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Computer Image of the System Drive

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Hello guys,

I'm quite new to the Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office software and i couldn't find any clear answer to my question. My PC has 1 SSD (500GB) and 2 HDDs (3TB each). I only want to have a Backup of my SSD with my complete system (Windows system etc.) because my HDDs only contain data that can be restored easily anyways.
I obviously can't use the source "Complete PC" because I have only 500GB Cloud Storage. My only option was to use the backup for Drives/Disks and Volumes. I chose my SSD to backup. What remains unclear for me is if i can use this backup as an image in the same way as if i did the "Complete PC" backup. The main purpose for me is to have some kind of cloud backup/image of my whole system in case my SSD might break or get corrupted in any way. Since I put a lot of time to configure my whole system i don't want to install my system from scratch if my SSD dies someday. I want to be able to import an exact image of my old system on a new SSD. Could someone tell me if the backup vor drives/disks and volumes offers this possibility?

Best regards,
Jakob

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Jakob, welcome to these public User Forums.

I personally would recommend clicking through on the Source selection panel to then select the Disks & Partitions option, then further select your main OS SSD as the only drive for the backup task.

Making separate backups of individual disk drives (SSD or HDD) allows for having different schedules for those backups based on how often the source disk data changes, along with being able to have different storage Destinations for where the backup images are placed.

In terms of recovery, then again having single disk backup images actually makes the process simpler as you only need to select the correct backup image file to use, plus the amount of data in that file is far less than if you were to include all your disk drives, i.e. 500GB max versus 6.5TB for your three drives!

See KB 69477: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office: how to back up files or disks

and KB 69474: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office: how to back up entire computer

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

KB 69472: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office: how to create bootable media

KB 69427: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media

Jakob, something to consider is to do a Disk/Partition backup of your system SSD to one of the internal hard drives. I don't know how big the backup would be but I could guess maybe 100-200 GB after excluding the usual stuff not needed for recovery (e.g. swapfile.sys, pagefile.sys, recycle bin, temps, etc.)

First, be sure you have a good working rescue media for ACPHO.

If the SSD goes down you could put in a new one, boot to recovery media and then recover from the hard drive... much quicker than the cloud.

I'm not suggesting to not do a cloud backup, only suggesting an additional backup considering your concerns.