Universal Restore - Now you see it, no you don't
I created a bootable CD with B&R AW 10 w/UR. When booting from the bootable media, UR appears as a recovery option if I pick a backup that was created on my computer which has UR license. If I pick a backup that was created on computer w/o the UR license, the UR recovery option is not there.
Q: Does the UR option depend on whether the backup was created with a UR license?
So, then, why would the Universal Restore recovery option appear sometimes and not others. Same boot CD, same computer, two different backups. Now you see it, now you don't.
Hello Tony and dev-anon,
Thank you for your posts.
Tony, there are many reasons why Acronis Universal Restore doesn't show up. In your case I assume that it cannot detect operating system in the second archive. Please check for solution in this KB article, and let us know if it helped.
Should you need anything else or have any further questions - feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience, we will be happy to help you!
Thank you.
The backup image I'm trying to recover was created on a system that had a pair of SCSI hard drives in a RAID1 configuration. Both SCSI drives died. I was hoping to replace the SCSI RAID array with a SATA RAID array.
So, if I understand the KB article, UR is unavailable when restoring an image of a SCSI drive or SCSI drive array. Bummer. Guess I'll have to scour Ebay for replacement SCSI drives.
Thank you,
Tony Perovic
I don't know if it will work at all, but maybe it's worth trying, if there is indeed scsi() definition used in boot.init (it's not necessary so even if physical interface is SCSI). Restore the backup to the SATA RAID without UR, change boot.ini content to have arc path Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1), backup again and try to restore again.