Acronis Active Restore; Limitations In Using Acronis Active Restore; How It Works; How To Use - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ECHO - SERVER FOR WINDOWS User Manual

Here's an example of how you would use this feature. If failure occurs on a computer,
turn on the computer and press F11 when you see the "Press F11 for Acronis Startup
Recovery Manager" message. This will run a standalone version of Acronis True Image
Echo Server that only slightly differs from the complete version. For information on
restoring damaged partitions, see
Be careful! Disk letters in standalone Acronis True Image Echo Server might sometimes
differ from the way Windows identifies drives. For example, the D: drive identified in the
standalone Acronis True Image might correspond to the E: drive in Windows.

3.5 Acronis Active Restore

With this feature you can boot the OS on a crashed computer before the system is
completely restored from an image and start work seconds after the restoration is
launched. The restoration will be continued in the background.

3.5.1 Limitations in using Acronis Active Restore

1. Acronis Active Restore is currently available for images located in the Acronis Secure
Zone only.
2. Acronis Active Restore does not support images of Windows Vista and Windows Server
2008. If any Vista or Windows Server 2008 edition is detected in an image, the Active
Restore option will not appear.
3. Acronis Active Restore does not work if the image contains dynamic disks and volumes.
4. Acronis Active Restore cannot be used if the image contains no operating system (a
logical partition or disk image) or when restoring file archives.

3.5.2 How it works

When the restoration procedure is started, Acronis True Image Echo Server:
1. Finds the sectors in the image which contain system files, and restores these sectors
first. First the OS is restored and can be started very quickly. Having started the OS, the
user sees the folder tree with files, though file contents still is not recovered.
Nevertheless, the user can start working.
2. Next, the application writes on the hard disk its own drivers, which intercept system
queries to the files. When the user attempts to open files or launch applications, the
drivers receive the system queries and restore the sectors that are necessary for the
requested operation.
3. At the same time, Acronis True Image Echo Server proceeds with the complete sector-
by-sector image restoration in the background. However, the requested sectors have the
highest priority.
Finally, the image will be fully restored even if the user performs no actions at all. But if
you choose to start working as soon as possible after the system failure, you will gain at
least several minutes, considering that restoration of a 10-20GB image (most common
image size) takes about 10 minutes. The larger the image size, the more time you save.

3.5.3 How to use

To be able to use Acronis Active Restore, prepare your system this way:
1. Install Acronis True Image Echo Server.
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