Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange - User Guide - Manual (Page 12)

production server (operating system and whole information store) on bare
metal from bootable CD or from a PXE.
• Easy Administration
Intuitive wizard-driven GUI allows even non-DBAs to confidently configure
and implement professional backup strategies.
1.2 Why Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange?
Comprehensive recovery requires more than just a backup of information stores. Your
Microsoft Exchange mailbox server contains storage groups, logs, mailboxes, public
folders, mails, and other components that structure the data. Using Acronis Recovery
for MS Exchange, a cohesive and intuitive backup solution, is the critical step you can
take to ensure a secure live Microsoft Exchange mailbox server backup that can be
quickly recovered.
With Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange restoring individual emails became easier –
you can do it from any kind of backup (both database and brick-level).
Recovery is now made easy with automated system restore to a point-of-failure. There
is no need to walk through menus to get your system back online. This one-step
process will return your database to the last known good state just before failure.
Erroneous transactions will no longer cost you minutes or hours in recovery.
This powerful product includes an intuitive wizard-driven GUI that guides you through
the scheduling process and reduces the possibility of errors. The Backup Strategy
Assistant creates a Disaster Recovery Plan for your environment, delivering step-by-
step instructions for recovery. Anyone, whether an experienced DBA or not, can
schedule backup jobs and handle system restores rapidly. Acronis even provides FTP
capability for storing your backup on any FTP server, worldwide.
1.3 Two Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Editions
You can choose between two editions of Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange. Your
choice is based on the size environment it will be installed in:
• Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange, appropriate for larger businesses
• Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Small Business Edition (Acronis
Recovery for MS Exchange SBE). This less expensive alternative is tailored
for small and/or start-up businesses. The agent can only be installed on
Windows SBS 2003 and Windows SBS 2008 operating systems.
1.4 Advantages
With Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange you get the following advantages:
• Hot Backup
Backup can be performed while the Microsoft Exchange service is online
and serving clients allowing 24/7 availability
• Restore Emails from Database Level Backup
Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange provides the ability to restore specific
emails from database level backup
• Tuning a Backup Strategy with Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange
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