Hard Drive size versus Acronis Back-up
I have 2 differents questions regarding Hard Drive size versus Acronis Back-up
Situation 1
On the hard drive of my computer I use to split system/softwares on 1 disk and datas on a different one. Currently my computer hard drive has a size of 1 To and is splited in 2 disks, 1 drive C: for the system with 150 Go (which is enough for Windows 10) and 1 drive D: for datas with 850 Go. Obviously I do 2 different Back-up 1 for system and 1 datas.
My question regards the situation of computer hard drive crash. I will buy a new 1To hard drive and what hapen then regarding system retauration :
- do I have to split it in 2 parts (150 and 850 Go ... exactly !) and only after I can restaure the disk C:,
- I restaure the disk C: on the 1To hard drive and then I resize / create the previous partitions D: using a partition manager software,
- I restaure the disk C: on the 1To new hard drive and, miracle, a C: partition of 150 Go is automatly created by Acronis ?
Situation 2
My question is about Acronis True Image 2016 and incremential back-up. I create the initial back-up on an externat HD. Then I do 2 incrementals back-up. Then I wish to create a new complete version. What I understand is that the initial version will be saved and will stay by the new complete version. This means that, if my first back-up has for exemple a size of 1 To, after 2 incerments a 2 To External HD will not do the job, for à 1 To intial back up, I will have to use at least a 3 To Hard Drive. Am I right or not ?
Hope my questions are clear despite my English :-)


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Thank's Steve for your answers,
For the restauration of my system your answer is very clear. From what I understand, the good news is that for the question of restauration partition size I just have to choose the right option adapted to my situation (thank's also to Acronis True Image).
Regarding what I called situation 2 (incremental back-up from one HD to another HD) : the bad news is that my original file to save is mainly made of images, videos and pdf, each of them with a low rate of compression. As the reality of my initial file is 1,5 To (and will grow obviously), that means that I need a 4 To HD for the back up using the incremental method ! The only other solution with a smaller disk would be to erase the previous back-up and start a new back-up, which is not very efficient !!
Thank's again
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JJF, for your data files (images, videos and PDF files) - it might be simpler not to use Acronis for backing these up, but to simply synchronise them to your backup drive using a utility such as SyncFolders where you essentially have a duplicate copy of each of the data files rather than dealing with multiple backup image files and multiple copies of the data.
Acronis do have a Sync function but this is a premium feature that needs a Cloud subscription to use unlike in earlier versions where you could to a local sync.
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Very good, thank's Steve, your advice seems very clever. I had a look on SyncFolders functionalities, it should be what I was realy looking for :
- True Image for system back-up (disk C:)
- SyncFolders for datas back-up
... and I can sleep soundly ;-)
Thank's again.
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