Acronis True Image Echo Workstation Review

Acronis True Image Echo Workstation Review

Backup software for the entire office network or a local computer. In comparison with Acronis True Image Home 2012 - Acronis True Image Echo Workstation allows you manage backup and restore tasks on remote computers, supports dynamic disks, backup to virtual machine, consolidate archives and much more. With Acronis True Image Echo Workstation you can:

- Restore system to dissimilar hardware using Acronis Universal Restore;
- Create full drive or file/folder backup;
- Clone the whole system to another disk drive (model, vendor and size of new destination drive doesn’t matter);
- Consolidate archive. Create a copy of a backup archive, the copied backup archive will contain only those backups from the source archive which you are manually selected;
- Convert backup to virtual disk format;
- Backup to tape drives;
- Backup and restore remote computers using Management Console.

Features:

- Acronis Group Server. Ease administration by viewing the status of all systems in the network;
- Acronis Backup Server. Ensure optimal usage of storage resources by allowing IT administrators to establish backup policies.
- Create dynamic volumes. Convert basic discs to dynamic disks and create dynamic volumes on dynamic disks;
- Mount/Explore an image;
- Schedule backup task;
- Protect backup with password and set encryption (AES 128, 192,256);
- Exclude the following files/folders from the image: system, hidden, MS SQL database files, MS Exchange database files;
- Database support. You can specify a command (or a path to an executable file) that will suspend database work for a short period of time required for making a snapshot of the data being backed up. See user guide for examples;
- Select different compression levels for backup creation;
- Fast Incremental/Differential backups. You can speed up the incremental or differential backup process;
- Archive splitting. You can speed up the incremental or differential backup process. To increase the speed, select Use fast incremental/differential backup;
- File level security settings. Specify whether to preserve security settings of the files in archive. Otherwise, while restoring the files, their security settings will be set to default values;
- Error handling. You can configure error handling settings for the backup creation process: ignore bad sectors, do not show error messages and dialogs while processing, if an error occurs reattempt it (you can set the time);
- Dual destination backup. Specify location, which will be used for storing a copy of a backup, which is created on Acronis Secure Zone;
- Specify Mass Storage Drivers on restore. If you have a mass storage controller (such as a SCSI, RAID, or Fibre Channel adapter) for your hard disk, you can install this driver manually, bypassing the automatic driver search-and-install procedure;
- Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. Boot your computer after a failure to start the recovery process simply by selecting the F11 key, even if your operating system has failed;
- Media Builder. Create Acronis bootable disc within the program, use it in case system is completely unbootable to restore the image;
- Acronis Secure Zone. Protect your system by saving an image to a special hidden partition on your hard disk where it can be retrieved after a disaster.

Supported OS:

- Microsoft Windows Vista (all versions and editions);
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition;
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP 4;
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP 2;
- Citrix Xen Source

Supported file systems:

FAT16/32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP. Special sector-by-sector support for other partitions and corrupted file systems.

Supported storage media:

- Hard disk drives
- Networked storage devices
- CD-R(W)
- DVD-RW, DVD+R(W)
- ZIP, Rev and other removable media
- P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and USB 1.1 / 2.0 drives, PC card storage devices.

Minimum system requirements:

- Pentium processor or higher
- 256 MB RAM
- CD-RW or DVD-RW drive for bootable media creation
- Disk space: 300 Mb
- Extra disk space for installation: 600 Mb

See also:

Acronis True Image Echo Workstation vs Acronis True Image Home
Acronis True Image Home 2012 Review
Acronis Backup and Recovery 11 Workstation Review