• Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 10 Family
• Overview
• Product Components
• Add-ons
• Deduplication
• Universal Restore
• Features
• System Requirements

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Key features and technologies

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 — 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.

Recovery options

• Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

  If your system won’t boot properly, press F11 during the system startup to start Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 .

• 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

  With Acronis® Universal Restore™, migrate or restore the whole system to dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

• 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.

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— 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.