ACRONIS RECOVERY - FOR MICROSOFT SQL SERVER User manual

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Acronis® Recovery™
for Microsoft® SQL Server
Acronis® Recovery™ for Microsoft® SQL Server offers a fast and
reliable disaster recovery solution to protect your SQL database.
Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server provides proven database backup
technology that will drastically reduce disaster recovery time so you
can be running again in minutes instead of hours. One-step Recovery
and Automated Recovery to Point-of-Failure reduce downtime and
assist your organisation in improving your Recovery Time Objective
(RTO). Rolling Snapshot enables near-instantaneous recovery in cases
of human error or logical data corruption.
Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server is an excellent complement to
the award-winning Acronis True Image suite of disaster recovery and
system migration products, that use patented disk-imaging technology.
Together they deliver comprehensive server system backup and restore
plus full MS SQL database protection — a winning disaster recovery
plan combination.
Why Database Backup?
Comprehensive recovery requires more than just data backup. Your MS
SQL Server database contains tables, logs, and other components that
structure the data. Using Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server, a cohesive
and intuitive backup solution, is critical to ensure a secure live database
backup that can be quickly recovered.
Recovery is now made easy with automated system restore to
point-of-failure. No need to walk through menus to get your system back
online. This one-step process will return your database to the last known
good state just before failure. Erroneous transactions will no longer cost
you minutes or hours in recovery.
This powerful product includes an intuitive wizard-driven GUI that guides
you through the scheduling process and reduces the possibility for
errors. The Backup Strategy Assistant creates a Disaster Recovery Plan
for your environment, delivering step-by-step instructions for recovery.
Anyone, whether an experienced DBA or not, can schedule backup jobs
and restore a system rapidly. Acronis even provides FTP capability for
storing your backup on any FTP server, worldwide.
Key Benefits:
Smaller, more manageable archives
• Award-winning Acronis technology
provides superior backup
optimization. Customizable
compression rates reduce the
amount of data to store and
transfer, leading to direct cost
savings in storage and labor.
Resource Management
• CPU and bandwidth throttling let
you allocate resources during the
backup process to ensure users
remain productive.
• Acronis database backup also
provides a Disaster Recovery Plan,
detailing step-by-step instructions
to guide you through a fast and
complete recovery.
Encryption for Security
• Protect companies’ most valuable
data with strong industry-standard
encryption.
Centralized Management
• The Management Console
auto-discovers all database
servers on the network. The
servers are displayed clearly with
status information, making it
easy to manage enterprise-wide
installations.
Easy Administration
• Intuitive wizard-driven GUI allows
even non-DBAs to confidently
configure and implement
professional backup strategies.
• Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server
even lets you import an existing
SQL Server Maintenance Plan,
protecting the time investment
in creating original maintenance
plans.

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Feature Benefit
Tuning with Backup Strategy Assistant Backup Strategy Assistant provides an intuitive GUI for easy creation and implementation of a
backup strategy, even without DBA experience.
Recovery to Arbitrary Point-in-Time Transaction Logs Backup combined with intuitive simple GUI allows databases to be restored
to an arbitrary point-in-time.
Centralized Management The Management Console provides a single management point for the entire infrastructure
making it easy to manage and track backup and recovery activities.
Automated Recovery to
Point-of-Failure
Allows easy one-step recovery to a point just before failure or disaster with no loss of work.
Disaster Recovery Plan Automatically creates and e-mails Disaster Recovery Plans with step-by-step instructions for
recovering databases. This guided process makes it possible for staff to restore databases
quickly, even without DBA skills.
Importing Existing Microsoft® SQL
Server Maintenance Plan
Configure your backup strategy in seconds by importing an existing Microsoft SQL Server
Maintenance Plan.
Rolling Snapshot Creation Automatically created snapshots allow the database to be recovered in seconds – in cases of
data corruption or human error – by simply discarding changes.
Encryption Protect backups with strong industry-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 90% smaller than the original uncompressed format. Multiple compression
levels let you optimize for faster performance, smaller size, or a balance of both.
Bandwidth Throttling Control bandwidth usage to keep backup process transparent to network users.
Notifications Configure notification via e-mail or SNMP.
Automated Recovery Staging Every restore scenario can be executed in one step. There’s no need to manually restore from
different archives keeping in mind the database state.
Hot Backup Backup can be performed while the database is online and serving clients, allowing for 24/7
availability.
Restore to Another Microsoft SQL
Server Version
Allows migration to another Microsoft SQL Server version by simply restoring the database to a
newer Microsoft SQL Server Installation.
Schedule Complete Backup Strategy Schedule the complete backup strategy, including full, differential and backup of transaction
Logs in one action.
Software Development Kit Acronis Database Backup for MS SQL Server is shipped with an SDK allowing customers to
tailor backup and recovery to suit business requirements.
32- & 64-Bit Support Runs on either 32- or 64-bit configurations.
FTP Support Ability to move backups to locations of choice, including offsite.
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reserved; errors are excepted. 2010-07
Acronis Management Console
• Windows Server 2008
(build 117 or higher)
• Windows Server 2003 (32, 64 Bit)
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP (SP1+)
• Windows 2000 (SP4+)
Acronis Database Backup Agent
• Windows Server 2008
(build 117 or higher)
• Windows Server 2003 (32, 64 Bit)
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP (SP1+)
• Windows 2000 (SP4+)
Supported Microsoft SQL Server versions
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (SP3a+)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop
Engine Release A
• Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 (SP4+)
System Requirements:
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