Acronis Backup and Recovery Software

As part of our award winning server line, or as complimentary software to our portfolio of award winning products, EdgeCore Technologies is pleased to offer the complete line of Acronis Deployment and Backup solutions for onsite system protection and recovery solutions. Please see below to learn more about these incredible products and how they can provide you with complete piece of mind.

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Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation

• Backup any PC in corporate network
• Bare-metal restore
• Backup to FTP
• Universal Restore (Optional)

An ideal solution for backup and restore of a small office network or a local computer. This software gives you many opportunities, like backup to a virtual server or FTP, managing backup/restore tasks remotely on other computers and more.

Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation includes a number of components allowing you to completely manage all backup and restoration tasks of remote systems throughout your network including product installation, backup, recovery, optimization of storage resources, and a view of the status of these machines.

With Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation you can backup an entire hard disk or just key files and folders on a system. With support for both 64-bit Windows and 32-bit Windows, you can rest assured that both old and new systems are protected.

After a system crash Acronis True Image Workstation allows you to perform a full system restore, a bare-metal restore (note: Universal Restore is necessary for this task) 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.

Highlighted features and benefits

• Remote deployment, backup and restore of files/folders/partitions/HDD of any computer in your corporate network
• Acronis Universal Restore — restore to different hardware and recover from any unforeseen event (note: requires separate add-on license)
• Save your backups to an existing HDD, to a virtual machine or to FTP
• Boot from an image, using Acronis Snap RestoreTM (a patent pending technology)  — decrease downtime by allowing systems to be used during a recovery
• DVD Burning — save backups directly to DVDs without using 3rd party DVD burning software

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Acronis True Image Bare Metal Restore

In disaster recovery, a bare metal restore is the process of reformatting a computer from scratch after a catastrophic failure. Typically the process involves reinstalling the operating system and software applications and then, if possible, restoring data and settings.

Acronis Bare Metal Restore approach automates and streamlines the server recovery process, making it unnecessary to manually reinstall operating systems or configure hardware. Acronis True Image takes a snap shot of your server/workstation which includes the operating system, files, applications, etc. With simple commands, complete server/workstation restores can be accomplished in a fraction of the time without extensive training or tedious administration. From the intuitive True Image interface, execute multiple server/workstation restores in parallel to accomplish mass-recovery operations. One option addresses the demands of multiple platforms, eliminating the need for customized restore procedures on each platform.

• Fully Automated System Recovery — With a single command, server/workstation recovery steps are executed automatically with almost no user intervention;
• Dissimilar System Restore for Windows (Universal Restore) — Integrated feature enables recovery to target Windows systems with completely different hardware configurations, including different network interface adapters, mass storage devices, video adapters, motherboards, and CPU quantities and types;
• Point-in-Time Restore — Restore systems back to the point of the last successful backup — full or incremental — or to previous backup images;
• Restores Machine Configuration — Details about the disk configuration and TCP/IP settings are automatically recorded and updated during every scheduled backup, ensuring recovery to the precise pre-failure state of all system configurations.

Acronis Universal Restore

A license for Acronis True Image Workstation 9.1 is required to use Acronis Universal Restore

With Acronis True Image you can backup your data to a remote machine, including virtual servers, using an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) connection. This is a practical backup destination as it allows you to store important files offsite. It can be considered as an additional protection against data loss as the result of hardware failure or other disasters.

Backup to FTP is suitable for:

• Home/Remote users — can be used as a personal offsite backup solution, protecting your data against theft, fire or other disasters that could affect your hardware. If you are a dynamic person that travels a good deal then an ftp backup is a must because you can access your backed up data from the FTP server from any computer given that you enter the security details known only by you;
• Computer Consultants — if you are an individual or a company that provides consulting services then you can install on your clients’ machines to automatically backup to your FTP server, ensuring this way that their important data is backed up;
• Corporations — even if the company policy includes backing up locally as a must, you have to consider an offsite backup solution too. This gives your company an additional security option against natural disasters, theft, fire, local hardware fails;
• Outsourcing companies — if you are outsourcing work to freelancers or other companies, or if you have employees working on different locations, you know that backing up offsite files is very difficult. In the same time, your success depends on their work too, thus you could use FTP backup to have their work protected with True Image.

Using Acronis True Image, you can easily backup to FTP by selecting your FTP virtual server or other machine as a destination. You can define the FTP configuration and using the security details that you have (username/password) your data can be backed up onto the FTP server.

Acronis Management Console

The Acronis Management Console provides remote administration, ensuring that all systems in your network, regardless of your domain and workgroup structure, can be accessed and managed from one location.

How does the Acronis Management Console Work?

Step 1: Install the Acronis Management Console on any machine in your network.

It is important to note that the Management Console can be installed on as many machines as you need. For example, if you have three administrators responsible for managing your backups, you can install the Management Console on the three systems used by these administrators. Moreover, this component can be used to manage both servers and workstations running Acronis True Image.

Step 2: Open the Management Console and install the Acronis True Image Agents on remote systems in your network.

Step 3: Begin managing systems, scheduling backups, and recovering remote systems in your network.

Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Windows

Locally managed online server backup, server disk imaging, and bare-metal restore solution for Windows servers

Are you a small organization running a couple of mission-critical Windows servers in one location with limited IT staff? How much business would you lose if these servers went down? Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Windows provides comprehensive system protection and recovery of Windows servers and allows you to get back to business and minimize 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 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 Server for Windows 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.

Based on the exclusive Acronis Drive Snapshot technology, Acronis True Image Server for Windows allows you to create backups without interrupting server operations, providing 24 x 7 availability.

Software Development Kit:

• New! Acronis True Image SDK — we offer corporate customers a convenient way of managing data backup and recovery systems and disk management functionality from within your custom software applications.

New features:

• New! DVD Burning — Save backups directly to DVDs without using 3rd party DVD burning software
• Acronis Universal Restore — Restore to different hardware and recover from any unforeseen event (note: requires separate add-on license)
• Modify images — Mount images in read/write mode and apply changes directly
• Enhanced database support — Online backup of mission critical databases, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle
• 64 bit Windows support — Use one application for both new and old systems
• 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 saves space in storage archives ensuring that you capture only business data
• 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, and bootable recovery media ISOs — Eliminate the need to have separate recovery media

Acronis True Image 9.1 Enterprise Server

Centrally managed online server backup, server disk imaging, and bare-metal restore solution for Windows and Linux servers

Is server downtime costing you thousands of dollars an 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 and 32-bit operating systems, you can rest assured that both old and new systems are protected.

Acronis True Image Enterprise Server 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 True Image Enterprise Server includes a number of components that offer great flexibility for corporate IT departments; the Management Console, the Backup Server, and the Group Server. These components allow you to completely manage all backup and restoration tasks including product installation, backup, recovery, optimization of storage resources, and a view of the status of remote systems throughout your network, increasing your IT department's productivity and reducing costs.

Based on the exclusive Acronis Drive Snapshot technology, Acronis True Image Enterprise Server allows you to create a server disk backup image without interrupting server operations, providing 24 x 7 availability.

Software Development Kit:

• New! Acronis True Image SDK — we offer corporate customers a convenient way of managing data backup and recovery systems and disk management functionality from within your custom software applications.

Product Components:

• Acronis Backup Server — Ensure optimal usage of storage resources by allowing IT administrators to establish backup policies
• Acronis Group Server — Ease administration by viewing the status of all systems in the network
• Acronis Management Console — Deploy product to remote machines and manage backup tasks remotely
• Acronis True Image Windows Agent — Run backup and recovery tasks on remote Windows servers in your network
• Acronis True Image Enterprise Server Local Versions — Backup and recover a local system
• NEW! Acronis True Image Linux Agent — Run backup and recovery tasks on remote Linux servers in your network

Product Features:

• New! DVD Burning — Save backups directly to DVDs without using 3rd party DVD burning software
• New! Acronis Universal Restore — Restore to different hardware and recover from any unforeseen event (note: requires separate add-on license)
• Remote unattended restores with the Acronis bootable agent — Recover all systems in the network from a central location
• New! Modify images — Mount images in read/write mode and apply changes directly
• Boot from an image, using Acronis Snap Restore™ (a patent pending technology) — Decrease downtime by allowing systems to be used during a recovery
• New! 64 bit Windows support — Use one application for both new and old systems
• Enhanced database support — Online backup of mission critical databases, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle
• 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 saves 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
• Backup to FTP server — Expand your backup archive options
• Acronis Secure Zone — Save backup image to a special partition, hidden from the operating system for a complete local recovery
• Acronis Startup Recovery Manager — Initiate recovery by selecting the F11 key

Acronis Backup Server

The Acronis Backup Server allows you optimize usage of storage resources in your network.

How does the Acronis Backup Server work?

Step 1: Open the Acronis True Image executable file and install the Acronis Backup Server on your designated storage server

Step 2: Open the Acronis True Image Management Console and connect to your storage server

Step 3: Manage your backup archives by selecting one of the following options:

• Create Profiles — The Acronis Backup Server allows you to create profiles to more effectively manage backup archives. You can create two types of profiles: an administrator profile and a user profile. When an administrator profile is created the backup archive is associated with the host machine profile. When a user profile is created the backup archive is associated with the user profile. You can set the following parameters when creating a profile: the location of the archive, the size of the archive, the number of backup archives, and the time period to keep the backup archive.
• Configure Backup Locations — In addition to managing backup archives according to a user profile, you can add restrictions to the backup archive location of systems in your network. You can set the size of the backup archive, the number of backup archives, the time period to keep the backup archive, and the location of the backup archive.
• Manage Backup Archives — You can quickly view all of the user profiles and backup archive locations on your storage server.
• Specify Default Settings — You can specify the default settings for backup archives: the size of the backup archive, the number of backup archives, and the time period to keep backup archives. Once you have defined the default settings, the settings will be available when you create new profiles or configure backup locations. You can also ensure that your backup archives comply with your defined parameters by scheduling regular tasks to check for compliance.

Acronis Group Server

The Acronis Group Server allows you to view and manage backup tasks for all systems in the network from the Acronis Management Console.

How does the Acronis Group Server Work?

Step 1: Install the Acronis Group Server on a system in your network

Step 2: Open the Acronis Management Console and connect to the system where the Acronis Group Server is installed

Step 3: Begin viewing and managing backup tasks by selecting one of the following options:

• View Group Status — View the status of the machines in your network running Acronis True Image Agents from one location. You can quickly troubleshoot any issues with backup tasks by viewing whether backups were completed successfully or not.
• New Group Task — Create backup tasks for several machines in your network at once.
• Delete Group Task — Delete a previously created group task

Acronis Management Console

The Acronis Management Console provides remote administration, ensuring that all systems in your network, regardless of your domain and workgroup structure, can be accessed and managed from one location.

How does the Acronis Management Console Work?

Step 1: Install the Acronis Management Console on any machine in your network.

It is important to note that the Management Console can be installed on as many machines as you need. For example, if you have three administrators responsible for managing your backups, you can install the Management Console on the three systems used by these administrators. Moreover, this component can be used to manage both servers and workstations running Acronis True Image.

Step 2: Open the Management Console and install the Acronis True Image Agents on remote systems in your network.

Step 3: Begin managing systems, scheduling backups, and recovering remote systems in your network.

Acronis True Image Windows Agent

The Acronis True Image Windows Agent is a component of Acronis True Image that allows you to remotely manage backup and restoration tasks on Windows systems in your network.

How does the Acronis True Image Windows Agent work?

Step 1: Open the Acronis True Image Management Console and select to install Acronis components to a remote computer

Step 2: Select the Acronis True Image Agent and the remote computer where you want to install the Agent

Step 3: Install the agent on the remote machine

Once the Agent is installed, you can manage backup and restoration of this system from the Acronis Management Console. The agent performs all of the tasks on the remote system.

Acronis True Image Local Version

Acronis True Image includes a local version of the product, a component for backup and restoration of a local system that does not require remote access.

How does the Acronis True Image Local Version Work?

Step 1: Install the Local Version of the product

Step 2: Open the Acronis True Image application and begin managing backup tasks on the local system. The main options in the local version are:

• Backup — Create backup archives of the local system
• Recovery — Recover files, folders, partitions, disks or an entire system
• Clone Disk — Transfer the operating system, applications and data from the local disk to a new one
• Add New Disk — Add a new disk to increase storage capacity while leaving the operating system and applications on the local disk intact
• Create bootable rescue media — Create CDs, USB flash keys, ISO images, and Remote Installation Server (RIS) packages that can be used to boot any failed system in your network. Please note that the Local Version is the only component that includes the capability to create bootable rescue media.

Acronis True Image Linux Agent