Installation guide

1.3.4 Agent for Hyper-V

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Hyper-V protects virtual machines residing on a Hyper-V

virtualization server. The agent allows for backing up virtual machines from the host without having

to install agents on each virtual machine.

Agent for Hyper-V can be installed in the following operating systems:

Windows Server 2008 (x64) with Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008/2008 R2

Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 with Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012/2012 R2

Agent for Hyper-V cannot be installed in Windows 8/8.1, even though this operating system includes

the Hyper-V feature.

1.3.5 Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server enables you to back up and

recover Microsoft Exchange databases or individual mailboxes. The agent uses Microsoft VSS to

ensure the consistency of the backed-up databases. Recovery of the smaller data items (e-mails,

calendar events or notes) is available from both database and mailbox backups.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server is referred to as Agent for

Exchange later in this document.

1.3.5.1 Deduplication for Microsoft Exchange Server

This add-on enables Agent for Exchange to use the express full backup method for backing up

Exchange databases to deduplicating vaults managed by Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Storage

Node. The add-on is purchased separately. You do not need to purchase and install this add-on if

Agent for Windows and its deduplication add-on are already installed on your Exchange server.

1.3.6 Agent for Microsoft SQL Server (single-pass)

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Microsoft SQL Server (single-pass) enables you to create

single-pass disk and application backups and to recover Microsoft SQL databases from them. The

databases can be recovered directly to a running SQL Server instance or extracted to a folder on a file

system.

The agent uses Microsoft VSS to ensure the consistency of the backed-up databases. After a

successful backup, the agent can truncate the SQL Server transaction log.

The agent is installed as an add-on to Agent for Windows (p. 6).

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Microsoft SQL Server (single-pass) is also referred to as

Agent for SQL (single-pass) in this document.