Installation guide

Other operations

Conversion to a virtual machine

Rather than converting a disk backup to a virtual disk file, which requires additional operations to

bring the virtual disk into use, Agent for Windows performs the conversion by recovering a disk

backup to a new virtual machine of any of the following types: VMware Workstation, Microsoft

Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation or Citrix XenServer virtual appliance. Files of the fully configured and

operational machine will be placed in the folder you select. You can start the machine using the

respective virtualization software or prepare the machine files for further usage.

Disk management

Agent for Windows includes Acronis Disk Director Lite - a handy disk management utility. Disk

management operations, such as cloning disks; converting disks; creating, formatting and deleting

volumes; changing a disk partitioning style between MBR and GPT or changing a disk label, can be

performed either in the operating system or using bootable media.

1.1.1.1. Universal Restore

The Universal Restore add-on enables you to use the restore to dissimilar hardware functionality on

the machine where the agent is installed, and create bootable media with this functionality. Universal

Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for Windows start-up, such as storage

controllers, motherboard or chipset.

1.1.1.2. Deduplication

This add-on enables the agent to back up data to deduplicating vaults managed by Acronis Backup &

Recovery 10 Storage Node.

1.1.1.3. Agent for Hyper-V

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V protects virtual machines residing on a Hyper-V

virtualization server. The agent allows for backing up virtual machines from the host without having

to install agents on each virtual machine. The agent installs on Windows 2008 Server x64 (any edition)

or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 as an add-on to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows.

Integration services have to be installed on the guest systems.

1.1.2. Bootable components and media builder

Bootable components of the agent enable operations with reboot, such as recovery of the volume

containing the currently active operating system. Once the operations are completed, the machine

boots into the operating system again. The bootable components are based on the Linux kernel. You

can choose not to install the bootable components and perform operations that require reboot using

bootable media.

Acronis Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media containing the

bootable components. The media builder, delivered with Agent for Windows, creates bootable media

that represents volumes and network in the Windows-like style (C:, D:, \\server\share).