Cloning - benefits?

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Hi, the differences between the Acronis True Image and Acronis True Image premium seems to be the ability to clone. Since the premium is more expensive I'm trying to understand its merits.

I'm running Windows 7 (professional) on a laptop with two drives (partitions? c:/ d:/ (and lenovo's own recovery partition)). Ideally I would like to clone c:/ (i.e., system and programs) to a NAS. In the event of a complete disk failure I would hope to boot to new disk from an image (built under Acronis Bootable Media Builder) and then re-load a cloned c-drive.

Looking at the documentation it seems cloning under True Image can only be done disk to disk (i.e., target in the machine and old drive on a USB connection).

Is this true?

If so this means cloning can only be done with a functioning drive (I guess e.g., SMART warning of imminent failure). It is hard to see the merits of this. I really want a solution so I can (1) clone the system / programs (2) backup data so in the event of catastrophic failure (dead & non-functioning) disk I can quickly repair my system.

Perhaps I'm missing something?

Do, 06/19/2014 - 06:50
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Not sure this is an answer to your question(s) exactly. But you will find many threads here where the advice is given that it is much safer to do an image and then restore that image to a new HDD, in the pre-Windows boot environment, than to clone.

The Premium version of TIH contains Universal Restore which deals with some, and maybe even all depending on the HDD you are restoring to, of the issues of getting an image made of one disk to work on a different disk.

Fr, 06/20/2014 - 05:20
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