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Acronis Backup & Recovery® Online

Easy-to use, affordable cloud storage solution enhances your
backup & recovery strategy with secure offsite protection of your
critical data
Are you ensuring maximum protection of your mission-critical systems
and data with a secure offsite backup and recovery strategy? Local backup Top Benefits
and recovery will help you recover from common problems such as an
accidentally deleted file or a system crash. But backing up your data only • Easy to Use. Get started quickly.
locally leaves you unprotected from severe natural or man-made disasters • Secure and Reliable
that could impact your machines or entire site if a fire, flood, theft or any
other destruction occurs. • Flexible, Affordable Pricing

Almost half of all businesses without an offsite backup plan who suffered • Seamless integration with Acronis Backup &
a disaster went out of business because they could not recover critical Recovery® 11 applications
information. Preventing this requires an effective offsite backup and
• Leverages Acronis’ Decade of Experience in
recovery strategy. However, implementing offsite backup can be both Backup & Recovery
complex and costly as it requires managing physical disks offsite or moving
tapes to an offsite location.
Key Features
Fortunately, there’s a better solution: Acronis Backup & Recovery® Online
– an easy-to-use, affordable, secure offsite data protection service from the • Cloud-Based Backup & Recovery
leader in physical, virtual and cloud disaster recovery and data protection.
Protect your virtual machines (VMs) as well as physical servers and PCs • Easy-to-Use Management Console
/ workstations. You can backup entire systems including the operating
system, applications, and data. Pay just a flat rate per physical machine or • Secure and Reliable Datacenters
server host running an unlimited number of VMs.
• Military-Grade Data Encryption

Seamless integration between Acronis Backup & Recovery® Online and • Support for Physical and Virtual Machines
Acronis Backup & Recovery products means you can use one console to
manage all of your backup and recovery tasks - regardless of the location • Always-Incremental Backups
of the source data and destination of the backup file. You can backup to
local, network, and cloud destinations in parallel. Acronis provides you a • Granular Recovery of an Entire System or
Specific Files and Folders
single solution with redundancy for the ultimate protection.
• Recover to Any Machine

• One-Click to Increase Storage

• First Year of Acronis Advantage® Premier

Support included

• Optional Initial Seeding Service and Large

Scale Recovery Service available

New and Improved Features

• Single agent backup of VMs on multiple

VMware vSphere ESX(i) hosts

• Cluster Shared Volumes support for

Microsoft Hyper-V environments
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What is Unique about Acronis’ Solution?

Acronis offers you both local and secure offsite storage of your backups in the cloud using the Acronis Backup & Recovery®
Online service and Acronis Backup & Recovery® 11 software together. You get the best of both worlds and complete
two-layer data protection. Backup and recover physical servers, PCs, laptops, workstations and virtual machines. Acronis
Backup & Recovery 11 provides faster restores from local and network storage resources. Acronis Backup & Recovery
Online provides remote data protection in the event of loss, theft or natural disaster and gives you secure access to your
backup data, wherever you are. Both allow choosing to back up specific files and folders or the entire system including
the operating system and applications.

Acronis
Management
Acronis
Console
Online Storage
Servers, Workstations
and Virtual Machines

Local Storage

Acronis Backup & Recovery® Online Features and Benefits

Easy-to-Use Interface Provides Centralized Management

• Utilizes Acronis’ highly regarded graphical user interface found in Acronis Backup & Recovery® 11 software. Existing
users will immediately be productive.
• New users will find Acronis Backup & Recovery Online remarkably easy to use -they can quickly configure sophisticated,
professional backup and recovery plans and be prepared in case disaster strikes.
• Manage all backup and recovery options for physical and virtual machines and local, network, and offsite storage all
from one interface.
• Establish the same or different local and online backup policies for PCs / workstations, servers and virtual machines.

Secure, Redundant, Reliable Datacenters

• Multiple Acronis datacenters are located in the U.S.A and Europe (France) equipped with UPS and backup generators.
• Redundant HVAC, temperature and humidity monitoring, and early smoke detection systems.
• Physical security ensured via high fences, 24x7 security personnel, and video surveillance with 90day archiving.
• Biometric hand-geometry scan and proximity key card are required for access only by authorized personnel.
• Backup data stored on multiple hardware servers (similar to RAID) with additional Reed–Solomon error correction.

Military-Grade Data Encryption

• Data transfers encrypted using SSL. Military-grade AES-256 encryption protect backups stored in our datacenters.
• Option to create a unique encryption key which ensures only you can access your backup data.

Improved Support for Virtual Machines

• Use same management console for virtual machines that is used for backup & recovery of physical machines.
• Agentless backup of VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Agent-based backup of other hypervisors.
• Single agent can backup and recover virtual machines from multiple VMware ESX(i) hosts.
• One subscription supports an unlimited number of virtual machines running on a single Hyper-V host, or an unlimited
number of virtual machines running on one or more VMware ESX(i) hosts managed by a single agent.
• Cluster Shared Volumes are supported for Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
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Always incremental backups minimize use of your Internet bandwidth.

• After the initial backup, only new and changed data gets backed up over the internet for efficient, fast backups. Note
that Acronis does still retain an available version of the “unchanged files” as part of that backup.
 
Granular Backup & Recovery of Your Data
• Backup individual files and folders or an entire system image - including the operating system, applications and
configuration information.

Recover to Any Hardware

• Bare Metal Recovery feature enables recovery of files, system images, or virtual machines to any hardware - eliminating
the need to match the hardware used for recovery with the source machine that was backed up.

Flexible Licensing
• Available in annual subscriptions of 250GB and 500GB for workstations, 1TB and 1.5 TB for servers, and 2TB, 3TB and
4TB for VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V hosts.
• Storage can be increased via a single click from your Online Storage Account.

Acronis Advantage® Premier Support.

• One full year of Acronis Advantage Premier is included in the Acronis Backup & Recovery® Online subscription price.

Get Started Even More Quickly with Optional Initial Seeding Service
• Slower internet connections and very large backup files may take considerable time to complete the initial backup.
Create an encrypted local backup on an external disk drive and physically ship it to Acronis – we will upload your data
into your Online Storage Account.
• After completion of the initial backup, only incremental backups are required, which consume less bandwidth and can
easily be transmitted via your Internet connection.

Large Scale Recovery Service Option Available for Even Faster Recovery
• Acronis will load your servers’ backups onto an external hard disk drive and physically ship it to you. This can be much
faster than waiting to recover hundreds of gigabytes via your Internet connection.
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Technical Specifications
Acronis Backup & Recovery® Online For:
PCs, Laptops, Workstations
Physical Servers
Virtual Machines
* Use the appropriate Acronis Backup & Recovery ® product that supports your environment.
Online Backup is supported in all versions of Acronis Backup and Recovery starting from version 10 Update 3
Environments Supported
• Microsoft Windows 7
• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
SP2+
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
SP4
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2003
R2 and 2008/2008 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2000 SP4
• Windows Small Business Server
2003/2003 R2, 2008 and 2011
• Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server
2011
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008/2008
R2
• Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 (x64)
with Hyper-V
• VMware vSphere 4.0, 4.1 and 5
• VMware ESX Infrastructure 3.5 Update 2+
Use in Combination With*
Acronis Backup & Recovery® 11 Workstation
Acronis Backup & Recovery® 11 Advanced
Workstation
Acronis Backup & Recovery® 11 Server for
Windows
Acronis Backup & Recovery® 11 Advanced
Server
Acronis Backup & Recovery® 11 Advanced
Server SBS Edition
Acronis Backup & Recovery® 11 Virtual
Edition

How To Buy:
Purchasing information can be found here: http://www.acronis.eu/backup-recovery/online/#purchasing
Get Started Today with a Free 60 Day Trial (no obligation, no credit card required):
Just follow these easy steps to begin secure offsite backup and recovery of your data and systems:
• Request a Free Trial
- On the Web click “Free Trial” at http://www.acronis.eu/backup-recovery/online/
- Or from within any Acronis Backup & Recovery® 11 application, select “Create backup plan” and click “Get trial
subscription” in the “Where to Backup” dialog box.
• Complete the simple trial registration form. You will receive an email with instructions shortly thereafter.
• If required, activate your trial using your Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 software application
-Select Actions / Activate Online Backup Subscription and enter your Acronis Account credentials.
The free trial of Acronis Backup & Recovery® Online can be used with a purchased or trial version of any Acronis Backup & Recovery ®
11 product listed above in Technical Specifications.
Additional Resources
Evaluation Guide http://download.acronis.com/pdf/ABRO_evaluationguide_en-US.pdf
User Manual http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ABRO/
Knowledge base http://kb.acronis.com/content/13928
Product Support http://www.acronis.eu/support/

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For additional information please visit: http://www.acronis.eu/backup-recovery/online/

To purchase Acronis products, visit www.acronis.eu or search online for an authorised reseller.

Acronis office details can be found at http://www.acronis.eu/company/worldwide.html

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