When To Recover; Universal Restore - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Windows User Manual

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Password. The password for the account.
2. Click OK.
6.3.8.

When to recover

Select when to start the recovery task:
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Recover now - the recovery task will be started immediately after you click the final OK.
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Recover later - the recovery task will be started at the date and time you specify.
If you do not need to schedule the task and wish to start it manually afterwards, select the Task will
be started manually (do no schedule the task) check box.
6.3.9.

Universal Restore

Use Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore when you need to recover and boot up
Windows on dissimilar hardware. Universal Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for
the operating system startup, such as storage controllers, motherboard or chipset.
To learn more about the Universal Restore technology, see the Universal Restore (p. 40) section.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore is not available when:
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a machine is booted with Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (using F11)
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the backup image is located in Acronis Secure Zone
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you have chosen to use Acronis Active Restore (p. 208)
because these features are primarily meant for instant data recovery on the same machine.
Preparation
Before recovering Windows to dissimilar hardware, make sure that you have the drivers for the new
HDD controller and the chipset. These drivers are critical to start the operating system. Use the CD or
DVD supplied by the hardware vendor or download the drivers from the vendor's Web site. The
driver files should have the *.inf, *.sys or *.oem extensions. If you download the drivers in the *.exe,
*.cab or *.zip format, extract them using a third-party application, such as WinRAR
(http://www.rarlab.com/) or Universal Extractor (http://legroom.net/software/uniextract).
The best practice is to store drivers for all the hardware used in your organization in a single
repository sorted by device type or by the hardware configurations. You can keep a copy of the
repository on a DVD or a flash drive; pick some drivers and add them to the bootable media; create
the custom bootable media with the necessary drivers (and the necessary network configuration) for
each of your servers. Or you can simply specify the path to the repository every time Universal
Restore is used.
Universal Restore settings
Automatic driver search
Specify where the program will search for the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), HDD controller
driver and network adapter driver(s):
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