Drive cloning and regular backups
I am using ATIH 2012, Update 2.1 (build 7133) Full Version
I would like to know if I can clone my C drive (330 GB) to my external USB 2TB drive and continue to use the external drive for regular backups. In other words, can the destination drive be used for both cloning the C drive and doing regular backups?
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As James has suggested, create a backup image file of your entire computer and that file can be stored as any other file on your 2TB.
Acronis offers two methods to creating a duplicate bootable replacement disk.
The clone method where the result of cloning will produce another identical disk (2 alike disks)
Plus the backup and restore method which will create a backup file (extension=.tib) and that file can be used to recovery the backup file onto a another target disk.
Check out this link and it illustrates how to create a backup task to produce the backup file. Note particularly figures 3-4-5 of this link. Figure 5 illustrates that the disk mode option is checked so all contents and all partitions included within the backup file.
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Thank you all for the great responses, I will follow James F's suggestion and make a full disk backup to my external 2 TB USB drive.
Again, thanks to all
TC
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