B&R10 11345, Restore VM to Physical
I created a "Full" backup of a virtual server in my ESX environment.
On a physical server, I boot with the Acronis CD.
In order to use Universal Restore, I have to choose to restore "volumes" instead of "disks".
I add the appropriate folders\drivers to universal restore and restore.
The restore finishes with "Success with warnings" but I can't look at the logs because that hangs the CD\Acronis software.
I reboot and get an error "A disk read error has occurred".
The only option is to reboot and try the restore a different way with regards to the MBR options within Acronis.
No luck.
Is there anyone who has tried this? Please help.
Thanks,
jeff
PS-I already looked at this: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/5692 with no luck.

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Just to elaborate on my experience:
I was using a Compaq\HP Proliant ML350 server and I was swapping servers - the Compaq into the ESX Virtual, then a Virtual back onto the Compaq server. I backed up the Compaq server to a USB drive with a boot cd (server was off), shared out the USB drive off another server, used my Acronis Virtual Server software and restored that into my virtual environment. Worked flawlessly on 800GB of disks. It took a while, but I expected as much.
Then I backed up a virtual server saving the backup to a temp location on another server. First I went into the controller configuration and deleted the logical drive on a RAID 5 config, then I recreated it. Then I booted with the Acronis bootable cd (made from the iso file on the acronis site under your registered products page), then using the Disk Management tool I initialized the drive and created an active partition (35GB the same size as the image I was going to restore. didn't know if that mattered, but I did it anyway), then I restored the volume, not the disk, using Universal Restore. (Universal Restore was not an option for disk restore (??))
When using universal restore, I made sure to use the correct controller driver, in my case HP Smart Array 532, when adding extra files. The actual restore time took 16 min for a 35GB file across the network and the OS was Windows Server 2003 Standard.
Hope this helps.
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Hello Jeff,
Thank you for sharing your experience, certainly, this will help other customers.
Thank you.
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