Main advantages:

[li]Convenience of backup and recovery of the operating system of laptops. Backups of the laptop operating system can be stored in any centralized storage or locally in the Acronis Security Zone to ensure immediate recovery in case of failures.
[li]Fast system recovery. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will restore the entire contents of the hard drive, including OS, applications and user data in minutes, not hours and even more days.
[li]Intuitive interface and wizard system. Users can restore files, folders, and even their servers without the help of an administrator and do not need lengthy training
[li]Migration to new equipment. Recovery on different hardware is easy to perform with the help of the additional Acronis Backup & Recovery Universal Restore module. Move the old system to the new one, including all applications, data and settings, and the computer is ready to continue working after a few minutes.
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Key features:

[li]Event-based backup. Backup can be started upon the occurrence of such events or states as server on/off, user input/output, or the addition of a certain amount of data.
[li]Acronis Secure Zone and Boot Recovery simplify recovery. If you save system backups in the Acronis Security zone and enable the boot recovery function, you can restore the system without having a bootable media.
[li]Advanced policy-based scheduling and backup capabilities. You can make flexible backup plans depending on the company's IT strategy and the importance of different servers. Scheduled tasks will be performed systematically to fully protect critical data.
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Universal Restore

What should I do when the computer hardware fails or needs to be replaced entirely? How do I move important applications and data to a new machine or hardware configuration after an accident? How to quickly restore the system after changing equipment?
To solve these problems, Acronis offers an integrated Acronis® module Backup & Recovery™ 11 Universal Restore™, which restores servers and workstations to equipment other than the one from which backups were taken, or to virtual machines, providing extremely flexible disaster recovery and migration capabilities.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Universal Restore allows you to get out of unforeseen situations with honor without maintaining a fleet of backup machines identical in configuration to the main computers.
First of all, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 creates a reference image that does not depend on the hardware configuration of the source machine. The Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore module loads drivers of new hardware so that the system from the image can start on another hardware platform with all applications, data and user settings saved. Recovery can be performed to the original computer, a new computer with a different hardware configuration, or to a virtual machine. The procedure takes literally a few minutes and is performed as follows:
[li]Boot the backup computer from the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 bootable media and select the "Restore" command from the menu.
[li]Select the image to restore.
[li]Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Universal Restore will start the recovery process, determine the hardware configuration and install the necessary Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) drivers.
[li]At the end of the recovery, you get an exact copy of the original system on the new hardware platform.
Main functions
[li]Recovery — fast recovery of a failed computer to a machine with a different hardware configuration or to a virtual machine.
[li]Migration is the transfer of systems according to the scheme "physical-virtual", "virtual-physical", "physical-physical" or "virtual-virtual" for the purpose of recovery, testing, etc.
[li]Modernization – installation of new hardware drivers and replacement of the HAL level to boot the computer after changing the motherboard or hard disk controller, or to boot from the old disk on a new machine.
[li]Cloning and deployment — cloning and deployment of operating systems regardless of hardware.