What to recover

1. Specifying the archive location

In the Data path field, specify the archive location path or click Browse and select the required location as described in "Selecting archive location".

In Acronis Backup Advanced, you can select either to specify the archive location path as described above, or use the centralized data catalog.

2. Selecting data

The backed-up data can be selected using the Data view tab, or the Archive view tab. The Data view tab displays all the backed-up data by versions (the date and time of backup creation) within the selected archive location. The Archive view tab displays the backed-up data by the archives.

Selecting data using the Data view

Since the Data view tab shares the same functionality with the data catalog, selecting data on the Data view tab is performed in the same way as in the catalog. For more information about selecting data, see "Data catalog".

Selecting data using the Archive view

1. Expand the required archive and select one of the successive backups by its creation date and time. Thus, you can revert the disk data to a certain moment in time.

   If the list of archives is not displayed (for example, if the archive metadata has been lost), click Refresh.

   If the list of archives is too long, you can filter the archives by selecting only the required type of archives to display. To do this, select the required archive type in the Show list.

   Note for Microsoft Exchange users: For information about selecting Microsoft Exchange data, refer to the "Selecting the Exchange data by using the Archive view" section of the "Backing up Microsoft Exchange Server data" documentation.

2. For disk or volume backups only: in the Backup contents, select the type of data to display from the drop-down box:
   • Disks - to recover disks as a whole (with all their volumes).
   • Volumes - to recover individual basic and/or dynamic volumes.
   • Files - to recover individual files and folders.
   • Microsoft SQL databases - to recover Microsoft SQL databases from single-pass disk and application backups.
   • Microsoft Active Directory - to extract Microsoft Active Directory data from single-pass disk and application backups.
3. In the Backup contents, select the check boxes for the items you need to recover.
4. Click OK.

Selecting MBR
When recovering a system volume, you will usually select the disk's MBR if:

• The operating system cannot boot.
• The disk is new and does not have MBR.
• You are recovering custom or non-Windows boot loaders (such as LILO and GRUB).
• The disk geometry is different to that stored in the backup.

There are probably other times when you may need to recover the MBR, but the above are the most common.

When recovering the MBR of one disk to another Acronis Backup recovers Track 0, which does not affect the target disk’s partition table and partition layout. Acronis Backup automatically updates Windows loaders after recovery, so there is no need to recover the MBR and Track 0 for Windows systems, unless the MBR is damaged.