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Simultaneous recovery to two devices

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 Is it possible to recover to two external devices at the same time? These devices are an internal hard drive and an NVMe 2.0 drive for which I have a drive enclosure.

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Rick, as with many things the answer is 'it depends!'

If you have a single backup image that contains both drives you are recovering, then you could recover the two drives within a single operation, but this will be performed one by one within that operation.

If you have two separate backup images, one for each drive, then Acronis will only allow one operation to be performed at a time, as with doing backups.  I have never tried what you ask but if doing this from within the Windows GUI then I would expect the second recovery would not be allowed while you are attempting the first one.

If your NVMe SSD is an OS boot drive, then I do not recommend recovering this when using an external enclosure as it is unlikely to be bootable after doing so.  This is assuming you are recovering a disk backup, not a files & folders one.