5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2015
5.1.4 Where to recover ........................................................................................................................................ 104
5.1.5 When to recover ......................................................................................................................................... 112
5.1.6 Task credentials ........................................................................................................................................... 112
5.2 Acronis Universal Restore ......................................................................................................112
5.2.1 Getting Universal Restore ........................................................................................................................... 113
5.2.2 Using Universal Restore .............................................................................................................................. 113
5.3 Recovering BIOS-based systems to UEFI-based and vice versa .............................................115
5.3.1 Recovering volumes .................................................................................................................................... 116
5.3.2 Recovering disks .......................................................................................................................................... 117
5.4 Acronis Active Restore ...........................................................................................................119
5.5 Bootability troubleshooting ...................................................................................................120
5.5.1 How to reactivate GRUB and change its configuration ............................................................................ 121
5.5.2 About Windows loaders ............................................................................................................................. 123
5.6 Reverting a Windows system to its factory settings ..............................................................123
5.7 Default recovery options .......................................................................................................124
5.7.1 Additional settings....................................................................................................................................... 125
5.7.2 E-mail notifications ...................................................................................................................................... 126
5.7.3 Error handling .............................................................................................................................................. 127
5.7.4 Event tracing ................................................................................................................................................ 128
5.7.5 File-level security ......................................................................................................................................... 129
5.7.6 Mount points ............................................................................................................................................... 129
5.7.7 Pre/Post commands .................................................................................................................................... 129
5.7.8 Recovery priority ......................................................................................................................................... 131
6 Conversion to a virtual machine ................................................................................... 132
6.1 Conversion methods ..............................................................................................................132
6.2 Conversion to an automatically created virtual machine ......................................................132
6.2.1 Considerations before conversion ............................................................................................................. 133
6.2.2 Setting up regular conversion to a virtual machine .................................................................................. 134
6.2.3 Recovery to the ''New virtual machine'' destination ................................................................................ 137
6.3 Recovery to a manually created virtual machine ..................................................................140
6.3.1 Considerations before conversion ............................................................................................................. 140
6.3.2 Steps to perform ......................................................................................................................................... 141
7 Storing the backed up data........................................................................................... 142
7.1 Vaults .....................................................................................................................................142
7.1.1 Working with vaults .................................................................................................................................... 143
7.1.2 Personal vaults ............................................................................................................................................ 143
7.2 Acronis Secure Zone ..............................................................................................................146
7.2.1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................... 146
7.2.2 Managing Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................. 148
7.3 Removable devices ................................................................................................................149
8 Operations with archives and backups.......................................................................... 151
8.1 Validating archives and backups ............................................................................................151
8.1.1 Archive selection ......................................................................................................................................... 152
8.1.2 Backup selection .......................................................................................................................................... 152
8.1.3 Vault selection ............................................................................................................................................. 152
8.1.4 Access credentials for source ..................................................................................................................... 153
8.1.5 When to validate ......................................................................................................................................... 153
8.1.6 Task credentials ........................................................................................................................................... 154
