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Backup of C Drive Without Snapshot

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Is there a way to do a backup of the online C drive without a snapshot at all? Preferably in the form of an entire disk backup, but without a snapshot. 

What I have is a failing drive, a backup using a snapshot fails with a bad block error, I have a regular Files/Folders backup that works, but that's not useful in the event I need to restore the entire disk, so I'm wondering if I can do an entire disk backup without a snapshot and include the online C volume that the system is actively running from.

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Ideally what I want is to be able to tell Acronis to reboot the computer to the bootable media (without an external drive), perform an offline sector-by-sector backup of the entire disk, and then reboot back into Windows as it was before. But I'm assuming that process can't be performed remotely.

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Tim Westman-Barth wrote:

Ideally what I want is to be able to tell Acronis to reboot the computer to the bootable media (without an external drive), perform an offline sector-by-sector backup of the entire disk, and then reboot back into Windows as it was before. But I'm assuming that process can't be performed remotely.

Hello!

Operations with the bootable media must be done manually. Remotely, it can't reboot or boot the bootable media. The program can't perform offline tasks as it requires network connections to work.

A full backup can't be performed properly if there is a bad block; that's a prerequisite to using the program. I would suggest you run a CHKDSK: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/chkdsk?tabs=event-viewer.

If the issue persists, you can consider replacing that disk.

Best regards.

Thanks for answering, for clarification though I wasn't so much referring to the regular bootable media as much as I referring to how Acronis will reboot the computer to recovery media in memory to perform a full disk restore. My thought was I'd like the ability to reboot to recovery media in memory to perform an offline full disk backup. Where "offline" here is referencing the disk that is backed up being "offline" not the computer itself having no network access. I do understand the confusion though, and I understand it not being a feature, I thought it a bit of a stretch that it would be a feature now, so maybe in a future release. 

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Tim Westman-Barth wrote:

Thanks for answering, for clarification though I wasn't so much referring to the regular bootable media as much as I referring to how Acronis will reboot the computer to recovery media in memory to perform a full disk restore. My thought was I'd like the ability to reboot to recovery media in memory to perform an offline full disk backup. Where "offline" here is referencing the disk that is backed up being "offline" not the computer itself having no network access. I do understand the confusion though, and I understand it not being a feature, I thought it a bit of a stretch that it would be a feature now, so maybe in a future release. 

Thanks for the clarification.

The only possible way to execute that would be performing the following steps: https://kb.acronis.com/content/62531

Best regards.