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Use recovery boot USB stick as container of image archive

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Hello!

Such USB RAM sticks are large meanwhile. So I got an idea to take such a stick and use non used space to hold some images, having only one device to recover a simple workstation from.

Is that possible in general, and if, how? For not being wrong, booted restore mechanism does not recognize it’s own partition as a drive - which would make today life easier.

Shall I try to create singele partitions before I create restore mechanism? Or other way round, create restore and generate an other partition?
Does restore mechanism, when be booted, such a partition at all as a usable drive? (I'm aware, I've to load such a drive using a LINUX since WIN can not access a 2nd partition on an USB stick.)

Markus

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Markus, this is the basis of the Acronis Survival Kit approach but using an external USB HDD or SSD drive rather than a large memory stick.

The option to create a Survival Kit is only offered when you are creating a new Disks & Partitions (or Entire PC) type backup task and are setting the Destination for the task to a suitable external USB drive that can be used for this purpose.

See KB 61639: Acronis True Image 2019 and 2020: how to create Acronis Survival Kit - for more information on the process.

Also KB 61738: Acronis True Image: Survival Kit disk partition for backups is limited to 2TB on BIOS-booted systems

And Acronis Article:  The Acronis Survival Kit

Oh my goodness… ;)

I simply need the usual «bootable rescue media», but not a monster consuming 32GB on a HDD/SDD - or memory stick!

And, if I understand right, I do not need or want a monster backup of »my« computer, but I want to create and restore ›any other‹ computer, in emergency or as a clue, keeping all together and not spread on several physical devices.

By intention simply abuse any free space on the physical «bootable rescue media», e.g. as a partition (drive), ready to hold an archive. And a LINUX as base of rescue medium shall be able to recognize such a partition as a drive, correct?

One simple quick general emergency device - impossible? 

Markus

Markus, the default size of the Acronis Survival Kit is only 2GB.  This can be created on a suitable sized USB stick but this tends to perform much slower for backups than an equivalent HDD or SSD drive used for the same purpose.

I have created a survival kit on a 128GB USB 3.0 stick which does work as a handy miniature backup device that fits in the pocket of my jacket or laptop case.

…I do hate slide shows without (a minimum of introducing) words (why to do so), where a fist full of words shall be enough to solve an issue.

 

Maybe it is an issue of this particular RAM stick, but I simply created a new partition (=logical drive) and our good and simple rescue medium was able to use this (logical) drive to place an archive on.

I call it a low-level support quality not just to offer this way as »not impossible, probably at last«. This thread is just useless to me finding a solution to it’s simple question - except trying myself.

Thnak you…

Markus