Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11
Key Features
Full system recovery
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 applications.
Integrated data protection
Integrated data protection gives you 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.
Acronis offers you integrated support for applications such as Microsoft® Exchange Server or Microsoft® SQL Server®. Thanks to deep catalog capabilities, easily browse, search and restore different versions of individual files or emails even from image backups – across all locations, whether local, remote or tape.
Virtual environment support
High-speed, simultaneous, agent-less image-based backups and recoveries for virtual machines are managed from the same console and with the same instruments as physical machines. One Virtual Edition license gives you backup and recovery of an unlimited number of virtual machines on a host, plus V2P and P2V migrations.
Backup and recovery to cloud storage
With Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ Online, ensure your business total protection from theft and natural disaster without a need to buy expensive hardware. It’s fully integrated, works together and is managed from the same console as Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.
One unified solution
All in one powerful solution you can benefit from image-based system recovery for physical and virtual environments, backup for files and applications, search and catalog, as well as disk, tape and cloud- storage options.
What’s more, Acronis solutions support workstations and servers, Windows® or Linux, physical and virtual machines running on VMware® vSphere/ESX/ESXi, Microsoft® Hyper-V™, Citrix® XenServer®, Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization as well as Parallels® Server 4 Bare Metal.
What’s new?
As a result of our customers’ requests and our strategy towards virtual, cloud and unification, Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11 offers an outstanding range of new features, as well as hundreds of useful enhancements.
Now even easier!
A long-time innovator of ultra-intuitive solutions, Acronis has always helped businesses cut training and management costs while reducing human error. Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 is the next great leap! We’ve incorporated results from usability studies as well as feedback from the field to make backup and recovery management more natural than ever before.
Disaster Recovery and Data Protection in one unified solution
- Catalog and search capabilities give you granular access to specific data within a backup, so you get the benefits of bare-metal restore and backup in one product
- The unified platform dovetails seamlessly with Acronis’ granular application recovery modules such as for Microsoft® Exchange Server1 and Microsoft® SQL Server™ 1
- Integrated tape management improves support for tape and tape autoloaders, allowing you to store, replicate or stage backups to tape – either image, file or application
Improved core-disaster recovery
- Acronis® Universal Restore® for Linux extends our award-winning Acronis® Universal Restore® technology to Linux systems, allowing you to recover to dissimilar hardware
- Universal Restore bootability lets Acronis® Universal Restore® technology make Windows or Linux bootable again after replacing hardware
- Backup and recovery of systems that use UEFI/GPT
- Full support for new disk with 4K sectors and SSD
- Backup and recovery of Linux systems that use LVM
- Take advantage of hardware built-in snapshot to offload processing from production servers
Reduce long-term storage costs with staging, and add redundancy with multi-destination
- Move old backups to tape (D2D2T) or to less expensive disk (D2D2D)
- Store multiple backups locally and remotely on disk and in the cloud
- Back up to the cloud directly (D2C) or indirectly (D2D2C1)
- Improved deduplication performance, capacity and scalability offers you even greater savings
Improved support for virtualized environment
- Simultaneous backup of multiple virtual machines, even served with the same agent, allows you to shorten the backup window
- Windows agent for ESX(i), an alternative to ESX(i) virtual appliance, lets you offload backup traffic from ESX(i) hosts to a dedicated Windows machine and achieve real LAN-free backup
- Load balancing between ESX(i) agents automatically distributes tasks between a number of agents to optimize performance. One virtual appliance or agent may serve as many ESX(i) hosts as required, and more agents may be added when needed.
- Hyper-V clusters and CSV support lets you benefit from agent-less virtual-machine backup even in clustered Hyper-V environments
- Improved Instant Restore™ shortens recovery time by only applying incremental changes and allows for better RPO
Disaster Recovery Plan
- Automatically generated each time a backup completes, containing step-by-step instructions in case an IT administrator is not available
More management options
- New alerts with email notifications provide you with a complete list of problems, such as task failures and warnings, such as low disk space
- Configure a backup plan on one machine, export it to an XML file and import it on other machines
- Vault permissions give better control over who can access what data in the vaults
- New command-line interface will be handy for companies looking for automation and integration

