Acronis Cyber Backup for Windows Server
Complete backup and recovery for individual Windows servers

Overview:

Best-In-Class Windows Server Data Protection and Recovery

When your Windows server goes down, avoid expensive downtime and get back up and running in minutes.

Recovering a server can take significant time and expertise, leaving your business vulnerable. Protect your entire Windows server environment with Acronis Cyber Backup, your one-stop solution for comprehensive Windows Server backups and fast, flexible recovery.

• Back up your entire Windows Server in one easy step with patented, block-level disk imaging
• Achieve RTOs (recovery time objectives) as low as 15 seconds with Acronis Instant Restore™
• Get back up and running in minutes with bare-metal recovery
• Recover individual files, application data, or a complete system with a few simple clicks or touches
• Save on time and storage with compression, incremental and differential backups

Not an IT expert?

Acronis Cyber Backup makes your backup and recovery exceptionally easy:

• Recover a server to new, different hardware without worrying about incompatibilities
• Install and configure quickly with few clicks or touches
• Access easy-to-use web console from any mobile device
• Eliminate guesswork with smart backups that capture everything needed for complete recovery
• Back up and recover Microsoft Exchange®, SQL Server®, SharePoint® and Active Directory®, including granular recovery of individual emails and documents
• Migrate your systems to virtual or cloud servers effortlessly

Only Acronis Cyber Backup 12

• 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 your VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V 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 VMware or Hyper-V virtual machine (VM)
• 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 every user by backing up 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 RTOs as low as 15 seconds, 2X faster than the closest competitor*

Easy - Install in 3 clicks

Complete - Protect 15 platforms (including Linux) with 1 solution

Safe - Choose one of 4 encryption standards

Reliable - Trusted by 500,000 businesses

Features

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

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.

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.

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.

Cloud and Local Web Console
Use the innovative and intuitive web console to provision on-premises or use right away in the Acronis Cloud. Accessible from any device, even your tablet, the console will reduce your backup efforts to bare minimum

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

Acronis vmFlashBack
When you need to roll back your Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware vSphere VM, Acronis Cyber Backup 12 will leverage the power of changed block tracking (CBT) technology to restore only the data changed since the last full backup. This will reduce recovery times and let you set aggressive 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.

Encrypted Storage
Encrypt your stored backups with industry-standard, in-flight and at-rest 256-bit AES encryption.

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

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 RPOs and RTOs.

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

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

Backup Replication and Staging
Completed backup data is automatically replicated between various storage locations (including the Acronis Cloud). Staging automatically moves data to new storage when the retention period for the current storage expires.

Backup Validation
Manual or scheduled, automatic validation of backups ensures that your system and user data are recoverable.

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, and soon — iPad, iPhone, and Android devices.

Benefits

Easy Backup
Be free of stress with exceptional ease of use

• Easily protect your entire business with the intuitive cloud-based/on-premise web console
• Effortlessly provision with zero installation for the cloud console and only a few clicks for the on-premise console
• Restore systems successfully to the same hardware or completely different hardware, even virtual or cloud

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

• Protect all your servers with trusted physical backup of Microsoft Windows® (and Linux®)
• Backup all your applications with single-pass backup and granular recovery of Microsoft® Exchange, SQL Server®, SharePoint®, and Active Directory®
• Safeguard all your virtual systems with best-in-class agentless and agent-based virtual backup of Microsoft Hyper-V® and VMware ESX(i)™ of VMs and hosts
• Defend all your cloud workloads with unique integrated backup of Microsoft Azure® VMs and Amazon® EC2 instances
• 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.

• Make your business data 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
• Make your VMware infrastructure safe with built-in replication and WAN optimization, failover, sandboxing, and failback

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™
• Roll back in no time with vmFlashback

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 emails to entire systems
• Join the community of 500,000 businesses trusting Acronis for comprehensive, flexible backup and data protection

Requirements:

Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS, Android

Hypervisors: Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere ESX(i)

Cloud Workloads: Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2

Applications: Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, 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

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)

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 - 24
• – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 - 12
• – Debian 4 - 8.3
• – 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 6 - 9 (coming soon)
• Android 4.1 - 6.0.1 (coming soon)

Hypervisors

• VMware vSphere ESX(i) 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, 4.1 - including free version
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016TP4, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016TP4, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2 with Hyper-V
• Microsoft Windows 10, 8/8.1 (x64) with Hyper-V

Cloud Workloads

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

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)

Documentation:

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