Acronis Active Restore - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER - UPDATE 3 User Manual

Getting Universal Restore
Universal Restore comes free with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition and
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition.
Universal Restore for the other product editions is purchased separately, has its own license, and is
installed as a separate feature from the setup file. You need to re-create bootable media to make the
newly installed add-on operational in the bootable environment.

2.13.4 Acronis Active Restore

Active Restore is the Acronis proprietary technology that brings a system online immediately after
the system recovery is started.
Customers familiar with Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange can note that this product uses
Active Restore to achieve immediate availability of an Exchange information store after starting the
recovery. While based on the same technology, recovery of the Information Store proceeds in quite a
different way than the operating system recovery described in this section.
Supported operating systems
Acronis Active Restore is available when recovering Windows starting from Windows 2000.
Limitation
The only supported archive location is a local drive, or more precisely, any device available through
the machine's BIOS. This may be Acronis Secure Zone, a USB hard drive, a flash drive or any internal
hard drive.
How it works
When configuring a recovery operation, you select disks or volumes to recover from a backup.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 scans the selected disks or volumes in the backup. If this scan finds a
supported operating system, the Acronis Active Restore option becomes available.
If you do not enable the option, the system recovery will proceed in the usual way and the machine
will become operational after the recovery is completed.
If you enable the option, the sequence of actions will be set as follows.
Once the system recovery is started, the operating system boots from the backup. The machine
becomes operational and ready to provide necessary services. The data required to serve incoming
requests is recovered with the highest priority; everything else is recovered in the background.
Because serving requests is performed simultaneously with recovery, the system operation can slow
down even if recovery priority in the recovery options is set to Low. This way, the system downtime
is reduced to a minimum at the cost of a temporary performance downgrade.
Usage scenarios
1. The system uptime is one of the efficiency criteria.
Examples: Client-oriented online services, Web-retailers, polling stations.
2. The system/storage space ratio is heavily biased toward storage.
Some machines are being used as storage facilities, where the operating system claims a small
space segment and all other disk space is committed to storage, such as movies, sounds or other
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