Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10; Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Overview - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER SBS EDITION - UPDATE 3 User Manual

1 Introducing Acronis
1.1 Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview
Based on Acronis' patented disk imaging and bare metal restore technologies, Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10 succeeds Acronis True Image Echo as the next generation disaster recovery solution.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition inherits the benefits of the Acronis
True Image Echo product family:
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Backup of an entire disk or volume, including the operating system, all applications, and data
 Bare metal recovery to any hardware
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File and folder backup and recovery
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Scalability from a single machine to an enterprise
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Centralized management for distributed workstations and servers
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Dedicated servers for storage resource optimization.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition offers new benefits that help
organizations meet challenging Recovery Time Objectives while reducing both capital expense and
software maintenance costs.
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Leveraging existing IT infrastructure
Data deduplication to reduce storage consumption and network bandwidth utilization
Flexible deduplication mechanism allowing deduplication of backup data both at the source
and at the storage
Improved support for robotic tape libraries
Backward compatibility and an easy upgrade from Acronis True Image Echo
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Highly automated data protection
All-round planning of data protection (backup, retention and validation of backups) within a
backup policy
Built-in Tower of Hanoi and Grandfather-Father-Son backup schemes with customizable
parameters
A variety of events and conditions can be chosen to trigger a backup
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Policy-based centralized management
Applying backup policies to groups of machines
Static and dynamic machine grouping
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Easy work with virtual environments
Conversion of a backup to a fully configured VMware, Microsoft, Parallels, or Citrix virtual
machine
 Redesigned GUI
Dashboard for quick operational decision making
Overview of all configured and running operations with color-coding for successful and failed
operations
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Enterprise level of security
Controlling user rights to perform operations and access backups
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