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Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, Oracle Linux 7.2, ClearOS, Debian 8.2, Ubuntu 15.10,
and Fedora 23.
Support for Windows 2000 in Acronis Backup Advanced is limited. Components of v11.7 cannot
be installed in this operating system. To back up machines that run Windows 2000, use the
agents of v11.5. The v11.5 agents are compatible with the management components of v11.7.
Acronis Backup for Windows Server and Acronis Backup for PC cannot be installed in Windows
2000. To back up machines that run this operating system, use v11.5.
Acronis Backup v11.5 supports Windows 2000 SP4.
Other
It is possible to use compression in combination with third-party hardware or software
deduplication (for disk-level backups only). This effectively reduces the storage space occupied
by the backups.
More functionality is available via the command-line interface:
Generating management server reports
Deploying Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance)
Agent for VMware does not back up independent disks and Raw Device Mapping (RDM) disks in
physical compatibility mode, regardless of the state of a virtual machine. This limitation is
introduced for better predictability of the product behavior.
32-bit Linux-based bootable media was optimized in size by removing the rarely used acrocmd
utility.
When a disk backup is mounted in the read/write mode, the respective incremental backup is
not created immediately, but after the disk backup is unmounted, instead. While the backup is
mounted, the changes are saved in the %Temp% folder.
1.2 Acronis Backup components
Acronis Backup includes the following main types of components.
Components for a managed machine (agents)
These are applications that perform data backup, recovery and other operations on the machines
managed with Acronis Backup. Agents require a license to perform operations on each managed
machine.
Components for centralized management
These components, included in Acronis Backup Advanced, provide centralized management
capability. Usage of these components is not licensed.
Console
The console provides Graphical User Interface to other Acronis Backup components. Usage of the
console is not licensed.
Bootable media builder
With bootable media builder, you can create bootable media in order to use the agents and other
rescue utilities in a rescue environment.
Bootable Media Builder does not require a license if installed together with an agent. To use a media
builder on a machine without an agent, you need to enter the license key or have at least one license
on the license server. The license may be either available or assigned.
