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Restore Acronis 2017 settings to new system?

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I had to replace the motherboard of my PC that had acronis on it, I manage to image the machine so that I have a backup of the system drive where Acronis was installed. I have since rebuilt this machine and want to reinstall Acronis. 

Is there a way to copy and paste the settings from my old Acronis install so that i can maintain my incrementals with my existing backups in the new install? or is there a way to recreate these jobs so that it will recognize my current fulls / incrementals and continue from there?

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Given the change in hardware with a change of motherboard and a new install of Windows, I would recommend just using the option to 'Add existing backup' and select the most recent Incremental backup file from your backup location.  You will still need to reconfigure the imported backup by selecting the Source data items, plus set up the Options for Scheduling, Backup Scheme, Notifications, Exclusions etc.  This is needed as the drive identifiers for your disk partitions will have changed during the hardware change and reinstall of Windows.

The alternative method would be to try copying the C:\Program Data\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Scripts folder contents from your backup image of the old Windows installation.  This would put back your list of backup tasks in the ATI GUI but you would still need to reconfigure each task to accomodate all the changes that have occurred, and because there will be no Database files that are valid, the tasks will all start with a new full backup, and could potentially conflict with existing files on your backup location.

In reply to by truwrikodrorow…

Thanks for the tips, i will give it a try... I have no incrementals and the existing 1.2TB of fulls are in their original folders, so hopefully i can start with those and continue from there once i recreate the jobs...

I have copied those files to blu-ray as a way to offsite them (as a 2nd media option to a hard drive) I'd hate to have to buy another stack of bluray discs to do that again...