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Recovery disk for multiple pc's & WinPE vs Linux

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Hi

Simple question just need a current answer on the 2015 True image product to which I am new. Do you need a "recovery disk" be that stick or CD for each machine that is has a backup process on it or does one bootable item cover all the machines properly?

Given that recoveries happen once in a blue moon, is there any degree of "more guaranteed to work when you need it to" between using the native Linux Bootable recovery disk and the WinPE version? I'm familiar with the driver differences, in that I've done the research there, but more concerned with whether either one might get fowler up a year down the line when you finally "need" that backup system.

And on that same note, does either type require any kind of periodic refresh? Meaning do I need to allow for a recurring schedule of rebuilding or recreating the boot disk on either a periodic or after specific system events type basis? (examples patches from MS or Acronis to their products, service packs, hardware changes)

I'm at the pre buy stage but I'm fairly settled on this as "the" product. But I come from having used the built in backups which were pretty durable for me, but have become less reliable nowadays. Win 8.1 is on all the machines that are being backed up and windows and software are kept up to date on all machines.

ATI version we are talking about is 2015.

Thanks for any help.
Dave

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The bootable recovery medium should work on any machine. You ALWAYS have to test it though, because there is still a risk for issues on various machines, in particular with older, or very new machines.
WinPE is using Windows drivers which have a broader hardware support than the Linux version used for the bootable CD. If your Linux -based medium works on machine A, it will continue to work, ...
Most experienced users create a new recovery medium with each new version of ATI (eg 2014 vs 2015). Some recommend to create one for each new build (I never had issues with not doing this, but other users have).

I was thinking "should just test it out and try it myself". Sorry if that should have seemed more self evident before I wrote the questions. Thank you kindly for the fast answers however.

Next have to get my license purchased and machines sorted out.

Thanks!