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13 Glossary
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Acronis Active Restore
The Acronis proprietary technology that brings a system online immediately after the system
recovery is started. The system boots from the backup (p. 241) and the machine becomes
operational and ready to provide necessary services. The data required to serve incoming requests is
recovered with the highest priority; everything else is recovered in the background. Limitations:
the backup must be located on the local drive (any device available through the BIOS except for
network boot)
does not work with Linux images
GPT disks and the UEFI boot mode are not supported.
Acronis Plug-in for WinPE
A modification of Acronis Backup Agent for Windows that can run in the preinstallation environment.
The plug-in can be added to a WinPE (p. 248) image using Bootable Media Builder. The resulting
bootable media (p. 237) can be used to boot any PC-compatible machine and perform, with certain
limitations, most of the direct management (p. 240) operations without the help of an operating
system. Operations can be configured and controlled either locally through the GUI or remotely using
the console (p. 239).
Acronis Secure Zone
A secure volume for storing backup archives (p. 236) within a managed machine (p. 244).
Advantages:
enables recovery of a disk to the same disk where the disk's backup resides
offers a cost-effective and handy method for protecting data from software malfunction, virus
attack, operator error
eliminates the need for a separate media or network connection to back up or recover the data.
This is especially useful for mobile users
can serve as the primary location from which backups are replicated further.
Limitation: Acronis Secure Zone cannot be organized on a dynamic disk (p. 241).
Acronis Secure Zone is considered as a personal vault (p. 245).
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (ASRM)
A modification of the bootable agent (p. 237), residing on the system disk and configured to start at
boot time when F11 is pressed. Acronis Startup Recovery Manager eliminates the need for rescue
media or network connection to start the bootable rescue utility.
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is especially useful for mobile users. If a failure occurs, the user
reboots the machine, hits F11 on prompt "Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager…" and
performs data recovery in the same way as with ordinary bootable media.
Limitation: requires re-activation of loaders other than Windows loaders and GRUB.
