Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 15)

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Installation
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Remote installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Linux.
Support for various types of storage
Acronis Online Backup Storage (only for machines running Windows and virtual machines)
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Replicating or moving backups to Acronis Online Backup Storage (p. 101).
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The Grandfather-Father-Son and Tower of Hanoi backup schemes are now available when
backing up to Acronis Online Backup Storage.
Tapes (only for advanced editions, now called Acronis Backup Advanced)
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File-level recovery is possible from disk backups stored on tapes.
This feature can be enabled or disabled by setting the corresponding tape management option (p.
124).
Centralized management
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Vault selection in Data catalog (p. 135)
You can select the vault to recover the data from, if the backed-up data has multiple replicas
stored in more than one managed vault.
Linux
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Support for Linux kernel up to 3.6
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Support for the following Linux distributions:
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Ubuntu 11.04, 11.10, 12.04
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Fedora 15, 16, 17
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Debian 6
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CentOS 6.x
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Support for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) (p. 49)
Back up a UEFI-based machine running Linux and recover it to the same or a different UEFI-based
machine.
Bootable media
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New Linux kernel version (3.4.5) in Linux-based bootable media. The new kernel makes for better
hardware support.
Usability
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Support for 800x600 screen resolution
1.7 Acronis Backup components
Acronis Backup includes the following main types of components.
Components for a managed machine (agents)
These are applications that perform data backup, recovery and other operations on the machines
managed with Acronis Backup. Agents require a license to perform operations on each managed
machine.