Supported operating systems

  Components for a managed machine  
  Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition

  • Windows XP Professional SP2+ (x86, x64)
  • Windows 2000 – all editions except for the Datacenter edition
  • Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Vista – all editions except for Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium (x86, x64)
  • Windows 7 – all editions except for the Starter and Home editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Foundation editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Datacenter, Foundation editions
  • Windows MultiPoint Server 2010

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition

  • Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 – the Small Business Server edition (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 – the Small Business Server edition (x86 where applicable, x64)

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Windows

  • Windows XP Professional SP2+ (x86, x64)
  • Windows 2000 – all editions except for the Datacenter edition
  • Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Vista – all editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows 7 – all editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Foundation editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Datacenter, Foundation editions
  • Windows MultiPoint Server 2010

Remote connection to the agent is not possible.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Workstation

  • Windows 2000 Professional SP4
  • Windows XP Professional SP2+ (x86, x64)
  • Windows Vista – all editions except for Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium (x86, x64)
  • Windows 7 – all editions except for the Starter and Home editions (x86, x64)

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation

  • Windows 2000 Professional SP4
  • Windows XP Professional SP2+ (x86, x64)
  • Windows Vista – all editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows 7 – all editions (x86, x64)

Remote connection to the agent is not possible. 

  Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Linux

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Linux

  • Linux with kernel 2.4.20 or later (including 2.6.x kernels) and glibc 2.3.2 or later
  • Various 32-bit and 64-bit Linux distributions, including:
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x and 5.x
    • Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
    • Fedora 11 and 12
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11
    • Debian 4 (Lenny) and 5 (Etch)
    • CentOS 5
  • Agent for Linux is in fact a 32-bit executable. For authentication, the agent uses system libraries, 32-bit versions of which are not always installed by default with 64-bit distributions. When using the agent on a 64-bit RedHat based distribution (such as RHEL, CentOS, Fedora), or on a 64-bit SUSE distribution, make sure that the following 32-bit packages are installed in the system:

    pam.i386

    libselinux.i386

    libsepol.i386

    These packages should be available in the repository of your Linux distribution.

  • Before installing the product on a system that does not use RPM Package Manager, such as an Ubuntu system, you need to install this manager manually; for example, by running the following command (as the root user):

    apt-get install rpm 

  Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 (x64) with Hyper-V
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008/2008 R2

This agent installs on a Hyper-V host as an add-on to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows. On Hyper-V Server 2008/2008 R2, only remote installation is available. 

  Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for ESX/ESXi
  • VMware ESX Infrastructure 3.5 Update 2+
  • VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0 and 4.1

The Agent for ESX/ESXi is delivered as a virtual appliance.

The Agent for ESX/ESXi supports all VMware ESXi licenses except for the free license. This is because the agent uses the Remote Command Line appliance, and free VMware ESXi restricts access to this appliance to read-only access. The agent works during the VMware ESXi evaluation period. Once a free VMware ESXi serial key is entered, the Agent for ESX/ESXi will stop functioning. 

  Components for centralized management

Acronis License Server

  • Windows XP Professional SP2+ (x86, x64)
  • Windows 2000 – all editions except for the Datacenter edition
  • Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Vista – all editions except for Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium (x86, x64)
  • Windows 7 – all editions except for the Starter and Home editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Foundation editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Datacenter, Foundation editions
  • Windows MultiPoint Server 2010

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console

  • Windows XP Professional SP2+ (x86, x64)
  • Windows 2000 – all editions except for the Datacenter edition
  • Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Vista – all editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows 7 – all editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Foundation editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Datacenter, Foundation editions
  • Windows MultiPoint Server 2010

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node

  • Windows XP Professional SP2+ (x86, x64)
  • Windows 2000 – all editions except for the Datacenter edition
  • Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Vista – all editions except for Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium (x86, x64)
  • Windows 7* – all editions except for the Starter a
    nd Home editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Foundation editions (x86, x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2* – the Standard, Enterprise, Small Business Server, Datacenter, Foundation editions
  • Windows MultiPoint Server 2010*

*

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node handles tape libraries and autoloaders by using Removable Storage Management (RSM). Since Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 do not support RSM, a storage node installed in these operating systems does not support tape libraries and autoloaders.

Supported operating systems