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Use current user credentials
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, see the "Credentials used in backup plans
and tasks" (p. 34) section.
To learn more about operations available depending on the user privileges, see the "User privileges
on a managed machine" (p. 36) 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 included in all Acronis products that enable disk-level or single-pass backup.
5.2.2 Using Universal Restore
During recovery
Universal Restore is available when configuring a disk or volume recovery, if a Windows or Linux
operating system is present in your selection of disks or volumes. If there are more than one
operating systems in your selection, you can apply Universal Restore to all Windows systems, all
Linux systems or to both Windows and Linux systems.
If the software cannot detect whether an operating system is present in the backup, it suggests using
Universal Restore on the off-chance of the system presence. These cases are as follows:
the backup is split into several files
the backup is located in a deduplicating vault, in Acronis Cloud Storage, on an FTP/SFTP server,
tape, CD, or DVD.
