What is the Difference of Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard and Advanced Edition

Acronis Backup 12.5 is the latest version backup software from Acronis. Acronis claimed if the this version is the world’s easiest and fastest backup solution for all data, whether it is located on-premises, in remote systems, in private and public clouds, or on mobile devices. With enhanced backup validation and blockchain-based authentication of your backups with Acronis Notary™. 

Acronis presents a complete solution for data protection. The emergence of virtualization, the explosion of data generation, and the opportunities offered by Cloud services bring new challenges for effective backup program maintenance and disaster recovery for critical data.

Acronis software are designed to move, secure, and restore critical data wherever they are in a physical, virtual, or clouded environment. With Integrated Platform and new generation technology, Acronis' innovative solutions are designed to ease management burdens and reduce total cost of ownership, and increase your recovery time goals.


The  Acronis Backup 12.5 backup software has two edition, namely : Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard and Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced edition. The difference lies in the features that can be used, where the advanced edition has more features that can be used. Here are the feature list.

Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard Edition Features List :

Patented disk-imaging technology           
Storage – disks, NAS, SAN, Acronis Cloud Storage           
VMware vSphere®, Microsoft Hyper-V®           
User data backup           
Touch-friendly web-based centralized and remote management console           
Customizable dashboards           
Acronis Active Protection™           
Microsoft Exchange®, SQL Server®, SharePoint®, Active Directory®           
Application-aware backup     

Complete Business Protection   
Windows Server 2016           
Windows Server 2012R2/2012, 2008R2/2008, 2003R2/2003           
Windows Small Business Server 2011/2008/2003R2/2003           
Windows Server 2016/2012R2/2012 Essentials and Foundation           
Windows Storage Server 2012R2/2012, 2008R2/2008, 2003           
Windows MultiPoint Server 2012/2011/2010           
Windows® 10           
Windows 8/8.1/7/Vista/XP support           
Mac® OS X support           
Linux® (various distributions)            
Linux-based management console           
VMware ESX/ESXi™ (agentless and agent-based VM backup)           
VMware changed-block tracking (CBT)           
VMware ESXi Virtual host backup           
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) support with agent-based backup           
VMware vSphere VM Replication with WAN optimization           
VMware vSphere Replication Replica Seeding           
Hyper-V agentless and agent-based VM backup           
Hyper-V changed-block tracking (CBT) and resilient-change trackng (RCT)           
Hyper-V virtual host backup           
Microsoft Exchange database backup with log truncation           
Microsoft SharePoint           
Microsoft Active Directory           
Microsoft Office 365® mailbox backup           
Microsoft Azure® VM backup           
Amazon AWS EC2® instance backup           
Disk-imaging backup           
File backup           
Dynamic disks           
GPT disks      
Acronis Disk Director Lite in on-premise installation   


World’s Fastest Recovery   
Acronis Universal Restore           
Mounting of disk backup as a virtual drive           
VMware ESXi host bare-metal recovery           
Hyper-V host bare-metal recovery           
Granular restore of Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes and emails           
Granular restore of Microsoft Exchange           
Granular restore of Microsoft SQL Server           
Mounting of SQL databases from the backup storage           
Flexible SQL recovery modes (RECOVERY, NORECOVERY, STANDBY)           
Granular restore of Microsoft SharePoint           
Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory domain controllers           
Integrated search and preview of Office 365 emails before recovery           
Integrated search and preview of Exchange emails before recovery           
Restore of iPhone/iPad contacts, photos, videos, calendars, reminders from Acronis Cloud Storage subscription           
Restore of Android device contacts, photos, videos, calendars, text messages from Acronis Cloud Storage subscription           
Acronis Active Protection™           
Convert backup to virtual machine           
Acronis vmFlashback (CBT-based incremental VM restore)           
Acronis Bootable Media           
WinPE plug-in for on-premise console           
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager     

Flexible Storage and Backup Options   
Acronis Cloud Storage: files and folders           
Acronis Cloud Storage: disks and partitions           
Acronis Cloud Storage: iPhone/iPad contacts, photos, videos, calendars, reminders, via iOS API         
Acronis Cloud Storage: Android contacts, photos, videos, calendars, text messages via Android API    Local and external disk drives           
Network shares           
SFTP           
Acronis Secure Zone           
Backup validation as part of backup plan           
Backup contents search           
Backup encryption (in-flight and at-rest)           
VSS support (consistent backup of applications)           
Backup compression           
Flexible backup rotation and retention policies           
Backup retention cleanup as part of backup plan           
Multi-destination backup (backup replication)           
Acronis Storage support     


Intuitive, Scalable Management   
Touch-friendly web-based centralized management console           
Customizable dashboards           
Email notifications           
Condition-based backup scheduling           
Event-based backup scheduling           
Remote installation           
Remote update           
Smart alerting      


Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard Edition Features List
All the features in the standard edition plus the features below.

Complete Business Protection    
iPhone®, iPad®, Android® backup     To Acronis Cloud Storage
Oracle Database backup with log truncation          
Citrix® XenServer          
Red Hat® Virtualization          
Linux KVM          
Oracle® VM Server          
NetApp SAN Storage Snapshots for VMware vSphere Backup          
Backup of Exchange and SQL Server clusters          

World’s Fastest Recovery
Acronis Instant Restore (run VM from a backup)          
PXE server          
Remote bare-metal recovery          
Automated bare-metal recovery          
Enhanced validation, powered by Acronis Instant Restore          

Flexible Storage and Backup Options    
Acronis Notary™          
Acronis ASign™          
Centralized managed storage (Acronis Storage Node)          
Central storage deduplication          
Tape drive, autoloader, library support, including media management          
Script-based location targeting          
Scheduled backup validation          
Scheduled backup replication          
Scheduled backup retention          
Off-host backup staging (moving)          
Off-host backup replication (copying)          
Off-host backup validation          
Off-host backup retention (cleanup)          

Intuitive, Scalable Management
Shared backup plans          
Centralized data catalog with search          
Advanced reporting          
Admin roles (role-based administrative access)          
Centralized backup policies for machine groups      


Source: acronis.com

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