Acronis Backup and Recovery Workstation

Acronis Backup and Recovery Workstation

Reduce System Downtime by Speeding Up Recovery with Acronis Backup and Recovery

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation is the next generation of the Acronis True Image disaster recovery product for small enterprise environments. Built to protect the intellectual property that resides in business desktops and laptops, Acronis Backup & Recovery^™ 10 Workstation combines optimized data protection and ease-of-use. It creates an exact disk image of your office workstation and backs up the operating system, applications, key data files and folders.

Acronis simplifies system restores. Users can perform self-service recoveries of files and folders in moments without administrator intervention. Even an entire Windows^® system can be restored in minutes using the Acronis one-click restore feature.

Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 10 Workstation comes with flexible scheduling and event-based triggering to cater to the most demanding user environments. With the optional Acronis^® Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore^™ module, the operating system, all user data, applications and settings can be restored to dissimilar hardware in a few simple steps, eliminating the need to acquire identical hardware if the machine has to be replaced.

For additional functionality, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Workstation offers advanced tools and features like centralized management, remote management, and the ability to integrate duplication capabilities to the backup process.

Top Benefits

Flexible backup storage for mobile users
Back up a laptop to a variety of storage devices and locations, including the Acronis^® Secure Zone™, a partition on the laptop.
Minimize downtime and improve user productivity
With Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, the contents of the hard drive contents including the operating system, applications and data can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days.
Acronis^® Advantage^SM support and maintenance program
The Acronis^® Advantage^SM program is an enhanced, multi-level subscription-based support and maintenance program. The first year of Acronis Advantage is included in the license price.
Intuitive user interface and workflow minimizes training requirements
Users can restore files, folders and even their workstation without administrator assistance or extensive training.
Simplified system migration to new and dissimilar hardware
Restoring to dissimilar hardware can be easily accomplished with optional Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ Universal Restore™ software. Move an old system to a new one, complete with all applications, data and settings and be ready to continue operations in minutes.

Key Features

Event-based backup
Backups can be set to occur based on preset events and conditions such as a new program installation or the addition of a large volume of new data to the system.
Comprehensive recovery options
OS, applications and all data can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days.
Unique Acronis^® Secure Zone™ and Startup Recovery Manager simplifies recoveries
Recover directly from a secure partition on the local hard drive on Startup without having to carry boot media.
Advanced encryption technology ensures data security
Provides the extra data protection you need with supplied industry-standard algorithms or your own customized variants.
Advanced backup scheduling with policy-based management
Develop backup plans that work with a company’s daily routines and each employee’s work styles. The scheduled tasks will be launched systematically, keeping the critical data safely protected.

Security

Password-protection for Acronis Secure Zone
Protect your backups stored in Acronis Secure Zone from unauthorized access.
Encrypted backup images
Encrypt your backups using industry-standard 256-bit AES algorithm to ensure data security.

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 workstation from scratch in the event of a hard disk failure — restore an exact copy of your computer on a new hard drive.

Backup management

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.

A file server, even just a desktop PC can cost your company thousands of dollars per minute in downtime, and potentially a lot more. That's why choosing the right backup and disaster recovery would reduce a system downtime as much as possible, and provide the best possible return on investment.

Acronis Backup and Recovery Workstation really frees up everyone's time because backups are performed even when the system is live so nobody really knows. Acronis users can choose to have the backup files stored in the Acronis Secure Zone, a special hidden partition in the same hard disk. Backup can also store in a variety of storage media including options like external USB hard disks, additional internal hard disk, CDs and DVDs. Overall, I'd say Acronis True Image is the cost effective BMR (bare metal restore) solution for Windows platform.

Acronis Backup and Recovery enables you to restore systems back to normal in minutes, not hours or days. An entire system can be restored from an image that includes everything the system need to run: the operating system, applications, databases, and configurations. No reinstallation or reconfiguration is required. Moreover, complete system restoration can be performed to an existing system or to a new system with different hardware or to virtual machines using the new Acronis Universal Restore feature. With the new Acronis Snap Restore feature, users can boot from an image and access a system during restore, further decreasing downtime.

With the scheduling capability, you simply create backup tasks, tailored by group, at certain times or at certain events, automating backups. To ensure that backups have occurred, you can request notifications of results via email, pop-up or SNMP. You can also view Acronis events in your existing Acronis Windows Event Log. The product also supports the creation of custom commands before and after backups. For example, users can automatically run anti-virus products before an image is created and verify the validity of backups after they have been created.

Online protection is provided for mission critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle with support for VSS. Using VSS you can backup databases during business hours as they are not required to be taken offline to create valid backups.

Remote and traveling users are protected by two unique Acronis technologies: the Acronis Secure Zone and the Acronis Recovery Manager.

With Acronis Backup and Recovery you have peace of mind knowing that not only your data but an entire system, including the operating system, databases, applications, and system configurations are protected and can be recovered in any situation.