Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5.43916 + Universal Restore (BootCD)

Protect all your business-critical systems—physical, virtual, and cloud—with one efficient backup solution managed by a single, easy-to-use console. Designed specifically for larger enterprise environments, Acronis Backup Advanced provides world-class protection and fast, flexible disaster recovery for all systems in your environment, regardless of its complexity.

- Tailored products support any system type: virtual machines, physical servers, applications, workstations, and more
- Award-winning backup technology captures an entire system in one quick step
- Ultra-fast recovery ensures that you are back up and running in minutes, not hours
- Flexible data recovery can restore anything—from a single email to an entire server
- Multi-destination support can store backup data anywhere (including the Acronis cloud)
- Smart backup features reduce network consumption and storage costs

Create your ideal backup solution. Backed by Acronis AnyData™ Technology, all Acronis Backup Advanced products can work as a stand-alone solution for a specific system type, or together in any combination—for any data, in any environment, across any location. Mix and match products to create a custom solution that protects all physical, virtual, or offsite systems in your company. Regardless of your setup, we will provide exactly what you need—including room to grow!

Management made easy. Acronis Backup Advanced lets you manage and monitor all backup activity for all systems via a single, centralized management console. Designed to work with any Acronis Backup Advanced product in your collection, this web-based dashboard provides quick and easy access to all your system backup processes.

Acronis Backup Advanced Key Features:

Disk Image Technology
Disk-level snapshots save complete images of a disk or volume in one simple step (including the operating system, applications, and data). This technology works for both physical and virtual machines.

Centralized Management
Our unified dashboard lets you manage all backup operations for both physical and virtual machines from a single, central location. Assign backup plans to one or more machines, review status updates, and receive alerts—all from one console!

Business Applications Protection
Our patented disk image technology enables consistent backup of running applications. This allows you to backup Exchange , SQL Server, SharePoint, and Active Directory data as you work. Granular application data may be restored without taking systems offline, protecting your business from expensive downtime.

Compression and Deduplication
Deduplication can be run on either the source or target side to minimize data movement and maximize utilization of storage and network infrastructure. This helps reduce storage costs and minimizes network load.

Multiple Backup Destinations
Store your backups in up to 5 different locations to ensure more flexible, reliable recovery. Combine local disks, attached storage, tape, network storage, and/or cloud locations to minimize your storage costs and provide multiple recovery options in the case of disaster.

Acronis Backup to Cloud
All Acronis Backup Advanced products have direct access to secure, offsite storage in the Acronis cloud. Simply add a subscription to your purchase to fortify your backup storage plan and double your data protection.

Universal Restore
Now included with all Acronis backup products, this unique data recovery technology gives you the convenient ability to instantly restore backups to any machine, regardless of platform. Now you can restore files, configurations, applications, or an entire system to the same hardware, to different hardware, or to a virtual server—all with a few simple clicks!


-What's new in version 11.5.43916:


Release notes for Acronis Backup

Release date: March 9, 2015
Build: 43916
Overview

With Update 6, the Acronis flagship backup product offers enhancements and addresses issues found in the previous releases.
What's new in Acronis Backup
Cloud backup

It is possible to specify a cloud subscription registration code during local installation of Acronis Backup in Windows. The subscription is registered automatically if the machine is connected to the Internet.

Acronis License Server does not accept cloud subscriptions.
A registered subscription for Server or for PC is activated automatically when the first backup to cloud starts, if all subscriptions available in your account are the same type and have the same storage quota.

Deduplication

3 GB of RAM per 1 TB of unique data are required, instead of 16 GB.
Faster server-side deduplication.
Faster compacting of the data store.

To apply the new deduplication algorithm to an old vault, you need to recreate the vault’s deduplication database. For more information, see "How to migrate to Update 6 deduplication" in the product Help or the User Guide.

New configuration parameters enable you to choose between the old and new indexing algorithms and control the storage node memory allocation.

Centralized management

A centralized vault can be created on an NFS share.

Backup to NFS can be performed by Agent for Linux, Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance), or Linux-based bootable media.

Virtualization

Acronis Backup Advanced for VMware supports vSphere 6.
The memory size of Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) is set automatically, based on the host memory, when the agent is deployed from the management server.
Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V fully supports Generation 2 virtual machines.
Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V can be installed in Windows 8, 8.1 (x64) with Hyper-V.
Support for Citrix XenServer 6.5, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4, 3.5, and Oracle VM Server 3.3 (by installing an agent into a guest system).

Linux

Support for Linux kernel version 3.14, 3.15, and 3.16.
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10, Fedora 21, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, Debian 7.6 and 7.7, CentOS 7.0, and Oracle Linux 7.0.

Issues fixed in build 43916

[ABR-66129] After updating Acronis Backup Storage Node to Update 6, backup or replication to a vault managed by this storage node fails. The following error appears: "Cannot find a component with ID '221'."
[ABR-66193] After updating Acronis Backup to Update 6, the management server crashes when trying to update the data catalog.
[CORE-713] Backup of CSV volumes on GPT disks may fail.
[ABR-66141] Installation of Acronis Backup Update 6 in Linux with kernel 3.16 is not possible.

Issues fixed in build 43909

This section describes issues that have been fixed in Acronis Backup.
Cloud backup

[ABR-62419] It is impossible to browse an archive with a large number of backups (over 900) by using the management console.
[ABV-2862] When recovering an LSR disk as a new virtual machine from a backup created by using the Initial seeding backup scheme, a license is required.

Installation

[ABV-3883] After updating Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance), all of its settings and backup plans are lost.
[ABR-60727] If a license server is used in the Acronis Backup infrastructure, browsing of personal vaults by using the management console is slow in case of network issues. This is because the console always requests licenses from the license server.
[ABR-64194] Installation on Fedora 5 with kernel 2.6.20 fails.

Local management

[ABR-59634] The AES-256 encryption is slow.
[ABR-57170] The Archive view may not display an incremental backup in an encrypted archive.
[ABR-34526] The recovery of a system disk from a backup stored in an encrypted deduplicating vault to bare metal takes a long time (about three hours).
[ABR-56750] Acronis Managed Machine Service is prone to memory leaks.
[ABR-33784] After recovering basic volumes to an LVM structure by using Acronis Backup Command-Line Tool, an operating system that resides on these volumes may become unbootable.
[ABR-60915] When creating a file backup of the entire Linux volume, there are a lot of "Failed to create snapshot for backup" errors.
[ABR-43044] The Occupied space column is hidden by default in the Archive view.
[ABR-60095] The following error may appear during replication: "Write access is denied."
[ABR-38081] After recovering the system disk from Acronis Secure Zone, Acronis Startup Recovery Manager becomes deactivated.
[ABR-56896] Backup of a system disk that has Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Enterprise x64 Edition installed on it fails if Acronis VSS Provider is used.
[ABR-58801] Acronis Secure Zone can be created only as a primary volume.
[ABR-57051] It is impossible to back up a disk that contains only LVM volumes.
[ABR-57665] When consolidating backups, a temporary archive becomes available for browsing.
[ABR-61562] An archive is not deleted if all of its backups are deleted by using the delete backup command of Acronis Backup Command-Line Tool.
[ABR-61529] The replicate backup command of Acronis Backup Command-Line Tool does not work with a password-protected archive.

Centralized management

[ABR-57553] After selecting data in the Data catalog and clicking Recover, this data may be not displayed in the What to recover section of a newly created recovery task.
[ABR-54536] The management server fails to execute the list archives command if the location specified in the --loc parameter is an NFS share on a NetApp filer.
[ABR-51375] When attaching a managed vault to a storage node via the management console, the following error may appear: "Access denied for object 'Storage node'."
[ABR-52019] Adding a machine via Add a machine to AMS in the management console fails if the console is connected to the management server under the domain administrator account. The following error appears: "Authentication has failed".
[ABR-62613] It is impossible to browse the contents of a managed vault if there are large number of backups running simultaneously to that vault. The storage node that manages the vault hangs.
[ABR-56107, ABR-53685] It is impossible to browse a managed vault from Linux-based bootable media if the storage node that manages this vault also manages another vault that is inaccessible.
[ABR-64666] Acronis Management Server Service may hang on start.
[ABR-50702] Acronis Management Server Service is slow to start.
[ABR-61072] Sometimes, not all backups selected for deletion are deleted.

Linux

[ABR-53940] ALT Linux 6.0 SPT may become unbootable after recovery.
[ABR-53880] The management console installed on a Linux machine crashes if the machine contains configuration files from previous versions of Acronis Backup.

Tapes

[ABR-57360] The Archive view does not display all backups from an archive created by using the Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) scheme after rescanning the tapes that store the archive.
[ABR-61885] Export of an archive from a managed vault to a tape device fails. The following error appears: "Write error. Internal database error: An invalid object type."
[ABR-64527] If a backup plan is configured to back up data to a managed vault and replicate it to a tape vault, the replication starts with a long delay in case the managed vault contains a large number of archives with different types of backups.
[ABR-58753] Tapes that contain archives with different types of backups may be incorrectly rescanned.
[ABR-41772] After successful recovery of data from a tape vault, the log may contain the following errors: "The registry key is corrupted or missing."

Virtualization

[ABR-59764] After adding an ESX host with virtual machines to the management server, the server increases its RAM usage up to 3 GB in 10-15 minutes.
[ABV-448] Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) can start simultaneous backups of the same virtual machine within one backup plan.
[ABV-951] After updating Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance), its locally attached storage becomes corrupted.
[ABR-64836] Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) may fail to recover files from a large file backup.
[ABR-61593] Acronis Managed Machine Service starts the recovery of a virtual machine from a managed vault that contains a large number of virtual machine backups after a long time (~30 minutes), if the recovery is initiated by the recover vm command of Acronis Backup Command-Line Tool.
[ABV-3348] Backup of a virtual machine with a SATA device fails. The following error appears: "You do not have access rights to this file."
[ABV-2213] Backed-up physical machines recovered as virtual machines of the VMware Workstation 6.5 type do not work in VMware Player 6.
[ABV-4047] The recover vm command does not support configuring RAM amount, CPU count, disk types, disk sizes, and the disk provisioning mode of a virtual machine being recovered.
[ABR-60046] The --retry-count and --retry-delay parameters of the recover vm command do not work.
[ABR-35597] Agent for Windows does not accept the Acronis Backup Advanced for Citrix XenServer license if it is installed on a Windows XP virtual machine that resides on Citrix XenServer.

Known issues

This section describes issues that are currently known and provides solutions to avoid the issues where possible.
Installation

[ABR-25735] When installing Acronis Backup, license keys are requested one-by-one from the license server. This may cause a significant delay if the server is connected remotely.
[ABR-33952] Cannot remotely upgrade Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Agent for Linux if the upgrade license is added to the license server but the full Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 license is not.
[ABR-40749] In some cases, Acronis Backup installation freezes on Windows Server 2012 R2.

Local management

There is no agentless single-pass disk and application backup of virtual machines (the Microsoft SQL metadata is not cataloged).

Solution: Such VMs should be backed up as physical ones. To do so, the required agents need to be installed into the guest OS.
[ABR-20686] Backup finishes with the "Succeeded with warnings" result if it is manually stopped or canceled. The result should be "Stopped".
[ABR-32785] Acronis Backup Management Console displays a disk number instead of a storage space name in the Archive view tab, the Backup Content window, and the Disk management view.
[ABR-31544] No warnings in the log after recovery of files to a ReFS volume if the files have a compressed attribute. Such files are not supported.
[ABR-31547] Recovery of files to a ReFS volume fails if the files have an encrypted attribute.
[ABR-32851] It is impossible to browse and back up volumes on dynamic disks that have a sector size of 4 KB (known as dynamic Advanced Format disks).
[ABR-31348] In Windows 8/Windows Server 2012: Disks that are made members of a storage pool disappear from Acronis Backup Management Console only after restarting Agent for Windows to which Acronis Backup Management Console is connected.
[ABR-32573] The "E00060106: Failed to save data of backup being edited" error appears when mounting a ReFS volume from a disk backup in the Read only access mode.

Solution: Click Ignore.
[ABR-31884] The Backup and Recover items are not disabled in the Windows context menu if only Acronis Backup Agent for Exchange is installed on the machine. The Recover item is also not disabled in the Windows context menu if an Exchange backup is selected in the system.
[ABR-30600] The Wake-on-LAN functionality does not work in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012.
[ABR-35418] A backup of a large amount of data under Linux-based bootable media with the Linux-style volume representation fails if the destination folder name contains a space character.
[ABR-34769] If Acronis Backup is installed in a folder whose name contains non-Latin characters (for example, Cyrillic), backups fail.
[ABR-34665] If Acronis Backup is installed in a folder whose name contains non-Latin characters (for example, Kanji), generating a disaster recovery plan fails.
[ABR-34269] Under bootable media based on WinPE 4.0, the Disk Management view must be absent.
[ABR-32792] Under bootable media, an unclear error message "The file is read-only