User`s guide

1 Introducing Acronis

Backup & Recovery™ 10

1.1 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 Advanced Workstation 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

 Centralized management for distributed workstations

 Dedicated servers for storage resource optimization.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Workstation 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

 Easy work with virtual environments

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