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| Thread ID: 101676 | 2009-07-22 22:03:00 | Acronis Restoration | minster (9180) | Press F1 |
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| 794324 | 2009-07-23 06:22:00 | Yes, I have no worries regarding Acronis ability to restore everything as I've used V11 & V12 many times in the past but never had to restore an image to a brand new (unformatted) hard drive before. | minster (9180) | ||
| 794325 | 2009-07-23 06:41:00 | Minster, a few days ago I used Acronis to restore an image from .tib files. I was surprised how quickly Acronis restored WinXP and the programs I had on the image files. Like Blam and Wainui said, Acronis should find the new drive and guide you through the process; I cannot recall if one of the steps was to format the drive first but whatever it was easy-peasy. BTW, be sure to make Acronis images (.tib's) from the bootable disk and not from the Acronis program running on your OS. Theoretically either method of making .tib's should be OK, but even running the "validation" step may not mean that the .tib image is good. I use the scheduler in Acronis to do one full weekly backup and then daily incremental backups to another comp with a large drive and have had to use the back up once, it just worked, unfortunately you can't do this using the live CD as you would have to physically be at the comp to put the disc in etc, so although it is better to use the live CD it's not always possible :nerd: |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 794326 | 2009-07-23 08:01:00 | Wainui, Does Acronis boot disc recognize external USB drives OK?? |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 794327 | 2009-07-23 08:19:00 | Wainui, Does Acronis boot disc recognize external USB drives OK?? Yes, I keep all my Acronis .tib files on external usb hard drives and when wanting to restore I just boot with Acronis disc and it asks where to look for backup file. Gives quite a few options (usb, dvd hdd etc) |
minster (9180) | ||
| 794328 | 2009-07-23 09:40:00 | Yes it does it also does network drives | gary67 (56) | ||
| 794329 | 2009-07-23 10:41:00 | Wainui, Does Acronis boot disc recognize external USB drives OK?? Usually it does - I have two USB 2.5" drives with .tib images of various flavors. The one I use for loading in a "quick Customer" Install is on a 2GB USB Drive. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 794330 | 2009-07-23 21:36:00 | Thanx Guys. We stuck a problem here at work where on of our guys used Ghost 2003 for his backups to a USB drive. He had a problem but the Ghost boot disk would not recognize the USB drive. Will download a trial copy and do some testing.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 794331 | 2009-07-24 02:39:00 | I use the scheduler in Acronis to do one full weekly backup and then daily incremental backups to another comp with a large drive and have had to use the back up once, it just worked, unfortunately you can't do this using the live CD as you would have to physically be at the comp to put the disc in etc, so although it is better to use the live CD it's not always possible :nerd: Regarding daily incremental backups - let's say every Friday a full backup is made and 6 days later on, Thursday, the hd dies or OS gets corrupted requiring a reinstall from the .tib files. Would you have to first reinstall the full backup file(s) and then do 6 separate reinstalls using each of the incremental backups? If this is so, and if there is enough space on the separate hd, would it be better to do differential backups? |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 794332 | 2009-07-24 08:19:00 | No they work the same I think, last time I did it I just set it going and walked away | gary67 (56) | ||
| 794333 | 2009-07-24 08:40:00 | Thanks Gary. Does anyone know what the advantage would be doing differential backups? I have read several times about incremental vs differential, but cannot get my head around it for some reason. |
Strommer (42) | ||
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