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Universal Restore (Acronis Universal Restore)
The Acronis proprietary technology that helps boot up Windows on dissimilar hardware or a virtual
machine. The Universal Restore handles differences in devices that are critical for the operating
system start-up, such as storage controllers, motherboard or chipset.
In Acronis vmProtect 7 the Universal Restore technology is primarily used for P2V (p. 110) migration
scenarios.
Universal Restore is not available when recovering Linux.
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Validation
An operation that checks the possibility of data recovery from a backup (p. 103).
Validation of a virtual machine backup calculates a checksum for every data block saved in the
backup. This procedure is resource-intensive.
While the successful validation means a high probability of successful recovery, it does not check all
factors that influence the recovery process. If you back up the operating system, only a test recovery
to new/existing virtual machine or running virtual machine from the backup can guarantee successful
recovery in the future.
Validation rules
A part of the backup task (p. 105). Rules that define when and how often to perform validation and
whether to validate the entire archive (p. 103) or the latest backup in the archive.
vApp
A group of virtual machines that can be managed as a single object. vApps simplify management of
complex, multi-tiered applications that run on multiple interdependent virtual machines. vApps have
the same basic operations as virtual machines and resource pools. With vApps, you can set the order
in which the virtual machines in the vApp power on, automatically assign IP addresses to virtual
machines in the vApp, and provide application-level customization.
In terms of Acronis vmProtect 7 product the “vApp” is considered to be a container for VMs. This
container has its own properties which are included into the backup and are restored along with
vApp once some parts of it (or entire vApp) are restored.
