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I'm not sure where this subject to go and sorry if this isn't the right location.  What I need to do is to setup automatic backups of critical files that will unlock an encrypted hard drive, backup up the files then lock the drive once the backup is completed.  I'm running windows 7 32 bit with Acronis Image 2016 and the drives are encrypted using windows 7 bitlocker.  I tried using the additional command line when setting up automatic backups but that doesn't seem to work.  Can anyone help me or give me the correct command line entry to type into the options settings?  Thank You

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Otis, with the offline bootable media, there is no automated backup process so I'm asusming you're doing this in Windows already?  Once your system is booted into Windows, bitlocker has already done it's thing and the drive is already considered to be decrypted at that point.  Any backups/images you create at this time, are doing so in a decrypted state and can be restored to any medium (external hard drive - a new hard drive, etc).  

Test it out by creating a new backup (just a test one) while Windows is booted up with your Acronis applicatoin.  Backup some files/folders on your bitlocker system to an external drive in .tib format.  Then, mount the external drive on another system that has Acronis and restore the files from within Acronis and it should work.  Alternatively, on the original system, after the backup has been taken, boot into the acronis recovery media, restore the files from the image to the same external USB drive where the backup image was originally creaeted.   You should then be able to see those files on that USB drive regardless of what system the USB drive is plugged into.