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Backup Partition table and MFT Only

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I currently have 3 device acronis and cloud storage I use for my business and I'm looking for a solution to my home backup dilemma.

I have a 16TB raid 5 array that is almost full and backing it up as an image on another drive is out of my price range. I have redundancy with the raid 5 so I'm not that worried about hard drive failure, but I have experienced file system corruption on more than one occasion. I'm trying to find a way to not only backup the drive details (eg partition location/size), partition table, and MFT. It would also like this process to be schedulable with an easy way to restore it in the event of corruption. In my experience recovering data after corruption you end up with lost folders, lost data, and lost organization. IT seems it would be much easier to backup the drive details before hand to prevent this. I'm fine with paying for a program that will accomplish this, but so far I haven't found anything. FYI defrag is disabled on the drive so mft pointers to file locations should not be a concern.

Is there a way to backup/restore only the partition table, drive details, and MFT using Acronis? If so is there a way to schedule this backup?

Thanks,

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Hello comprensoldotna,

thank you for your posting!

Acronis products don't allow backing up only partition table, drive details, and MFT separately.

Thank you.