Recovering using Large Scale Recovery

In these steps, you will recover a machine’s system and boot volumes from a disk backup. You will use the Large Scale Recovery service to retrieve backups from the online storage on a hard disk instead of over the Internet.

You need a separate license, called a Large Scale Recovery license, for each machine whose backups you want to retrieve in this way.

Note: Recovering a system volume requires a machine reboot.

To recover data using Large Scale Recovery

Retrieving backups

Perform these steps on the account management Web page:

1. Buy a Large Scale Recovery license, if you do not yet have one.
2. Place a large scale recovery order, specifying:
   • The machine whose backups you want to retrieve
   • The address where you want the hard drive to be sent

After placing the order, wait until the hard drive arrives. The hard drive remains yours.

Recovering data

Note: The following steps assume that the system is bootable and that the agent is operational on the machine. In case the system is corrupted, you must use a bootable media. To recover the system, boot the machine using this media and perform similar steps.

1. Attach the hard drive you received to the machine that you want to recover. Or, you can copy this hard drive's contents to a network share accessible from this machine.
2. Start Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.
3. On the Actions menu, select Recover.
4. Under What to recover, in Archive, click Change. Browse to the attached disk or the network share and select the archive from which you want to recover data.
5. In Data type, select Volumes.
6. In Content, click Change and then select only the system volume and the boot volume. By default, all backed-up volumes are selected for recovery. You can also specify the date and time to revert your system to if there is more than one backup in the archive.

   Details. It is assumed that you can identify the system and boot volumes by their labels. For Windows operating systems prior to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the system volume and the boot volume are commonly the same.

7. Under Where to recover, select the disk where the master boot record (MBR) will be recovered to.
8. Map each volume selected for recovery to a volume or an unallocated space on the destination disk.
9. Click OK to immediately start the recovery.

For detailed information about recovery please refer to the context-sensitive help.