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Also, you have to map the volumes manually if they are Linux logical volumes, or Linux software RAID
(MD devices). For more information on recovering logical volumes and MD devices, see Recovering
MD devices and logical volumes.
The automatic mapping is performed as follows.
1. If the disk or volume is recovered to its original location, the mapping process reproduces the
original disk/volume layout.
The original location for a disk or volume means exactly the same disk or volume that has been backed up.
A volume will not be considered original if its size, location or other physical parameters have been changed
after backup. Changing the volume letter or label does not prevent the software from recognizing the
volume.
2. If the disk or volume is recovered to a different location:
 When recovering disks: The software checks the target disks for size and volumes. A target
disk must contain no volumes and its size must be large enough to place the disk being
recovered. Not initialized target disks will be initialized automatically.
If the required disks cannot be found, you have to map the disks manually.
 When recovering volumes: The software checks the target disks for unallocated space.
If there is enough unallocated space, the volumes will be recovered "as is".
If unallocated space on the target disks is less than the size of the volumes being recovered,
the volumes will be proportionally shrunk (by decreasing their free space) in order to fit the
unallocated space. If the shrunk volumes still cannot fit the unallocated space, you have to
map the volumes manually.
5.1.4.2 Selecting target volumes
Available volume destinations depend on the agents operating on the machine.
Recover to:
Physical machine
Available when the Acronis Backup Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux is installed.
The selected volumes will be recovered to the physical disks of the machine the console is
connected to. On selecting this, you proceed to the regular volume mapping procedure described
below.
New virtual machine
 If Acronis Backup Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux is installed.
The selected volumes will be recovered to a new virtual machine of any of the following types:
VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC, Red Hat Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), or Citrix XenServer Open Virtual Appliance (OVA).
The virtual machine files will be saved to the destination you specify in the Storage section. By
default, the new virtual machine will be created in the current user's documents folder.
 If Acronis Backup Agent for Hyper-V or Agent for VMware is installed.
These agents enable creating a new virtual machine on the virtualization server you specify.
By default, the new virtual machine will be created in the default storage of the virtualization
server. Whether you can change the storage on the virtualization server or not, depends on the
virtualization product brand and settings. VMware ESX(i) may have multiple storages. A
Microsoft Hyper-V server enables creating a new virtual machine in any local folder.