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Emergency DVD USB for backup/restore

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I have been using Acronis TI Home for a long time.  I'm currently using ATIH 2011.   I was going to purchase 2016, but I had a question about the licensing.

I will probably purchase a 3 PC license.     I will probably have 1 PC setup with Acronis installed making regularly scheduled backups.

Does the emergency recovery DVD still have the capability of making a backup, restore and clone on a PC that doesn't have Acronis TI Home installed?  I have some spare PCs where I don't want to install the software but may want to make a full image once a year.

 

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mogulman,

Licensing wise, you would techncially need a license for every system you backup and/or restore images too, but nothing prevents you from using the offline bootable media, but there is nothing that actually prevents you from using it on another system.

Yes, the offline bootable media can and will work on any system (as long as it has the necessary drivers) as it is both 32/64 bit capable and also Legacy/BIOS and UEFI/GPT capable too.  The latest default Linux bootable media has much better driver support than it did in the past and should pick up most system hardware now (to include newer NVME PCIE hard drives like the Samsung 950 Pro).  If not, WinPE Acronis bootable media can still be created as well for those oddball machines, but drivers aside, yes, it works.