Restore Eufi Disk in a Empty Disk
Hi,
We are using Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 to make a backup of a Linux system on a GPT partitioned disk.
We make the backup of the full disk, and we restore the full disk, not partition by partition.
After the restoration, the system is unable to boot. Inspecting the content of the disk, we see that the partions are there, but as msdos/MBR partitions, instead of GPT partitions as it should be.
Booting with a Linux rescue CD, and converting the disk from MBR to GPT with ‘gdisk’ fixes the problem, and the computer boots ok.
¿ Is Acroing going to fix this issue ?
Having our field technicians using Linux for making the deployment is not and ideal solution, and we have read that other products like parangon or Macrium restore to GPT without problem.
Regards,
Endika

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Hello Endika,
Normally, a conversion shouldn't take place unless you are restoring from UEFI systems to BIOS systems.
What you are describing seems like a conflict specific to your hardware (something is not detected correctly) or with the specific OS (our product conflicts with the boot information/grub config/something else).
Due to the sector corruption, it could also be a bad RAM issues (this is the cause for 95%+ of corruption during backup/restore).
Does this same issue reproduce on different hardware with different system images?
Thank you.
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