Are boot drive mirrors made from within Windows reliable?
Being rather "old school" and remembering all the problems with older utilities not properly backing up the boot drive due to changing and locked files, I'm wondering how Acronis handles this.
In short, if I run Acronis within Windows and tell it to back up my C: drive, will it get everything so that I will be able to fully restore the boot drive later on and have it boot up without any missing files?
Thanks. :)
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Thanks, Grover.
The thing with the CD method is that it requires shutting down Windows, which I like to do only when I have to. So maybe I'll keep doing that periodically, and just run the one within Windows automatically every night or whatever. If the Windows one doesn't work, I can fall back to the CD backup.
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Charles:
Acronis and other imaging solutions that operate while Windows is active are able to create a "point-in-time" backup. The image file created is complete at the instant the backup starts. Subsequent read and write operations that occur after the image creation process starts are not included in the image.
There is a description of this process in this article: http://forum.acronis.com/content/1512
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