Acronis Universal Restore - User Guide - Manual (Page 3)

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1 What is Acronis Universal Restore
The Acronis Universal Restore tool is designed to help boot an operating system on a physical or a
virtual machine. The tool finds and installs drivers for devices that are critical for the operating
system start-up, such as storage controllers, motherboard, or chipset.
Universal Restore is extremely useful in the following scenarios:
1. Instant recovery of a failed system on different hardware.
2. Hardware-independent cloning and deployment of operating systems.
3. Physical-to-physical, physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical machine migration.
2 Installing Acronis Universal Restore
Download the installation package from http://www.acronis.com/aur/ and save it on the machine
where you are going to install the product.
To install Acronis Universal Restore in Windows
1. Run the downloaded .msi file.
2. Follow the on-screen instructions.
To install Acronis Universal Restore in Linux
1. Go to the directory where the installation package (an .i686 or .x86_64 file) is located and run the
following command:
chmod 755 Acronis*
2. Run the installation file as the root user.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.
3 Creating bootable media
To create bootable media
1. Run the installed executable file.
In Windows, the product is installed by default to the following folder:
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In 32-bit versions of Windows: %CommonProgramFiles%\Acronis\UniversalRestore.
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In 64-bit versions of Windows: %CommonProgramFiles(x86)%\Acronis\UniversalRestore.
In Linux, the product launcher is /usr/sbin/universal_restore.
2. Follow the on-screen instructions. For details, refer to the built-in help.
4 Using Acronis Universal Restore
To apply Universal Restore to an operating system, boot the machine from the bootable media. If
there are multiple operating systems on the machine, you are prompted to choose the one to apply
Universal Restore to.