Recovery to an existing virtual machine booted with bootable media

Preparation

1. If you do not have an image (a .tib file) of the machine you want to migrate, create it in either of the following ways:
   • Perform the "Preparation" and "Imaging" stages of the cold imaging procedure.
   • Perform steps 1-5 and 11-12 of the hot imaging procedure.
2. If you do not have the ISO of "Migration to RHEV media", download it from the Acronis website.
3. Save the ISO on the RHEV ISO domain.
4. Prepare a RHEV virtual machine to perform the recovery to. If necessary, create it using the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
5. If the source machine has logical volumes, decide whether you want the target virtual machine to have logical volumes as well.
   • If you want to reproduce the original LVM structure, make sure the target virtual machine has enough disks with sizes at least as big as the original disks. The volume structure will be created automatically if you choose the Apply RAID/LVM option.
   • If you want to obtain a different logical volume structure, you will need to create it manually. Make sure that the total size of the machine's disks is greater than the amount of data you are going to recover. The disks must have enough free space for the growing data and for the operating system to work.

Booting the machine

1. Boot the target machine by using the "Migration to RHEV media" ISO.
2. In the boot menu, click Acronis Backup.
3. [Optional] Click Configure network... to check the network settings and to change them if necessary.
4. Click Manage this machine locally.

[Optional] Creating the logical volumes

If you chose to create the logical volume structure manually, do the following:

1. On the Actions menu, click Start shell. Alternatively, you can press CTRL+ALT+F2.
2. Create the volume structure by using the lvm utility.
3. Press ALT+F1 to return to the graphical interface.

Selecting the image

1. Click Recover.
2. Under What to recover, click Select data. In the opened window:
   1. In the Data path box, enter the path to the image location and press Enter. If prompted, specify the user name and password to access the location.
   2. In the Archive view tab, expand the archive that contains the image, and select the image. Normally, it is named like "Backup #1".
   3. In Backup contents, select Volumes.
   4. Select the check boxes for all of the volumes and MBRs.
   5. Click OK.

[Optional] Applying RAID/LVM

If you chose to reproduce the original LVM structure, click Apply RAID/LVM and confirm the expected result that appears in a pop-up window. Otherwise, skip this step.

Mapping volumes

If you created the logical volume structure manually, specify where to place each of the volumes being recovered. Otherwise, the software automatically maps volumes from the image to the target machine disks. MBRs and boot volumes are always mapped automatically.

To map an MBR or a volume:

1. Click Required next to it, and select the desired destination.
2. If you need to resize a volume or change other volume properties, click Properties next to the volume. Make the necessary changes and click OK.

To change the mapping or size of a volume, you need to clear the mapping of the subsequent volumes. To clear the mapping of an MBR or a volume, click Clear next to it. To clear the mapping of all of the MBRs and volumes at once, click Clear all.

Starting the recovery

Click OK to start the recovery.

Applying Universal Restore

Universal Restore ensures that the operating system can boot on the new hardware.

1. Once the recovery is completed, boot the machine into Acronis Universal Restore.
2. Under Universal Restore for Linux/Universal Restore for Windows, select Use.
3. If the system being recovered is Windows, provide the RHEV drivers for it:
   1. In the RHEV Manager, right-click the virtual machine being recovered to, select Change CD, and select the ISO of the floppy disk with the drivers. This ISO can be found in the RHEV ISO domain. Its default name is virtio*.iso.
   2. On the machine, under Automatic driver search, click Add folder, expand the Local folders node, select the CD drive, and then click OK.