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 If you want to recover a virtual machine, connect the ISO file to the virtual machine as a
CD/DVD drive.
To recover data by using bootable media
1. Boot the target machine by using the bootable media.
2. Click Acronis Backup in the boot menu, and then click Manage this machine locally.
3. In the welcome screen, click Recover.
4. Click Select data, and then click Browse.
5. Specify the backup location:
 To recover from cloud storage, select Cloud storage. Enter the credentials of the backup
account to which the backed up machine was assigned.
 To recover from a local or a network folder, browse to the folder under Local folders or
Network folders.
Click OK to confirm your selection.
6. Select the backup from which you want to recover the data. If prompted, type the password for
the backup.
7. In Backup contents, select the disks you want to recover. Click OK to confirm your selection.
8. Under Where to recover, the software automatically maps the selected disks to the target disks.
If the mapping is not successful or you are unsatisfied with the mapping result, you can re-map
disks manually.
Changing disk layout may affect the operating system bootability. Please use the original machine's disk
layout unless you feel fully confident of success.
9. [When recovering Linux] If the backed-up machine had logical volumes (LVM) and you want to
reproduce the original LVM structure:
a. Ensure that the number of the target machine disks and each disk capacity are equal to or
exceed those of the original machine, and then click Apply RAID/LVM.
b. Review the volume structure, and then click Apply RAID/LVM to create it.
10. If you are recovering an operating system to dissimilar hardware, choose to use the Universal
Restore feature.
[When recovering Windows] Click Add folder and specify the path to the location where drivers
for the motherboard, mass storage, and network adapter are stored. If the target hardware has a
specific mass storage controller, such as RAID (especially NVIDIA RAID) or a fibre channel
adapter, explicitly specify the mass storage drivers for them. To do this, in Mass storage drivers
to install anyway, click Add driver, and then specify the drivers.
11. [Optional] Click Recovery options to specify additional settings.
12. Click OK to start the recovery.
2.8.2 Recovering files
You can recover files from both disk-level and file-level backups.
To recover files from a backup located in the cloud storage, use either of the following methods.
To recover files from a backup stored within a local network, use bootable media.
2.8.2.1 Recovering files by using bootable media
For information about how to create bootable media, refer to "Recovering disks" (p. 13).