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Automatically mount a backup at boot time?

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I have recently rebuilt a machine and am selectively restoring from a backup by mounting it into a drive letter. This is very convenient once done, but take a while to do.  It would be great to  have it done automatically each time I boot up so I don't have to initiate it manually and then wait.  Is there any way to accomplish this?

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Hello David, from what I can see and find, there is no option to do this in Acronis True Image 2016 or other Home products from Acronis - you would need to go to their Acronis Backup & Recovery product to get this functionality where they do offer a command line method of mounting images:

From the ABR11_cmdlineref document:

4.2.3 Mounting Listing mounts (p. 33)
 Listing the volumes mounted from backups.
acrocmd list mounts

Mounting (p. 33) (Agent for Windows only)
 Mounting the first volume of the first disk from a backup in the read-only mode.
The resulting volume will be assigned letter "Z".
acrocmd mount --loc=E:\backups --arc=my_archive --backup=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX --volume=1-1 --letter=Z

There was a very old post on this same question which I found in an online archive that gave the same answer:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/how-to-mount-an-image-from-command-line.204731/

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