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Hello,

I am completely new to this backup thing. I bought a Crucial SSD and on it was an OEM key for Acronis 2014 software.

I then installed it, activated it, and used another software to create a partition.

Then I made a backup of the current system on the recovery volume. It's a .tib file and is only about 8GB big, which leads to my assumption that I cannot boot from this file.

 

I wanted to make something like you would find on notebooks and OEM PCs, where there is a reserved partion to recover from, which you can boot and recover from.

How can I make it with the Acronis software and how much space does it take? I created 38GB of extra partition, because I thought it would take this much space because right now my whole system with Windows including installed stuff takes up 32GB.

 

What to do to create a bootable backup on the recovery volume? Thanks

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Hello Bernd, there are no options to create a directly bootable backup using your ATI 2014 software unless you wish to make a Clone copy of your Windows partitions on a second drive of equal or larger size.

ATI creates a compressed image archive file (.TIB) that contains an exact copy of the drive / partition(s) & files etc.  You can mount and browse the contents of the .TIB image archive to verify that it is a copy of the drive you backed up.

In terms of recovery options, then you have a choice of creating and activating the Acronis Recovery Manager which will give an option to press the F11 key at startup (before Windows starts) to launch ATI in Recovery mode, or you can create bootable Recovery Media on CD or USB media to do the same.  Both of these methods only provide the recovery environment from which you can then select the appropriate .TIB image archive file to recover your system from - this can be held on a second partition, another drive (USB or local) or a network drive resource, providing ATI can connect to that network resource using the inbuilt device drivers for your network card.

ATI can also allow you to create Windows PE based Recovery Media where you can add additional device drivers that may be needed for systems where internal drives are not visible from the standard (Linux based) media.

In terms of having a dedicated recovery partition (your 38GB partition) ATI can store backups to this if allocated a drive letter, and thus can recover your system from those backup files if needed, provided you don't suffer from a total disk drive failure if the partition is on the same physical disk as the Windows partition to be recovered.

 

Ok, thanks for the clarification. If I understand correctly, then I still need a bootable Acronis software which then I can boot from and then allows me to se the compressed backup on the extra partition to restore my whole system from. Of course given that I don't suffer from a complete disk failure.

I just a bootable backup, direct or indirectly to recover from, if this partition and system's performance is really getting slow due to e.g. malware infection. I don't want to format the whole disk and install the OS, all the software anew. 

This leads to following idea, don't know whether it is feasible or not.

Can I create a bootable Acronis software and the backup into one partition. With around 8GB, I can easily put it onto an usb-stick. The extra partition wouldn't be needed then if I could boot the software from the stick, but can I restore my system and software from an external source, or is the backup file needed on the SSD I want to restore it on?

Yes, you will need one of the Acronis TrueImage recovery media to use to recover your system with and to bring back the image content from the TIB file.  The recovery operation is performed outside of your Windows environment by booting into the recovery environment (either Linux or Windows PE).

Technically, you could create bootable Recovery media on a 16GB or larger USB memory stick and also copy your .TIB file to the same media and use that to boot from - most USB memory sticks allow you to create more than one partition if you wanted to do so.

I tend to go with a belt & braces approach to backups and store one copy on my second partition plus for security, a further copy on an external drive (normally my Western Digital 2TB network cloud drive) so that I am covered for both scenarios where my partition needs to just recover from a problem that breaks something, or from a total drive failure.