ACRONIS RECOVERY - FOR MS SQL SERVER User manual

Acronis®Recovery™
For MS SQL Server
Acronis Recovery for MS 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-stepRecoveryandAutomatedRecoverytoPoint-of-Failurereducedowntime
and assist your organization 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 compliment 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 SQL
database protection — a winning disaster recovery plan combination.
Why Database Backup?
Comprehensive recovery requires more than just data backup. Your MS SQL 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.
DATA SHEET
Key Benefits:
Smaller, more manageable archives
• Award-winning Acronis technology
provides superior backup
optimization. Customizable
compression rates reduces 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.

DATA SHEET
Feature Benefit
Tuning Backup Strategy with 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.
Active 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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Acronis Management Console
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2003
Acronis Database Backup Agent
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2003
Supported Microsoft SQL Server versions
• Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express
System Requirements: