User guide

1 Introducing Acronis Backup & Recovery 11

1.1 What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 builds on the success that Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 has

established by bringing enterprise-class capabilities to the small business market at an affordable

price in an easy-to-use package.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 continues the trend of expanding the backup and recovery capabilities

in physical, virtual and cloud environments. The following is a summary of the product's new features

and enhancements.

 Simplified installation

The new installer makes the installation procedure simple and clear.

 Improved usability

The redesigned product's UI lets you perform any operation easier, faster and more intuitively.

 Advanced replication and retention of backups (p. 66)

Store a backup in multiple locations (possibly off-site) for redundancy. Move or copy backups to

a cheaper or off-site storage automatically. Set a replication time window if you do not want

copying or moving to occur during business hours.

 Data view for vaults (p. 99)

Select data from a vault by browsing either the archives and backups (in the Archive view) or the

backed up data (in the Data view).

 Alert notifications (p. 200)

A new alert system has been introduced for both local and centralized management. Select the

alerts you want to observe. Set up e-mail notifications about various types of alerts.

 UEFI/GPT support (p. 114)

Full support for UEFI-based systems and GPT disks. Recovery of BIOS-based systems to

UEFI-based systems and vice versa.

 4-KB drives support (p. 108)

When recovering disks or volumes, the software automatically eliminates volume misalignment –

a situation that occurs when volume clusters are not aligned with disk sectors.

 Partition (volume) alignment (p. 108)

Solid State Drives (SSD) require a specific partition alignment for optimal performance. The

required alignment is set automatically during recovery, but you can change it manually if

required.

 Automatic disk/volume mapping (p. 105)

When recovering disks or volumes, the software automatically maps the selected disk/volumes

to the target disks in the optimal manner.

 Hardware snapshot provider support (p. 95)

The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) can use hardware-based providers for taking snapshots.

 Applying Acronis Universal Restore without recovery (p. 112)

Using bootable media, you can apply Acronis Universal Restore to an operating system without

performing the recovery.