Terminology
I just purchased, and am about ready to use Acronis Ture Image 2014.
I would like to know the functional difference between:
1) CLoning my C:\ drive as an inmage backup to an other SATA drive; vs. 2) backing up an image of C:\ to the backup drive then restoring that to an other SATA drvive.
All this is to have a bootable disk sitting and ready to operate in case the C:\ fails or corrupts.

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Adding to this conversation. The result of a cloning operation is a disk, identical to the original one (can be a different size). The result of a backup is a file containing all the disk-level information necessary to be restored onto any disk. To simplify: cloning is backup and restore in the same operation.
The benefits of backups are numerous: you can keep several backups on the same disk for safekeeping (you can't do this with clones, or you need several physical disks). Backups can be incremental, scheduled, managed, etc.
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