Acronis Backup & Recovery

Selecting a virtual machine’s disks and volumes

To back up individual disks or volumes within a virtual machine residing on a virtualization server

1. Select the virtual machine whose volumes you need to back up.

   Use the right part of the window to view details on the selected virtual machine.

2. Click OK.
3. In the Selecting disks and volumes window, select the virtual machine disks or volumes. Backing up volumes within a virtual machine is similar to backing up a physical machine’s volumes. The virtual machine configuration will be also backed up.

Backing up a virtual machine’s volumes yields a standard disk backup. Having Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows or for Linux, you can mount its volumes, recover individual files from this backup, and recover disks and volumes from the backup to a physical machine. The virtual machine configuration, stored in a virtual machine backup, will be suggested by default at recovering the backup content to a new virtual machine.

Limitations

A Hyper-V virtual machine that uses at least one pass-through disk (a physical disk, either local or SAN-LUN, attached to the virtual machine) cannot be backed up from the host. To back up such machine or its disks, install Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux on the machine.

A SAN-LUN disk attached to an ESX/ESXi virtual machine in the “Physical compatibility” mode, cannot be backed up from the host while the virtual machine is online (running). To back up such disk, either stop the machine or install Agent for Windows or Agent for Linux on the machine.