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Key features and technologies

Backup options

• Block Level Image Backup

  Create an overall backup copy of your machine, including operating system, applications, user settings and data.

• File Level Backup

  Back up only selected files and folders.

• Real-time Backup

  Back up your system or specific files without interrupting your work.

• Full Backup

  Do a complete backup of your machine.

• Incremental Backup

  Back up all changes to your system since the previous backup.

• Sector-by-sector Backup

  Stores exact copies of a disk or volume, sector-by-sector, including unused space.

• Exclude files during backup

  Save storage space and time by excluding non-essential files and folders from backups.

• Compression

  Compress backups to optimize your storage space.

• Multi-volume Snapshots

  Create a consistent snapshot of several volumes at once.

• Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support

  Back up your mission-critical VSS-aware applications, such as Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft SQL Server, on a live server without taking them offline.

• Network Bandwidth/Disk Write Speed Throttling

  Limit impact on a disk or network by limiting the bandwidth that is allowed to be used by Acronis Backup & Recovery Online.

• Initial Seeding

  Optional service that lets you save an initial full backup locally and then send it to Acronis on a hard disk drive

  Initial Seeding services are currently not available in Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Recovery options

• Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

  If your system won’t boot properly, press F11 during the system startup to start Acronis Backup & Recovery Online.

• 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

  Migrate or restore the whole system to dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine.

• Dynamic Disk Support

  Manage, backup and restore your LDM disks, backup and restore LVM disks

• Large Scale Recovery option

  In the event of a large server outage, customer may request for Acronis to load a server’s backups onto a hard drive and ship it to them

  Large Scale Recovery services are currently not available in Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Virtualization support

• Migrate between P2V and V2P during backup and restore

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

• Agent-less backup through VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)

  Back up a virtual machine from ESX Server by mounting it with VMware consolidated backup

Backup management

• Pre/post commands

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

• Conditions for backup

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

• Advanced backup scheduling

  Schedule your backup operations so that they run automatically without interrupting your work

• Automatic retry in case of non-fatal failure

  If a task fails, it will automatically retry in a configured time interval

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.

• 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.

• Centralized list of vaults

  Creates a centralized list of vaults that will be visible to all machines registered in Acronis Management Server

Reporting and monitoring

• Centralized dashboard

  Operational overview of all configured machines on a single screen.

• Consolidating 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.

• Consolidating incremental backups

  Consolidate incremental 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

• Local management console

  Intuitive user interface makes Acronis Backup & Recovery Online easy to install, quick to configure and deploy, and simple to use

• 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.

• 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.

• Configurable ports

  All port numbers used may be changed.

Storage

• Acronis Online Storage

  Remote, secure location to store files and system image backups

• Initial Seeding option

  Customer creates an encrypted local backup and then ships the hard drive to Acronis for recovery into Acronis Online Storage

  Please note that running a defragmentation after initial seeding backup will result in creating a full backup thus increasing backup time to online storage.

  Initial Seeding services are currently not available in Asia, Australia and New Zealand.