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 inherits the benefits of the Acronis True Image Echo product family:

  • Backup of an entire disk or volume, including the operating system, all applications, and data
  • Bare metal recovery to any hardware
  • File and folder backup and recovery
  • Scalability from a single machine to an enterprise
  • Support for both Windows and Linux environments
  • Centralized management for distributed workstations and servers
  • Dedicated servers for storage resource optimization.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 offers new benefits that help organizations meet challenging Recovery Time Objectives while reducing both capital expense and software maintenance costs.

  • Leveraging existing IT infrastructure

    Data deduplication to reduce storage consumption and network bandwidth utilization

    Flexible deduplication mechanism allowing deduplication of backup data both at the source and at the storage

    Improved support for robotic tape libraries

    Backward compatibility and an easy upgrade from Acronis True Image Echo

  • 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

  • Policy-based centralized management

    Applying backup policies to groups of machines

    Static and dynamic machine grouping

    Grouping either physical or virtual machines

  • Easy work with virtual environments

    Backup and recovery of virtual machines without installing backup software on each individual machine

    Conversion of a backup to a fully configured VMware, Microsoft, Parallels, or Citrix virtual machine

  • Redesigned GUI

    Dashboard for quick operational decision making

    Overview of all configured and running operations with color-coding for successful and failed operations

  • Enterprise level of security

    Controlling user rights to perform operations and access backups

    Running services with minimal user rights

    Restricted remote access to a backup agent

    Secure communication between the product components

    Using third-party certificates for authentication of the components

    Data encryption options for both data transmission and storage

    Backup of remote machines to a centralized storage node behind firewalls.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 overview