Export from Centralized Vault Before Recovery
Hello,
I apologize if this is in the wrong place, or a dumb question. We just switched from Ghost to Acronis, so now I have a central management server to handle backups and restorations for about 10 other conputers. Installing Acronis on the server was a breeze. Even remote installation to the other computers was easy. I created centralized vaults for each computer, and then I created backup plans for those computers, that went super easy also. I restored some of the images onto computers that already had an OS and Acronis installed. That was easy also.
So the last thing I have to do is restore a backup onto a blank disk. I create a bootable DVD, boot into it, connect to the centralized vault, no problem. I go to try to find the backup, and uh-oh, it shows one archive, 0 backups, created on date 1/1/70 (obviously not correct) and the size is 0. On the central computer the backup looks fine! At this point I'm thinking I messed something up, so I redo the whole process, same result. Back on the centralized server, in the Acronis application, I see an option to "Export Backup", so I chose to export the backup into another folder. I try the restore again, but point the backup/archive at the "exported" one, and it works flawlessly. So my question is simple.... if I want to restore a backup onto a blank drive, do I have to export the backup first? If so, why? What's the point of making backups if they're unusable until you "export" them? Or have I misunderstood how it's supposed to work? Can someone please explain how you would go about making a backup to a centralized vault and then restoring that backup onto a blank disk?
Any help is greatly appreciated!

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