Support for UEFI-based machines

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 can back up and recover machines that use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) in the same way as it does for machines that use BIOS for booting.

This applies to both physical and virtual machines, no matter if the virtual machines are backed up at a hypervisor level or from inside a guest OS.

Limitations

• Out of GRUB boot loaders, only version 1 is supported. A system using GRUB 2 or a custom boot loader may not boot after recovery. You can recover a system that uses GRUB 2 only to the same machine with the same partition layout.
• WinPE-based bootable media and Acronis PXE Server do not support UEFI booting. Use Linux-based bootable media on machines with UEFI boot firmware.
• Acronis Active Restore is not available on UEFI machines.
• Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (ASRM) is not available on UEFI machines.
• A machine running Linux cannot be transferred between UEFI and BIOS. For details about transferring Windows machines, see "Recovering BIOS-based systems to UEFI-based or vice versa".