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Microsoft SQL databases by means of single-pass disk and application backup, if Acronis
Backup Agent for SQL is installed.
Agent for SQL enables you to create application-aware disk backups and to recover
Microsoft SQL databases from such backups. For more information, see the "Protecting
Microsoft SQL Server..." (p. 310) section.
Microsoft Active Directory data by means of single-pass disk and application backup, if
Acronis Backup Agent for Active Directory is installed.
Agent for Active Directory enables you to create application-aware disk backups and to
recover Microsoft Active Directory data from such backups. For more information, see
the "Protecting Microsoft Active Directory ..." (p. 321) section.
Folders/files
Available if Acronis Backup Agent for Windows or Acronis Backup Agent for Linux is installed.
Select this option to back up specific files and folders.
A file-level backup is not sufficient for recovery of the operating system. Choose file backup if
you plan to keep safe only certain data (the current project, for example). This will reduce
the archive size, thus saving storage space.
In order to recover your operating system along with all the settings and applications, you
have to perform a disk backup.
Virtual machines
Available if Acronis Backup Agent for VMware or Acronis Backup Agent for Hyper-V is
installed.
Select this option to back up entire virtual machines residing on a virtualization server or
their disks or volumes.
Backing up an entire virtual machine, its disks, or volumes yields a standard disk backup (p.
443). In addition, this backup stores the virtual machine configuration. This configuration will
be suggested by default when recovering the backup content to a new virtual machine. For
more information about backing up virtual machines see "Backing up virtual machines".
Microsoft Exchange information store
Available if Acronis Backup Agent for Exchange is installed.
Select this option to back up information store, individual storage groups or databases of
Microsoft Exchange servers. In case of disaster, you will be able to recover lost or corrupted
databases or storage groups. Also, you can individually recover mailboxes, public
folders, single emails, contacts, calendar events, and other items.
To be able to back up Exchange data, a domain user account that has administrative
privileges on the Exchange server is required. In a cluster, the account must have
administrative privileges on each of the cluster’s nodes.
For more information about backing up Microsoft Exchange data see "Backing up Microsoft
Exchange Server data".
Microsoft Exchange mailboxes
Available if Acronis Backup Agent for Exchange is installed.
Select this option to back up individual mailboxes and public folders without backing up the
entire Microsoft Exchange database. By using the exclusion filters, you can specify items to
be skipped during mailbox backups.
To be able to back up Exchange data, a domain user account that has administrative
privileges on the Exchange server is required. In a cluster, the account must have
administrative privileges on each of the cluster’s nodes.
