User`s guide

9.4 Recovering files and folders

Depending on the backup types you have used, there may be several methods of recovering files and

folders. In most cases you recover files and folders in Windows. You can recover files and folders

from a disk/partition image. To recover files/folders from an image, you can mount the image (see

Mounting an image) and copy files/folders to a desired location using Windows Explorer.

If you need to recover just a single file/folder or a few files, double-click on the required image

backup archive. Then drill-down to the folder containing the file(s) you need to recover, select the

file(s), right-click and choose Copy in the shortcut menu, open a folder for saving the files to be

recovered, right-click in the folder and choose Paste in the shortcut menu. You can also drag the files

from the backup archive into the destination folder.

One more method of recovering files/folders from an image is described below. See Recovering files

and folders from image archives.

9.4.1 Recovering files and folders from image archives

Image archives provide recovery of not only entire disks/partitions, but files/folders too.

1. Start the Recovery Wizard by selecting Recovery → Disk and Partition Recovery in the main

program menu.

2. Select the archive.

Data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the archive to consist of files of no more than 2GB. If you

suspect that some of the files are larger, first copy the entire archive (along with the initial full backup) to a

local hard disk or a network share disk.

3. If you are going to recover files from an archive containing incremental backups, Acronis True

Image OEM Quick Backup will enable selecting one of the successive incremental backups by its

creation date/time. Thus, you can roll back the file/folder state to a certain date.

To recover data from an incremental backup, you must have all the previous backup files and the initial full

backup. If any of the successive backups are missing, recovery is not possible.

4. At the Recovery method step select Recover chosen files and folders.

5. Select where you want to recover the chosen files/folders. You can recover data to its original

location or choose a new one, if necessary.

When recovering files/folders under bootable rescue media, the Original location option is disabled,

because drive letters in standalone Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup might differ from the way

Windows identifies drives.

Choosing a new location results in appearance of one more required step, namely, Destination.

When you choose a new location, by default the selected items will be recovered without

recovering the original, absolute path. You may also wish to recover the items with their entire

folder hierarchy. If this is the case, select Recover absolute path.

At the Destination step select a new location on the directory tree. You can create a new folder

for the files to be recovered by clicking Create new folder.

6. Select the files and folders to recover. Make sure that you unselect all unnecessary folders.

Otherwise you will recover a lot of excess files.

7. The first optional step allows you to keep useful data changes made since the selected backup

was created. Choose what to do if the program finds a file in the destination folder with the same

name as in the archive. By default, the program will overwrite existing files and folders, though

more recent files and folders are protected from being overwritten. If necessary, you can protect