Acronis has launched an online backup and recovery platform that can be used to recover files, folders or complete systems.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online includes support for mixed virtual and physical computing environments.

It offers agent-less backup for virtual machines and the same Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 management console allows for control of both online and local backups — for both physical and virtual machines.

Security for backup data is provided through AES-256 data encryption and user authentication.

“Best practices for disaster recovery typically involves having multiple layers of protection with both local and offsite redundant backups,” explains Jason Donahue, CEO at Acronis.

“Unfortunately, some organisations don’t have redundant data storage across multiple sites. Our new online offering, coupled with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, gives organisations of all sizes the best of both worlds by combining high interval, high-performance local backups with the added protection of offsite redundant backups.”

The service is available in an annual subscription basis and is licensed per Workstation (250GB AU$59.99), Server (1TB AU$599) or virtual machine (2TB AU$1299)