Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10; Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Overview; Getting Started - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Windows User Manual

1. Introducing Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10
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 Server for Windows 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
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Bare metal recovery to any hardware
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File and folder backup and recovery.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Windows 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
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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Easy work with virtual environments
Conversion of a backup to a fully configured VMware, Microsoft, Parallels, or Citrix virtual
machine
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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
Running services with minimal user rights.

1.2. Getting started

Direct management
1. Install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
Agent.
2. Start the console.
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