Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore) - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER - UPDATE 3 User Manual

to start the bootable rescue utility. This feature has the trade name "Acronis Startup Recovery
Manager".
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is especially useful for mobile users. If a failure occurs, the user
reboots the machine, hits F11 on prompt "Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager..." and
performs data recovery in the same way as with ordinary bootable media. The user can also back up
using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager, while on the move.
On machines with the GRUB boot loader installed, the user selects the Acronis Startup Recovery
Manager from the boot menu instead of pressing F11.
Activation and deactivation of the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
The operation that enables using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is called "activation". To activate
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager, select Actions > Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
from the program menu.
You can activate or deactivate the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager at any time from the Tools
menu. The deactivation will disable the boot time prompt "Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery
Manager..." (or removes the corresponding entry from GRUB's boot menu). This means you will need
bootable media in case the system fails to boot.
Limitation
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager requires re-activation of third-party loaders after activation.
Upgrade from Acronis True Image Echo
After upgrade from Acronis True Image Echo to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, Acronis Startup
Recovery Manager appears as deactivated regardless of its status before the upgrade. You can
activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager again at any time.
2.13.3 Universal Restore (Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal
Restore)
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore is the Acronis proprietary technology that helps
recover and boot up Windows on dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine. The Universal Restore
handles differences in devices that are critical for the operating system start-up, such as storage
controllers, motherboard or chipset.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore purpose
A system can be easily recovered from a disk backup (image) onto the same system or to identical
hardware. However, if you change a motherboard or use another processor version—a likely
possibility in case of hardware failure—the recovered system could be unbootable. An attempt to
transfer the system to a new, much more powerful computer will usually produce the same
unbootable result because the new hardware is incompatible with the most critical drivers included
in the image.
Using Microsoft System Preparation Tool (Sysprep) does not solve this problem, because Sysprep
permits installing drivers only for Plug and Play devices (sound cards, network adapters, video cards
etc.). As for system Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) and mass storage device drivers, they must be
identical on the source and the target computers (see Microsoft Knowledge Base, articles 302577
and 216915).
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