User`s guide

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Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows has the ability to recover a disk (volume) backup
to a new virtual machine of any of the following types: VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC,
Parallels Workstation or Citrix XenServer Open Virtual Appliance (OVA). The virtual appliance can
then be imported to XenServer. The VMware Workstation machine can be converted to the open
virtualization format (OVF) using the VMware OVF tool. With Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent
for Hyper-V or Agent for ESX/ESXi, you can create a new virtual machine on the respective
virtualization server.
You might need to prepare target disks before recovery. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 includes a
handy disk management utility which enables you to create or delete volumes, change a disk
partitioning style, create a disk group and perform other disk management operations on the target
hardware, both under the operating system and on bare metal. To find out more about Acronis Disk
Director LV, see the Disk management (p. 192) section.
To create a recovery task, perform the following steps
General
Task name
[Optional] Enter a unique name for the recovery task. A conscious name lets you quickly
identify the task among the others.
Task credentials (p. 143)
[Optional] The task will run on behalf of the user who is creating the task. You can change the
task account credentials if necessary. To access this option, select the Advanced view check
box .
What to recover
Archive (p. 143)
Select the archive to recover data from.
Data type (p. 144)
Applies to: disk recovery
Choose the type of data you need to recover from the selected disk backup.
Content (p. 144)
Select the backup and content to be recovered.
Access credentials (p. 145)
[Optional] Provide credentials for the archive location if the task account does not have the
right to access it. To access this option, select the Advanced view check box.
Where to recover
This section appears after the required backup is selected and the type of data to recover is
defined. The parameters you specify here depend on the type of data being recovered.
Disks (p. 146)
Volumes (p. 147)
Acronis Active Restore
[OPTIONAL] The Acronis Active Restore check box is available when recovering Windows
starting from Windows 2000. Acronis Active Restore brings a system online immediately
after the recovery is started. The operating system boots from the backup image and the
machine becomes operational and ready to provide necessary services. The data required to