Real-time server disk backup, server disk imaging, and bare-metal restoration for Windows servers

Is server downtime costing you thousands every hour? Acronis True Image Enterprise Server is a comprehensive server protection and recovery solution that allows you to get back to business as quickly as possible, minimizing downtime. With support for both 64-bit Windows and 32-bit Windows, you can rest assured that both old and new systems are protected.

Acronis True Image Enterprise Server for Windows allows you to 1) create an exact server disk image, including the operating system, applications, and configurations and 2) backup mission critical databases.

After a system crash, Acronis True Image Enterprise Server allows you to perform a full system restore, a bare-metal restore or just a restore of individual files and folders in minutes. Complete system restoration can be performed to an existing system, to a new system with different hardware or to a virtual machine.

The Acronis Management Console included in Acronis True Image ES offers far greater flexibility for corporate IT departments. From this console administrators can deploy backup agents on remote servers and create server backup images over the network, increasing the IT department's productivity and reducing costs.

Based on the exclusive Acronis Drive Snapshot technology, Acronis True Image ES allows you to create a server disk backup image without interrupting server operations.

Instant bare-metal server restore and quick ROI
Unlike traditional file-by-file backup solutions, Acronis True Image ES sector-level disk imaging approach provides you with the fastest bare-metal server restore dramatically reducing your IT costs.

New and Key Features:

• Restore to different hardware — Complete disaster recovery by ensuring that systems can be restored to any hardware or virtual machine
• Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support — Online backup of mission critical applications, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle
• 64 bit Windows support — Use one application for both new and old systems
• Remote unattended restores with the Acronis bootable agent — Recover all systems in the network from one central location
• Boot from an image, using Acronis Snap Restore™ (a patent pending technology) — Decrease downtime by allowing systems to be used during a recovery
• Automatic image verification — Peace of mind by ensuring that images can be used for restoration
• Differential backups — Decrease the number of backups you manage
• File backups, in addition to our traditional image backups — Flexible system protection
• Exclude files from backups — Capture only business data and save space in storage archives
• Windows Event Log and SNMP support — Plug into your existing network monitoring application
• Custom scripts before/after backups — Facilitate compliance with company-wide backup policies
• Throttling to control hard disk write speed and network bandwidth usage — Minimize disruptions of business operations
• Create CDs with bootable images, PXE packages, and bootable recovery media ISOs — Eliminate the need to have separate recovery media and provide flexibility for application management
• Acronis Group Server — Ease administration by viewing the status of all systems in the network

Other Key features:

• Real-time server disk backup and instant bare-metal server restore
• Restoration of data bases, files and folders
• Acronis Management Console for remote server backup
• Disk imaging and disk cloning
• Incremental disk backup and disk backup image verification
• Scheduling and scripting
• Support for SAN, NAS, RAID, tape drives, CD/DVD, network and other backup storage
• Real-time server disk backup without interrupting server operations
• Instant bare-metal server restoration
• Restore individual files and folders
• Clone and upgrade server disk drives
• Schedule automated server disk imaging
• Create incremental server disk backup images
• Built-in disk backup image verification
• Disk backup image verification before server restoration
• File system verification after server restoration
• View server disk backup logs
• E-mail or Pop-up notifications
• Command line server disk backup management console
• Support for Windows dynamic volumes
• Supports FAT16/32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS
• Support for SAN, NAS, RAID, tape drives, CD/DVD, USB, FireWire, PC Card, network drives and other backup storage
• Automated, wizard-driven operations

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Details

Quick ROI
Does server downtime cost you thousands dollars an hour? Unlike traditional file-by-file backup solutions, Acronis True Image 8.0 Enterprise Server for Windows disk imaging approach provides you with the fastest bare-metal server recovery dramatically reducing your IT costs.

Simplicity at its finest
Acronis True Image Enterprise Server for Windows is the easiest, most convenient and intuitive server disk imaging, backup and system restore software you've ever seen. Its automated, wizard-driven operations make backup and restoration simple even for a novice.

Incremental backup
Acronis' unique incremental disk backup capability allows users to add the latest changes on the disk to the original disk image. This ensures that you always have all the latest data in your disk backup files.

Scheduled backup
With Acronis Scheduler you can set the software to create full or incremental unattended backups at any time for complete data protection.

Acronis Secure Zone
Don't have a dedicated disk backup storage? With Acronis Secure Zone, your data is stored in a hidden and safe location on your hard disk.

Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
Acronis' unique Startup Recovery Manager allows you to restore your server without creating a bootable rescue media. Just press the F11 button during the server start up.

Image verification tool
The disk image verification tool ensures that the server disk backup is error-free and can be restored without any problems.

Disk cloning and new disk deployment
Acronis True Image Enterprise Server for Windows includes all features of Acronis Migrate Easy, the disk cloning and disk deployment solution. If your server hard drive is full, Acronis True Image Server for Windows will help you deploy a new hard disk quickly and easily — migrating all the server data, operating systems, programs, and everything else automatically!

Using Acronis True Image Enterprise Server for Windows you will also be able to deploy a new disk as an additional storage device, securely wipe an old hard disk, re-deploy it, and much, much more.

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Disk Imaging

Acronis True Image Enterprise Server for Windows allows you to create the exact server disk image for complete backup providing the comprehensive and cost effective server protection.

• Back up only the necessary server disk sector contents
• User-defined compression levels
• Multi-volume archives
• Password protection
• Supports hard disks of all sizes
• All levels of IDE and SCSI RAID controllers support
• Change partition type, file system, size, and disk location during restoration*
• Acronis Secure Zone
• Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

* — for supported file systems only.

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Disk Cloning

Acronis True Image Enterprise Server for Windows includes the disk cloning and disk deployment capabilities. If your server hard drive is full, it will help you deploy a new hard disk quickly and easily — migrating all the server data, operating systems, programs, and everything else automatically.

• Clone an old server hard disk drive to a new one
• Automatic and manual hard disk upgrade modes
• Install a new hard disk drive as a boot disk or as an additional storage device
• Re-deploy an old hard disk
• Resize transferred partitions to match new hard disk size*
• Create, copy, move, and delete partitions
• Securely clean and wipe an old server hard disk

* — for supported partitions only.

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Requirements

Supported storage

• Hard disk drives
• Networked storage devices
• Tape drives Tape drives
• CD-R(W)
• DVD-RW, DVD+R(W)*
• ZIP®, Jazz® and other removable media
• P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and USB 1.0 / 2.0 drives, PC card storage devices.
• Support for all levels of SCSI and IDE RAID controllers

* — requires third-party DVD recording software installed.

Supported operating systems

• Windows 2003 Server x64 Editions
• Windows 2003 Server
• Windows 2000 Advanced server
• Windows 2000 Server
• Windows NT 4.0 Server
• Special support for other operating systems including Linux and NetWare (bootable CD is required).

Supported file systems

• FAT16/32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, Reiser4, XFS, JFS and Linux SWAP.
• Special sector-by-sector support for other partitions and corrupted file systems.

System requirements

• CPU: Pentium 133 (and alike) or higher
• RAM 128 Mb or more
• Disk space: 20 Mb

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