Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 11 Server for Linux

Key Features

Fast Restore of Operating System, Applications, Files and Data

• Fast and simple complete disk image backup
• Allows for easy bare metal recovery to the same, different hardware, or virtual machine
• Backup and recovery individual folders or network shares
• Recover individual files and folders from image backup
• Convert backups to virtual machines format

Broad storage support

• Local folders, SMB or FTP network shares
• USB flash drives and HDDs
• Acronis^® Secure Zone^® - a special protected portion on a hard disk
• CD, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray disks
• ZIP^®, Rev^® and other removable media

Broad Platform Support

• Physical or VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, Red Hat or Parallels virtual machines
• BIOS and UEFI systems
• MBR and GPT disks
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

Increase reliability and secure archives

• Save backups in multiple destinations
• Secure backups with 256-bit AES encryption

Backup

• Image Backup

  The disk-level backup is based on saving and image of either the disk or volume as a whole, along with operating systems, applications and data.

• File Backup

  The file-level data protection is based on backing up the user's selection of files and folders. You can recover all files and folders that were backed up or select which of them to recover.

• Full or Fast Incremental or Differential Backups

  Save storage requirements, backup time and traffic by employing differential and incremental backups that store only data that changed.

• Broad Storage Support

  Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 supports a wide array of storage devices and location including local disk, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN), FTP server, optical devices and tapes, as well as the unique Acronis^® Secure Zone^®.

• Store backups in up to five destinations

  Store backups in multiple different locations — for example backup to a local disk and a copy to a network share.

• Acronis^® Secure Zone^®

  A special protected partition on a hard disk to store backups in.

• Advanced backup scheduling

  Specify timeframes, frequency and intervals for each type of data, and each type of machine. Fine tune parameters to support varying backup priorities, whether for fast-changing databases or for relatively static data stores.

• Backup Schemes

  Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 has a set of pre-defined industry-standard schemes like Grandfather-Father-Son or Tower-of-Hanoi. Custom schemes may be configured with advanced settings.

• Snapshot

  Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 takes a ‘snapshot’ of the disk using Acronis’ patented disk imaging technologies, eliminating the need to take a server offline for a backup.

• Sector-by-sector backup

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

• Excluding files during backup

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

• Compression and encryption

  Compress backups to optimize your storage space or encrypt them for additional level of security.

• Pre/post commands

  Define pre/post backup and data capture commands to integrate Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 with other applications or to temporarily stop some.

• Automatic or manual splitting of backups

  Split backups into multiple files to fit media.

• Network bandwidth and disk write speed throttling

  Limit impact on a disk or network by limiting the bandwidth that is allowed to be used by backup operation.

Recovery

• 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.

• Restore to dissimilar hardware

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

• Restore files from disk backup

  You can recover individual folders or files from disk image backup.

• P2V, V2P and V2V Migrations

  Backup physical machine – restore to virtual, backup virtual – restore to physical, or even restore virtual machines from one hypervisor to another. This flexibility opens a way to unlimited migrations across physical machines and various virtualization platforms.

• Disaster Recovery Plan

  Document that is automatically generated when each backup completes with detailed step-by-step instructions

• Mounting backups

  Disk image can be mounted as a disk in read-only or read/write mode.

Bare Metal

• Acronis Bootable Media

  Use Acronis Bootable Media Builder to build a bootable media to boot from in a case of disaster using CD, DVD or USB flash drive.

• Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

  If your system won’t boot properly, press F11 during the system startup to start Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.

Management

• Automated deletion of outdated backups

  Specify rules to automatically delete backups that are no longer needed.

• Staging to 2nd tier storage

  Automatically move backups to another location instead of deleting them. Up to five stages are supported.

• Manual or scheduled validation

  Enhanced archive validation confirms that your backups are complete and your server and data will be recoverable.

• Alerts

  A customizable alerts notifies administrator about critical issues and potential problems, such as tasks failures or low disk space.

• Tasks History

  For a backup plan see what was running in the past and with what result.

• Import and Export of Backup Plans

  Export backup plans from a file on one machine and import on another. The file is in XML format and can be customized manually. Import of backup plans can be automated by placing the file to a dedicated directory on a machine.

• Consolidating incremental or differential backups

  Consolidate incremental and differential backups to save space.

• Command line with scripting support

  Execute tasks and create backups from a command-line interface.

Installation

• Upgrade from Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

  Seamlessly install Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 over Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. All settings and configuration will be preserved.

• No reboot

  No reboot required to complete installation.

Security

• Encrypted backup images

  Encrypt your backups using industry-standard 256-bit AES algorithm to ensure data security.

• Password-protection for Acronis^® Secure Zone^®

  Protect your backups stored in Acronis Secure Zone from unauthorized access.

Systems

Supported operating systems:

• Linux with kernel 2.4.20 or later and glibc 2.3.2 or later
• Examples of distributions include:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x 5.x and 6.x
  • Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
  • Fedora 11, 12, 13, 14
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11
  • Debian 4 (Lenny) and 5 (Etch)
  • CentOS 5
  • Asianux

Platforms:

• x86 (32 bit)
• x64 (64 bit)

Boot methods:

• BIOS
• UEFI

Please review the article for a complete list of supported operating systems and environments.

Virtual Machines

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Server for Linux can be run on a physical machine or supported virtual machine:

• VMware vSphere / ESX / ESXi and Workstation
• Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual PC
• Citrix XenServer
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) and KVM
• Parallels Workstation and Server 4 Bare Metal

File Systems

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Linux can backup and recover the following file systems:

• FAT16/32
• NTFS
• Ext2/Ext3/Ext4
• ReiserFS3 - particular files cannot be recovered from volume backups
• XFS - volume recovery without the volume resize ability, particular files cannot be recovered from volume backups
• JFS - particular files cannot be recovered from volume backups

In addition to that Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 can back up and recover corrupted or non-supported file systems using the sector-by-sector approach.

Storage

• Hard disk drives
• Networked storage devices (SMB and FTP)
• CD / DVD / HD-DVD / Blu-Ray
• ZIP^®, Rev^® and other removable media
• P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, iSCSI, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and USB 1.1 / 2.0 /3.0 drives, PC card

Includes support for HDDs with 4K sector.