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1.5 What's new in Update 2
Support for volume subscriptions to Acronis Backup & Recovery Online (p. 253).
Support for WinPE 5.0.
1.6 What's new in Update 1
Improvements added in build 37975
Basic support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.
Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 in the trial mode without a license key.
Upgrade from a stand-alone product to the advanced platform without reinstalling the software.
Basic support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 (p. 32)
Install Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
Boot a machine from bootable media that is based on WinPE 4.
Use bootable media on a machine where UEFI Secure Boot is enabled.
Back up and recover (without resize) 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.
Other
Completely disable backup cataloging (p. 78).
Save a Disaster Recovery Plan (p. 86) to a local or network folder, in addition to sending it via
e-mail.
Enable VSS Full backup (p. 99) to truncate logs of VSS-aware applications after a disk-level
backup.
Boot a UEFI machine from bootable media that is based on 64-bit WinPE (p. 173).
Add the %description% variable (the description shown in system properties of a Windows
machine) to the e-mail notification subject (p. 87).
1.7 What's new in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5
The following is a summary of the product's new features and enhancements.
Support for various types of storage
Acronis Online Backup Storage
Replicating or moving backups to Acronis Online Backup Storage (p. 77).
The Grandfather-Father-Son and Tower of Hanoi backup schemes are now available when
backing up to Acronis Online Backup Storage.
Bootable media
New Linux kernel version (3.4.5) in Linux-based bootable media. The new kernel makes for better
hardware support.
Usability
Support for 800x600 screen resolution.