Clone disks over network?
My office is networked to my shop. I find myself with a spare SSD that I'd like to use in the shop computer as the boot drive. I can't find any way to clone the shop drive to the new SSD from the office. Is it even possible? Could I use the Acronis recovery disk for this?
TIA
Walt
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I'm not quite sure what you're saying.
I don't want to do a backup, Acronis makes it easy to back up my network drives.
I want to clone two drives that are on a computer other than the computer where Acronis is installed. The network drives don't show up in the cloning section of Acronis so it appears the only way to do it is physically swap a bunch of drives.
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A clone is a process that create a copy of another disk. This cannot be done over a network.
An image is a the first part of the clone process. The restoring of the image is the seconde part. So if you want to clone, you could remotely create a disk and partition backup, store that TIB file on the network and then restore.
A couple of obvious things though:
- ATI needs to be installed on computer A that you backup. You can access computer A to launch the backup remotely,
- Backing up over FTP is slow and prone to errors, your mileage will vary.
- Restoring cannot be done remotely, but you should be able to restore on computer B, using the recovery CD, to a target disk that you will not boot on B, but on A: you wouldn't be able to boot another B, During restore, computer B acts as an expensive pipe to put the data back on that disk.
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