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Restore image or backup to / from partition from within W10

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I would like to know if there's a command line to restore images (tibx) to the right partition, same question regards for restoring.

I know it once worked, but that's a long time ago.

Now i boot from usb (uefi) with linux based boot and Acronis and restore from that, but that part is taking some time...

I know when i choose to restore a partition from within W10 it will ask to reboot from there it will start a boot to ATI and restore the image (all over uefi)

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Loek, welcome to these public User Forums.

Sorry but there are no command line options to use with Acronis True Image and as far as I understand, there has never been such commands, especially for doing a restore / recovery.

If you are restoring the OS partition, then it will always be safest to boot from the Acronis Rescue Media to do this rather than starting from within Windows.

Thanx for the reply... Well as far as i know there WAS some sort of command line script... But anyway... When i select the image i want to restore from within ATI it will boot without a rescue media, i want to do this also with some sort but without making a media rescue drive.

It has to be do-able because in ATI it will restart the system without any additional drives... so something is written to a temp partiton or bcd...

I have never found any command line script for restoring / recovery in any of the versions of ATI that I have used from version 9 to 2020.  It is possible to launch a backup or validation task using the TrueImage launcher application and passing it a valid script identifier for all the parameters needed though this too is not documented in any of the Acronis manuals.

Any recovery started from within Windows will modify the Windows BCD configuration in order to launch a temporary Linux based recovery environment from which the offline ATI application is run, so yes, you are correct that Acronis passes some information via that configuration change to the offline application, but again this is not documented anywhere that I have found.

The key issue with allowing ATI to modify the BCD files is the number of times that this has led to users with unbootable computers because that change is not reversed when an error occurs, hence my own preference is to always use a USB stick to boot when doing a recovery.

If you have used the Acronis Backup business product, then that does have command line options that are documented in the manuals but these are not valid for ATI.