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Basic question: Which version of Acronis 11.5 to buy?

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I'm looking to implement Acronis Backup & Recovery Workstation 11.5 at a peer network client running Windows 7 Professional workstations. I'll back up to a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro NAS drive.

I'd like to use the Advanced Workstation to get the centralized management console. Can I install and run this console on one of the workstations? It would also be a workstation that will be backed up by Acronis. There will not be an unused workstation available to server as just a console.

Thanks.

--Art

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Yes it's possible. Management console doesn't require a dedicated server. However what it will allow you is connect remotely to other machines where agents are installed (instead of local connection on each machine). If you need centralized management, with centralized plans deplaoyed to groups of machines, centralized monitoring and other things described in 'centralized management' section of the userguide, you need to install the Management Server component, and it will cause additional load to the machine where it's installed.