Do I need a working OS to restore an OS?

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I am considering this product to back-up my OS.

Will True Image work in the Windows recovery mode, e.g. booting from a Windows Setup Disk?

This mode does not have network support, so I would be saving my backup image on a non-system hard drive. I am building a new system with an array of RAID 0 SSDs for OS and high performance operations and a non-RAID hard drive to save data.

With RAID 0, if one disk fails, the entire array fails. If that were to happen, I would not have an operational OS to boot into.

So with that in mind, I would have to boot off of the Windows setup disk and enter into recovery mode (just a command prompt probably without network support).

Would True Image work under that environment if I store my backup on the non-RAID disk?

Thanks

Sun, 08/18/2013 - 22:51
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I found the answer to my question in the documentation that is online. My scenario is supported as well as RAID 0.

In section
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This section explains in brief how to back up and recover dynamic volumes (p. 440) using Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5.
A dynamic volume is a volume located on dynamic disks (p. 439), or more exactly, on a disk group (p. 438). Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 supports the following dynamic volume types/RAID levels:
 simple/spanned
 striped (RAID 0)

Recovery
When it comes to data recovery, first consider the most functional method: connect the console to the managed machine running the operating system and create the recovery task.
If the machine's operating system fails to start or you need to recover data to bare metal, boot the machine from the bootable media (p. 435) or using Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and configure recovery.
Acronis Universal Restore lets you recover and boot up operating systems on dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 enables you to transfer Windows operating systems between BIOS-based hardware and hardware that supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). See the "Recovering BIOS-based systems to UEFI-based and back" (p. 152) section for more details.
A Windows system can be brought online in seconds while it is still being recovered. Using the proprietary Acronis Active Restore (p. 156) technology, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 will boot the machine into the operating system found in the backup as if the system were on the physical disk. The system becomes operational and ready to provide necessary services. Thus, the system downtime will be minimal.

Mon, 08/19/2013 - 15:14