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Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange is a disaster recovery solution to protect Microsoft Exchange data. Restore databases, mailboxes or even E-mails

Description

Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange offers a fast and reliable disaster recovery solution to protect your Microsoft Exchange data. It features a proven database backup technology that will drastically reduce disaster recovery time: you can be up and running again in minutes instead of hours. It also provides document level backup, providing incredible flexibility that allows backing up of only individual mailboxes/public folders and uses message filters to reduce both an archive size and duration of a backup process.

Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange is shipped in two editions - original Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange for larger organizations and Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Small Business Server (Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange SBS) for small and/or start-up businesses:

• Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange, appropriate for larger businesses. The agent can be installed on any operating system
• Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Small Business Server. 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

With Acronis Recovery for Microsoft 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 E-mails from database level backup - Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange provides the ability to restore specific E-mails from database level backup
• Tuning a backup strategy with Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Assistant - Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange Assistant provides an intuitive GUI for easy creation and implementation of a backup strategy, even without DBA experience
• Disaster Recovery Plan - Automatically creates and E-mails Disaster Recovery Plans with step-by-step instructions on recovering databases. The guided process makes it possible for staff to restore databases quickly, even without DBA skills
• Recovery to a selected point-in-time - With transaction log backed up, Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange allows you to specify a date and time to restore your data from

Key features

• Database backup (fastest method) - Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange provides the ability to back up all data at a database level. This is the fastest, but the least flexible backup method
• Brick level backup - Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange provides the ability to back up all data at a documents level (brick-level). This is not the fastest, but the most flexible backup method
• Bare metal restore - The bare metal restore feature restores a whole production server (operating system and all databases) on bare metal from a bootable CD or from a PXE. This feature is available only if Acronis True Image Echo Update (build 8115 or later) and Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange are installed on the machine
• Automated recovery to point-of-failure - Automated recovery to point-of-failure allows easy one-step recovery to a point just before failure or disaster with no loss of data
• Encryption - Protect backups with industry strength-standard encryption technology. AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is available with three key lengths - 128, 192 and 256 bits to balance performance and protection as desired
• Compression - Create backups up to 10 times smaller than the original uncompressed format. Three compression levels let you optimize for faster performance, smaller size, or a balance of both
• Dial tone recovery - Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange can restore E-mail service more quickly to users (providing them with a basic dial tone) and then restore users' previous data as it becomes available
• Notifications - Configure notifications via E-mail and SNMP
• Automated recovery staging - Every restore scenario can be executed in one step. There is no need to manually restore from different archives keeping in mind the database state
• Scheduling complete backup strategy - Schedule the complete backup strategy, including full and incremental backups in one action
• Restore mailboxes from brick level backup - The system provides the ability to restore mailboxes from brick level backup
• Restore mailboxes from database level backup - The system provides the ability to restore mailboxes from database level backup
• Restore E-mails from brick level backup - Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange provides the ability to restore specific mails from brick level backup
• Command-line mode - The system provides command-line user interface

More information

See also:

• Installation of Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange
• Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange License Policy
• Operating Systems Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Supports
• Microsoft Exchange Servers Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Supports
• Microsoft Exchange Server Backup Methods
• Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Does Not Support Restore of One Version of Exchange Server to a Different One
• Connecting to Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Agent: Known Issues