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Acronis System Image with Genie Backup Manager 9

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I am planning on using Acronis for system images. I also use Genie Backup Manager 9 for two different data backups at 9 am and 6 pm. In addition I have Genie Timeline running. Genie tech support recommends pausing all backups while the system image is running. My C drive is over 700 GB. Can anyone help me judge on long it will take to do a system image?

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Lynnea, welcome to these public User Forums.

Sorry but impossible to tell you how long your 700GB system image will take to create, as there are too many variables that can be at work.

What I would strongly recommend would be to consider what makes up that 700GB of data on your C drive and to make several different Acronis backups of that data rather than one very large backup of the lot.

700GB seems far to big to be only your OS & applications, so would recommend making a backup of the OS & applications that excludes any very large user data folders or files, and make separate backups of your different categories of user data, i.e. documents, images, videos, music etc.

What OS does your computer have here?  I ask because I have not encountered Genie Timeline or other Genie products with Windows that I am aware of.  The Genie website doesn't give any system requirements so doesn't tell either!