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Acronis Universal Restore
The Acronis proprietary technology that helps boot up Windows or Linux on dissimilar hardware or a
virtual machine. Universal Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for the operating
system start-up, such as storage controllers, motherboard or chipset.
Universal Restore is not available:
when the image being recovered is located in Acronis Secure Zone (p. 235) or
when using Acronis Active Restore (p. 235),
because these features are primarily meant for instant data recovery on the same machine.
Activity
An action performed by Acronis Backup for achievement of some user goal. Examples: backing up,
recovery, exporting a backup, cataloging a vault. An activity may be initiated by a user or by the
software itself. Execution of a task (p. 247) always causes one or more activities.
Agent (Acronis Backup Agent)
An application that performs data backup and recovery and enables other management operations
on the machine (p. 244), such as task management and operations with hard disks.
The type of data that can be backed up depends on the agent type. Acronis Backup includes the
agents for backing up disks and files and the agents for backing up virtual machines residing on
virtualization servers.
Archive
See Backup archive (p. 236).
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Backup
A backup is the result of a single backup operation (p. 236). Physically, it is a file or a tape record that
contains a copy of the backed-up data as of a specific date and time. Backup files created by Acronis
Backup have a TIB extension. The TIB files which are the result of a backup export (p. 243) or
consolidation (p. 239) are also called backups.
Backup archive (Archive)
A set of backups (p. 236) created and managed by a backup plan (p. 237). An archive can contain
multiple full backups (p. 243) as well as incremental (p. 243) and differential backups (p. 240).
Backups belonging to the same archive are always stored in the same location. If the backup plan
includes replication (p. 246) or moving of backups to multiple locations, the backups in each location
form a separate archive.
Backup operation
An operation that creates a copy of the data that exists on a machine's (p. 244) hard disk for the
purpose of recovering or reverting the data to a specified date and time.
