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Acronis stops working on cloned disks

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When cloning an operating system disk with Acronis installed, both the target and source drives will no longer connect with the local Acronis management console. 

Does Acronis have some kind of license protection scheme?  What is the correct procedure for creating a system backup with Acronis installed?

Using Advanced Workstation product on XP Pro SP3

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Hello Michael,

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If you connect the source or the target hard drives separately (not simultaneously), Management console should connect to the Agent. Why are you unable to connect? Does any error message appear?

Actually, if you want to save the data for disaster recovery purposes, you should use the backup procedure instead of the clone option.

The Backup wizard creates an image file for backup and disaster recovery purposes, while the Disk Clone tool simply copies/moves the entire contents of one hard disk drive to another. Here's how both tools work and when you should use them.

When you create an image, you get an exact copy of your hard disk, a disk partition or individual files or folders (you make this choice when you create an image archive). If you choose to back up a hard disk drive or a partition, then every portion of the hard disk that has data written to it (sectors) is saved into a compressed file — or multiple files if you prefer. You can save this image to any supported storage device and use it as a backup or for disaster recovery.

When you use the Disk Clone tool, you effectively copy/move all of the contents of one hard disk drive onto another hard disk drive. This function allows you to transfer all the information (including the operating system and installed programs) from a small hard disk drive to a large one without having to reinstall and reconfigure all of your software. Migration takes minutes, not hours, but it is not generally used as a backup strategy

Thank you.