63298: Difference between Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Standard, Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Advanced and Acronis True Image 2020

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Last update: 15-04-2021

See detailed information about licensing for the products in KB 63207: Acronis True Image 2020 licensing and KB 59804: Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 licensing

Acronis True Image is designed for home usage. It offers backup and recovery of PCs, Mac and mobile devices. If your objective is to protect your home computer from hardware or software crashes by backing it up, you will be better off with Acronis True Image.

Acronis Cyber Backup is designed for small business environment. Acronis Cyber Backup Advanced is designed for medium to large environments and  provides data protection and fast, flexible disaster recovery for all systems in your environment, regardless of its complexity.

The features are listed for the latest available public builds of Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and Acronis True Image 2020. Some features may be unavailable or partially available in earlier builds.

Feature Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Advanced Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Standard Acronis
True Image 2020

Supported operating systems and disk layout

Windows 10 YES YES YES
Windows 8/8.1/7 YES YES YES
Windows Vista YES YES NO
Windows XP YES YES NO
Windows Server 2019 YES YES NO
Windows Server 2016 YES YES NO
Windows Server 2012/2012R2
2008/2008R2
2003/2003R2
YES YES NO
Windows SBS 2011/2008
2003/2003R2
YES YES NO
Windows Storage Server
2012/2012R2
2008R2/2008/2003
YES YES NO
Windows MultiPoint Server 2012/2011/2010 YES YES NO
Linux OSs (various distributions) YES YES NO
VMware ESX/ESX(i) 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 (agent-less VM backup on hypervisor level) YES YES NO
Hyper-V (agent-less VM backup on hypervisor level) YES YES NO
Citrix XenServer
Red Hat Virtualization
Linux KVM
Oracle VM Server
Nutanix
YES NO NO
Google Cloud VM (KVM-based) YES NO NO
macOS YES YES YES
Cloud VM on Azure, Amazon YES YES NO
Dynamic disks YES YES YES
GPT disks YES YES YES
iOS, Android YES YES YES

Management options

Feature Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Advanced Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Standard Acronis
True Image 2020
Web-based console YES YES YES (Online Dashboard)
Centralized dashboard of all activities YES YES YES (Online Dashboard)
Reports YES NO NO
Admin roles (role-based administrative access) YES NO NO
Group and policy management YES partially (in cloud deployment) NO
Active Directory Integration (for account and group management) YES partially (in on-premises deployment) NO
Managing and backing up machines in different networks (agents behind NAT) YES YES partially (with Online Dashboard)
Centralized backup plans for multiple machines YES NO NO
Remote installation YES YES NO
Remote update YES YES NO
Backup initiated from a remote machine YES YES YES (with Online Dashboard)
Restore initiated from a remote machine YES YES partially (files and folders from cloud backups)
Off-host backup staging, replication, retention,  validation and converting backup to VM files YES NO NO
Centralized managed storage (Acronis Storage Node) YES NO NO
Centralized catalog of multiple machines data YES NO NO
PXE server for network boot YES NO NO

Backup options: what to back up

Feature Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Advanced Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Standard Acronis
True Image 2020
Disk backup YES YES YES
File backup YES YES YES
Backup of mobile devices to a local storage and NAS NO NO YES ****
Application backup (Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Active Directory) YES YES NO
Clustered Exchange, SQL support YES NO NO
Backup of Microsoft Microsoft 365 for Business mailboxes (Exchange Online) YES YES NO
Backup of Microsoft OneDrive for Business YES (in Cloud deployment type) YES (in Cloud deployment type) NO
Backup of Microsoft SharePoint Online YES (in Cloud deployment type) YES (in Cloud deployment type) NO
Backup of Microsoft Microsoft 365 for Home NO NO YES (in Advanced or Premium Subscriptions only)
Backup of Microsoft OneDrive Personal NO NO YES (in Advanced or Premium Subscriptions only)
Backup of Google Workspace (mail, drive, contacts, calendar) YES (in Cloud deployment type) YES (in Cloud deployment type) NO
Oracle database backup YES NO NO
ESXi configuration backup YES YES NO
Agentless backup of VMs YES YES NO
Backup from NetApp SAN Storage Snapshots YES NO NO

Backup options: where to back up

Backup to Cloud: disks and partitions YES (paid option) YES (paid option) YES (in Advanced or Premium Subscriptions only)
Backup to Cloud: files and folders YES (paid option) YES (paid option) YES (in Advanced or Premium Subscriptions only)
Backup to Cloud: mobile devices YES YES YES (in Advanced or Premium Subscriptions only)
Initial Seeding/Physical Data Shipping for Cloud backups YES YES NO
Large scale recovery planned planned NO
Store backups on network shares YES YES YES
Store backups on FTP server NO NO YES
Store backups on SFTP server YES YES NO
Tape drive, autoloader, library support, including media management YES NO NO
Backup to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (Acronis Backup Gateway) YES YES NO

Other backup options

New archive format (.tibx) YES YES partially ***
Search for files in a backup YES YES YES
Archive encryption YES YES YES
VSS support (consistent backup of applications) YES YES YES
Central storage deduplication YES NO NO
Backup compression YES YES YES
Acronis Secure Zone YES YES YES
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager YES YES YES
Multiple destination backup (replication) YES (up to 5) YES (up to 2) YES (replication to  Acronis Cloud)
Acronis Nonstop Backup NO NO YES

Bootable Media

Feature Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Advanced Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Standard Acronis
True Image 2020
Acronis Bootable Media (Linux-based) YES YES YES
WinPE plug-in YES YES (in on-premises deployment) YES
Centralized management of bootable media YES NO NO

Restore options

Feature Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Advanced Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Standard Acronis
True Image 2020
Acronis Universal Restore YES YES YES
Restore of entire machines, disks and volumes YES YES YES
Restore of files and folders YES YES YES
Restore of mobile devices' data YES YES YES
Granular restore of Microsoft Exchange databases YES YES NO
Granular restore of Microsoft Exchange mailboxes YES YES NO
Integrated search and preview of Exchange emails before recovery YES YES NO
Granular restore of Microsoft Microsoft 365 mailboxes YES YES YES (in Advanced or Premium Subscriptions only)
Integrated search and preview of Microsoft 365 emails before recovery YES YES YES (in Advanced or Premium Subscriptions only)
Granular restore of Gmail messages YES (in Cloud deployment only) YES (in Cloud deployment only) NO
Granular restore of Microsoft OneDrive YES (in Cloud deployment type) YES (in Cloud deployment type) YES (in Advanced or Premium Subscriptions only)
Granular restore of Microsoft SQL YES* YES* NO
Granular restore of Microsoft SharePoint YES YES NO
Granular restore of Microsoft SharePoint Online YES (in Cloud deployment type) YES (in Cloud deployment type) NO
Restore of Microsoft Active Directory domain controllers YES YES NO
Acronis Instant Restore (running VM from a backup) YES NO NO
Convert backup to virtual machine YES YES NO
Acronis vmFlashback (CBT-based incremental VM restore) YES YES NO
Automated bare-metal recovery YES NO NO

Other options

Feature Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Advanced Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Standard Acronis
True Image 2020
Acronis Active Protection YES YES YES
Acronis Notary YES NO YES (in Premium Subscription only)
Acronis ASign YES NO YES (in Premium Subscription only)
Scheduled backup validation YES NO YES
Scheduled replication and retention YES NO NO
Data synchronization NO NO YES
Archiving to a local storage NO NO YES
Archiving to Cloud NO NO YES (in Advanced and Premium Subscriptions only)
Try&Decide NO NO YES
Drive cleanser NO NO YES
Acronis Disk Director Lite partially** partially** NO
Disk cloning partially** partially** YES
Replication of virtual machines YES YES NO

Licensing in brief

Feature Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Advanced Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 Standard Acronis
True Image 2020
License type Perpetual and subscription-based; subscription-based for Cloud Storage Perpetual and subscription-based, subscription-based for Cloud Storage Subscription-based and perpetual
Licensing Licensed by number of physical machines, virtual hosts,
Microsoft 365 seats, Google Workspace seats or cloud instances; Acronis Cloud Storage (can be purchased additionally) is licensed by storage quota
Licensed by number of physical machines, virtual hosts,
Microsoft 365 seats, Google Workspace seats or cloud instances; Acronis Cloud Storage (can be purchased additionally) is licensed by storage quota

Licensed by the number of computers.

Acronis Cloud Storage is licensed by storage quota, available only for Advanced and Premium Subscription licenses.

  See Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 licensing for more information  See Acronis True Image 2020 licensing

Support options in brief

Support options Email, chat, phone

Free email, chat and phone for Subscription licenses throughout the whole subscription period.

Free email, chat for Perpetual licenses.

E-Mail response time From 1 business day to 1 hour From 3 business days to 1 business day
Product upgrades Free within the support subscription period

Free for Subscription licenses within the subscription period.

Paid for Perpetual licenses.

Product updates Free  Free
Installation service (paid) Onboarding Service for Acronis Cyber Backup:click here for more information Initial Setup Service for Acronis True Image: click here for more information

 

See List of support options for Acronis products

* By mounting database and restore items, or by restoring as files with further data extraction.

** Available in Acronis bootable media (see Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5: How to clone disk using bootable media) or via command line under Windows or Linux (see product documentation).

*** TIBX archive format is used for mobile backup, as well as disk backups to internal/external disk, network location or Acronis Cloud  

****QNAP and Synology

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