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multimedia files. Some of these storage volumes can be extremely large as compared to the
system and so practically all the recovery time will be dedicated to recovering the files, which
might be used much later on, if in any near future at all.
If you opt for Acronis Active Restore, the system will be operational in a short time. Users will be
able to open the necessary files from the storage and use them while the rest of the files, which
are not immediately necessary, are being recovered in the background.
Examples: movie collection storage, music collection storage, multimedia storage.
How to use
1.
Back up the system disk or volume to a location accessible through the system’s BIOS. This may
be Acronis Secure Zone, a USB hard drive, a flash drive or any internal hard drive.
If your operating system and its loader reside on different volumes, always include both volumes in the
backup. The volumes must also be recovered together; otherwise there is a high risk that the operating
system will not start.
2.
Create bootable media.
3.
If a system failure occurs, boot the machine using the bootable media. Start the console and
connect to the bootable agent.
4.
Configure the system recovery: select the system disk or volume and select the
Use Acronis
Active Restore
check box.
Acronis Active Restore will choose for the boot-up and subsequent recovery the first operating system
found during the backup scan. Do not try to recover more than one operating system using Active Restore if
you want the result to be predictable. When recovering a multi-boot system, choose only one system
volume and boot volume at a time.
5.
Once the system recovery is started, the operating system boots from the backup. The Acronis
Active Restore icon appears in the system tray. The machine becomes operational and ready to
provide necessary services. The immediate user sees the drive tree and icons and can open files
or launch applications even though they were not yet recovered.
The Acronis Active Restore drivers intercept system queries and set the immediate priority for
recovery of the files that are necessary to serve the incoming requests. While this on-the-fly
recovery proceeds, the continuing recovery process is transferred to the background.
Please do not shut down or reboot the machine until the recovery is completed. If you switch off the
machine, all the changes made to the system since the last boot up would be lost. The system will not be
recovered, not even partially. The only possible solution in this case will be to restart the recovery process
from a bootable media.
6.
The background recovery continues until all the selected volumes are recovered, the log entry is
made and the Acronis Active Restore icon disappears from the system tray.
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Understanding centralized management
This section contains an overview of centralized data protection with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.
Please be sure you have an understanding of how data is protected on a single machine (p. 27)
before reading this section.
