Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Update 1: New Features and Enhancements

MS SQL Server support. Basic support of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

This article applies to:

Single-pass backup of Microsoft SQL Server data:

Use a single solution and a single backup plan for both disaster recovery and data protection purposes.
Back up a machine and recover disks, volumes, files, or MS SQL databases.
Recover MS SQL databases directly to a running MS SQL Server instance, or extract them as files onto a file system.
Truncate MS SQL Server logs after a backup.
Use any backup destination including Acronis Cloud.
MS SQL Server 2012 is supported, as well as the previous MS SQL Server versions.

Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 support:

Install Agent for Windows, Agent for SQL (single-pass), and management components in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
Boot a machine that uses UEFI Secure Boot into bootable media based on WinPE 4.0 or Linux-based bootable media.
Back up and recover (without resizing) volumes that have the ReFS file system or any data on these volumes.
Back up storage spaces and recover them to the original location, to different storage spaces or as ordinary disks.
Back up and recover (at a disk level) volumes where the Data Deduplication feature is enabled.

New virtualization platforms support:

Back up and recover with Agent for ESX(i): VMware vSphere 5.1.
Back up and recover with Agent for Hyper-V: Hyper-V 3.0.
Back up and recover from inside a guest system: Oracle VM Server 3.0, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1.

Linux:

Support for Oracle Linux 5.x, 6.x – both Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and Red Hat Compatible Kernel.

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