Acronis Backup is een uitgebreid programma waarmee back-ups kunnen worden gemaakt en het richt zich op bedrijfsomgevingen. Het pakket bevat tal van verschillende opties om data veilig te stellen op fysieke en virtuele servers en kan daarnaast integreren met verschillende cloudomgevingen, zoals Office 365, Azure en Amazon EC2. Ook kan blockchain-technologie ingezet worden met Acronis Notary, dat beschikbaar is via een uitgebreide licentie. Acronis Backup 12.5 update 2 heeft buildnummer 8690 en de volgende aankondiging meegekregen:
What's new in Update 2
New features available in all on-premise deployments
AdministeringInstallation and infrastructure
- Administering user accounts is available on a management server that is installed in Linux
Security
- Acronis Backup appliance for automatic deployment of Linux, the management server, Agent for Linux, and Agent for VMware (Linux) on a dedicated virtual machine
- When adding a Windows machine in the web interface, it is possible to select the name or IP address that the agent will use to access the management server
- Automatic and manual checks for updates
Scheduling backups
- The backup console supports the HTTPS protocol out of the box
- The management server can use a certificate issued by a trusted certificate authority, instead of the self-signed certificate
- Non-root users can be added as administrators to a management server that is installed in Linux
Backup locations
- New scheduling options:
- Waking up a machine for backup from the sleep or hibernation mode
- Prevention of the sleep or hibernation mode during a backup
- The option to prohibit running missed backups on a machine startup
- New backup start conditions, handy for backing up Windows laptops and tablets:
- Save battery power
- Do not start when on metered connection
- Do not start when connected to the following Wi-Fi networks
- Check device IP address
- In the Monthly schedule, selection of individual months during which backups will run
- The capability to start a differential backup manually
Applications
- Storing each machine's backups in a folder defined by a script (for machines running Windows)
- A locally deployed Acronis Storage can be used as a backup location
Support for new operating systems and virtualization platforms
- Recovering Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes and mailbox items to Microsoft Exchange Server and vice versa
Usability improvements
- macOS High Sierra 10.13
- Debian 9.1 and 9.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
- CentOS 7.4
- ALT Linux 7.0
- Red Hat Virtualization 4.1
New features available with the Advanced licenses only
- Renaming locations on the Backups tab (except for locations managed by a storage node)
- The capability to change the vCenter Server or ESXi that is managed by Agent for VMware in Settings > Agents > agent details
AdministeringInstallation and infrastructure
- Creating units is available on a management server that is installed in Linux
Usability improvements
- When adding a managed location, it is possible to select whether the agents will access the storage node by using the server name or IP address
Tape support
- Adding a managed location can be initiated from the storage node properties panel
- Full support for the LTO-8 technology. See Hardware Compatibility List for the exact names of the tested devices.
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