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Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition

Developed for Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) environments, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition helps small businesses recover from disasters and system failures in minutes, instead of hours or days. Based on Acronis’ patented disk imaging and bare-metal restore technologies, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition is the next generation of the Acronis True Image server backup disaster recovery product line for physical and virtual server environments.

Small businesses typically have limited IT resources and smaller staffs than large enterprises, but with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition , they have full access to the same powerful server backup and recovery tools found in larger organizations. The user-friendly interface and simplified workflow make it easier to set up a highly professional server backup program and enable users to recover files, folders, and servers without technical assistance. This reduces the need to keep highly-trained staff onsite at all times.

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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 .
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.

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Small businesses face the same IT challenges as larger organisations, but they are more vulnerable when it comes to recovering from a disaster. Small companies are dependent on fewer servers, generally have smaller IT staffs, and fewer technical resources than a large enterprise so data recovery requires relatively more personnel and technological assets than those of large companies.

In fact, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics states that 93% of all companies that experience "significant data loss" are out of business within five years. As a result, even a single critical server failure could have a dramatic impact on a small business' financial and IT health.

Acronis Advanced Backup and Recovery 10 for SBS

Acronis Universal Restore Add-On

With Acronis Universal Restore, complete system recovery can be accomplished from an image, with no reinstallation of the operating system, applications or any reconfigurations or individual files and folders restored. Since Acronis True Image for MS SBS creates a transportable image that disassociates the data from the underlying hardware, recovery can be implemented to an existing system, to a new system with different hardware, or to a virtual server.

Compliance Standards

A.10.5 Back-up