OS Compatibility Testing

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I have a use case and am trying to see if Acronis Backup and Recovery is the right product for me.

I want to perform OS compatibility testing on a particular machine. Specifically, I want to boot into the machine (possibly with the Acronis Recovery CD), select from hard drive 2 image X and copy it to hard drive 1. I would then reboot the machine without the CD and seamlessly go into the newly copied OS.

Additionally, if I want to install a new OS, I would reformat hard drive 1, install the OS, and then use this program to copy hard drive 1's contents to hard drive 2 (either a compressed file or a partition).

Lastly, it would be ideal if this could happen quickly. Would breaking a single SSD into a bunch of partitions be ideal since the copying would never need to hit the HD controller? If not, I don't mind having two SSD to copy to and from.

I've tried VMWare Workstation (is that a dirty word around here?) but it 1) has issues with managing the USB connection to the host OS and 2) slowly runs the virtual machine.

Sorry if this is a repost, but I didn't find anything specifically answering these questions. Thanks.

Tue, 02/21/2012 - 20:46
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Hello Tom,

Thank you for your post and welcome to the forum.

Our software will be able to backup your OS (partition backup) or files/folders (file backup). You can then recover these backups to your other hard drive.

To answer your first question, it will be something like this:

Boot into the machine, select hard drive 2 and back it up. Then restore it to disk 1. After the restore is complete you can reboot the machine and boot to the newly restored OS. The bootable disk can be taken out after it loads because it resides in the RAM.

To answer your second question:

After you reformat hard drive and install the OS, you can create a backup and restore it to hard drive 2.

The backup and recovery speeds will depend on the amount of data on your hard drive.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 07:05
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Thanks Anton,

I greatly appreciate your response. And yet I am not entirely clear that Acronis will meet my needs. Maybe I can explain the problem again.

Let's say I have two drives: 1 and 2. Drive 1 is configured (jumpered) to be the primary drive. Drive 2 is partitioned into N number of say, 20GB partitions and is intended to be the store for all of the OS backups. Each partition on Drive 2 would hold a fresh OS install backup of different flavors (Win 7 x86, Win 7 x64, Vista...)

Question 1:
How precisely would I make a backup of Drive 1 to some partition on Drive 2? Do I need Acronis B&R installed on the OS on Drive 1? If so, that is a problem because I don't want to install Acronis B&R on each of the many intended OS I plan on making backups of. It would be ideal if there were some bootable CD that could facilitate in doing the backups.

Question 2:
How precisely would I copy an OS backup from some partition on Drive 2 to Drive 1 so that I may reboot the machine into the newly copied OS?

I would never want to boot into an OS on Drive 2 directly.

Thanks again!

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 15:15
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There is no need to partition the 2nd disk - you can store images of all OSes as Acronis backups (i.e. .tib files), one file per each, on the single NTFS partition (well, or in subfolders). You can perform restore and backup from the recovery CD, you can download it in .iso format and burn on a CD without installing the software at all. However download is not available for the trial bootable media, and the trial one can only restore, but it is enough to check if it's compatible with your hardware ( HDD controller, network card)

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:36
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Thanks dev-anon. That was very helpful.

I was playing around with g4u (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u) but I think it may prove to be too cumbersome for some on the team. I anticipate getting a copy of Acronis B&R and trying it out. I'll post my thoughts once I collect them.

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 19:16