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If you are using the recovery medium, you can restore multiple devices at the same time (but would not try more than one from the cloud at the same time unless you have high upload/download speeds).

As the recovery media is not linked to a particular PC it can be used on a PC on which ATI is not installed.

Ian

If both disks are on the one PC, you cannot do the recoveries at the same time. If neither has the OS on it, then you can queue the second backup. This assumes that each disk has a separate backup. If both are in the one backup then they can be restored together. However, from backup management perspective it is often preferable to have separate backup tasks.

For example, I have one that does a disk backup for the M.2 drive with the OS on it. I have two other disk backups (more correctly partition backups), one for my data and the other for installation files. I also have separate files and folders backups for (i) photos and videos, (ii) Dropbox and OneDive, (iii) My Documents folder. Backup frequency depends on how often changes are made to the content of the backup. The files and folder backups take place each day, the others less frequently. The on for installation files is done manually whenever new files are added.

Ian

Ian - Sorry for not being clear enough. I'm talking about having two internal hard drives that aren't currently installed in their respective machines and having SATA cabling hooked up to them in order to recover to them. Those two drives would be the drives for two different machines. A main machine that sees daily use and a backup machine that would only be used in the event of a motherboard crash. So, same backup being restored to two separate hard drives. Hope I made that clear enough. Is this possible to do in ATI 2021 Perpetual? Thank you.

Simultaneous restore is not supported by ATI 2021

Ah, this is starting to make some sense to me. I think you can do what you want to do but there may be some things you need to consider. It is 22:30 in Melbourne and my brain is too tired to give thoughtful appraisal of the plan. Hope to get back to you in the morning.

Ian

If I understand, Rick, you have a backup of a system drive (C:). On the restore machine, you wish to install two SATA drives and then restore the backup to each drive. You then want to remove both of those drives and install them each in their own machine.

What I don't know is how you have created the backup but I assume it is created from one C: drive.

The answer is no, you cannot restore them simultaneously. But you can restore them sequentially.

That said, I wonder if there is a way to set up a RAID 1 volume to accomplish what you want.

Bruno, I was of the understanding that Rick wanted to have the two drives on standby so he could replace the internal drive without having to do a recovery. [But as you can see from my earlier posts my understanding of what Rick wants to do has not always been spot on.] So, what he would do is to restore a previously created backup to the first blank disk, disconnect it, then restore the same backup to the second blank disk. After the first time he would not be restoring the a disk with content. In substance he will be making two clones of the installed disk on a regular basis.

Ian

Ian - you are correct, mostly. BrunoC you weren't wrong. What I do is create an Entire PC backup; the PC contains two separate drives, an SSD SATA drive that is the boot drive and a SATA drive that is the data drive. I then restore the backup to an SSD SATA drive and clone it to a M.2 drive. The M.2 drive is used in my backup machine. The data drive can be used in both machines. The reason I do this is if my motherboard crashes I can get up and running again very quickly. The PC is a business machine and can't have it out of commission very long.

Thank you both for your expert help. Sorry I didn't get back to you two sooner. I am a very busy man. Have a great weekend!

Rick

Thanks for the update Rick.

Ian