Using Universal Restore

During recovery

Universal Restore is available when configuring a disk or volume recovery, if a Windows or Linux operating system is present in your selection of disks or volumes. If there are more than one operating systems in your selection, you can apply Universal Restore to all Windows systems, all Linux systems or to both Windows and Linux systems.

If the software cannot detect whether an operating system is present in the backup, it suggests using Universal Restore on the off-chance of the system presence. These cases are as follows:

• the backup is split into several files
• the backup is located in a deduplicating vault, in Acronis Online Backup Storage, on an FTP/SFTP server, tape, CD or DVD.

Sometimes Universal Restore is applied in the background because the software knows what drivers or modules are required for the supported virtual machines. These cases are as follows:

• recovering a system to a new virtual machine
• recovering a system to any virtual machine by means of Agent for ESX(i) or Agent for Hyper-V.

Universal Restore is not available when:

• the backup is located in Acronis Secure Zone
• you have chosen to use Acronis Active Restore

This is because these features are primarily meant for instant data recovery on the same machine.

Without recovery

Under bootable media, you can also use Universal Restore without recovery by clicking Apply Universal Restore in the media welcome screen. Universal Restore will be applied to the operating system that already exists on the machine. If there are multiple operating systems, you are prompted to choose the one to apply Universal Restore to.