2017 boot disk backup
I have been using ATI through many versions. I have usually created a rescue CD or USB thumb drive and booted that into the Linux system. That has always had the boot drive I am backing create a full image that allowed my to replace a failed boot drive with a blank drive and restore and be running without endless updates or activations. A couple of programs I use link the activation to the HD or SSD id information and to get them operating again usually all you have to do is contact the vendor and explain you had a disk failure.
I have found that creating a disk, not drive letter, backup from the Windows GUI ATI application in 2017 is very convenient. However, my concern is that in recovering from a total drive failure I won't be able to just boot from an external rescue media and recover the .tib to a blank drive and have everything boot as before as there might be some file locks on files and they don't make it into the .tib. Has anyone done a full recovery from a .tib created by ATI 2017 from windows while it is running? Does the recovery work as flawlessly as one made by a rescue disk boot?


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In reply to Leo, there should be very… by truwrikodrorow…

Thanks. I expected to have to use the rescue media to recover to a bare metal drive. Perfect.
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You asked: 'Has anyone done a full recovery from a .tib created by ATI 2017 from windows while it is running? Does the recovery work as flawlessly as one made by a rescue disk boot?"
Yes, I have done full disk recoveries from backup images created by ATI Windows version. Yes, they worked fine. As Steve says, the differences should be subtle.
And, to emphasize what Steve said, I recommend that any disk or partition recoveries be performed after booting from the ATI Rescue Media. It doesn't matter whether the backup was created from ATI Windows or the Rescue Media. If you're recovering a disk or partition, do it after booting from the ATI Rescue Media, not from Windows.
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