User`s 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 Open Virtual Appliance (OVA). 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.

1.3.1.1 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.

1.3.2 Management Console

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console is an administrative tool for local access to

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent.

1.3.3 Bootable Media Builder

Acronis Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media (p. 229). The media

builder that installs on Windows can create bootable media based on either Windows Preinstallation

Environment, or Linux kernel.

The Universal Restore (p. 15) add-on enables you to create bootable media with the restore to

dissimilar hardware functionality. Universal Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for

Windows start-up, such as storage controllers, motherboard or chipset.

1.4 Supported file systems

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can back up and recover the following file systems with the following

limitations:

 FAT16/32

 NTFS

 Ext2/Ext3/Ext4

 ReiserFS3 - particular files cannot be recovered from disk backups located on Acronis Backup &

Recovery 10 Storage Node