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Moving Acronis license to New Computer.

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I have a new computer and will be moving my data drive to it. I will also be using a new external drive to use Acronis with it. I have Cyber Protect Home Office for 3 computers, but am only using it on one. 

I would like to install Acronis on my new computer and create a new backup set on a new external hard drive, but I would also like to be able to restore files from previous backups I did on my old computer. I reviewed previous posts, but am still confused as to how to access the old backups on the new computer. 

Thanks!

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Jon, If you have your old backups on a drive that is accessible from the new computer, then providing that ACPHO is installed on that computer, you should be able to simply double-click on the backup file(s) in Explorer to open the archive(s) and explore the contents, including using Copy & Paste if needed.

The other approach is as described in KB 60918: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, Acronis True Image: adding a previously created backup to the backups list

Thanks for the information. Not sure what ACPHO means. I'm a home user. So if I just hook up my old external drive and fire up Acronis it should be able to restore files without having an internal record of the backup? What if I had encrypted the disk? 

ACPHO - Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office

Encrypted disks would need to be unlocked to be seen by Acronis.

Thank you for the links and information. I have the new computer up and running and was able to add the backups sets. I didn't realize that my backup sets could be read with file explorer as well. Sorry for my naivete, but I guess that means if anyone got ahold of my backup drive they could do the same? Is there somehow to retroactively encrypt a backup set to the new installation of Acronis?

Again, I apologize for my confusion. I'm certain you get tired of the same questions over and over. But I did a message search and am even more puzzled. Especially since there are varied versions of Acronis and many articles refer to them instead of what I actually have.

Regards!

Jon wrote:

Thank you for the links and information. I have the new computer up and running and was able to add the backups sets. I didn't realize that my backup sets could be read with file explorer as well. Sorry for my naivete, but I guess that means if anyone got ahold of my backup drive they could do the same? Is there somehow to retroactively encrypt a backup set to the new installation of Acronis?

Again, I apologize for my confusion. I'm certain you get tired of the same questions over and over. But I did a message search and am even more puzzled. Especially since there are varied versions of Acronis and many articles refer to them instead of what I actually have.

Regards!

Jon, for your backups to be read via Explorer requires Acronis is installed with a version that is compatible with the backups, i.e. normally the same or a later version.

Encryption of backups can only be applied for new backup tasks prior to any archive files being created.  The only option for existing backups would be to encrypt the drive where they are stored using such as BitLocker or other software.