ACE Bare Metal Recovery & System Restore 2

Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

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

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The backup must be re-created on the target hardware before restoration begins

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Only the boot sector needs to be manually rebuilt post-recovery using bootrec.exe

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Universal Restore handles all BIOS-to-UEFI conversions silently without user input

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Verify the restored system boots successfully and critical applications are functional

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Immediately run a new full backup of the newly restored system

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Re-register the Acronis agent license on the restored machine

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Delete the source backup image to reclaim storage after confirming restore completed

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

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

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The time required to complete a full backup of a protected system

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The maximum amount of data that can be lost measured in time (backup frequency)

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The interval between scheduled backup verification runs

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Acronis Instant Restore (Run VM from backup)

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Acronis Universal Restore with driver injection

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Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

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Acronis PXE Server network boot

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

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

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The restoration fails and requires source and target drives to be identical in size

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Only the used sectors are restored and the remaining capacity becomes permanently inaccessible

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A partition alignment error occurs that must be corrected manually after recovery

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

Acronis PXE Server

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Acronis File Sync and Share

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Acronis Cloud Connect gateway

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Acronis Disk Director partition manager

Question 7

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?

Accepted Answer

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

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File-level archive backup (.afb format)

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Application-aware Exchange mailbox backup

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SQL Server transaction log backup