Bare Metal Recovery & System Restore Flashcards

What is the primary advantage of creating Acronis Bootable Media with WinPE rather than Linux-based media for enterprise environments?

Answer: WinPE media supports a broader range of Windows hardware drivers and Windows domain network authentication

WinPE-based bootable media can load Windows hardware drivers (including vendor-specific storage and network controllers) and authenticate to domain-joined SMB shares using Windows credentials.

After bare metal recovery with Acronis to dissimilar hardware, a Windows system requires re-activation. What is the most likely cause?

Answer: Windows activation detected significant hardware changes and requires re-validation of the license

Windows ties product activation to a hardware fingerprint; restoring to significantly different hardware causes Windows to detect the change and require re-activation against Microsoft's servers.

When using Acronis to recover a Windows system volume that was protected with BitLocker encryption, what must the administrator provide during recovery?

Answer: The BitLocker recovery key or BitLocker password for the encrypted volume

BitLocker-encrypted volumes are locked at the hardware level; the BitLocker recovery key or password must be provided to Acronis bootable media before the encrypted data can be accessed or restored.

Which Acronis feature automatically tests whether backups can be successfully recovered without requiring manual administrator intervention?

Answer: Acronis Backup Validation (automated recovery verification)

Acronis Backup Validation automatically mounts or restores backups in an isolated environment on a schedule, verifying recoverability and alerting administrators if a backup is found to be unrecoverable.

When performing bare metal recovery of a Windows Server Failover Cluster using Acronis, what is the recommended restoration sequence?

Answer: Restore nodes sequentially with priority given to restoring the quorum disk first

Acronis recommends restoring cluster nodes sequentially, starting with the quorum disk, to ensure cluster membership arbitration is established before other nodes attempt to join.

In Acronis Cyber Protect, what is a 'recovery point' in the context of bare metal recovery?

Answer: A specific timestamped backup version representing the system's state at that point in time

A recovery point is a specific backup snapshot, identified by its creation timestamp, which captures the complete system state and from which a full bare metal restore can be performed.

What is the effect of enabling 'sector-by-sector' backup mode in Acronis when preparing for bare metal recovery?

Answer: All disk sectors including empty unallocated ones are captured, increasing backup file size

Sector-by-sector mode captures every sector of the disk regardless of whether it contains data, resulting in larger backup files but ensuring an exact disk clone including non-standard partitions and hidden areas.