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I just installed TI 2019(was upgraded in chat)I was wondering how well the Image Restore is(I have been a carbonite Mirror Image subscriber for years)When restore is finished is everything back where it should be and working (All programs,files,etc working ,just like it was before ?)Since 2019 is new I quess I'm asking about TI 2018

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Tim, welcome to these User Forums.

Your questions are very broad in terms of the answers that can be given.

ATI 2019 can create 2 different type of Backup image that can be recovered / restored from.

To restore the whole OS drive contents, a Disk & Partitions type backup image is needed, as this contains all the information needed to recreate the partitions structure and restore data back to a new disk drive in a bare-metal scenario.

A second backup type is for Files & Folders which allows the recovery / restore of this type of data.

Acronis also offer an option to make Clone copies of disk drives but this is not an image, but is a 1:1 duplicate copy.

The key aim of any backup & recovery software is to preserve the integrity of the data, so the end result of using backup & recovery should be data which is identical to how it was when the backup was created.

Final comment - recovery of an OS drive & partitions should be performed using the Acronis bootable Rescue Media to boot the computer so that there is no interference from any other software or applications etc.  In a bare-metal scenario this may be the only option available.

Thanks for the info.Not sure what you mean by bare metal.I'm backing up to a 2 TB external drive.Not to Acronis cloud.My main reason for getting this was in the event of a crash data errors etc that I can use the bootup disc to access my external Hdd to restore my computer to the date I choose exactly like it was.as far as the data backup,if acronis is doing that along with the TI that's fine(at the moment another company is backing my data to their servers

Tim, 'bare-metal' simply means a situation where you are recovering to a new disk drive, i.e. one which does not already have a Windows OS on.

I have a question a bit related to this. My wife has a Lenovo All-In-One with Acronis 2019 and Win 10 home. I am considering updating her HDD to an SSD. If she does a full OS / Disk / Partition backup to an external - then puts that new SSD in, and does a restore from that backup, it should be seamless, I imagine (with perhaps just having Windows re-authorized). I forgot how that works with restore media. I guess we'd have the PC boot from the USB then in BIOS - or is there some rescue thing we would run first allowing us to access the backup on the external?

I am considering updating her HDD to an SSD. If she does a full OS / Disk / Partition backup to an external - then puts that new SSD in, and does a restore from that backup, it should be seamless, I imagine (with perhaps just having Windows re-authorized). I forgot how that works with restore media. I guess we'd have the PC boot from the USB then in BIOS

Mark, this should be fine in principle - backup the HDD to external drive, replace HDD with SSD (of sufficient size to accommodate all data from the HDD plus  sufficient free space over).  Then boot the computer from the Acronis Rescue Media (using the same BIOS mode as your Windows OS) and restore the backup from the external drive to the SSD using Disk mode.

Run the msinfo32 command in Windows to check the BIOS mode.

See forum topic: [How to] recover an entire disk backup - for details of this part.