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The nature of the Survival Kit is discussed in section 2.4 of the ATI 2020 User Guide:\

What is an Acronis Survival Kit?
To recover your computer in case of a failure, you need to have two crucial components—a backup of your system disk and an Acronis bootable media (p. 141). Most often these components are separated, for example, the system backup is stored on an external drive or Acronis Cloud and the bootable media is a small USB flash drive. An Acronis Survival Kit combines both components so that you could have a single device that has everything that you need to recover your computer in case of a failure. It is an external hard disk drive that contains both the Acronis bootable media files and a backup of your system partition, entire computer, or any disk backup. Moreover, the backup of your data can be used as a normal backup: it can contain any data that you need to secure, you can set up Scheduling (p. 54) to update it as a normal backup. And even more, the external hard drive is not exclusively booked by the Acronis Survival Kit, its bootable media takes only 2 Gb of the disk space, and the remaining space can be shared by the system partition or entire computer backup which is the part of the Acronis Survival Kit, and by any other data including other backups, your personal data, photos, whatever. But please keep only one Acronis Survival Kit on one external hard disk.
No matter how many backups are stored in this external hard disk, only one Acronis Survival Kit is required to recover a computer. Its bootable media component works with any system partition or entire computer backup if they both are created for the same computer or computers with the same configuration.
As a device for an Acronis Survival Kit you can use:
an external hard disk drive
It should be larger than 32 GB and have an NTFS, FAT32, or exFAT file system. If the drive has another file system, Acronis True Image 2020 suggests formatting the drive.
a USB flash drive
It should be an MBR flash drive with minimum size of 32 GB. If you use a GPT flash drive, Acronis True Image 2020 suggests formatting the drive to MBR. Note, flash drives are supported only for Windows 10 (build 1703 and later).

There is a lot more after that, but what I have reproduced is the basics. 

Ian

Since the Acronis Survival Kit can contain all of your system backups, you will need an external USB hard drive with sufficient storage for those files also

Please make sure your external hard disk is connected.

1- Run Acronis True Image 2020, Select the Backup menu and then select the backup source

2- Select Entire PC or system drive as a backup source

3- Select the backup destination option

4- Select the external hard disk drive

5- Select Create Acronis Survival Kit

6- Select the Create button

7- The Acronis true image Survival Kit creation is in progress

8- Now the Acronis Survival kit has been creating successfully, then select the Backup button now button to create a disk/Entire PC backup & complete the creation

9- Backup in progress

10- After successfully completed Acronis Survival Kit. The backup destination option icon will change from generic external hard disk drive to Acronis Survival Kit