Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 13)

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Basic support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 (p. 49)
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Install Agent for Windows, Agent for SQL (single-pass), and management components in
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
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Boot a machine from bootable media that is based on WinPE 4.
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Use bootable media on a machine where UEFI Secure Boot is enabled.
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Back up and recover (without resize) volumes that have the ReFS file system or any data on these
volumes.
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Back up storage spaces and recover them to the original location, to different storage spaces or
as ordinary disks.
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Back up and recover (at a disk level) volumes where the Data Deduplication feature is enabled.
Virtualization
Support for new virtualization platforms:
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Back up and recover with Agent for ESX(i): VMware vSphere 5.1.
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Back up and recover with Agent for Hyper-V: Hyper-V 3.0.
Agent for Hyper-V cannot be installed in Windows 8, even though this operating system includes
the Hyper-V feature.
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Back up and recover from inside a guest system: Oracle VM Server 3.0, Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 3.1.
Linux
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Support for Oracle Linux 5.x, 6.x – both Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and Red Hat Compatible
Kernel
Other
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Completely disable backup cataloging (p. 103) on a managed machine, storage node, or the
management server.
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Save a Disaster Recovery Plan (p. 112) to a local or network folder, in addition to sending it via
e-mail.
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Enable VSS Full backup (p. 128) to truncate logs of VSS-aware applications after a disk-level
backup.
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Boot a UEFI machine from bootable media that is based on 64-bit WinPE (p. 254).
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Add the %description% variable (the description shown in system properties of a Windows
machine) to the e-mail notification subject (p. 113).
1.6 What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5
Expanding the backup and recovery capabilities in physical, virtual, and cloud environments, Acronis
has now added backup and recovery of the Microsoft Exchange Server data.
The following is a summary of the product's new features and enhancements.
Backup and recovery of Microsoft Exchange Server data
Key features
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Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Acronis Backup supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 as well as Microsoft Exchange Server
2003/2007.