Backup tibx from trial software, and restore this tibx from licensed software
Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office
I have for three PC license of ^^^
Can I use trial version of this, due one of my PCs malfunctioning and get it to repair shop, to backup tibx a secondary internal HDD, and after bring back the PC from repairs, use the same licensed software to restore to a HDD INTERNAL,...?
In other words, the result will be two PCs with same secondary data HDD disks E:/, ... but different C:/ as the one PC 🖥 is purchased recently... and having different applications... well?
Not by cloning but, by backup inner hdd to tibx external hdd and restore from tibx... to inner hdd...
Leonidas, your license is for each PC and doesn't distinguish between the drives being backed up or restored providing the PC where the action is being performed has either a valid or trial license.
Alternatively, the best solution I think will be to clone the data HDD disk E:/ to another data HDD disk...
Can do this if source HDD is 4TB disk - full 1.6TB - to 3TB HDD disk full empty disk...?
Can i do this, with trial Acronis?
Cloning can excluded *.iso files?
Personally I would not use cloning for your data disk, it is easier and probably quicker to just copy all the data from the source HDD to the target one.
This is where Robocopy may be useful if you don't mind using a command line tool.
Robocopy is built in to the Windows OS and is able to copy and mirror the contents of files, folders or the entire drive to another location.
robocopy d:\ f:\ /mir
will copy everything from the d: drive to the f: drive mirroring the folder structure & contents.
See webpage: Robocopy and a Few Examples - for more examples of usage, plus if you scroll down there is a list of all the options & switches you can use.
You can easily exclude ISO files by adding the switch /xd *.ISO
Note: robocopy should be run from an Administrator command prompt.
Additionally, is this feasible, How-To,
Given an External USB HDD where exist a backup of a HDD data disk, E:/ and this disk staying intact, changed between PCs, how in the new host PC this disk E:/ can continue the backup, to the External USB HDD?
Without or with Settings of Acronis imported...?
You say:
"robocopy d:\ f:\ /mir
will copy everything from the d: drive to the f: drive mirroring the folder structure & contents."
ALL File & Folder params and modified dates are exactly the same, correct?
I will read soon Microsoft documentation about robocopy, thank you for guide me,
To exclude many files and folders how can i do with robocopy...?
Eg excluded:
Iso
Exe
Msi
E:/VMs/Vmware/
E:/Adobe Apps/
?
The key issue when trying to continue a backup of your E: HDD data disk from another PC is that each PC will assign a different unique identifier to that HDD when it is connected, so will see it as a different disk drive on each PC.
If you move E: from PC 1 to PC 2 then you would need to use the 'Add existing backup' option from your external USB HDD storage drive, then reconfigure the added backup task by reselecting the task Source drive (E:). This would need to be repeated on each PC each time that drive is moved.
You can list additional exclusions after /xd
robocopy d:\ f:\ /mir /xd *.iso *.msi *.exe "/Adobe Apps/*"
Alternatively, you can use a free tool such as SyncFolders where you can choose what file types and folders are to included or excluded.
You say
"need to use the 'Add existing backup' option from your external USB HDD storage drive, then reconfigure the added backup task by reselecting the task Source drive (E:)"
Do you mean, install trial, connect external USB HDD and click Add existing backup and choose the tibx file...?
So, the files in the USB HDD tibx backup of E:/ and files on E:/ data internal hdd drive itself which are the same shouldn't backup again on incremental backup, only changed files should be backup, correct?
History of backups should be restored this way?
Do you mean, install trial, connect external USB HDD and click Add existing backup and choose the tibx file...?
Yes.
So, the files in the USB HDD tibx backup of E:/ and files on E:/ data internal hdd drive itself which are the same shouldn't backup again on incremental backup, only changed files should be backup, correct?
In principle that is correct. In reality it may depend on ensuring that you use exactly the same Backup scheme options / settings and the assumption that Acronis will not just start a new Full backup because it has no history information in its internal database.
History of backups should be restored this way?
It depends on what you mean by the history of backups? If an existing backup version chain is selected for 'Add existing backup' then all the files for that version chain should show in the Recovery panel for the added task, but would not be shown in the Activity panel as the activities to create that version chain were not performed on the new PC.
In this lastly scenario, using incremental scheme, is any way understand initially - first 5 min - from when started the back up, what should create incremental or full backup...? Continue an tibx I am meaning, different PC
Sorry but there is no way to tell what is being created until the process has completed for this scenario.
TIBX backup files do not show any obvious indication for the backup type as was shown with the older TIB files where incremental backups were stored in separate files. Incremental backups for TIBX are automatically consolidated within the same file as the initial Full backup and any earlier incrementals.