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I made a full disk image of an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS disk. Will it actually restore?

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Hi Acronis Backup 11.7 Forum,

I have a laptop that has only Ubuntu 14.04 installed on it's SSD. I removed the SSD from the laptop, and attached it to my Win8.1 workstation (where I'm running Acronis Backup 11.7).   

I made a full disk image of that SSD and it verified 100%. The only logged error was "file exclusion is not supported". I didn't have any files excluded in the job, but a web search showed that there's a known issue that Acronis Cloud (which I'm not using) currently doesn't allow file exclusions. I'm attributing my Acronis Backup 11.7 logged error to that known issue, or a similar related bug (that I'm not trying to fix here).

I don't have another laptop drive to test a restore from that tib. So the question is, will the tib I made actually restore a fully functioning Ubuntu disk if I ever need it?

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

Regards . . .

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Hello Babab, 

It should work, but I would always suggest testing if possible to be 100% sure. 

For example, the file system on the original disk might have been in some sort of incosistent state (due to FS errors), which could interfere with the restore. These types of issues are very rare, but they're known to happen and it's better to be safe than sorry.  

Hi Igor,

So sorry for the very late reply. Thank you for your thoughts and suggestion :-)

Regards,

Bret