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Since this is the product I was considering to get, I would assume this is the right spot to ask the question(s).

I have a SSD I would like to "ghost image" in case it dies (you know how SSD's longevity isn't as long as HDD).

I was recommended Arconis as the software to actually create/clone/ghost the SSD so I can always recover and place it on another SSD if needed to be.

How and what is the plan should I use with this software to meet my goal?

My experience with "clone" was with Norton's Ghost which was many years ago, but that would require me to reboot to DOS where it would clone the whole HDD to the CDs.

From what I read and understand, rebooting to DOS to clone/backup is not needed anymore and I can just schedule it to do an automatic backup-clone to any of my extra HDDs (provided it has enough space for the backup).

Can anyone explain the process to meet my goal and how it would be:
- The actual clone process
Clone/Backup of the whole SSD into one of my media HDD.

- The actual restore process (reimagining)
I would assume I would use a bootup CD/DVD which then will restore the saved image from one of my media HDD to the new SSD

Thank you to whoever can help explain this thoroughly.

-TMLL

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Some terms need to be sorted out.

In Acronis speak a clone is a static copy of the disk to another disk of approximately the same size. As the disk is on your current system, is how the new disk will appear.

An image can be single or mul;tiple partitions or the complete disk but is imaged into a container 'tib' file similar to but not the same as a zip file,\. So one copies the disk warts and all, the other produces a file. An image is more flexible in what you cna do with it than a clone.

With a clone there is no restore procedure as you've basically copied one disk to the other, it would eb a case of taking the old disk out and inserting the new disk. If you need to update a cloned drive, you need to clone the old to the new for each update. For a disk image, you can either make new 'Full' images or you can make incremental or differential images which image just the alterations to the data on your disk and when recovery time comes recombines them all into one image and restores your data.

From what you've said, you'd probably want to clone the old drive to the new drive the first time around, after that you'd make disk images to a second disk to keep a recoverable image upto date.

You would use a recovery CD which uses Linux to perform an OS recovery. The CD can be made from within TIH or once you've purchased TIH a downloadbale ISO is available from your account.

More details are available from the help file link in the left hand margin for 2012.

Currently, the imaging/cloning process is broken in 2012. There have been reports that it can work if run from a bootable ISO. However, even this has been reported to write corrupt boot information. I have seen the corrupt boot sector on two clones.

I would not purchase this software for imaging until it has been fixed.