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Upgrading true image 2014 to 2020

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I think it's about time to upgrade TI 2014 to 2020.  I currently have an active backup on a 3 TB Seagate portable drive.  When I upgrade to 2020, do I have to delete the contents of the Seagate drive or will 2020 sort out all of this. 

When I travel, I usually throw the Seagate drive in my laptop bag.  If I need a file off the Seagate drive, how do I do this without loading 2020 on the laptop?  Note that I don't keep files on the laptop, I just copy them to my main computer when I return home.

TIA for any advice

Paul

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Paul, there are several factors involved in any upgrade from a version as old as ATI 2014 going to ATI 2020.

First, your backup files created by ATI 2014 can still be read by ATI 2020 but not the other way around.

Second, you must uninstall ATI 2014 before attempting to install ATI 2020 and given the large number of differences between these two versions, I would personally suggest making a clean install of ATI 2020 and creating new backup tasks on the new version rather than trying to carry on with tasks created by 2014.

Next, you do not need to delete the contents of your Seagate 3TB portable drive but if you want to access the contents of any ATI backup .tib (or .tibx 2020) image files, then you will need to have ATI installed on any laptop or PC connecting to that drive, or else you would need to boot that laptop or PC from the ATI 2020 rescue media in order to do so.

One option that may be useful to you in ATI 2020 is the ability to create a 'Survival Kit' using your Seagate drive, where ATI will create a 2GB FAT32 partition at the start of the drive and install the rescue media boot application into that partition, so that you can both boot from the drive and perform backups or recovery from the larger partition of the drive.

Don't update to 2020. I did and I regret it. The 2020 version sucks when it comes to performance. Do a search for "True Image 2020 slow" and you'll find all sort of info about how the changes in 2020 bring things to a crawl when backing up.