Acronis Cyber Backup for Active Directory Server
Complete Backup for Microsoft Active Directory® Domain Controllers and Data

Overview:

Faster Active Directory Backup and Restore

Protect all domain controllers — even if you aren’t an IT expert

Get easy and safe Microsoft Active Directory domain controller protection with Acronis Cyber Backup 12 - the fastest way to protect your entire IT infrastructure:

• Install and configure quickly with few clicks or touches
• Backup your entire domain controller, including Active Directory databases with patented disk imaging technology
• Ensure reliability with automatic authoritative and authoritative restore, and avoid USN rollback
• Restore entire domain controllers to the same or dissimilar hardware
• Access easy-to-use web console from any mobile device

Only Acronis Cyber Backup 12

• Backs up your on-premise physical and virtual systems and applications, as well as your Microsoft Azure® VMs and Amazon® EC2 instances for complete protection of your entire IT infrastructure
• Protects your Microsoft Hyper-V® and VMware ESXi™ hosts (not just VMs) and recovers them to dissimilar hardware for complete protection of your virtual infrastructure
• Includes Acronis Instant Restore™, reducing your recovery time objectives (RTOs) to seconds by running any physical or virtual Windows or Linux® system backup as a Hyper-V or VMware virtual machine
• Delivers cloud and on-premise data protection for your entire business, providing you with a unified web console to back up and recover all your individual workloads
• Protects every user by backing up Microsoft Windows® PCs and tablets, Mac® computers, iPads®, iPhones®, and any Android® devices
• Gives you complete control over the location of your data, systems, and backups — ensuring that you always know where your company data is, even if it is stored in the cloud

Key Features:

• Fast - Achieve recovery time objectives (RTOs) as low as 15 seconds, 2X faster than the closest competitor*
• Easy - Install in 3 clicks and back up to the cloud and on-premise storage
• Complete - Protect Microsoft Active Directory and 14 more platforms with 1 solution
• Safe - Choose one of 4 encryption standards
• Modern - Trusted by 500,000 businesses

Features

Acronis Cloud Storage
Acronis Cyber Backup provides direct access to secure, offsite cloud backup in the Acronis cloud. Simply add an Acronis Cloud Storage subscription to your purchase to fortify your backup storage plan and enhance your data protection.

Centralized Cloud and Local Web Console
Centrally manage all your backups with the innovative and intuitive web console, provisioned on-premises or readily available in the Acronis Cloud. Accessible from any device, even your tablet, the console will reduce your backup efforts to bare minimum.

Complete Active Directory Backup
Back up entire domain controllers, including operating system, Active Directory databases, settings and configuration

Acronis vmFlashBack
When you need to roll back your VM, Acronis Cyber Backup 12 leverages the power of changed block tracking (CBT) technology to restore only the data changed since the last full backup. This reduces recovery times and lets you set aggressive RTOs

Acronis Universal Restore
Restore backups rapidly to any machine — physical, virtual, or the cloud — with just a few simple clicks using Acronis’ unique system-recovery technology.

Physical, Virtual, Cloud, Applications, Mobile
Acronis Cyber Backup 12 is the only backup solution that protects your physical Windows and Linux servers; virtual Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; cloud Microsoft Azure VMs and Amazon EC2 instances; Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, and Active Directory applications; Windows PCs, Macs, iPad, iPhone, and Android devices

Flexible and Reliable Recovery
Restore entire domain controllers to the same or dissimilar hardware. If a domain contains more than one domain controller, and you recover one of them, a non-authoritative restore is performed automatically and a USN rollback will not occur after the recovery.

Bare-Metal Recovery
Disk-imaging technology allows you to create an exact replica of your system, configuration, and application data in one step. You can then restore the replica to a new drive, the same hardware, or dissimilar hardware.

Backup Operations Scheduling
Backups can be automated based on simple or custom schedules, ensuring you achieve your target RPOs.

Compression
Built-in compression significantly reduces network usage and storage requirements.

Microsoft Business Applications Protection
Built-in application-aware, single-pass backup also protects Exchange, SharePoint, and Active Directory. You can then restore individual documents, databases, or entire systems.

VMware vSphere Replication with WAN Optimization
Integrated VMware vSphere VM replication creates dependable replicas on your secondary site for quick failover, sandbox testing, and failback. Integrated WAN optimization ensures that replication completes as fast as possible and that you achieve target recovery point objectives (RPOs) and RTOs.

Incremental and Differential Backups
Incremental and differential backups identify only the changes made since the last backup, significantly reducing backup time, network usage, and storage requirements.

System Performance
Network bandwidth and disk-write speed throttling allows you to control the impact of running backups during production hours.

Multiple Destinations
Store backup copies in up to five different locations for flexible, reliable disaster recovery options. Includes support for local disks, networked storage, and Acronis Cloud Storage

Acronis Instant Restore
Run any physical or virtual, Windows, or Linux, backup on your existing Hyper-V host directly from backup storage — no data movement necessary! Recovery is blazing fast so your system will be up and running in seconds

Backup Replication
Completed backup data is automatically replicated to the secondary storage location (including Microsoft Azure File Storage and Acronis Cloud)

Benefits

Easy Backup
Be free of stress with exceptional ease of use

• Easily protect your Active Directory with the intuitive cloud-based/on-premise web console
• Effortlessly provision with zero installation for the cloud console and only 3 clicks for the on-premise console
• Restore individual domain controllers to same or dissimilar hardware, or even entire Active Directory domains after a disaster

Complete Protection
Get the broadest data protection tailored for your business backup needs:

• Backup all your applications with single-pass backup and granular recovery of Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange® , SharePoint® , and SQL Server®
• Defend all your cloud workloads with unique integrated backup of Microsoft Azure VMs and Amazon EC2 instances
• Safeguard all your virtual systems with best-in-class agentless and agent-based virtual backup of Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi VMs and hosts
• Protect all your servers with trusted physical backup of Microsoft Windows and Linux
• Keep all users happy with backup of Microsoft Windows PCs, Macs, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices

Safe Solution
Regain control of your own IT environment and achieve ultimate peace of mind with the industries safest business backup solution.

• Keep your confidential email communication safe with in-flight and at-rest encryption and password protection
• Control your infrastructure with alerting and email notifications
• Trust the safety of your data, knowing exactly where your backups are — even if stored in the cloud

Fast Results
Get rapid business data protection at your fingertips

• Provision quickly with zero installation of the cloud console and only a few clicks for the on-premise console
• Back up fast with patented disk-imaging technology used by millions
• Recover in seconds with Acronis Instant Restore™

Reliable Technologies
Depend on the business backup solution that safeguards millions of systems

• Rely on trusted Acronis Universal Restore to recover to dissimilar hardware
• Trust a disk-imaging technology invented and patented by Acronis
• Count on versatile recovery options — from single domain controllers to entire environments
• Join the community of 500,000 businesses trusting Acronis to backup and protect their data

Requirements:

• Supported Microsoft Windows Server with Active Directory: 2016, 2012R2, 2012, 2008 R2, 2008, 2003R2, 2003
• Other Applications: Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory
• Storage: Local Disks, Networked Storage Devices, Acronis Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Storage
• Web Browsers: IE, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Detailed Requirements

Operating Systems for On-Premise Console

• Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4
• Windows Server 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2 x64
• Windows 10, 8/8.1, 7 (x64 edition)
• Linux x86_64 with kernel from 2.6.18 to 4.5 and glibc 2.3.4 or later

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

Microsoft Windows

• Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4
• 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 SP2+ (x86, x64)

Hypervisors

• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 (including Hyper-V RCT), 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
• VMware vSphere ESX(i) 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, 4.1

Linux
Linux with kernel from 2.6 to 4.5 and glibc 2.3.2 or later
Various 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_64) Linux distributions including:

• – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x - 7.x
• – Ubuntu 9.10 - 16.04
• – Fedora 11 - 23
• – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 - 12
• – Debian 4 - 8.5
• – CentOS 5.x - 7.x
• – CloudLinux 7, 7.1
• – ClearOS 5.x, 6.x, 7, 7.1

Oracle Linux 5.x - 7.x (including UEK)

OS X

• OS X 10.08 - 10.11

Mobile Operating Systems

• iOS 8 - 9
• Android 4.1 - 6.0.1 (coming soon)

Cloud Workloads

• Amazon Web Services EC2 Instances
• Microsoft Azure VMs

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
• Microsoft Azure File Storage

File Systems

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

Web Browsers

• Microsoft Edge 25 or later
• 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)

Documentation:

Download the Acronis Cyber Backup for Active Directory Server Datasheet (PDF).