Built to protect the intellectual property that resides in business desktops and laptops, the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation application combines optimized data protection and ease-of-use. It creates an exact disk image of your office workstation and backs up the operating system, applications, key data files and folders.

Acronis simplifies system restores. Users can perform self-service recoveries of files and folders in moments without administrator intervention. Even an entire Windows system can be restored in minutes using the Acronis one-click restore feature.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation comes with flexible scheduling and event-based triggering to cater to the most demanding user environments. With the optional Acronis Backup & Recovery Universal Restore module, the operating system, all user data, applications and settings can be restored to dissimilar hardware in a few simple steps, eliminating the need to acquire identical hardware if the machine has to be replaced.

Top Benefits

Flexible backup storage for mobile users
Back up a laptop to a variety of storage devices and locations, including the Acronis Secure Zone, a partition on the laptop.

Minimize downtime and improve user productivity
With Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, the contents of the hard drive contents including the operating system, applications and data can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days.

Acronis AdvantageSM support and maintenance program
The Acronis AdvantageSM program is an enhanced, multi-level subscription-based support and maintenance program. The first year of Acronis Advantage is included in the license price.

Intuitive user interface and workflow minimizes training requirements
Users can restore files, folders and even their workstation without administrator assistance or extensive training.

Simplified system migration to new and dissimilar hardware
Restoring to dissimilar hardware can be easily accomplished with optional Acronis Backup & Recovery Universal Restore software. Move an old system to a new one, complete with all applications, data and settings and be ready to continue operations in minutes.

Supported file systems
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can back up and recover the following file systems with the following limitations:
- FAT16 / 32
- NTFS

Supported storage
- Hard disk drives
- Networked storage devices
- CD-R(W)
- DVD-RW, DVD+R(W)
- ZIP, Rev and other removable media
- P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and USB 1.1 / 2.0 drives, PC card storage devices

NOTE:
To evaluate the application you need to register an account in order to receive the trial key. Create and account here.

Acronis Backup & Recovery Workstation Features:

· Backup options

Compression:
· Compress backups to optimize your storage space.
· Excluding files during backup
· Save storage space and time by excluding non-essential files and folders from backups.

Dual destination backup:
· Store backups into two different locations — backup to a local disk and a copy to a network share.

Splitting backups, automatically or manually:
· Split backups into volumes to fit media.
· Recovery options

Acronis Startup Recovery Manager:
· If your system won’t boot properly, press F11 during the system startup to start Acronis Backup & Recovery .

Bare-metal restore:
· Restore your workstation from scratch in the event of a hard disk failure — restore an exact copy of your computer on a new hard drive.
· Virtualization support

Converting image backup to a virtual machine:
· Recover a disk (volume) backup to a new virtual machine of any of the following types: VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation or Citrix XenServer virtual appliance.
· Backup management

Pre/post commands:
· Define pre/post backup and data capture commands to integrate Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 with other applications or to temporarily stop some.

Event-based backup:
· Create backups triggered by various conditions — a user logs on, a computer shuts down, or others.

Conditions for backup:
· Configure backup operations to wait until specified conditions are met like a pre-defined time interval or a user logs off.

Customizable backup scheme:
· Configure specific events and conditions for each task.
· Reporting and monitoring

Local dashboard:
· Operational overview of the backup and restore processes on a single screen.

Recording events in Windows Event Log:
· Store Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 events in Windows Event Logs together with events from other applications. This allows for integration with system management tools like MOM.
· Backup administration

Automated deletion of outdated backups:
· Specify rules to automatically delete backups that are no longer needed.

Consolidating incremental or differential backups:
· Consolidate incremental and differential backups to save space.
· Deployment and upgrade options

No reboot:
· No reboot required to complete installation.
· User interface

Command line with scripting support:
· Execute tasks and create backups from a command-line interface.

Local management console:
· The Acronis interface is intuitive, making Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation easy to install, quick to configure and deploy, and simple to use.

· Security

Password-protection for Acronis Secure Zone:
· Protect your backups stored in Acronis Secure Zone from unauthorized access.

Encrypted backup images:
· Encrypt your backups using industry-standard 256-bit AES algorithm to ensure data security.

Limitations:

· 15-Day Trial