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6.3
Recovering data
When it comes to data recovery, first consider the most functional method: connect the console to
the managed
machine running the operating system
and create the recovery task.
If the managed machine's
operating system fails to start
or you need to
recover data to bare metal
,
boot the machine from the bootable media (p. 350) or using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (p.
45). Then, create a recovery task.
Acronis Universal Restore (p. 45) lets you recover and boot up
Windows on dissimilar hardware
or a
virtual machine.
A
Windows system can be brought online in seconds
while it is still being recovered. Using the
proprietary Acronis Active Restore (p. 47) technology, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will boot the
machine into the operating system found in the backup as if the system were on the physical disk.
The system becomes operational and ready to provide necessary services. Thus, the system
downtime will be minimal.
A
dynamic volume
can be recovered over an existing volume, to unallocated space of a disk group, or
to unallocated space of a basic disk. To learn more about recovering dynamic volumes, please turn to
the Microsoft LDM (Dynamic volumes) (p. 40) section.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows has the ability to recover a disk (volume) backup
to a
new virtual machine
of any of the following types: VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC,
Parallels Workstation or Citrix XenServer virtual appliance. The virtual appliance can then be
imported to XenServer. The VMware Workstation machine can be converted to the open
virtualization format (OVF) using the VMware OVF tool. With Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent
for Hyper-V or Agent for ESX/ESXi, you can create a new virtual machine on the respective
virtualization server.
You might need to prepare target disks before recovery. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 includes a
handy disk management utility which enables you to create or delete volumes, change a disk
partitioning style, create a disk group and perform other disk management operations on the target
hardware, both under the operating system and on bare metal. To find out more about Acronis Disk
Director LV, see the Disk management (p. 252) section.
To create a recovery task, perform the following steps
General
Task name
[Optional] Enter a unique name for the recovery task. A conscious name lets you quickly
identify the task among the others.
Task credentials
(p. 202)
[Optional] The task will run on behalf of the user who is creating the task. You can change the
task account credentials if necessary. To access this option, select the
Advanced view
check
box .
What to recover
Archive
(p. 202)
Select the archive to recover data from.
Data type
(p. 203)
Applies to: disk recovery
Choose the type of data you need to recover from the selected disk backup.
