Recovering under bootable media from a locally attached tape device

To recover under bootable media from a locally attached tape device:

  1. Load the tape(s) required for the recovery into the tape device.
  2. Boot the machine from the bootable media.
  3. Click Acronis Backup & Recovery 11, and then click Manage this machine locally. Skip this step if you use WinPE-based media.
  4. Click Recover.
  5. Click Select data, and then click Browse.
  6. Double-click Tape devices. The system prompts to confirm the tape devices detection. Click Yes.
  7. After the detected tape devices appear in the tree, select the necessary device. The system prompts to confirm the rescanning. Click Yes.
  8. Select the Unrecognized tapes pool.
  9. Select the tapes to be rescanned. To select all the tapes of the pool, select the check box next to the Tape name column header.
  10. If the tapes contain a password-protected archive, specify the password for the archive in the Password box. If you do not specify a password, or the password is incorrect, the archive will not be detected. Please keep this in mind in case you see no archives after the rescanning.

    Tip. If the tapes contain several archives protected by various passwords, you need to repeat the rescanning several times specifying each password in turn.

  11. Click Start to start the rescanning. As a result, you will get the contents of the loaded tape(s).
  12. If any of the detected backups continue on other tapes that have not been rescanned yet, load these tapes as prompted and rescan them.
  13. In the Archive view, select the backup whose data is to be recovered, and then select the data you want to recover. After you click OK, the Recover page will show you the list of tapes required for the recovery. The missing tapes are grayed out. If your tape device has empty slots, load these tapes into the device.
  14. Configure other recovery settings.
  15. Click OK to start the recovery.
  16. If any of the required tapes are not loaded for some reason, the software will show you a message with the identifier of the needed tape. Load the tape, and click Retry to continue the recovery.