Acronis Cyber Backup Advanced for Windows Server
The most reliable and easy-to-use backup for your Microsoft Windows Server®

Overview:

Acronis Cyber Backup is the world’s easiest and fastest backup solution for your Microsoft Windows Server® on-premises, at remote locations, and in private and public clouds. With enhanced backup validation and blockchain-based authentication of your backups with Acronis Notary™, Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 is the most reliable backup solution for your Windows Server on the market today.

Complete Business Protection
Protect your entire Windows servers with complete disk-imaging backup, which contains operating system, applications, settings and data

World’s Fastest Recovery
Reduce RTOs and improve flexibility of your IT with quick recovery of your Windows Server to the same or dissimilar hardware, including to physical systems, virtual machines, or cloud instances

Flexible Storage Options
Increase business resiliency by storing your Windows server backups in up to five locations, including local disks, NAS, SAN, tape, as well as proven and secure Acronis Cloud Storage

Intuitive, Scalable Management
Easily scale protection to hundreds of Windows servers with backup policies, dynamic and static machine grouping, customizable dashboards, advanced alerting and reporting

Innovative Data Protection
Safeguard your Windows servers from ransomware attacks with Acronis Active Protection™, the only backup technology that detects and prevents unauthorized encryption of files, databases, and backups

Features:

Complete Business Protection

	Disk-Imaging Backup Protect your entire business with complete and reliable backup images of your entire system, files, or data. Store backups to a variety of storage devices, including local disks, network storage, tape devices, and the cloud. Easily recover a complete image or selected files, folders, items, and applications.
	Physical, Virtual, Cloud Protect entire infrastructure and follow best practices by backing up all Windows servers, installed on physical servers, virtual machines, and in cloud instances.

World's Fastest Recovery

	Bare-Metal Recovery Minimize expensive downtime and simplify recovery by restoring entire systems from reliable and proven disk-image backup, with no need to reinstall the operating system, applications, or reconfigure settings.
	Acronis Universal Restore Minimize expensive downtime by restoring Windows and Linux systems to dissimilar hardware, including bare-metal physical, virtual, or cloud environments.
	Remote Bare-Metal Recovery EXCLUSIVE, ADVANCED Reduce RTOs of remote sites and systems by accessing bootable media and restoring bare-metal servers remotely via wide-area networks (WAN).
	Easy Granular Recovery Increase user satisfaction and reduce RTOs by restoring folders, files, databases, documents, mailboxes, and individual emails directly from your complete image backup — with no extra steps or third-party tools required.
	Enhanced Validation in Sandbox Environment ADVANCED Ensure recovery success by validating backup content with checksum, validating recoverability by automatically running the backup as a VM, and performing service availability checks with pre-defined and custom scripts.
	Automated Bare-Metal Recovery EXCLUSIVE, ADVANCED Reduce RTOs of critical systems by automating and orchestrating the recovery by customizing the bootable media with scripting.

Flexible Storage Options

	Local disks, NAS, SAN Reduce RTOs of individual systems and speed up granular recoveries with support of any local and network-based disk storage, without the need to establish backup or media servers.
	Tape Drives, Autoloaders, and Tape Libraries ADVANCED Satisfy regulatory requirements and disaster recovery needs by storing backups on local or central tape devices with support for media management, tape rotation, and retention rules.
	Acronis Cloud Storage Ensure recovery from any disaster and maintain control of data location by storing backups in one of 14+ secure and reliable Acronis Cloud Data Centers.
	Off-Host Operations ADVANCED Reduce production machine loads by performing select activities — such as backup staging (moving), replication (copying), validation, and retention (cleanup) — on a different system.

Intuitive, Scalable Management

	Centralized Web Management Console Reduce IT’s workload with a touch-friendly, web-based management console. Reduce RTOs by accessing the web console from any device, including tablets.
	Role-based Administrative Access ADVANCED Enable IT to protect remote offices, branch offices, and departments with the ability to manage, delegate, and establish roles for multiple administrators.
	Customizable Dashboards Reduce time-to-action and resolve issues quickly with customizable dashboards for quick insights into your infrastructure.
	Advanced Reporting ADVANCED Increase infrastructure resiliency with regular, customizable reports that focus on the exceptions in your infrastructure.

Innovative Data Protection

	Acronis Active Protection™ EXCLUSIVE Proactively prevent the need to recover by protecting data and systems from ransomware attacks, detecting and preventing suspicious changes to data, backup files, and the backup application.
	Acronis Notary™ ADVANCED, EXCLUSIVE Improve regulatory compliance and validity of recovery, ensuring your backup’s authenticity and integrity with blockchain.
	Acronis ASign™ ADVANCED, EXCLUSIVE Reduce miscommunication with users, suppliers, and customers, supporting the authenticity of your files with signatures enabled by blockchain.
	Cloud Advantage ADVANCED, EXCLUSIVE Gain competitive edge by supporting your business’ cloud journey with protection and migration of all types of workloads to and from cloud; support of backup to reliable cloud storage; and touch-friendly, web-based management console, available locally and in the cloud.

Compare:

Overview	Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Standard	Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Advanced
Patented disk-imaging technology
Servers
Storage - disks, NAS, SAN, Acronis Cloud Storage
VMware vSphere®, Microsoft Hyper-V®
User data backup
Touch-friendly web-based centralized and remote management console
Customizable dashboards
Acronis Active Protection™
Microsoft Exchange®, SQL Server®, SharePoint®, Active Directory®
Oracle® Database
Oracle® Database
Clustered Exchange, SQL
XenServer®, KVM, RHV, Oracle® VM Server
Centralized disk storage with deduplication
Tape drives, autoloaders, libraries support
Policy-based group management
Acronis Notary™
Administrator roles and delegations
Advanced reporting
Off-host backup management operations
Off-host backup management operations
Complete Business Protection
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012R2/2012, 2008R2/2008, 2003R2/2003
Windows Small Business Server 2011/2008/2003R2/2003
Windows Server 2016/2012R2/2012 Essentials and Foundation
Windows Storage Server 2012R2/2012, 2008R2/2008, 2003
Windows MultiPoint Server 2012/2011/2010
Windows® 10
Windows 8/8.1/7/Vista/XP support
Mac® OS X support
Linux® (various distributions)
Linux-based management console
VMware ESX/ESXi™ (agentless and agent-based VM backup)
VMware changed-block tracking (CBT)
VMware ESXi Virtual host backup
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) support with agent-based backup
VMware vSphere VM Replication with WAN optimization
VMware vSphere Replication Replica Seeding
Hyper-V agentless and agent-based VM backup
Hyper-V changed-block tracking (CBT) and resilient-change trackng (RCT)
Hyper-V virtual host backup
Microsoft Exchange database backup with log truncation
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft Office 365® mailbox backup
Microsoft Azure® VM backup
Amazon AWS EC2® instance backup
Disk-imaging backup
File backup
Dynamic disks
GPT disks
Phone®, iPad®, Android® backup	To Acronis Cloud Storage
Acronis Disk Director Lite in on-premise installation
Oracle Database backup with log truncation
Citrix® XenServer
Red Hat® Virtualization
Linux KVM
Oracle® VM Server
NetApp SAN Storage Snapshots for VMware vSphere Backup
Backup of Exchange and SQL Server clusters
World’s Fastest Recovery
Acronis Universal Restore
Mounting of disk backup as a virtual drive
VMware ESXi host bare-metal recovery
Hyper-V host bare-metal recovery
Granular restore of Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes and emails
Granular restore of Microsoft Exchange
Granular restore of Microsoft SQL Server
Mounting of SQL databases from the backup storage
Flexible SQL recovery modes (RECOVERY, NORECOVERY, STANDBY)
Granular restore of Microsoft SharePoint
Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory domain controllers
Integrated search and preview of Office 365 emails before recovery
Integrated search and preview of Exchange emails before recovery
Restore of iPhone/iPad contacts, photos, videos, calendars, reminders from Acronis Cloud Storage subscription
Restore of Android device contacts, photos, videos, calendars, text messages from Acronis Cloud Storage subscription
Acronis Active Protection™
Convert backup to virtual machine
Acronis Instant Restore (run VM from a backup)
Acronis vmFlashback (CBT-based incremental VM restore)
Acronis Bootable Media
WinPE plug-in for on-premise console
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
PXE server
Remote bare-metal recovery
Automated bare-metal recovery
Enhanced validation, powered by Acronis Instant Restore
Flexible Storage and Backup Options
Acronis Cloud Storage: files and folders
Acronis Cloud Storage: disks and partitions
Acronis Cloud Storage: iPhone/iPad contacts, photos, videos, calendars, reminders, via iOS API
Acronis Cloud Storage: Android contacts, photos, videos, calendars, text messages via Android API
Local and external disk drives
Network shares
SFTP
Acronis Secure Zone
Backup validation as part of backup plan
Backup contents search
Backup encryption (in-flight and at-rest)
VSS support (consistent backup of applications)
Backup compression
Flexible backup rotation and retention policies
Backup retention cleanup as part of backup plan
Multi-destination backup (backup replication)
Acronis Notary™
Acronis ASign™
Centralized managed storage (Acronis Storage Node)
Central storage deduplication
Tape drive, autoloader, library support, including media management
Script-based location targeting
Scheduled backup validation
Scheduled backup replication
Scheduled backup retention
Off-host backup staging (moving)
Off-host backup replication (copying)
Off-host backup validation
Off-host backup retention (cleanup)
Intuitive, Scalable Management
Touch-friendly web-based centralized management console
Customizable dashboards
Email notifications
Condition-based backup scheduling
Event-based backup scheduling
Remote installation
Remote update
Smart alerting
Centralized data catalog with search
Advanced reporting
Admin roles (role-based administrative access)
Centralized backup policies for machine groups

Requirements:

Operating Systems for On-Premise Console

• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2
• Windows 10, 8/8.1, 7
• Linux x86_64 with kernel from 2.6.18 to 4.9 and glibc 2.3.4 or later

Microsoft Windows

• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2, 2003/2003 R2
• Windows Small Business Server 2011, 2008, 2003/2003 R2
• Windows MultiPoint Server 2012, 2011, 2010
• Windows Storage Server 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2, 2003
• Windows 10, 8/8.1, 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP Professional SP3 (x86, x64)

Linux

• Linux with kernel from 2.6.9 to 4.9 and glibc 2.3.4 or later
• Various 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_64) Linux distributions including:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x - 7.3
• Ubuntu 9.10 - 16.04
• Fedora 11 - 23
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 - 12
• Debian 4 - 8.5
• CentOS 5.x - 7.3
• CloudLinux 7, 7.1
• ClearOS 5.x, 6.x, 7, 7.1
• Oracle Linux 5.x - 7.3 (including UEK)

OS X

• OS X 10.8 - 10.12*

Mobile Operating Systems

• iOS 8 or later*
• Android 4.1 or later*

Hypervisors

• VMware vSphere ESX(i) 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, 4.1, including vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi)*
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2*
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2 with Hyper-V*
• Microsoft Windows 10, 8/8.1 (x64) with Hyper-V*

Cloud

• Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes*
• Amazon Web Services EC2 Instances
• Microsoft Azure VMs

Applications

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007
• Microsoft SQL Server 2016, 2014, 2012, 2008 R2, 2008, 2005
• Microsoft SharePoint 2013
• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1
• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2

Storage

• Local disks - SATA, SCSI, IDE, RAID
• Networked storage devices - SMB, NFS, iSCSI, FC
• Removable media - ZIP, Rev, RDX, etc.
• External HDDs and SSDs - USB 3.0/2.0/1.1and IEEE1394 (Firewire)
• Acronis Cloud Storage

File Systems

• FAT16/32
• Ext2/Ext3/Ext4
• JFS *
• NTFS
• ReiserFS3 *
• Linux SWAP
• HPFS
• ReiserFS4 *
• ReFS *
• XFS *

* Some limitations may apply.

Web Browsers

• Microsoft Edge 1.0
• Windows Internet Explorer 10 or later
• Google Chrome 29 or later
• Mozilla Firefox 23 or later
• Opera 16 or later
• Safari 8 or later (running in Apple OS X and iOS)

* Some limitations and license-specific restrictions may apply.

Documentation:

Download the Acronis Cyber Backup Advanced Datasheet(PDF).