Linux-based bootable media

This has been fixed in the latest version of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

When restoring ESXi configuration onto a new or existing physical machine, the local datastores are not attached after ESXi boots up. This is a known issue of 8184 build of Acronis vmProtect 8

You need to collect restore operation log and save it to an external/flash drive, a network share or a floppy disk

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You will need Acronis Bootable Media with the Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Master Image Creator component

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During backup or recovery operation the hard drive is grayed out when using Intel Smart Response technology

While Restoring LVM volume created with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 in Sector-by-Sector mode ask for reboot before restore is finished

Symptoms

An attempt to save log from Acronis Bootable Media with Linux-like representation fails with the following error message:

Failed to save the log entries to the file

Cause

This is a known issue.

Solution

It is recommended to create Acronis Bootable Media with Windows-like to avoid this issue.

When you boot a Hyper-V virtual machine from Acronis Bootable Media, do not move the mouse in the boot menu and use keyboard to select the necessary component to load

The issue is only with Acronis Bootable Media. As a workaround, convert the disk from Windows

This article applies to:

  • Acronis Backup & Recovery 11
  • Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
  • Acronis Snap Deploy 3

Symptoms

  1. You install Acronis PXE Server and configure machines to boot from it;
  2. Machines fail to boot from Acronis PXE Server with the following error:

    Acronis Loader fatal error: At least 512 Kb of conventional memory required to start Acronis Loader

Cause

Incorrect work of Intel RAID in BIOS.

You must always use 32-bit drivers for WinPE-based media creation for the purpose of proper hardware recognition (WinPE media created this way will work correctly on 64-bit systems as well). However, for Acronis Universal Restore purposes you'll also need to specify 64-bit system drivers for the system to load correctly after the recovery.

Only older versions of Acronis products support VIA C3 processors

Hit ALT-left SHIFT-NUM LOCK to enable keyboard navigation in Acronis Bootable Media

What a bootable media of an Acronis backup software is and what features it offers

Acronis products allow you to create Linux-based bootable rescue media as well as WinPE-based bootable rescue media

Symptoms

When trying to create a bootable media on a stick with more than 32 GB capacity you get an error message "Media cannot be formatted" or bootable media is created, but the system does not boot from it.

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