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Dynamic volume
Basic MBR volume Basic GPT volume
Dynamic volume
Dynamic volume
Type as of the
target
Dynamic volume
Type as of the
target
Dynamic volume
Type as of the
target
Unallocated space (disk group)
Dynamic volume
Type as of the
source
Dynamic volume
Simple
N/A
Basic MBR volume
Basic MBR volume Basic MBR volume Basic MBR volume
Basic GPT volume
Basic GPT volume Basic GPT volume Basic GPT volume
Unallocated space (basic MBR disk)
Basic MBR volume Basic MBR volume Basic MBR volume
Unallocated space (basic GPT disk)
Basic GPT volume Basic GPT volume Basic GPT volume
Moving and resizing volumes during recovery
You can resize the resulting basic volume, both MBR and GPT, during recovery, or change the
volume's location on the disk. A resulting dynamic volume cannot be moved or resized.
Preparing disk groups and volumes
Before recovering dynamic volumes to bare metal you should create a disk group on the target
hardware.
You also might need to create or increase unallocated space on an existing disk group. This can be
done by deleting volumes or converting basic disks to dynamic.
You might want to change the target volume type (basic, simple/spanned, striped, mirrored, RAID
0+1, RAID 5). This can be done by deleting the target volume and creating a new volume on the
resulting unallocated space.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 includes a handy disk management utility which enables you to
perform the above operations both under the operating system and on bare metal. To find out more
about Acronis Disk Director Lite, see the Disk management (p. 287) section.
2.9
Backing up LVM volumes and MD devices (Linux)
This section explains how you would back up and recover volumes managed by Linux Logical Volume
Manager (LVM), called logical volumes; and multiple-disk (MD) devices, called Linux Software RAID.
2.9.1
Backing up logical volumes
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Linux can access, back up and recover such volumes when
running in Linux with 2.6.x kernel or a Linux-based bootable media.
Backup (GUI)
In Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 GUI, logical volumes appear under Dynamic & GPT Volumes at the
end of the list of volumes available for backup.
