Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 11)

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1 Introducing Acronis Backup
1.1 What's new in Update 5
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Acronis Backup Advanced for VMware now uses improved backup technology for vSphere virtual
machines.
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The most recent operating systems remain bootable when recovered to dissimilar hardware. To
simplify the recovery procedure, the Acronis Universal Restore setting is removed from the
recovery wizard. A separate Acronis Universal Restore tool is introduced for the cases when
installing a custom driver is required. The tool can be downloaded from your account on the
Acronis website.
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The cataloging performance is improved.
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Acronis Active Restore now works faster, by using a Read-Only Memory cache, and supports
Windows 8/8.1 and Windows Server 2012/2012R2.
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It is now possible to contact Acronis technical support directly from the error dialog box.
1.2 What's new in Update 4
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Recovery of Exchange 2013 mailboxes and their contents from database backups to a Microsoft
Exchange Server.
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Support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.3.
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Improved backup to Acronis Cloud Storage.
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Improved backup to tapes.
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An option to accelerate recovery of large files from tapes (p. 164).
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Support for Linux kernel version 3.13.
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Support for Debian 7.2, 7.4, and 7.5.
1.3 What's new in Update 3
Rebranding
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Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 is renamed to Acronis Backup. The advanced product editions
are now called the Acronis Backup Advanced suite.
Licensing
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The Universal Restore feature is included in all Acronis Backup and Acronis Backup Advanced
licenses. The Deduplication feature is included in all Acronis Backup Advanced licenses. The
Universal Restore and Deduplication add-on licenses are deprecated.
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Agent for Exchange, Agent for SQL, and Agent for Active Directory can be installed by using any
Acronis Backup Advanced license for virtual environments. No additional licenses are required.
Cloud backup
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The Acronis Backup & Recovery Online service is renamed to Acronis Cloud Backup.
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Cloud backup is now available for machines running Linux.
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Cloud backup subscriptions for Servers and for Virtual Machines are deprecated. Users can
renew these subscriptions to volume subscriptions (p. 422).