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Standalone Backup and Recovery Routines

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Hello, I am planning to modify the BCD of a Windows 8.1 Installation to be able to choose between the following options:

1) Start Windows 8.1 normally
2) Recover the whole system
3) Backup the whole system

The first entry would regulary boot the Windows 8.1 Installation from the first harddisk.

The second entry would start a Windows PE with a batch file containing the following:
acrocmd recover disk --loc=X:\ --arc=myPC --log=X:\logs\recover.txt --reboot

The third entry would start a Windows PE with a batch file containing the following:
acrocmd backup disk --loc=X:\ --arc=myPC --plain_archive --log=X:\logs\backup.txt --reboot

 

Is it possible to do it like that or will I have to put in more parameters or even change the batch file?

 

The Computer has the following harddisk layout:

1) Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SATA SSD (System_reserved Partition & Driveletter C:\)
2) Intel PCIex SSD with a software Windows RAID-0 (One Partition with Driveletter D:\)
3) Samsung 850 Pro 2TB SATA SSD (One Partition mounted as a Folder on Drive D:\Content\)
4) Samsung 850 Pro 250GB SATA SSD (no Driveletter or mount point in Win8.1, just containing one partition with the WinPE and the Batch files)

Another Option would be to have just two BCD entries one for the Windows 8.1 Installation and one for the Windows PE starting a batch where you can choose to start either the backup or recovery process.

An advise would be fine so I don't waste time on a doomed task.

Thanks in advance!

PS: The WinPE is able to see all harddisks without adding additional drivers, when booting it from the WinPE Recovery Boot DVD.

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Hi,

Overall the suggested approach should work. One thing to note here is that the WinPE recovery media needs to have Acronis Backup WinPE plug-in on it so that acrocmd commands actually worked - you can inject it into existing WinPE recovery disk via Acronis Backup Bootable Media Builder. After that if you use this media with plug-in and execute scripts in it - it should work as you planned.

Thank you.