Acronis Backup 11.7 Hotfix 2 and Release of DE, FR, RU, IT, ES versions

Hello Dear Acronis Customers!

Please be aware that we have released Acronis Backup 11.7 Hotfix 2 in EN-US, EN-UK, DE, FR, RU, IT, ES languages.

- North America edition(EN-US, FR): Build 44184
- Maintenance build (EN-US, EN-UK, DE, FR, RU, IT, ES): Build 44411

(!) This is a new build available to all Acronis Backup 11.5 users. No new serial numbers are required. Acronis Backup 11.5 serial numbers (in DE, FR, RU, IT, ES languages) have been renamed to 11.7 version under My Account.

What's new in this hotfix compared to builds 44182/44409:

Fixed issue:
[ABR-95876] The list backups command fails under 32-bit WinPE-based bootable media. The following error appears: "Factory for a command with ID = '...' cannot be found".

What's new in version 11.7:

Installation

- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 can be used to store the databases of Acronis Backup Management Server.

Licensing

- Support for the subscription licensing model. For more information, please refer to the Acronis Backup Licensing FAQ

Deduplication

- 128 MB of RAM per 1 TB of unique data are required, instead of 3 GB.
- No need to allocate the deduplication database on expensive SSD disks. Regular HDD disks can be used without performance degradation.
- Recovery from a deduplicated backup is now 40 percent faster.
- The backup speed does not reduce as the deduplication database size increases.
- The Storage Node startup time on large data sets is reduced to 1-3 minutes.
- Validating deduplicated backups and compacting the data store are now 2.5 times faster.

These improvements are effective when v11.7 agents back up to deduplicating vaults created on v11.7 storage nodes. When a new agent backs up to an old vault or an old agent backs up to a new vault, the old deduplication algorithm is used. To apply the new deduplication algorithm to old backups, you need to import the backups into a newly created vault.

Tape support

- Configurable block size for reading and writing to tapes. The default value is taken from the tape device driver.
- Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) and Hardware Compatibility Tool are introduced. Hardware Compatibility List contains tape devices with confirmed support by Acronis Backup. To learn if your specific device is supported, use the Hardware Compatibility Tool.
Full support for the LTO-7 technology. See the HCL for the exact names of the tested devices.

Centralized management

- It is possible to specify a custom backup location for each machine that is included in a centralized backup plan.
- In addition to exporting licenses from the management server to an .xml file, you can export them to a .txt file.

Microsoft Exchange Server support

- Agent for Exchange can back up and recover Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 databases. Backup and recovery of Exchange 2016 mailboxes (including mailbox recovery from database backups) are not supported.

Supported operating systems

- Support for Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4.
- Support for Linux kernel version 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4.
- 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. See the following KB article for more details: https://kb.acronis.com/content/57672

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.
 
Release notes for build 44184 can be found here.
Release notes for build 44411 can be found here.

Subscription licenses

Acronis Backup 11.7 introduces new licensing option for Acronis Backup products: subscription licenses. Subscription licenses have a duration of 1, 2, 3 years. During the subscription period, Customer is entitled to AA Premier support and to free upgrades to the new versions

When making a purchase on Acronis website, you can choose between permanent and subscription license either on fly-up on Buy Now button, or on Buy Now with Cloud page: http://www.acronis.com/en-us/business/backup/windows-server/purchasing/

You can find answers to many questions concerning Acronis Backup 11.7 and subscription model on Licensing FAQ page http://www.acronis.com/en-us/business/licensing-faq/