Issue with Acronis Universal Restore tool
Hi, I am currently testing ATI 2020 to understand how I can make a bootable external hard drive with many different PC backups (three to be exact). As I know, the intelligent approach is to use Acronis Universal Restore tool. In that case, data can be restored on any PC. So:
- Am I actin as an adequate humane bean here or what I want to achieve is something from a different universe? :)
- For some reason, Acronis Universal Restore tool does not see my WD My Passport hard drive. Please guide me here.
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Just noticed you mention WD Passport drive - the Tool will only work with some USB storage. My suggestion (assuming it is needed) it to create a recovery partition on the WS Passport drive using the MVP Tool.
Have to rush off now … someone else will help out
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The tool will work with USB flash drives, no support for USB HDDs for the moment.
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When I have some time, I plan to do something similar for my two main PCs. I'm thinking about using the Survival Kit approach... make a bootable partition on the drive and a partition for the backups. I think that once I've created the bootable partition, I should be able to change it to an MVP version to give me more tools (I don't need the extra drivers).
Currently, I have a Rescue USB drive for each PC and I boot that to backup to another USB HDD. It would be nice to eliminate the separate Rescue boot drives.
I think this is what Ian is saying.
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Using Acronis Media Builder found in the Tools section of the TI app you can create a WinPE version bootable medium from which you can boot any computer and use the TI app.
This app in WinPE can be used to create backups and perform recoveries of any machine.
If you need to restore a backup made from a machine to a different machine then Universal Restore may become necessary but I would recommend attempting to do without it first.
The real problem for most users here is when a backup of an MBR booted PC is attempted to be restored to a UEFI booted PC or vice versa. Such attempts should be made as they will not work in most cases for most users.
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The more elegant solution seems to make Acronis Survival Kit and the manually copy backups from other PCs in da house.
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The Survival Kit feature is certainly an option if your need is to house backups from various PC's on a bootable drive.
I read in this Forum that some are having issue with the Survival Kit feature functioning as intended, your mileage my vary accordingly.
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