Edition

Optimized for Microsoft® Windows Small Business Server (SBS), Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Advanced Server SBS Edition helps small businesses recover from disasters and system failures in minutes, instead of hours or days.

Easy to use

Acronis really knows what small businesses need from a backup and disaster: easy to install, use and manage, no trainings, no long user guides – it just works and does what it was designed for. We made enterprise-class features easy and available even to SMBs.

Recover in minutes

Using Acronis’ patented imaging technology, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 creates a disk image backup that contains your full operating system, applications and data. Combined with an intuitive interface, this makes backup recovery of your entire system as simple as a few clicks, eliminating possible mistakes – even a novice can do this.

Recover even to dissimilar hardware

Sometimes it may be hard or impossible to keep or buy identical hardware to restore the image to in a case of disaster. Recover even to dissimilar hardware with Acronis® Universal Restore™ , an option already included in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server SBS Edition at no extra cost.

Improve reliability with off-site storage

Automatically replicate your backups to several locations for additional reliability. No offsite location? Get affordable and secure cloud-based storage with Acronis Backup & Recover Online.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server SBS Edition includes following components:

• Agent for Windows
  Backup and recovery of Windows servers.
• Bootable Media
  CD, DVD or USB flash drive to boot machine from in a case of disaster and perform bare metal recovery.
• Management Console
  Remotely manage Agents for Windows or Linux; and other components
• Management Server
  Single point of centralized management. Controls and monitors backup across all machines, manages storage nodes, generates alerts and reports.
• Storage Node
  Managed backups and facilitates de-duplication.
• PXE Server
  Allows booting machines from the network to bootable environment for remote restore.
• Universal Restore
  Restore machine, Windows or Linux, to dissimilar hardware.

Following components are available as add-ons:

• Deduplication
  Reduce storage requirements and network traffic by backing up only unique blocks of data
• Acronis Backup & Recovery Online
  Increase reliability by storing backups in cloud-based storage in addition to local.

For windows server

If your server is virtualized we recommend looking at Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition.

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- supported
- add-on required

	Server for Windows	Advanced Server	Online for Server
Image backup
File backup
Bare-metal restore
Backup to disk / network share
Backup to tape and tape libraries
Backup to Acronis Online Storage
Remote and centralized management
Backup Catalog and Search
Restore to Dissimilar Hardware or VM
Deduplication

Products Documentation

• Brochure (0.9  MB, PDF)
• FAQ (0.2  MB, PDF)
• Web Help 
• Quick Start Guide (0.5  MB, PDF)
• User Guide (4.3  MB, PDF)
• Installation Guide (0.9  MB, PDF)
• Upgrade Guide (0.5  MB, PDF)
• Command-Line Reference (1.4  MB, PDF)
• Active Directory Backup (0.1  MB, PDF)

Use Cases

• Data protection for workstation and laptop fleet 1.2  MB
• Data retention for compliance 1.2  MB
• Disaster recovery and data protection in a hybrid environment 1.0  MB
• Disaster recovery imaging for servers 1.1  MB
• E-mail recovery 0.9  MB
• Online remote office, branch office (robo) backup 1.4  MB
• Online data protection 0.8  MB
• Server consolidation 1.4  MB
• Storage optimisation using deduplication 1.3  MB
• Virtual server disaster recovery 4.3  MB

Case Studies

• Hudson News^® to Virtualize its Line-of-Business Applications Using Acronis^® Software
  Industry: consumer retail/wholesale
• NYK Logistics shifts to a higher gear with Acronis
  Industry: legal services
• Rush Memorial Hospital protects medical records with Acronis^® software
  Industry: medical/health services

Other resources

• Case Studies
• Customer Testimonials
• Awards & Reviews
• Knowledge Base
• Acronis forums

Useful tools

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Universal Restore

What happens when a system’s hardware fails or needs to be retired? How do you move the valuable applications and data to a new system or hardware after disaster strikes? How do you quickly restore a system after the hardware has changed?

Acronis solves this common issue with Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 11 Universal Restore^™, a fully integrated module that restores servers or workstations to different hardware or to a virtual machine, providing highly flexible disaster recovery and migration options.

The Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Universal Restore module prepares you for even the most unforeseen events without requiring administrators to purchase and maintain identical spare machines.

The process begins when Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 is used to create a transportable image that disassociates the data from the old machine’s underlying hardware. Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Universal Restore loads in the new hardware’s own drivers so that the image from the previous hardware platform will allow the machine to be flawlessly restored to a different hardware platform, complete with operating system, applications, data and all previous settings. Recovery can be implemented to an existing system, to a new system with different hardware, or to a virtual machine, in minutes, by following these steps:

• Boot your replacement system with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 bootable media you have created and select ‘Recovery’ in the menu.
• Select the image to restore.
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Universal Restore then initiates the restore process, detects the hardware and installs the appropriate drivers for Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL).
• The result is a perfectly functioning system on a new hardware platform.

Top Features

• Recover — Recover a failed system to different hardware or to virtual machines in minutes after unforeseen events.
• Migrate — Complete physical-virtual, virtual-physical, physical-physical, or virtual-virtual migrations for system recovery, testing, and other purposes.
• Fix – load new hardware drivers and replace HAL to make system bootable after replacing hardware such as motherboard or storage controller or moving HDD to another machine.
• Clone and deploy — Clone and deploy operating systems with complete hardware independence

Deduplication

The Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 11 Deduplication option offers you affordable block-level software deduplication capability for your workstations and servers, helping you maximize the use of your storage infrastructure while saving costs and increasing capacity.

With Acronis deduplication, cut data-storage requirements up to 90% by eliminating replicas of the same file or block on either the source or target. If data already exists on the storage node, then only a link is created to associate the data with the backup client.

Both file and disk backups can benefit from deduplication, including compatibility with bare-metal recovery and recovery to dissimilar hardware with Acronis^® Universal Restore™.

The Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Deduplication module is fully integrated with all versions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 and is enabled by the Storage Node.

Save costs and resources

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Deduplication brings storage-efficient backup and recovery to organizations of all sizes, helping you reduce costs in four ways:

• Priced per machine, rather than by storage capacity or number of CPUs
• Reduces the volume of disk storage needed for backups
• Increases the number of backups you can save within existing data storage
• Frees network data-transmission bandwidth and optimizes data-transfer speeds

Key benefits

• Lower overall cost of storage
  By eliminating redundant data backup, you can save on storage space and ultimately floor space and operation costs by managing fewer disks.
• Promotes a "greener" IT operations
  Deduplicated data is more environmentally efficient because it reduces the amount of electricity consumed and equipment needed to perform backups.
• Faster recoveries
  By storing more backups on a local disk, instead of slow tapes or other media, you benefit from faster recovery times as well as greater cost-saving potential.
• Simpler compliance
  Because government and corporate requirements generate massive amounts of data, deduplication reduces the cost of maintaining it and therefore helps you achieve compliance more efficiently.
• Rapid return on investment
  Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Deduplication pays for itself quickly while providing you with protection, availability and peace of mind.

Key features

• Fully integrated with Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 11
  Because the deduplication functionality with backup for servers and workstations is already integrated into the solution, a machine failure won’t force you or your administrator to carry out a time-consuming rebuild before regaining access to deduplicated data. Acronis integration gives you full recovery in minutes rather than hours or days. Compare that with offerings from other vendors whose deduplication products are incompatible with their disaster recovery solutions and can result in a system failure that makes deduplicated files inaccessible for hours, or even days.
• Multi-type backups
  Deduplication can be applied to both disk and file backups, including full, incremental or differential.
• Flexible costs
  Some companies price their deduplication products based on the amount of data that is deduplicated, making it difficult to gauge the total cost of ownership. Pricing for Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 11 Deduplication is per protected machine, offering a flexible cost adapted to both large and small organizations.
• Seamless hardware compatibility
  As a software-only solution, Acronis works with generally available storage hardware, so it bypasses the need for costly proprietary hardware.
• Easy to use
  Acronis deduplication functions are carefully designed to make operation simple. Activating them is as easy as ticking a checkbox in the vault configuration.
• Highly secure
  Stored deduplicated data needs special protection so it can’t be compromised. Acronis stores deduplication components separately, with special safeguards to prevent direct deletions of multi-instance data. You can also encrypt deduplicated data and limit vault access only to those with passwords.
• Source or target deduplication
  Choose where the deduplication process is done: at either the source machine or Storage Node.