Use recovery boot USB stick as container of image archive
Hello!
Such USB RAM sticks are large meanwhile. So I got an idea to take such a stick and use non used space to hold some images, having only one device to recover a simple workstation from.
Is that possible in general, and if, how? For not being wrong, booted restore mechanism does not recognize it’s own partition as a drive - which would make today life easier.
Shall I try to create singele partitions before I create restore mechanism? Or other way round, create restore and generate an other partition?
Does restore mechanism, when be booted, such a partition at all as a usable drive? (I'm aware, I've to load such a drive using a LINUX since WIN can not access a 2nd partition on an USB stick.)
Markus


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Oh my goodness… ;)
I simply need the usual «bootable rescue media», but not a monster consuming 32GB on a HDD/SDD - or memory stick!
And, if I understand right, I do not need or want a monster backup of »my« computer, but I want to create and restore ›any other‹ computer, in emergency or as a clue, keeping all together and not spread on several physical devices.
By intention simply abuse any free space on the physical «bootable rescue media», e.g. as a partition (drive), ready to hold an archive. And a LINUX as base of rescue medium shall be able to recognize such a partition as a drive, correct?
One simple quick general emergency device - impossible?
Markus
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Markus, the default size of the Acronis Survival Kit is only 2GB. This can be created on a suitable sized USB stick but this tends to perform much slower for backups than an equivalent HDD or SSD drive used for the same purpose.
I have created a survival kit on a 128GB USB 3.0 stick which does work as a handy miniature backup device that fits in the pocket of my jacket or laptop case.
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…I do hate slide shows without (a minimum of introducing) words (why to do so), where a fist full of words shall be enough to solve an issue.
Maybe it is an issue of this particular RAM stick, but I simply created a new partition (=logical drive) and our good and simple rescue medium was able to use this (logical) drive to place an archive on.
I call it a low-level support quality not just to offer this way as »not impossible, probably at last«. This thread is just useless to me finding a solution to it’s simple question - except trying myself.
Thnak you…
Markus
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