Advanced Backup

Support a wider scope of workloads with continuous protection of data, validation of backed-up data, and visibility into the protection status of assets across your clients’ IT infrastructure.

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Overview:

Best-in-breed cloud backup for MSP enhanced with cyber protection

To protect clients' business-critical data, backup is not enough – clients need an integrated approach to cyber protection. Paired with Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, the Advanced Backup Pack enables you to extend the cloud backup capabilities your clients need to proactively protect their data.

Increase automation and productivity

Deliver near-zero RPOs and downtime with cloud backup enhancements – like continuous data protection. Save time while preventing client data loss.

The most secure managed cloud backup

Acronis delivers a unique approach by combining cloud backup with cyber protection features, such as anti-malware and antivirus – helping you keep clients’ data secure.

Protect more workload types

Protect more than 20 workload types from a single console, including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle DBMS Real Application clusters, and SAP HANA.

Significantly enhance your clients’ data protection

Safeguard client data, even between scheduled backups. Extend backup capabilities to SAP HANA, Oracle DB, MariaDB, MySQL, and application clusters. You’ll also have greater visibility into the protection status of all data across your clients’ infrastructure.

Enable quick and easy recovery with minimal IT intervention

Speed up the recovery process of multiple workloads and minimize IT efforts by offloading the recovery to the end-users. By enabling the one-click recovery in the protection plan, you can easily empower non-technical end-users with a simplified, automated recovery of an entire workload.

Achieve near-zero RPOs with continuous data protection

Confidently offer your clients the data protection and rapid recovery options they want and need. By adding Advanced Backup to Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, you can eliminate downtime while simultaneously protecting clients from advanced threats. Continuous data protection captures and backs up changes made in real-time from business-critical applications so no data is lost.

Gain complete visibility into your clients’ protection

Help your clients meet compliance and regulatory requirements by ensuring that all of their workloads are protected – from data to applications to systems. Acronis’ data backup software enables you to easily scan clients’ machines to identify unprotected files, applications, and workloads to proactively protect their data.

Reduce the CPU/RAM consumption with off-host data processing

Reduce the load on your client’s workloads by moving backups replication, validation, retention and conversion into VM operations to another machine. These operations can be scheduled independently from the protection plan, e.g. on a separate schedule.

Additionally, you can ensure consistency and recoverability of backups with MI-assisted validation via boot screenshot analysis. The screenshots are auto-analyzed by an AI/MI engine, eliminating the need for any user interaction.

Support even more workloads

In addition to supporting Windows, Linux KVM, Mac, VMware, Hyper-V, Red Hat Virtualization, Citrix XenServer, Oracle, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Azure, and Amazon EC2 included in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, adding Advanced Backup extends that support to:

Microsoft SQL Server clusters
Microsoft Exchange clusters
MariaDB
MySQL
Oracle DB
SAP HANA

New: Geo-redundant cloud storage

Acronis Geo-redundant Storage is designed to enhance your backup strategies by adding an extra layer of protection. Back up your data to an Acronis data center and have it automatically replicated to another remote Acronis location in the background.

Enhanced Data Protection

If one data center faces an outage, your data remains accessible from another location, guaranteeing uninterrupted access.

Compliance and Security

Geo-redundant storage helps meet regulatory requirements by ensuring that data is securely stored across diverse geographic locations.

Cost-Efficiency

Leveraging geo-redundant storage reduces the risk and associated costs of data loss, ensuring that your valuable data is always safe and accessible.

Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery

Get a seamless hybrid experience and ensure ultimate data safety and accessibility by backing up and recovering customers’ systems, applications, and data via both local and cloud storage. Oversee all clients from a single pane of glass with management components centrally located in the Acronis Cloud.

Enhanced protection for workloads

Continuous data protection

Ensure that users don’t lose work that is in-progress by defining a list of critical applications that they frequently use. Acronis’ agent monitors every change made in the listed applications and continuously backs it up in real-time, so no data is lost.

Data protection map and compliance reporting

Guarantee that critical data is protected for compliance reporting, with the data protection map. Use the automatic data classification to track the protection status of important files, folders, and workstations. If they are not protected, an alert is created so you can protect your clients’ critical data.

Application cluster backup and restore

Ease the IT administrative burden with built-in capabilities to easily backup and restore Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle DBMS Real Application clusters. This easy to preform backup for service providers helps you quickly and easily protect multiple workload with one solution.

SAP HANA backup

Strengthen SAP HANA database protection with consistent, script-based, disk-level backups that simplify management and do not require any SAP HANA expertise. If a recovery is needed, you can perform image-based backup for your clients’ SAP HANA database and all the data associated with it, including application configurations.

Seamless integrations and automation

Easing administrative efforts, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud natively integrates with commonly used systems by service providers such as RMM and PSA tools, hosting control panels, and billing systems. Custom integrations and automation are also possible through a set of RESTful APIs and SDKs.

Features:

Data protection map and compliance reporting

Ensure that critical data is protected for compliance reporting with the data protection map. Use the automatic data classification to track the protection status of important files and alert admins if sensitive client data is not backed-up.

Continuous data protection

Ensure users don’t lose the work that is in-progress by defining a list of critical apps that they frequently use. The Acronis agent monitors every change made in the listed applications and continuously backs them up between scheduled backups so no data is lost.

Full or granular recovery of MariaDB and MySQL databases
During the backup of the entire workload, Acronis collects metadata for each database running on it. You can browse databases and/or fully or granularly recover data and tables without recovering the entire workload.

Application cluster backup and restore
Ease IT administrative burden with built-in capabilities for easy back up and recovery of Microsoft Exhange, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle DBMS Real Apllication clusters.

SAP HANA backup
Strengthen your SAP HANA database protection with consistent, script-based, disk-level backups that simplify management and do not require any SAP HANA expertise.

Group management for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
Create static or dynamic groups based on your Azure AD data and simplify protection management for multiple Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace seats by eliminating the need to configure protection for each individual seat.

Adjustable backup frequency for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
Reduce RPO and improve business continuity by backing up your seats data up to 6 times per day. Minimize the potential data loss and quickly recover from incidents, minimizing downtime.

Off-host data processing for backup operations
Reduce the load on your clients’ workloads by moving backups replication, validation, retention and conversion into VM operations to another machine. These operations can be scheduled independently.

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More than your average cloud backup – a complete cyber protection solution

Benefit from backup capabilities enhanced with cyber protection – with more than 20 workload types, you can protect your clients’ data confidently. Discover what backup and data protection capabilities you gain with Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud. Harness the power of one solution, one agent, and one console to deliver the comprehensive cyber protection your clients seek.

Features	Email Security	Microsoft 365
File-level, disk-level, image and application backups
Backup popular workloads like Mac, Windows, Linux, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Hyper-V, VMware, and much more
Hybrid storage options – Acronis-hosted storage, public clouds such as Microsoft Azure, or MSP local storage
Flexible recovery options from full systems to granular files
Cloud-Physical-Virtual migrations
Archive encryption
Incremental and differential backups
Group management for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace: Create static or dynamic groups based on your Azure AD data and simplify protection management for multiple seats by eliminating the need to configure protection for each individual seat
Adjustable backup frequency for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace: Reduce RPO and improve business continuity by backing up your seats data up to 6 times per day
Extended backup support: Covers Microsoft SQL clusters, Microsoft Exchange clusters, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle DB, and SAP HANA
Data protection map and compliance reporting: Scan clients’ environments to ensure their workloads, files, applications, and users are protected
Continuous data protection (CDP): Acronis’ agent monitors and backs up changes in real time with near-zero RPOs, ensuring no data is lost
Off-host data processing: Reduce the CPU/RAM consumption and achieve near-zero RTO of a protected workload

Frequently Asked Questions:

You first need to create a customer and an account for them. Once that is done, you can either log in as that customer or, in the Account management console, select the customer to manage their backups. This will bring you to the Backup management console where you can download the backup agent.

Resource usage is relative to the system specifications and a number of other factors, such as disk speed, disk size, available bandwidth, etc. By default, the Acronis backup process runs on low priority, with the operating system dynamically throttling its resources.
On modern servers and workstations, the CPU usage is typically around 3-4% and RAM consumption will be up to 500 MB with CPU spikes during the snapshot phase.

Acronis provides a hardware-independent software solution that can work with almost any hardware on industry-standard protocols like SMB and NFS. Acronis can also support any block-based storage, as long as it's supported by the operating system.

In the backups section of the backup portal:

Select Add Location
Select a Network folder and enter the network path

We also have online documentation

This will depend on the size and performance of the hard disk, the amount of data changed, and the available bandwidth. Testing needs to be done, but the minimum threshold is 10 minutes.

We recommended you perform agentless backup for Hyper-V guest VMs, unless the VM needs to have ransomware protection and application-aware backups. Then, installing a Windows application agent is required.

Acronis backup agents support deduplication, in archives, for a single machine. Any new duplicated files will be skipped and not backed up.
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud does not use a centralized deduplication server as the client's data can be encrypted and containerized for security purposes.

Compression rates vary depending on the type of data but generally, you can expect around 30-40% compression unless the data is exclusively media files.

Yes, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud and its services use encryption on all levels.

Acronis Active Protection is an advanced anti-ransomware technology. Completely compatible with the most common anti-malware solutions, our artificial-intelligence-based technology actively protects all of the data on your systems, including documents, media files, programs, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud files, and more. It can detect and deflect attacks, and restore impacted data.

Bare metal restores can be done by booting the target machine using bootable media, point to the backup repository for the image file.

The destination VM needs to have an OS pre-installed with the Acronis agent. The restoration will then be done using either P2V or V2V. It's not possible to use bootable media in Azure/Google/Amazon.

Yes. It’s possible to restore a disk image to a smaller drive if the smaller drive has enough space to accommodate the occupied space of the larger disk (e.g. if you have a 200 GB disk with 100 GB of space used, you can transfer an image of this disk to a 150 GB drive, but not to an 80 GB disk).

This process is done in two stages:

Creation of the initial backup on external media, please refer to the online documentation.
Sending the data, which can be done through physical shipment, also described in this Knowledge Base article, or upload via WAN from an alternative location using a special tool.

MSP backup solutions enable managed service providers to deliver backup services to their clients.

Yes, the Advanced Backup pack is available to managed service partners using Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud. The Advanced Backup pack enables service providers to extend the cloud backup capabilities their clients need to proactively protect their data, including continuous data protection, extended backup support, one-click recovery, and more.

Cloud storage is the most flexible and cost-effective way to back up critical files and programs. Cloud backup solutions help isolate data from local device failures, malware attacks or natural disasters. However, experts recommend that you follow the 3-2-1 rule: make three copies of every piece of important data; store that data in two different formats; and keep one off-site copy.

Documentation:

Download the Acronis Advanced Backup Datasheet (PDF).

Advanced Backup

Overview:

Best-in-breed cloud backup for MSP enhanced with cyber protection

Increase automation and productivity

The most secure managed cloud backup

Protect more workload types

Significantly enhance your clients’ data protection

Enable quick and easy recovery with minimal IT intervention

Achieve near-zero RPOs with continuous data protection

Gain complete visibility into your clients’ protection

Reduce the CPU/RAM consumption with off-host data processing

Support even more workloads

New: Geo-redundant cloud storage

Enhanced Data Protection

Compliance and Security

Cost-Efficiency

Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery

Enhanced protection for workloads

Continuous data protection

Data protection map and compliance reporting

Application cluster backup and restore

SAP HANA backup

Seamless integrations and automation

Features:

Data protection map and compliance reporting

Continuous data protection

Compare:

More than your average cloud backup – a complete cyber protection solution

Frequently Asked Questions:

I signed up for a trial. Where can I download the backup agents?

How much system resource usage will it take to back up?

Can you integrate with my storage solution?

How can I set up a backup to a network drive?

How frequently can I back up (RPO)?

What are the best practices to back up Hyper-V?

Does Acronis support deduplication?

What is the compression rate?

Does Acronis support encryption?

How does ransomware protection work?

How granular is Exchange/Microsoft 365 recovery?

How do I do a bare metal restore?

How can I restore a VM to Azure/Google/Amazon?

Can I restore from a smaller disk to a larger disk and vice versa?

My customer has low bandwidth. How can I upload the initial backup?

What is an MSP backup solution?

Is Acronis Advanced Backup pack for MSPs?

Why are cloud backup services important for MSPs?

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