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Why is Acronis moving away from Linux recovery boot disks

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Hello,

 

I am a long time ATI user and was considering moving up to ATI 2019 from ATI 2017. Using WIN 10. I notice that one of the differences is that ATI is moving away from the Linux boot disk towards making recovery boot disks from the Windows 10 environment [WIN PE etc. - I really do not understand what all the acronyms mean.] But  although I do see lots of information on how to make the recovery disk, since my Linux based boot disk has worked well for me in the past, I don't understand why there is a need for this change and what benefits is would provide and  whether I would attempt to avoid the "simple" method and use the advanced method and choose Linux like what always worked before or just let ATI choose with the simple method. I use DVD/CD for my recovery disks.

 

One other question is that I am concerned that the new security features will adversely impact computer performance since4 many reviewers complain about the large "footprint" of Acronis 2019 and the large number of services running  compared to ATRI 2017. Cannot find much on that either.

 

Thanks

 

Greg

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Greg, welcome to these public User Forums.

Acronis is moving away from Linux based rescue media because of limitations in this type of media with regard for support for newer technologies such as NVMe M.2 drives, plus the inability of being able to inject additional device drivers when needed.

Linux media is still available via the Acronis downloads page in your account online, plus as you already know, you can create it via the Advanced media builder tool.

The WinPE media has greater compatibility with newer hardware, is more acceptable for UEFI Secure Boot in the BIOS, plus there are more options available to inject new drivers and create custom repair media.

With regards to the changes introduced with ATI 2018 & 2019 for Acronis Active Protection (AAP), this is a direction that other competitor products are going in too, providing additional protection against ransomware in the light of high focus attacks around the globe over the past year or more.

I personally have been using AAP since it was first introduced with ATI 2017 New Generation version and have not found any performance impact of using it with ATI 2018 or 2019 since. I understand that some other users have encountered performance problems which have needed investigation to determine why?  In some cases this can be because of having multiple security protection products installed or conflicts with the same, but such issues can normally be overcome by either whitelisting AAP with the other product or doing the reverse and whitelisting the security product with AAP.

Acronis provide KB 61624: Acronis True Image 2019: Windows services and processes - to document what each of these does and allow users the option of disabling any that will not be used.  Similar KB documents have been available for most versions of ATI.

Thanks Steve for your detailed response. Very helpful. I do have one more question. I am not familiar with whitelisting.

 

Greg