User guide

 Later - the recovery task will be started manually afterwards. If you need to schedule the task,

clear the Task will be started manually check box, and specify the required date and time.

5.1.6 Task credentials

Provide credentials for the account under which the task will run.

To specify credentials

1. Select one of the following:

 Run under the current user

The task will run under the credentials with which the user who starts the tasks is logged on.

If the task has to run on schedule, you will be asked for the current user's password on

completing the task creation.

 Use the following credentials

The task will always run under the credentials you specify, whether started manually or

executed on schedule.

Specify:

 User name. When entering the name of an Active Directory user account, be sure to also

specify the domain name (DOMAIN\Username or Username@domain).

 Password. The password for the account.

2. Click OK.

To learn more about using credentials in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11, see the Owners and

credentials (p. 21) section.

To learn more about operations available depending on the user privileges, see the User privileges on

a managed machine section.

5.2 Acronis Universal Restore

Acronis Universal Restore is the Acronis proprietary technology that helps recover and boot up an

operating system on dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine. Universal Restore handles differences

in devices that are critical for the operating system start-up, such as storage controllers,

motherboard or chipset.

Universal Restore is extremely useful in the following scenarios:

1. Instant recovery of a failed system on different hardware.

2. Hardware-independent cloning and deployment of operating systems.

3. Physical-to-physical, physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical machine migration.

5.2.1 Getting Universal Restore

Universal Restore is always available when recovering a system from the online storage.

Universal Restore comes free with the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server SBS Edition

and Virtual Edition.

Universal Restore for the other product editions is purchased separately. It has its own license.

To enable Universal Restore on a managed machine, do any of the following: