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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, Citrix XenServer Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) or Red Hat KVM.

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.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V cannot be installed with Acronis Online Backup license.

Integration services have to be installed on the guest systems.

1.1.2 Agent for Linux

This agent enables disk-level and file-level data protection under Linux.

Disk backup

Disk-level data protection is based on backing up either a disk or a volume file system as a whole,

along with all information necessary for the operating system to boot; or all the disk sectors using the

sector-by-sector approach (raw mode.) A backup that contains a copy of a disk or a volume in a