For disaster recovery and system migration in both physical and virtual environments, Acronis® True Image Echo Server for Windows delivers greater flexibility and value for SMBs and the Remote Office / Branch Office.
Are you running an organization with mission-critical Microsoft® Windows® servers in one location and limited IT staff? How much business would you lose if these servers went down? Acronis® True Image Echo™ Server for Windows provides comprehensive system protection and recovery of Windows servers and allows you to get back to business and minimize downtime.
Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows allows you to
* Create an exact Windows server disk image, including the operating system, databases, and applications;
* Migrate your systems between any virtual and physical servers quickly and easily.
After a system crash Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows allows you to perform an entire server restore in just minutes, not hours or days. Complete system restoration can be performed to an existing system or to a new system with different hardware, as well as to a virtual server. (This feature requires Acronis Universal Restore™, which is licensed separately)
Based on exclusive Acronis Drive Snapshot technology, Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows allows you to create backups without interrupting server operations, providing 24 x 7 x 365 availability
Restore an entire Windows server in minutes after any unforeseen event
Acronis Universal Restore — restore to different hardware or to a virtual server (note: requires separate add-on license)
New! Backup image encryption
New! Multi-volume snapshots — Permits you to back up data located on multiple volumes
New! Convert image files to VMDK or VHD for instant virtualization — Supports major virtualization operating systems from VMware®, Microsoft®, XenSource®, SWsoft®and Parallels®
New! Dynamic disk support
New! Wider hardware compatibility — including SAS drives and tape libraries support
New! Improved Scheduling and Notifications — including event-driven backups, periodic backup validations, and schedule cloning
Modify images — Mount images in read/write mode and apply changes directly
Boot from an image using Acronis® Active Restore™ (a patent pending technology) — Decrease downtime by allowing systems to be used during a recovery
Enhanced database support — Online backup of servers with the mission critical databases, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and more
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- and folder-based backups
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
Supported storage
* Hard disk drives
* Networked storage devices
* Tape drives
* 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.
* Support for all levels of SCSI and IDE RAID controllers
Supported operating systems
* 2003 Server x64 Editions
* Windows 2003 Server
* Windows 2000 Advanced Server
* Windows 2000 Server
Special support for other operating systems including Linux and NetWare (bootable CD is required).
Supported filesystems
FAT16/32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS and Linux SWAP.
Special sector-by-sector support for other partitions and corrupted file systems.
Hardware requirements
* CPU: Pentium 133 (and alike) or higher
* RAM 128 Mb or more
* Disk space: 20 Mb
Acronis True Image was named the best product in the "Attendee's Pick" award at Microsoft TechEd. The award was sponsored by Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine, and Office & SharePoint Pro.com.
Acronis True Image Enterprise Server and the Acronis True Image Server enable enterprises to get up and running more quickly than traditional file-based restore methods after a systems failure, saving time and ultimately saving money