How to restore disks or volumes from the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

  • Updated on Apr 13, 2026
  • Published on Dec 3, 2025
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This article covers the process of completing a Restore in Acronis, using the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.

If your server does not have the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager present, please follow this guide instead:

Restore Volume or Disk from Boot Media

This guide relies on being able to access the IPMI/Remote Console, you can follow this guide to gain access to it:

How to access IPMI / Remote Console

Table of Contents:

Booting into Startup Recovery Manager

Restarting a server through IPMI

Supermicro

HPE

Linux

Windows

Accessing the Backups:

Starting the Restore

Booting into Startup Recovery Manager:

Restarting a server through IPMI

Dedicated servers are divided between Supermicro and HPE. Each of them has their own IPMI screen that will need to be logged in through.
How to access IPMI / Remote Console

If your login screen shows Supermicro:

Please continue to the following guide for resetting the power of the server:

Supermicro

If your login screen shows iLO 5

Please continue to the following section of the guide:

HPE

Supermicro

  1. Please log in using the login credentials obtained from the MySAU portal in: How to access IPMI / Remote Console

  1. We will need to confirm Remote Console Access is present and functioning before continuing. Please select Remote Console → iKVM/HTML5 and click onto it.

On Supermicro systems using Java KVM, only Console Redirection, Power Control, and Launch SOL will be present under Remote Control. You can download the console by clicking Remote Console → Console Redirection. This will download a .jnlp file for the Java console. If your system refuses to run the Java console, please follow this guide:

How to add a Java exception for IPMI / DRAC

If Remote Access via the Java console has been confirmed please skip to Step 5. Otherwise, continue below.  

  1. Select the iKVM/HTML5 button to open the web console. This should open into a new window.

If the web console refuses to work, please inform us within a ticket and continue with the Java console described above.

  1. Now that remote access has been confirmed, go to Remote Control → Power Control

  1. Ensuring that Reset Server is selected, click Perform Action:

This will immediately reset power to the server.

If this is a Linux server, please proceed to:

Linux

If this is a Windows server, please proceed to:

Windows

HPE

  1. Please log in using the login credentials obtained from the MySAU portal in: How to access IPMI / Remote Console

  1. Open the Remote Console located in the bottom left corner by clicking on the preview window, and then click HTML5 Console. This will open the web console.

  1. Within Power & Thermal → Server Power → Click Reset.

This will immediately reset power to the server.

If this is a Linux server, please proceed to:

Linux

If this is a Windows server, please proceed to:

Windows

Linux

  1. When the Grub menu appears on the screen, please navigate to the Startup Recovery Manager using the arrow keys, and select it with Enter. This is the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.

If your server does not have the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager present, please follow this guide instead:

Restore Volume or Disk from Boot Media

  1. This will then load directly into the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. You do not need to press F11 for the boot menu:

Please proceed Accessing the Backups:

Accessing the Backups

Windows

For both HPE and Supermicro systems, the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager will show as a Boot Device. This can be accessed via the Boot Menu (pressing F11 during bootup).

  1. Whilst the system starts up, please press F11 to prompt it to the Boot Menu. Once reached, using the arrow keys and enter to select, boot into the Acronis Loader.

If Acronis Loader isn’t present, please follow this guide instead:

Restore Volume or Disk from Boot Media

Otherwise, continue on within:

Accessing the Backups

Accessing the Backups:

  1. Within the GUI for the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager, select Recover

  1. Click on Required

  1. In Data to Recover Selection click Browse:

  1. Click Cloud Storage → and then click Log in

  1. Using your credentials for your User, log in to the Acronis Cloud Storage:

  1. Select the Cloud Storage for the account, and then press OK

  1. For encrypted backups, it will prompt you for the encryption password.

In the event that the incorrect password is entered for encrypted backups, it will not proceed, and the password will highlight itself.


Please proceed to the next section of the guide:

Starting the Restore

Starting the Restore

This will bring you through to the Data to Recover Selection screen within the Cloud Storage Backup Location.

  1. Choose the recovery point that you want to restore from. Once this has been done, click Hide Archives and backups. This will clear the screen up.

  1. Select the contents that you wish to restore to the server, and then hit OK.

  1. This will bring you to a new screen to configure the recovery operation. This will take some time to load/populate the page:

  1. Once this has finished loading review the page, ensure that the details match your expectations before continuing. This can be configured this further via Recovery options… → Default:

If you do not plan to configure the Recovery Options beyond the Default please skip to Step 7

  1. Please configure this as necessary:

Check the file system after recovery → Performs a disk check after the restore is completed.

Restart the machine automatically after the recovery is finished → Once the restore is completed, the server will restart immediately into the restored Operating System.

  1. Click OK to confirm your settings and return to the main Recovery Bootable Media screen.

  1. Press OK on the main Recovery Bootable Media screen to begin the restore.

  1. This will begin the restore in the following window.

  1. The Progress Tab can be used to monitor the progress of the restore.

If Restart the machine automatically after the recovery is finished was enabled in Step 5, the system will restart immediately after the restoration succeeds.

  1. Once the Job has succeeded, click Close

  1. Within the Actions dropdown, select Exit. This will reboot the server into the restored operating system.