Licensing questions about Acronis
Haven't used Acronis in years. Looking to purchase Acronis Backup Advanced for Windows Servers. Intent is to make images of all my servers and store them in the event of disaster. What I don't understand is the licensing . . . why do I need to buy an agent for SQL or virtual machines if I'm making a disk image of the entire server? Wouldn't a disk image simply make a copy of the complete machine and all its programs?
What am I missing here?
Hello Libby Gregg
You can protect SQL with Agent for Windows if you properly set up your backups, see
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/AcronisBackup_11.5/i…
However, to recover SQL you will need to recover the entire machine. Or recover .mdf, .ndf, .ldf files and manually attach them using SQL Server Management Studio, see http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/AcronisBackup_11.5/i…
You will also have to truncate transaction logs, see http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/AcronisBackup_11.5/i…
Agent for SQL allows you to select databases to recover in GUI. It can recover a database directly to a running SQL Server instance similarly to the native SQL tools. See http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/AcronisBackup_11.5/i…
The agent will also truncate SQL logs after a disk backup if you choose this option: http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/AcronisBackup_11.5/i…