Restoring data with Acronis Cyber Backup

From the Acronis panel, you can easily recover your data with a few clicks.

However, it is important to know what exactly you want to recover and how.

You will have a few options in front of you:

  1. Recover full server.
    1. Recover to same server.
      1. Recover to same location.
      2. Recover to new location.
    2. Recover to another server.
      1. Recover to same location.
      2. Recover to new location.
    3. Download full server backup contents.
  2. Recover specific files or folders.
    1. Recover to same location.
    2. Recover to new location.
    3. Download specific files or folders.

Steps to access all these options:

  1. Click Devices > All Devices
  2. Select the server whose backups you wish to restore.
  3. Select the recovery point from which you want to restore. You will see a screen such as the one below.restore1
  4. Clicking on More ways to restore will give you options to restore to another server, or to download the backed-up contents to your local machine.
  5. Click on Recover Files/Folders to access the panel that will show all the files and folders in this recovery point.restore2
  6. You will see a screen such as the one below (in this example, we are looking at a recovery point of a Linux server that has been backed up fully).
  7. You can either choose to restore the entire root folder or double-click on the root folder to expose its subfolders and files.restore3
  8. Depending on your requirement, you can choose to restore any part of this recovery point.
  9. After having made a choice about the part you wish to restore, you can choose to either restore it to the original location or to a location of your choice.