Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 837.1.3 Recovering dynamic volumesDynamic volumes are volumes located on dynamic disks, i.e. disks managed by WindowsLogical Disk Manager (LDM). For more information on dynamic disks, please refer to yourWindows documentation.Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server can back up and recover dynamicvolumes.A dynamic volume can be recovered over the same volume or unallocated space of adynamic group. If recovered over another volume, the target volume’s contents will beoverwritten with the image contents, but the type or other properties of the targetvolume will not be changed.To restore a dynamic volume exactly as it is, prepare a target dynamic group withoutvolumes. In case you want to restore a dynamic volume in place of some volumes alreadyexisting on the target disks, delete the original volumes using third-party tools, such asthe Windows Disk Management tool.Dynamic volume contents alone can be recovered onto a basic or dynamic volumewithout changing the target volume type. Acronis True Image for Microsoft SmallBusiness Server local version has the Create dynamic volume tool so that you be ableto prepare the desired volumes on the target disks.Backward conversion of dynamic volume to basic disks can be performed, if need be,using the Add new disk operation (seeChapter 15. Adding a new hard disk).With these tools, anywhere-to-anywhere data recovery becomes available, in terms ofbasic disks and dynamic volumes of any type (simple, spanned, striped, mirrored or RAID5). The tools are available in bootable program version. Having booted the Acronisenvironment, you can easily prepare the desired dynamic group on bare metal or acomputer with non-Windows operating system.For how to use the above tools see7.5 Creating dynamic disks and volumes.
