Acronis True Image Clone Disk Reboot
After my previous thread here in the forum, I decided that disk cloning would be the best way to backup my main disk to the external usb disk. If my main disk fails, I want to have a readily bootable disk, with a mirror image of my main drive, so I think cloning would be the best solution.As such, I opened acronis trueimage and started cloning, but I was extremely surprised to see that the cloning process involves rebooting the computer 3 times!
Is this absolutely necessary? If I want to make this my regular backup method, having to reboot every time I want to clone the disk will be very unpractical.Thanks for your feedback. I don't clone so I don't know from experience where all the boots are coming from.I don't think cloning is the best approach. Why not make an image of your entire disk by selecting the check box beside Disk 1 not the partitions by themselves.
This will ensure the MBR is included in the image.You will have an image file on your external drive that can be restored containing all the disk contents. It will be smaller and since it is contained, you can make more than one backup to your drive. If you have a 200GB drive with only 50GB used, a clone will use up all 200GB on your backup drive.
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A typical image would only use up about 35GB or so.Cloning is better suited, IMO, for the immediate installation of a new disk rather than a backup waiting for the day something fails. I don't clone so I don't know from experience where all the boots are coming from.I don't think cloning is the best approach. Why not make an image of your entire disk by selecting the check box beside Disk 1 not the partitions by themselves.
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This will ensure the MBR is included in the image.You will have an image file on your external drive that can be restored containing all the disk contents. It will be smaller and since it is contained, you can make more than one backup to your drive. If you have a 200GB drive with only 50GB used, a clone will use up all 200GB on your backup drive. A typical image would only use up about 35GB or so.Cloning is better suited, IMO, for the immediate installation of a new disk rather than a backup waiting for the day something fails. Click to expand.My USB Drive is 250gig and the PC is 200gig.I've been very confused with this for a long time. I've just read in other topic that I can also do a backup (not a cloning) that also records the MBR of the drive on the backup file, so that I can easily restore that backup to the newly bought hard drive, after the original one fails. I thought that the backup method was used to restore data to the drive that lost its data and still works, and not to a newly bought drive after the original one failed.
Click to expand.Mmmmm, ok, I think I understood it now. So, by selecting the whole disk to backup, Acronis TrueImage will copy the whole structure including the MBR?If yes, than it is as you said: I'll have to choose between:- having a backup file, which is compressed and occupies less space on disk, with the disadvantage that I'll have to have a new drive to which I'll restore in case the old one fails, or- I can clone my drive to the external disk, and then I'll be able to use it as main disk when my old one fails, before having to spend money on the new drive. After I buy the new internal disk, it will be easy to clone from the external to the new internal.Do you think I've summed it up correctly? Do you find any other advantages and disadvantages in the two methods? You got it!!!
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As for advantages and disadvantages. Now we're getting down to the nitty gritty.I will make a broad sweeping statement base on my own experience and what I've been reading here.Cloning seems to be more problematic than Image Backup.Whichever method you choose, be sure to give it the acid test. If you go with the Clone, try to boot with it. If you make an Image backup, Restore it to a separate drive and make sure it will boot. And do all this with the bootable Rescue TI cd, since that is what you will have to use in case of a hard drive failure. You got it!!!
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As for advantages and disadvantages. Now we're getting down to the nitty gritty.I will make a broad sweeping statement base on my own experience and what I've been reading here.Cloning seems to be more problematic than Image Backup.Whichever method you choose, be sure to give it the acid test. If you go with the Clone, try to boot with it. If you make an Image backup, Restore it to a separate drive and make sure it will boot. And do all this with the bootable Rescue TI cd, since that is what you will have to use in case of a hard drive failure.