Acronis - what to buy

Not sure if you saw it but below is a link to a comparison between their business products. http://www.acronis.com/backup-recovery/#compare Basically, with advanced you can remotely manage backups. But to me it sounds like this isn't the direction you are interested in.

I did see the comparison chart and I read the information they have on their website, but it was not clear to me what they meant when they used the terms "Remote", "Centralized Management", "Management Server", etc..

So as I waited for a response, I downloaded the PDF documentation and started to go through both the "Workstation" and "Advanced Workstation" Users Guides. Though I still need to read more, I think I now understand the basic difference between the two. The Advanced document indicates that
The Console provides a GUI and remote connection to the agents and other components.
Usage of these components is not licensed.
And it also describes the Agents for Windows which are I presume are the actual processes that do the management and backup on the individual systems.

This can be done with either package. In conjunction with ReadyNAS Remote you can mount the images remotely and extract individual files.

So there is one major thing that is not clear to me. If I only have the Management Console installed on my personal laptop (I don't want to buy a license for my laptop, just manage others), AND I have access to my ReadyNAS NV+, AND the client computer is shut off, can I extract files from the backup files on the ReadyNAS?