Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition Overview:
Developed for Microsoft® Small Business Server (SBS) environments, Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition helps small businesses recover from disasters and system failures in minutes, instead of hours or days. Based on Acronis' patented disk imaging and bare-metal restore technologies, Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition is the next generation of the Acronis True Image server backup disaster recovery product line for physical and virtual server environments.
Small businesses typically have limited IT resources and smaller staffs than large enterprises, but with Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition , they have full access to the same powerful server backup and recovery tools found in larger organizations. The user-friendly interface and simplified workflow make it easier to set up a highly professional server backup program and enable users to recover files, folders, and servers without technical assistance. This reduces the need to keep highly-trained staff onsite at all times.
The Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Universal Restore™ option is included with Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition . With this, administrators can quickly recover a server to dissimilar hardware or virtual machine to maximize recovery flexibility and minimizing business disruption.
With Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition , the benefits of disk-to-disk backup are enhanced by the cost-saving benefits of the Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Deduplication option. Save storage costs and network bandwidth by reducing the amount of redundant data being backed up.
Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition Top Benefits:
High level backup protection for mission-critical servers
Enhanced archive validation, data encryption and dual-destination backup provide a high level of protection and security for mission-critical data and information.
Minimizes downtime and helps administrators meet challenging recovery time objectives
Advanced recovery technologies help recover files, folders or entire systems in minutes.
Recover an entire system, single file or folder
Image-based recoveries capture everything you need to protect so you can be back in business in a hurry.
Automate recovery with a simple, guided process
An easy-to-use interface allows users to recover very quickly using an easy-to-follow recovery path.
Acronis® AdvantageSM support and maintenance program
The Acronis® AdvantageSM o program is an enhanced, multi-level subscription-based support and maintenance program. The first year of Acronis Advantage is included in the license price.
Free IT personnel from recovery-related tasks
AAcronis Backup & Recovery 10 makes it easy to carry out a recovery, freeing administrators for other work.
Intuitive management interface promotes greater efficiency
Acronis software can require less training to master than competing solutions and its ease-of-use is designed to enhance productivity.
Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition Key features and technologies:
1. Backup options
Compression
Compress backups to optimize your storage space.
Excluding files during backup
Save storage space and time by excluding non-essential files and folders from backups.
Dual destination backup
Store backups into two different locations ¡ª backup to a local disk and a copy to a network share.
Automatic or manual splitting of backups
Split backups into volumes to fit media.
2. Recovery options
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
If your system won¡¯t boot properly, press F11 during the system startup to start Acronis Backup & Recovery .
Bare-metal restore
Restore your server from scratch in the event of a hard disk failure ¡ª 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
With Acronis® Universal Restore™, migrate or restore the whole system to dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine.
3. Virtualization support
Converting image backups to virtual machine formats
Convert backup images to virtual machine formats compatible with VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Parallels environments.
Backup your SBS server including virtual machines
In addition to backing up your SBS server, Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition allows Agents to be installed on up to four virtual machines on the same host server.
4. Backup management
Templates for backup rotation schemes
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 has a set of pre-defined industry-standard schemes like Grandfather-Father-Son or Tower-of-Hanoi.
Pre/post commands
Define pre/post backup and data capture commands to integrate Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 with other applications or to temporarily stop some.
Event-based backup
Create backups triggered by various conditions ¡ª a user logs on, a computer shuts down, or others.
Conditions for backup
Configure backup operations to wait until specified conditions are met like a pre-defined time interval or a user logs off.
Customizable backup scheme
Configure specific events and conditions for each task.
5. Centralized management
Grouping machines into static or dynamic groups
Operational overview of the backup and restore processes on a single screen.
Policy-based management
Store Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 events in Windows Event Logs together with events from other applications. This allows for integration with system management tools like MOM.
Wake-on-LAN support
If a machine is off when a backup is scheduled to start, the machine can be powered on automatically with Wake-on-LAN functionality.
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.
6. Reporting and monitoring
Centralized dashboard
Operational overview of all configured machines on a single screen.
Shipping 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.
7. Backup administration
Automated deletion of outdated backups
Specify rules to automatically delete backups that are no longer needed.
Backup validation and consolidation by Acronis Storage Node
Validation and consolidation can be performed by Acronis Storage Node to offload these resource-intensive operations from the production machine.
Consolidating incremental or differential backups
Consolidate incremental and differential backups to save space.
8. 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.
9. User interface
Command line with scripting support
Execute tasks and create backups from a command-line interface.
Centralized management console
Centrally manage all operations from a single console on the network.
10. Security
User group to control remote access
Assign access to specific groups - ensure only authorized groups can access machines remotely.
Password-protection for Acronis® Secure Zone™
Protect your backups stored in Acronis® Secure Zone™ from unauthorized access.
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¡ª all remote communications are encrypted by default.
Backup encryption by Acronis Storage Node
In addition to client-side encryption, Acronis Storage Node can also centrally encrypt archives.
Configurable ports
All port numbers used may be changed.
Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition System Requirements:
1. Supported operating systems
Windows Small Business Server 2003 x32 and x64 Editions
Windows Small Business Server 2008 x32 and x64 Editions
2. Supported file systems
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can back up and recover the following file systems with the following limitations:
FAT16/32
NTFS
3. Supported storage
Hard disk drives
Networked storage devices
CD-R(W)
DVD-RW, DVD+R(W)
ZIP®, Rev® and other removable media
P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and USB 1.1 / 2.0 drives, PC card storage devices
Tape drives and tape autoloaders
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