5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2015
5 Recovery ..................................................................................................................... 128
5.1 Creating a recovery task ........................................................................................................128
5.1.1 What to recover .......................................................................................................................................... 130
5.1.2 Access credentials for location ................................................................................................................... 134
5.1.3 Access credentials for destination ............................................................................................................. 135
5.1.4 Where to recover ........................................................................................................................................ 135
5.1.5 When to recover ......................................................................................................................................... 143
5.1.6 Task credentials ........................................................................................................................................... 143
5.2 Acronis Universal Restore ......................................................................................................144
5.2.1 Getting Universal Restore ........................................................................................................................... 144
5.2.2 Using Universal Restore .............................................................................................................................. 144
5.3 Recovering BIOS-based systems to UEFI-based and vice versa .............................................147
5.3.1 Recovering volumes .................................................................................................................................... 148
5.3.2 Recovering disks .......................................................................................................................................... 149
5.4 Acronis Active Restore ...........................................................................................................151
5.5 Bootability troubleshooting ...................................................................................................153
5.5.1 How to reactivate GRUB and change its configuration ............................................................................ 154
5.5.2 About Windows loaders ............................................................................................................................. 155
5.6 Reverting a Windows system to its factory settings ..............................................................156
5.7 Default recovery options .......................................................................................................156
5.7.1 Additional settings....................................................................................................................................... 158
5.7.2 E-mail notifications ...................................................................................................................................... 159
5.7.3 Error handling .............................................................................................................................................. 160
5.7.4 Event tracing ................................................................................................................................................ 161
5.7.5 File-level security ......................................................................................................................................... 162
5.7.6 Mount points ............................................................................................................................................... 162
5.7.7 Pre/Post commands .................................................................................................................................... 162
5.7.8 Recovery priority ......................................................................................................................................... 164
5.7.9 Tape management ...................................................................................................................................... 164
6 Conversion to a virtual machine ................................................................................... 165
6.1 Conversion methods ..............................................................................................................165
6.2 Conversion to an automatically created virtual machine ......................................................165
6.2.1 Considerations before conversion ............................................................................................................. 166
6.2.2 Setting up regular conversion to a virtual machine .................................................................................. 167
6.2.3 Recovery to the ''New virtual machine'' destination ................................................................................ 170
6.3 Recovery to a manually created virtual machine ..................................................................173
6.3.1 Considerations before conversion ............................................................................................................. 173
6.3.2 Steps to perform ......................................................................................................................................... 174
7 Storing the backed up data........................................................................................... 175
7.1 Vaults .....................................................................................................................................175
7.1.1 Working with vaults .................................................................................................................................... 176
7.1.2 Centralized vaults ........................................................................................................................................ 177
7.1.3 Personal vaults ............................................................................................................................................ 186
7.1.4 Changing the default cache folder for catalog files .................................................................................. 188
7.2 Acronis Secure Zone ..............................................................................................................189
7.2.1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................... 190
7.2.2 Managing Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................. 192
7.3 Removable devices ................................................................................................................193
7.4 Tape devices ..........................................................................................................................194
