Software Update: Acronis Backup 12.5 Update 4

Acronis Backup is a comprehensive backup program that targets enterprise environments. The pack contains many options to secure data on physical and virtual servers. It also integrates with various cloud environments, such as Office 365, Azure and Amazon EC2. Also can blockchaintechnology are deployed with Acronis Notary, which is available through a comprehensive license. Acronis Backup 12.5 update 4 with build number 13400 has received the following announcement:

What’s new in Update 4

backup

• The enhanced backup option Performance and backup window (former Performance) enables you to set one of three levels of backup performance (high, low, prohibited) for every hour within a week. The high and low levels are configurable in terms of the process priority and output speed.
• The Physical Data Shipping backup option for cloud backups

Recovery

• The capability to save system information on a local disk or a network share if a recovery with reboot fails.

scalability

• The maximum number of physical machines that can be registered on a management server increased from 4000 to 8000.

Security

• The capability to disable anonymous registration so that a user name and password of a management server administrator are always required when registering a device.
• All communication during a device registration is done via HTTPS. It works out of the box and cannot be disabled. It is possible to enforce certificate verification during unattended installation in Windows and in Linux.
• Mass registration of devices by using a token instead of a user name and password
• The capability to install Agent for Linux in UEFI systems with enabled Secure Boot.
• During the installation, the Acronis key is generated, used to sign the snapapi module, and registered as a Machine Owner Key (MOK). Once the installation is completed, the user should restart the system and enroll the key by using the password provided by the setup program.

Applications

• Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2019
• CBT (tracking file changes at a block level) can be disabled for backups of SQL and Exchange databases.

Active Protection

• New protection options:
  • Detection of crypto mining malware
  • The capability to allow certain processes to modify backup files while self-protection is on
  • Protection of network folders mapped as local drives

Virtualization

• Conversion to the following virtual machine types:
  • VMware Workstation
  • VHDX virtual disks (for connection to a Hyper-V virtual machine)
• This conversion is supported in a backup plan or in a separate conversion plan created on the Plans tab.
• Support for Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019
• Support for Citrix XenServer 7.6
• The boot menu (in the text form) can be used when booting a Citrix XenServer virtual machine.

Backup locations

• The Acronis Storage product name changed to Acronis Cyber ​​Infrastructure.

administration

• It is possible to add a comment to a device on the device Details pane. Devices can be searched and organized in dynamic groups by comments.
• In a domain environment, local accounts on the management server are not added by default to the Acronis Centralized Admins group and to the organization administrators list.
• The name of the Acronis Management Server service (ams) is changed to acrmngsrv, to avoid name conflicts with other software services.

Support for new operating systems

• Support for RHEL 7.6, 8.0 (configurations with Stratis are not supported)
• Support for Ubuntu 18.10
• Support for Fedora 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
• Support for Debian 9.5, 9.6
• Support for Windows XP SP1 (x64) and SP2 (x64) is resumed
• Support for Windows XP SP2 (x86) is resumed with a special version of Agent for Windows

Support for new languages

• Bulgarian
• Norwegian
• Swedish
• Finnish
• Serbian
• malay
• Indonesian