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What is ActiveImage Protector™ ?

ActiveImage Protector is an enterprise-level backup and disaster recovery solution that supports both physical and virtual (Hyper-V/VMware), Windows/Linux, On-Premise/Cloud environments. ActiveImage Protector is the fastest and most powerful data protection solutions on the market, and provides all the necessary tools for enterprise deployment and management, immediate system recovery, switch-over availability, and virtual migration.

Image based backup

ActiveImage Protector™ backs up your entire machine, including the OS, settings, data files and applications, and access rights into a single image file. When disaster strikes, select a backup image to quickly restore for a fast and complete recovery.

Direct-To-Cloud Backup

Backup systems directly to cloud storage. Supported public cloud storage services include Amazon S3 and Azure as backup destinations. In addition, Direct-To-Cloud Backup also supports SFTP servers as backup destinations.

File Backup

A new file backup option providing granular point-in-time backup and restore of specific files and folders.

LTO Tape Support

Support for LTO as a backup destination. Backup data saved on tape can be physically isolated from ransomware attacks and ensures long-term archival stability.

Ensure full-state recovery

ActiveImage Protector™ backs up your entire hard disk including the operating system in a single operation. In the event of a hardware failure, the system can be restored to a different physical machine or a virtual machine. 

In-Cloud Recovery

Any backup image can be restored directly to a virtual machine within the same cloud environment. In-Cloud Recovery offers an easy system migration of on-premise virtual or physical machines directly to cloud environments.

Hybrid Licensing for Server Edition

Selectable Agent-based or Agentless Backup licensing is now available for server edition.

Faster and smaller backup with Smart Sector technology

ActiveImage Protector™’s Smart Sector™ technology only backs up the used sectors on a disk, resulting in faster backup and smaller backup files.

CBC (Changed Block Comparison™) Technology

Actiphy’s proprietary Changed Block Comparison™ (CBC) technology comprehensively analyzes a volume’s file system and identifies changed blocks that need to be backed up. As CBC is an installed program rather than a filter driver, incremental backups of NTFS volumes, are supported. A system restart is not required upon the installation or update of the program.

Save storage space with IDDC

Our Inline Data Deduplication Compression (IDDC) feature eliminates duplicate data while simultaneously compressing it, resulting in a significant reduction in backup storage requirements. An included advanced option, IDDC has no impact on backup processing time. No additional deduplication hardware or software purchase is necessary.

Bootability check by BootCheck™　

BootCheck™ provides confidence that your backup images are bootable from local or remote Hyper-V hosts. BootCheck™ confirms bootability of a virtual machine directly from a backup image file.

Disk-To-Disk Copy

A new disk-to-disk copy option that supports physical disks and volumes, for a complete sector by sector copy. The Disk-to-disk Copy feature can select the entire disk or a specific volume to copy, or copy to a higher capacity disk or volume.

Boot Environment

 Linux-based Boot Environment boots up on memory. Windows-based Boot Environment can be built without installation of Windows ADK.

Image Target Server

Utilize iSCSI targets and NFS exports to emulate backup images as virtual disk files for flexible and immediate recovery or migration.

Boot backup images instantly using HyperBoot™

Using our real-time virtual conversion technology, HyperBoot bypasses the lengthy, resource intensive, and cumbersome physical to virtual conversion process, and boots the backup as a virtual machine in minimal time. Changes made while running the virtual machine from a backup are saved as differential files. A proverbial “Spare Wheel” for recovery, migration testing, repair, or upgrading prior to actual deployment.

 

License

ActiveImage Protector™ Server

1 license is required to back up one physical / virtual Windows Server environment. HyperAgent offers agentless backup technology to back up virtual environment.

 

System Requirements

Hardware
CPU:
Pentium 4 or above

Main Memory:
2GB or more.

Hard Disk:
650MB or more of available disk space.

DVD-ROM drive:
Needed to install, boot, or start up the ActiveImage Protector boot environment.
 

Operating System

Windows
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server IoT 2019 for Storage
  • Windows Storage Server 2016
  • Windows Storage Server 2012 R2
 
Hypervisor
  • Windows Server 2022 Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 Hyper-V
  • VMware vSphere ESX[i] 5.1 / 5.5 / 6.0 / 6.5 / 6.7/ 7.0

The operating systems above stated as guest OS of virtual machines on the respective hypervisors are also supported.
As for the backup source OS for HyperAgent, please refer to our knowledge Base
For the support information about the other hypervisors, please contact us.


Supported File System

Hot Imaging Backup:
FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS, CSVFS, ReFS
  • CSVFS（supported for only Cluster Edition）
  • The above listed file systems on MBR and GPT disks are supported.
  • Support for the above mentioned file systems of virtual disks on Storage Space configured with Windows 8 or later OS.

Cold Imaging in Actiphy Boot Environment（Windows RE/PE）:
FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS, exFAT, ReFS, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux Ext4
  • File system on Storage Space and ReFS are supported only if the boot environment is created by using Windows ADK that supports the file system.
  • Boot Environment Builder supports building Boot Environment.

 

Cold Imaging in Boot Environment（Linux）:
FAT16、FAT16X、FAT32、FAT32X、NTFS、Linux Ext2、Linux Ext3、Linux Ext4、Linux Swap,Linux LVM
  • Boot Environment Builder supports building Boot Environment.

 

Storage
Parallel ATA, Serial ATA (including eSATA), SCSI, SAS, iSCSI, SAN (Fibre Channel), USB, FireWire (IEEE 1394), network shared folders compatible with file sharing SMB/CIFS protocols（shared folders of Windows OS and Samba）, and virtual hard disks created in storage
  • Storage media with a 512 byte sector size or more is supported.

 

Internet Connection

Internet connection is required for activation of the product and installation of the most recent updates.
  • Indispensable when using HyperAgent.

 

Deduplication

System requirements for Deduplication are as follows:
  •  A volume with available space of 1% or more of the total volume size of the backup source is required as the working area other than the storage space for the backup image files.
  • CPU: Dual core processor or above (recommended)
  • Main Memory: 8GB or above (recommended)）
  • Intel Itanium（IA-64）based systems are not supported.
 

Actiphy Boot Environment (Windows PE)

Main Memory:
2GB or above is recommended
 
DVD-ROM drive:
Needed to install, boot, or start up the ActiveImage Protector boot environment.
 
Others:
System requirements for Deduplication feature are as follows:
  •  A volume with available space of 1% or more of the total volume size of the backup source as the working area to back up using deduplication other than the storage space for backup image files.
  •  CPU: Dual core processor or above (recommended)
  • Main Memory: 8GB or above (recommended)
  • Intel Itanium（IA-64）based systems are not supported.
 
File System:
FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, ReFS, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux Ext4, Linux Swap
  • The above file systems on MBR and GPT disks are supported.
  • The above mentioned file systems of virtual disks on Storage Space configured with Windows 8 or later are supported.
 
Storage Interface:
ATA, SATA, eSATA, SCSI, iSCSI, USB, FireWire (IEEE 1394), SAS, SAN (fibre channel), network drive, Network shared folders compatible with file sharing SMB/CIFS protocol (shared folders of Windows OS and Samba)
  • Please refer here to check how to use iSCSI.
  • SAN (fibre channel) can be used only when the driver is loaded in the boot environment.

 

Linux Boot Environment

Main Memory:
2GB or above is recommended

DVD-ROM drive:
Needed to install, boot, or start up the ActiveImage Protector boot environment.

Others:
System requirements for Deduplication feature are as follows:
  •  A volume with available space of 1% or more of the total volume size of the backup source as the working area to back up using deduplication other than the storage space for backup image files.
  •  CPU: Dual core processor or above (recommended)
  • Main Memory: 8GB or above (recommended)
  • Intel Itanium（IA-64）based systems are not supported.

File System:
FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux Ext4, Linux Swap, Linux LVM, XFS
  • The above file systems on MBR and GPT disks are supported.
  • The above mentioned file systems of virtual disks on Storage Space configured with Windows 8 or later are supported.

 

Storage Interface:
ATA, SATA, eSATA, SCSI, iSCSI, USB, FireWire (IEEE 1394), SAS, SAN (fibre channel), network drive, Network shared folders compatible with file sharing SMB/CIFS protocol (shared folders of Windows OS and Samba)
  • Please refer here to check how to use iSCSI.
  • SAN (fibre channel) can be used only when the driver is loaded in the boot environment.

 

Actiphy Boot Environment Builder

CPU:
Pentium 4 or aboveMain Memory:
1024MB or more is requiredHard Disk:
2048 MB or more of available disk space is required.
Internet Connection: Required for installation of the product
  • If you use a proxy server for internet access, click on [?] and configure the proxy settings.

 

Screen Resolution:
1152 x 864 (XGA+) or above is recommended. Display scale is 100%.Operating System:
Windows 10 (x64) or later version of Windows Desktop OS, Windows Server 2012 R2 or later version of Windows Server OS

Windows ADK:
ADK for Windows 10 Version 1607 or later
The following components are required:
  • Deployment Tools
  • Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)

 

If the Windows ADK for Windows 10 1809 or later was downloaded, please install the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) from “Windows PE Addon for the ADK”