Recovering Data - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Windows User Manual

Since the space is not pre-allocated, the physical disk on which the virtual machine will run is
expected to have sufficient free space for the virtual disks to increase in size.

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. 211) or using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (p.
39). Then, create a recovery task.
Acronis Universal Restore (p. 40) 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. 41) 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. 33) 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. 191) 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.
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