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Plus Pack and sector-by-sector backups

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The Acronis flyer on Plus Pack Univesal Restore says: "...because the backup image is captured at the disk sector level, it already includes all the configurations, applications, and files, eliminating the tedious re-install process."
DAK if this means that Plus Pack can only restore from a raw (sector-by-sector) backup or are Acronis being a little misleading here...

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IMO not misleading at all. The "Universal Restore" feature only works with an "image" (i.e. disk/partition) backup, and you don't have to check the "sector-by-sector" option in order to use it. UR does not use a "data" (i.e. file/folder) backup, and that is the spin of the flyer.

Whenever you do an "image" disk/partition backup, you're doing a sector level operation. The difference between this and what you referred to as a "raw" sector-by-sector backup is that in the former, only disk sectors that contain data are included in the archive, and in the latter, *every sector* of the disk/partition is copied, whether or not it actually contains data. This is why checking the "sector-by-sector" option in a disk/partition backup usually creates a much larger archive file.

garryj has it right. They are just saying because they capture all the in-use disk sectors the system files, data files, configurations and programs are totally archived.