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The main tasks that most partition managers allow you to perform are: disk formatting, disk partitioning, merging disk partitions, creating a new disk partition, deleting a disk partition, and resizing a disk partition. The partition manager that allows you to make these changes without data loss is called [Acronis Disk Director](https://www.acronis.cz/produkt/acronis-disk-director/). Acronis Disk Director is available in Czech, and you can try it for free as a demo version. The demo version allows you to perform the aforementioned disk partition operations up to a size of 100 MB. The full version of the program works without limitations. - Features · Software - [Acronis True Image](https://www.acronis.cz/produkt/true-image/) · [Acronis Backup](https://www.acronis.cz/produkt/acronis-backup/) · [Acronis Disk Director](https://www.acronis.cz/produkt/acronis-disk-director/) · [Acronis Disk Director (Workstation, Server, Technician licence)](https://www.acronis.cz/produkt/acronis-disk-director-advanced/) - What environment is the product suitable for - For households · Yes · Yes - For organizations of all sizes · Yes · Yes - What types of machines are supported - Computers running Windows OS (Windows 7, 8, 10) · Yes · Yes · Yes · Yes - Computers running Mac OS (Apple computers) · Yes · Yes - Physical Windows and Linux servers · Yes · Yes - Virtual machines (VMware, Hyper-V, RHEV, Citrix, KVM) · Yes · Yes - Cloud machines (Azure, Amazon EC2) · Yes · Yes - Mobile devices based on iOS and Android · Yes · Yes - What can be backed up - Backups of entire machines (disk, volume and partition images) · Yes · Yes - Data backups (files and folders) · Yes · Yes - Database backups (Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, AD, Oracle) · Yes - How backups are managed - Backups are managed directly from the backed-up machine · Yes - Backup and recovery are managed centrally, from one location · Yes - Remote installation of agents on backed-up machines · Yes - Backups can be started manually at any time · Yes · Yes - Backups can be scheduled to run automatically · Yes · Yes - Backed-up machines can be organized into groups · Yes - Backups can be managed by subordinate administrators · Yes - Option to set up email notifications about backups · Yes - Backup options - Full, incremental and differential backups · Yes · Yes - Always incremental scheme, GFS scheme, custom scheme · Yes · Yes - Backups can be encrypted with a custom password (AES 256 standard) · Yes · Yes - Backups are automatically compressed · Yes · Yes - Backups can be deduplicated · Yes - Backups can be stored in multiple repositories at once · Yes - Where backups can be stored - Local disks, external disks, USB disks · Yes · Yes - Network storage, including NAS · Yes · Yes - Tape drives and tape libraries · Yes - FTP servers · Yes - SFTP servers · Yes - Acronis cloud storage (at an additional cost) · Yes · Yes - How recovery from backups can be performed - From the operating system – if the machine is working · Yes · Yes - From bootable media that can be created (CD/DVD, USB) · Yes · Yes - A machine without a working OS can also be recovered · Yes · Yes - Recovery can be performed to hardware with different specifications · Yes · Yes - Recovery can be started remotely from central management · Yes - Recovery can also be performed to a larger or smaller disk · Yes · Yes - Partition sizes can be changed during recovery · Yes · Yes - Recovery can be performed from HDD to SSD and vice versa · Yes · Yes - What can be recovered from a backup - Entire disk, volume, partition · Yes · Yes - Required data (files and folders) from both data and image backups · Yes · Yes - Entire databases or individual parts of databases · Yes - Virtual environment backup - Machines can be replicated to a standby ESXi host · Yes - Backups can be automatically converted into ready-to-use virtual machines · Yes - Backups can be started as virtual machines · Yes - Backups can be recovered as ready-to-use virtual machines · Yes - Backups can be recovered inside virtual machines · Yes - Virtual machines can be backed up without an agent installed inside (Hyper-V and VMware) · Yes - Virtual machines can be backed up with agents installed inside virtual machines · Yes - Support for granular recovery of virtual machines · Yes - Hard disk operations - Support for both HDD and SSD drives · Yes · Yes · Yes · Yes - MBR disks can be cloned using the Disk to Disk method · Yes · Yes - MBR and GPT disks can be cloned using the Disk to Backup to Disk method · Yes · Yes - Option to create new disk partitions · Yes · Yes - Option to delete a disk partition · Yes · Yes - Option to enlarge or shrink a disk partition without data loss · Yes · Yes - Option to format disk partitions · Yes · Yes - Option to merge disk partitions without data loss · Yes · Yes --- - Source: - Site overview for AI agents: