Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server license allows backup and recovering of Windows or Linux server with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11. It provides disk-based backup, disaster recovery and data protection, with support for disk tape and cloud storage options, catalog with search and centralized management.
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Unified Solution
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server belongs to Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 unified solution for disaster recovery and data protection across physical virtual and cloud. It may be used either separately or in combination with other products: all managed from the same console, with the same backup plans, reports and storage.
- Agents for Windows and Linux
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server includes both Agent for Windows and Agent for Linux, which simplifies purchasing process by giving you flexibility of using either of two.
- Centralized management
- Components for centralized management such as Acronis Management Server and Acronis Storage Node are included with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server at no additional cost.
In addition, Acronis offers several options that can be used to further enhance the functionality of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server:
- Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Deduplication option enhances the benefits of disk-to-disk server backup by reducing the amount of redundant data that is backed up, saving on storage costs and optimizing storage capacity.
- Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Universal Restore™ option allows administrators to quickly automate the recovery process, even when recovering to dissimilar hardware or virtual machines.
- Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ Online integrates with the product to enable reliable off-site storage of the backups in the cloud. One console seamlessly manages all of your backups and recovery efforts regardless of the data's actual location.
Recover an entire system, single file or folder
Best of breed disk imaging and bare-metal restore technologies allow you to recover your entire system quickly without having to reinstall the operating system and the applications.
Do you need just one file? No problem – with catalog it can be quickly found and recovered wherever it is located.
Centralized management
Administrators can configure and manage backup and recovery, monitor alerts and generate reports remotely from a centralized console.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server is built on Acronis Unified Platform and can be used either separately or in combination with other Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 products. Result: one centrally managed solution for disaster recovery and data protection for server and workstations across physical virtual and cloud.
Integrated Data Protection
Integrated Data Protection provides file-level backup and a data-centric view for granular access to specific data within backups. As a result, you get the benefits of data and system bare-metal recovery in one product with a single-pass backup.
Broad Storage Support
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server supports a wide array of storage devices and location including local disk, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN), FTP and optical devices, as well as the unique Acronis® Secure Zone®.
You can also use tapes or tape libraries for long-term or offsite storage; and our Acronis Online Storage provides that extra level of redundancy at a price you can afford.
Multi-destination backup
Automatically replicate your backups to an off-site location to ensure you don’t lose your critical data if a disaster affects your entire site.
Automatic retention and deduplication
Free up space for new backups by automatically deleting oldest backups or moving them to another cheaper storage.
Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Deduplication option additionally trims storage requirements and network traffic by ensuring that only unique data is being backed up.
Universal Restore
Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Universal Restore™ is a fully integrated module that restores servers or workstations to different hardware or to a virtual machine.
Top Features
- Recover – Recover a failed system to different hardware or to virtual machines in minutes.
- Migrate – Complete physical-virtual, virtual-physical, physical-physical, or virtual-virtual migrations for system recovery, testing, and other purposes.
- Clone and deploy – Clone and deploy operating systems with complete hardware independence.
Online Backup
Acronis Backup & Recovery Online is a fast, secure and cost-efficient offsite data protection service from the leader in local and online disaster recovery.
Top Features
- Back Up Individual Files or an Entire System Image – back up specific files and folders or an entire system image (including the operating system, applications and configuration information).
- Restore Anywhere – restore backed up files or system images to any server or workstation.
- True Ease of Use – even relative novices can create sophisticated, professional backups.
Deduplication
The Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Deduplication option offers you affordable block-level software deduplication capability for your workstations and servers.
Top Features
- Fully integrated with Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11 – machine failure won’t force you or your administrator to carry out a time-consuming rebuild before regaining access to deduplicated data.
- Multi-type backups – Deduplication can be applied to both disk and file backups, including full, incremental or differential.
- Easy to use – activating deduplication functions is as easy as ticking a checkbox.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server includes following components:
- Agent for Windows
Backup and recovery of Windows servers. - Agent for Linux
Backup and recovery of Linux servers. - Bootable Media
CD, DVD or USB flash drive to boot machine from in a case of disaster and perform bare metal recovery. - Management Console
Remotely manage Agents for Windows or Linux; and other components - Management Server
Single point of centralized management. Controls and monitors backup across all machines, manages storage nodes, generates alerts and reports. - Storage Node
Managed backups and facilitates de-duplication. - PXE Server
Allows booting machines from the network to bootable environment for remote restore.
Systems
Agent for Windows:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4
Agent for Linux:
- 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
Acronis Management Server and Acronis Storage Node requires Windows XP/2003 or later. Please review the article for a complete list of supported operating systems and environments.
Virtual machines
Both Agent for Windows and Agent 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
Agent for Windows can backup and recover the following file systems:
- FAT16/32
- NTFS
Agent 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)
- Tape and tape autoloaders
- Acronis Online Storage
- 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 4K sector HDDs.
For windows server
If your server is virtualized we recommend looking at Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition.
Legend:
- supported
- add-on required
| Server for Windows | Advanced Server | Online for Server | |
| Image backup | |||
| File backup | |||
| Bare-metal restore | |||
| Backup to disk / network share | |||
| Backup to tape and tape libraries | |||
| Backup to Acronis Online Storage | |||
| Remote and centralized management | |||
| Backup Catalog and Search | |||
| Restore to Dissimilar Hardware or VM | |||
| Deduplication | |||
Products Documentation
- Brochure (0.9 MB, PDF)
- FAQ (0.2 MB, PDF)
- Web Help
- Quick Start Guide (0.2 MB, PDF)
- User Guide (4.3 MB, PDF)
- Installation Guide (0.5 MB, PDF)
- Upgrade Guide (0.2 MB, PDF)
- Command-Line Reference (0.6 MB, PDF)
- Active Directory Backup (0.1 MB, PDF)
Use Cases
- Data protection for workstation and laptop fleet 1.2 MB
- Data retention for compliance 1.2 MB
- Disaster recovery and data protection in a hybrid environment 1.1 MB
- Disaster recovery imaging for servers 1.1 MB
- E-mail recovery 0.9 MB
- Online remote office, branch office (robo) backup 1.4 MB
- Online data protection 0.9 MB
- Server consolidation 1.4 MB
- Storage optimisation using deduplication 1.4 MB
- Virtual server disaster recovery 4.4 MB
Case Studies
- Clintrak Chooses Acronis® to Protect Mission-Critical Servers
Industry: Pharmaceuticals – clinical trials - Acronis Provides Disaster Recovery Fit for King’s Academy
Industry: education, research - Assupol Life Takes the Credit for Backup & Recovery that Works
Industry: banking/finance/real estate
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Universal Restore
Buy in bundle with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server for 248.00€ !
What happens when a system’s hardware fails or needs to be retired? How do you move the valuable applications and data to a new system or hardware after disaster strikes? How do you quickly restore a system after the hardware has changed?
Acronis solves this common issue with Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Universal Restore™, a fully integrated module that restores servers or workstations to different hardware or to a virtual machine, providing highly flexible disaster recovery and migration options.
The Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Universal Restore module prepares you for even the most unforeseen events without requiring administrators to purchase and maintain identical spare machines.
The process begins when Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 is used to create a transportable image that disassociates the data from the old machine’s underlying hardware. Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Universal Restore loads in the new hardware’s own drivers so that the image from the previous hardware platform will allow the machine to be flawlessly restored to a different hardware platform, complete with operating system, applications, data and all previous settings. Recovery can be implemented to an existing system, to a new system with different hardware, or to a virtual machine, in minutes, by following these steps:
- Boot your replacement system with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 bootable media you have created and select ‘Recovery’ in the menu.
- Select the image to restore.
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Universal Restore then initiates the restore process, detects the hardware and installs the appropriate drivers for Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL).
- The result is a perfectly functioning system on a new hardware platform.
Top Features
- Recover — Recover a failed system to different hardware or to virtual machines in minutes after unforeseen events.
- Migrate — Complete physical-virtual, virtual-physical, physical-physical, or virtual-virtual migrations for system recovery, testing, and other purposes.
- Fix – load new hardware drivers and replace HAL to make system bootable after replacing hardware such as motherboard or storage controller or moving HDD to another machine.
- Clone and deploy — Clone and deploy operating systems with complete hardware independence
Deduplication
The Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Deduplication option offers you affordable block-level software deduplication capability for your workstations and servers, helping you maximize the use of your storage infrastructure while saving costs and increasing capacity.
With Acronis deduplication, cut data-storage requirements up to 90% by eliminating replicas of the same file or block on either the source or target. If data already exists on the storage node, then only a link is created to associate the data with the backup client.
Both file and disk backups can benefit from deduplication, including compatibility with bare-metal recovery and recovery to dissimilar hardware with Acronis® Universal Restore™.
The Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Deduplication module is fully integrated with all versions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 and is enabled by the Storage Node.
Save costs and resources
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Deduplication brings storage-efficient backup and recovery to organizations of all sizes, helping you reduce costs in four ways:
- Priced per machine, rather than by storage capacity or number of CPUs
- Reduces the volume of disk storage needed for backups
- Increases the number of backups you can save within existing data storage
- Frees network data-transmission bandwidth and optimizes data-transfer speeds
Key benefits
- Lower overall cost of storage
By eliminating redundant data backup, you can save on storage space and ultimately floor space and operation costs by managing fewer disks. - Promotes a "greener" IT operations
Deduplicated data is more environmentally efficient because it reduces the amount of electricity consumed and equipment needed to perform backups. - Faster recoveries
By storing more backups on a local disk, instead of slow tapes or other media, you benefit from faster recovery times as well as greater cost-saving potential. - Simpler compliance
Because government and corporate requirements generate massive amounts of data, deduplication reduces the cost of maintaining it and therefore helps you achieve compliance more efficiently. - Rapid return on investment
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Deduplication pays for itself quickly while providing you with protection, availability and peace of mind.
Key features
- Fully integrated with Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11
Because the deduplication functionality with backup for servers and workstations is already integrated into the solution, a machine failure won’t force you or your administrator to carry out a time-consuming rebuild before regaining access to deduplicated data. Acronis integration gives you full recovery in minutes rather than hours or days. Compare that with offerings from other vendors whose deduplication products are incompatible with their disaster recovery solutions and can result in a system failure that makes deduplicated files inaccessible for hours, or even days. - Multi-type backups
Deduplication can be applied to both disk and file backups, including full, incremental or differential. - Flexible costs
Some companies price their deduplication products based on the amount of data that is deduplicated, making it difficult to gauge the total cost of ownership. Pricing for Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11 Deduplication is per protected machine, offering a flexible cost adapted to both large and small organizations. - Seamless hardware compatibility
As a software-only solution, Acronis works with generally available storage hardware, so it bypasses the need for costly proprietary hardware. - Easy to use
Acronis deduplication functions are carefully designed to make operation simple. Activating them is as easy as ticking a checkbox in the vault configuration. - Highly secure
Stored deduplicated data needs special protection so it can’t be compromised. Acronis stores deduplication components separately, with special safeguards to prevent direct deletions of multi-instance data. You can also encrypt deduplicated data and limit vault access only to those with passwords. - Source or target deduplication
Choose where the deduplication process is done: at either the source machine or Storage Node.

