Restoring from the online storage. Large Scale Recovery (LSR) or directly over the internet

This article applies to:

• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 (All Editons)
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online

Introduction

The two available recovery options are:

• Large Scale Recovery. See Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Large Scale Recovery;
• Direct restore over the Internet from the online storage.

If you are not sure what method to choose, you can check the approximate data transfer table:

Internet connection speed	100 MB	1 GB	10 GB
500 kbps	36 min	336 min	3330 min
1 Mbps	20 min	170 min	1670 min
5 Mbps	6 min	36 min	336 min
10 Mbps	5 min	20 min	170 min

If you are not sure about your Internet connection speed, you can check it with speedtest.net.

Solution

(!) If you are restoring a disk or system partition to dissimilar hardware from the online storage, you have the Acronis Universal Restore option available by default.

Restoring from Windows or Linux:

1. Start the product and click Recover;
2. Under What to recover click Change next to Archive:

   

3. Select Online backup storage and click Log in...

   

4. Type in your credentials:

   

   The credentials here are the same as the ones you use to log into your account at the Acronis website.

5. Select what to recover and click OK;
6. Click Change next to Content to select what incremental or full backup to recover:

   

7. Select where and when to recover and click OK to start.

   (!) If you are restoring a system disk or partition onto itself from Windows, the machine will reboot into Acrons Linux environment and automatically complete the recovery.

Restoring from Acronis Bootable Media:

1. Boot the machine from Acronis Bootable Media and select Run management console:

   

2. Click Recover:

   

3. Click Change next to Archive:

   

4. Select Online backup storage and click Log in...

   

5. Type in your credentials;

   The credentials here are the same as the ones you use to log into your account at the Acronis website.

6. Select what to recover and click OK:

   

7. Select where to restore;

   If you are restoring a system disk or system partition backup to dissimilar hardware, you can use Acronis Universal Restore:

   

8. Click OK to start the restore.

More information

See also Acronis Backup & Recovery: Large Scale Recovery.