Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation 10

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation 10 is designed in order to protect the intellectual property that resides in business desktops and laptops, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation combines optimized data protection and ease-of-use. It creates an exact disk image of your office workstation and backs up the operating system, applications, key data files and folders.

Acronis simplifies system restores. Users can perform self-service recoveries of files and folders in moments without administrator intervention. Even an entire Windows system can be restored in minutes using the Acronis one-click restore feature.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation comes with flexible scheduling and event-based triggering to cater to the most demanding user environments. With the optional Acronis Backup & Recovery Universal Restore module, the operating system, all user data, applications and settings can be restored to dissimilar hardware in a few simple steps, eliminating the need to acquire identical hardware if the machine has to be replaced.

Key Benefits:

• Flexible backup storage for mobile users
• • Back up a laptop to a variety of storage devices and locations, including the Acronis® Secure Zone™, a partition on the laptop.
• Minimize downtime and improve user productivity
• • With Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, the contents of the hard drive contents including the operating system, applications and data can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days.
• Acronis® AdvantageSM support and maintenance program
• • The Acronis® AdvantageSM program is an enhanced, multi-level subscription-based support and maintenance program. The first year of Acronis Advantage is included in the license price.
• Intuitive user interface and workflow minimizes training requirements
• • Users can restore files, folders and even their workstation without administrator assistance or extensive training.
• Simplified system migration to new and dissimilar hardware
• • Restoring to dissimilar hardware can be easily accomplished with optional Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ Universal Restore™ software. Move an old system to a new one, complete with all applications, data and settings and be ready to continue operations in minutes.

Major Features:

1. Backup options
   • Compression
   • • Compress backups to optimize your storage space.
   • Excluding files during backup
   • • Save storage space and time by excluding non-essential files and folders from backups.
   • Dual destination backup
   • • Store backups into two different locations — backup to a local disk and a copy to a network share.
   • Splitting backups, automatically or manually
   • • Split backups into volumes to fit media.
2. Recovery options
   • Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
   • • If your system won’t boot properly, press F11 during the system startup to start Acronis Backup & Recovery .
   • Bare-metal restore
   • • Restore your workstation from scratch in the event of a hard disk failure — restore an exact copy of your computer on a new hard drive.
3. Virtualization support
   • Converting image backup to a virtual machine
   • • Recover a disk (volume) backup to a new virtual machine of any of the following types: VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation or Citrix XenServer virtual appliance.
4. Backup management
   • Pre/post commands
   • • Define pre/post backup and data capture commands to integrate Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 with other applications or to temporarily stop some.
   • Event-based backup
   • • Create backups triggered by various conditions — a user logs on, a computer shuts down, or others.
   • Conditions for backup
   • • Configure backup operations to wait until specified conditions are met like a pre-defined time interval or a user logs off.
   • Customizable backup scheme
   • • Configure specific events and conditions for each task.
5. Reporting and monitoring
   • Local dashboard
   • • Operational overview of the backup and restore processes on a single screen.
   • Recording events in Windows Event Log
   • • Store Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 events in Windows Event Logs together with events from other applications. This allows for integration with system management tools like MOM.
6. Backup administration
   • Automated deletion of outdated backups
   • • Specify rules to automatically delete backups that are no longer needed.
   • Consolidating incremental or differential backups
   • • Consolidate incremental and differential backups to save space.
7. Deployment and upgrade options
   • No reboot
   • • No reboot required to complete installation.
8. User interface
   • Command line with scripting support
   • • Execute tasks and create backups from a command-line interface.
   • Local management console
   • • The Acronis interface is intuitive, making Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Workstation easy to install, quick to configure and deploy, and simple to use.
9. Security
   • Password-protection for Acronis Secure Zone
   • • Protect you r backups stored in Acronis Secure Zone from unauthorized access.
   • Encrypted backup images
   • • Encrypt your backups using industry-standard 256-bit AES algorithm to ensure data security. 

• Adds new intuitive user interface and workflow that minimizes training requirements.

Requirements:

• Supported operating systems
• • Windows 2000 SP (Service Pack) 4+
  • Windows XP SP2+ x32 and x64 Editions
  • Windows Vista all SP x32 and x64 Editions
• Supported file systems
• • Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can back up and recover the following file systems with the following limitations:
  • FAT16/32
  • NTFS
• Supported storage
• • Hard disk drives
  • Networked storage devices
  • CD-R(W)
  • DVD-RW, DVD+R(W)
  • ZIP®, Rev® and other removable media
  • P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and USB 1.1 / 2.0 drives, PC card storage devices.