Acronis True Image for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server

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Acronis^® Universal Restore

Disaster recovery is more difficult in a mixed platform environment where hardware and personnel resources might be limited and the main priority is simply restoring a failed server now, not waiting until specific hardware resources can be procured. The entire process is much easier and faster when you separate your data from the underlying hardware and restore a server’s operating system, applications, configuration files and data to any other available server – physical or virtual – regardless of platform.

Acronis^® Universal Restore™ infuses flexibility into your servers for disaster recovery and system migration. With Acronis Universal Restore, you can restore a server to any other physical or virtual machine rapidly and accurately, so long as the base hardware technology is based on an x86 architecture. Instead of having to find identical equipment, negotiate for its use and spend precious hours on configuration, you can restore your server to a known, working condition quickly, minimizing business disruptions.

Acronis Universal Restore is included at no extra charge with Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server.

How does the Acronis^® Universal Restore feature work?

Acronis Universal Restore requires a separate license, download and installation.

In order to use this option effectively, you must first prepare your Acronis^® True Image environment.

Preparation

Step 1:

Install the Acronis^® Universal Restore option. Please note that Acronis^® True Image must be licensed and installed for Acronis^® True Image Universal Restore to function.

Step 2:

Create bootable media with the Universal Restore option selected.

Now you are ready to replace any system!

Restoration with Acronis^® Universal Restore

You can restore an image to a new system in 5 easy steps.

Step 1:

Boot your replacement system with the bootable media you created and select recovery in the Acronis^® True Image menu

Step 2:

Select the image to restore and the Acronis^® Universal Restore option

Step 3:

Acronis^®Universal Restore initiates the restore process

Step 4:

Acronis^® Universal Restore detects the hardware and installs drivers

The product detects the machine type and installs appropriate drivers for Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
The product detects hard disk controllers (SCSI and IDE)
or
The product prompts you for driver locations

Step 5:

The machine reboots

Once this process has completed, you have a working system to a replacement machine. No reinstallation of the operating system or applications is required. No re-configuration to join the network is required, as the product retains Security Identifier (SID) and network information of the system during recovery.

With Acronis Universal Restore, complete system recovery can be accomplished from an image, with no reinstallation of the operating system, applications or any reconfigurations or individual files and folders restored. Since Acronis True Image for MS SBS creates a transportable image that disassociates the data from the underlying hardware, recovery can be implemented to an existing system, to a new system with different hardware, or to a virtual server.