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After the agent takes an image of a virtual machine, it moves the backup onto an Acronis storage node on the
network and backs it up there. This eliminates performance slowdowns that occur when physical host servers
are saddled with backup duties.
Acronis provides the most consistent and manageable solution for mixed server environments.
• A completely consistent management interface applies across all servers. Administrators reap a host of
benefits when they take advantage of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10’s ability to support server consolidations
and recover from disasters.
• One console manages all your machines.
• High flexibility. Administrators can:
1. migrate from one VM platform to another
2. restore a VM as a physical machine
3. back up a physical machine and restore it as a virtual machine
• Intuitive user interface has been designed, refined and applauded by customers and reviewers over
generations of development. Administrators can be productive immediately, and even a novice can restore
a failed server or recover files and folders using a truly user-friendly, wizard-driven interface.
• VMware vCenter synchronization to reduce management time.
• The same backup process applies to all Windows and Linux machines in all of their physical or virtual forms.
• VMs with common backup requirements may be managed holistically by setting group policies.
Efficient data storage
Acronis combines two technologies to create one of the industry’s most complete approaches to data storage
efficiency. It begins with some of the industry’s highest-performing file compression algorithms to create more
efficient storage without sacrificing recovery flexibility. And it offers integrated data deduplication to further
reduce the amount of data backed up. Administrators can choose whether to deduplicate at the source or target,
depending on their needs.
Because Acronis
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Deduplication is a software-only product, it bypasses the need for costly proprietary
hardware. Instead it runs on inexpensive commodity hardware you may already have in house. Acronis offers a
choice of backup consolidation schemas known in the industry as “synthetic full backups” and “incrementals
forever backups.” The question of whether to carry out source or target deduplication becomes less critical
because network traffic is minimized after the first full backup.
Finally, Acronis integrates deduplication functionality with protection for servers and workstations, so a
machine failure will never force IT administrators to carry out a time-consuming manual rebuild before the data
can be restored. Instead the failed machine can be recovered in the space of a few minutes from a disk image.
Extensive recovery options
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 offers extensive, easily administered recovery options, whether you’re recovering
a complete VM or a single file. You may restore a machine from an archive or to a physical server without concern
for the hardware configuration by using a popular option, Acronis Universal Restore. Moreover, Acronis was one
of the first data protection companies to offer a choice between active restore, where the machine is recovered
in minutes while the data is recovered in a user-transparent background process, and instant recovery, in which
a standby virtual machine – a virtual copy of the original – can be turned on instantly, complete with all of its
data intact.
