Acronis Backup & Restore Server for Windows allows you to

• Create an exact Windows server disk image, including the operating system, databases, and applications;
• Migrate your systems between any virtual and physical servers quickly and easily.

After a system crash, Acronis Backup & Restore for Windows allows you to perform an entire server restore in just minutes, not hours or days. Complete system restoration can be performed to an existing system or to a new system with different hardware, as well as to a virtual server.

Based on exclusive Acronis Drive Snapshot technology, Acronis Backup & Restore Server for Windows allows you to create backups without interrupting server operations, providing 24 x 7 x 365 availability.

Restore an entire Windows server in minutes after any unforeseen event

Acronis Universal Restore — restore to different hardware or to a virtual server (note: requires separate add-on license)

New! Backup image encryption

New! Multi-volume snapshots — Permits you to back up data located on multiple volumes

New! Convert image files to VMDK or VHD for instant virtualization — Supports major virtualization operating systems from VMware®, Microsoft®, XenSource®, SWsoft® and Parallels®

New! Dynamic disk support

New! Wider hardware compatibility — including SAS drives and tape libraries support

New! Improved Scheduling and Notifications — including event-driven backups, periodic backup validations, and schedule cloning

Modify images — Mount images in read/write mode and apply changes directly

Boot from an image, using Acronis® Active Restore™ (a patent pending technology) — Decrease downtime by allowing systems to be used during a recovery

Enhanced database support — Online backup of servers with the mission critical databases, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and more

Automatic image verification — Peace of mind by ensuring that images can be used for restoration

Differential backups — Decrease the number of backups you manage

File and folder based backups

Exclude files from backups — Capture only business data and saves space in storage archives

Windows Event Log and SNMP support — Plug into your existing network monitoring application

Custom scripts before/after backups — Facilitate compliance with company-wide backup policies

Throttling to control hard disk write speed and network bandwidth usage — Minimize disruptions of business operations

Create CDs with bootable images, PXE packages, and bootable recovery media ISOs — Eliminate the need to have separate recovery media

Disk Director Server
Key Features:
Command-line interface - create scripts for application tasks
Partition management - split, merge, resize, copy, move and delete partitions within Windows
Data destruction - wipe out all data from a deleted partition and from unallocated space
Hard disk editor - perform advanced editing, such as restoring boot records and hexadecimal editing
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support- Exchange- SQL- Oracle
Application log - View all actions performed using the application
Data recovery - restore damaged partitions

Disk Director Server is an excellent combination with Backup & Restore Server
Here's how you can take advantage of these two products together:
Create two partitions on your system: one for your system files and one for your data files
Image your system partition using Backup & Restore before applying system changes, such as installing a new application or patch.
Create daily (or as often as you need) backups of your data partition.
Using these two great products, you will always have an image of your system and backup of your data. This will save you time and reduce your storage requirements significantly.

For more specifics on backups, see Back Up- Why? & Organize back ups.

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