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1 Introducing Acronis Backup
1.1 What's new in Acronis Backup 11.7
Installation
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 can be used to store the databases of Acronis Backup Management
Server.
Licensing
Support for the subscription licensing model. For more information, please refer to the Acronis
Backup Licensing FAQ.
Deduplication
128 MB of RAM per 1 TB of unique data are required, instead of 3 GB.
No need to allocate the deduplication database on expensive SSD disks. Regular HDD disks can be
used without performance degradation.
Recovery from a deduplicated backup is now 40 percent faster.
The backup speed does not reduce as the deduplication database size increases.
The Storage Node startup time on large data sets is reduced to 1-3 minutes.
Validating deduplicated backups and compacting the data store are now 2.5 times faster.
These improvements are effective when v11.7 agents back up to deduplicating vaults created on
v11.7 storage nodes. When a new agent backs up to an old vault or an old agent backs up to a new
vault, the old deduplication algorithm is used. To apply the new deduplication algorithm to old
backups, you need to import the backups into a newly created vault.
Tape support
Configurable block size (p. 196) for reading and writing to tapes. The default value is taken from
the tape device driver.
Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) and Hardware Compatibility Tool are introduced. Hardware
Compatibility List contains tape devices with confirmed support by Acronis Backup. To learn if
your specific device is supported, use the Hardware Compatibility Tool.
Full support for the LTO-7 technology. See the HCL for the exact names of the tested devices.
Centralized management
It is possible to specify a custom backup location (p. 359) for each machine that is included in a
centralized backup plan.
In addition to exporting licenses from the management server to an .xml file, you can export
them to a .txt file (p. 380).
Microsoft Exchange Server support
Agent for Exchange can back up and recover Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 databases. Backup
and recovery of Exchange 2016 mailboxes (including mailbox recovery from database backups)
are not supported.
Supported operating systems
Support for Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4.
Support for Linux kernel version 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4.
