Bare Metal Recovery & System Restore Flashcards

When restoring a backup from a BIOS/MBR system to a UEFI/GPT target using Acronis, what conversion is typically required during the restore process?

Answer: The disk partition style must be converted from MBR to GPT during or after restore

Restoring from a BIOS/MBR system to a UEFI system requires converting the partition table from MBR to GPT, which Acronis facilitates during disk layout configuration in the restore wizard.

What is the recommended validation step immediately after completing a bare metal recovery with Acronis?

Answer: Verify the restored system boots successfully and critical applications are functional

After bare metal recovery, the administrator should confirm the system boots properly and verify that key applications and services function correctly to validate a successful restore.

In Acronis Cyber Protect, what does Recovery Time Objective (RTO) measure in the context of disaster recovery planning?

Answer: The maximum acceptable duration to restore a system to operational status after failure

RTO defines the maximum acceptable time to restore systems and resume business operations after an outage, and bare metal recovery capabilities directly impact achieving RTO goals.

Which Acronis feature enables near-instant recovery by running a virtual machine directly from a backup image without performing a full restoration first?

Answer: Acronis Instant Restore (Run VM from backup)

Acronis Instant Restore (Run VM from backup) starts a virtual machine directly from the backup image, providing immediate availability while a background migration to permanent storage completes.

During Acronis bare metal recovery, if the target hard drive is larger than the source drive, what option does Acronis provide?

Answer: Acronis offers to proportionally resize partitions to fill the larger disk or retain original sizes

When the target disk is larger, Acronis allows proportional resizing of partitions to utilize all available space, or restoring at original sizes while leaving the remaining disk space unallocated.

What Acronis technology allows target machines to load the Acronis recovery environment over the network without any physical bootable media?

Answer: Acronis PXE Server

Acronis PXE Server enables network booting using the PXE/TFTP protocol, allowing machines to load the Acronis WinPE or Linux recovery environment directly from the network.

Which Acronis backup format is best suited for bare metal recovery because it captures every sector of a disk including the OS and partition structure?

Answer: Disk/partition image backup (.tibx or .tib format)

Disk/partition image backups capture data at the sector level, preserving the complete disk including OS, boot records, partition tables, and all data, making them ideal for bare metal recovery.