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Restore from Acronis Cloud via Bootable USB - How?

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I have a laptop and am thinking about disaster recovery.

So I have a weekly incremental back up of my System, Windows and Data partitions as partitions to Acronis Cloud and have created a bootable True Image USB.

I have a Wifi connection.

If a software disaster happens on my hard disk, but hardware is functional, will I be able to boot the USB and restore from Acronis Cloud?

After booting the laptop via USB I have to somehow connect to Wifi to connect to Cloud to restore the backup.

How?

 

 

 

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Richard, some comments:

  1. I would recommend not relying only on backing up to the Acronis Cloud.  You should be looking at a 3-2-1 approach to backup.  3 backups to at least 2 different locations with 1 backup stored offline to avoid any malware attack etc.
    For myself, I have local / external USB backups, other to my NAS on the network and then finally to the Acronis Cloud.
    Of these, I would turn to the local / external drive first for recovery, next to the NAS and last to the Cloud - this purely in terms of ease and speed of recovery, where Cloud is the slowest.
     
  2. Test your Acronis Rescue Media to ensure you understand how to boot this and what capabilities it has for you. 
    Most important here is to always match the BIOS boot mode of your Windows OS when using the rescue media.  You can determine the BIOS mode by running the msinfo32 command in Windows - this will be UEFI for most recent computers or else be Legacy (or the OS drive make/model) for older computers.
    KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media
     
  3. When doing 2. check to see if your WiFi connection is available?  In most cases it may not be, but this depends in part on the type of rescue media being used.
    I have found that if I use the Advanced > Linux based rescue media, it can find and use my wireless connection on my laptop, but creating the Simple > WinPE media would need me to jump through extra steps to install device drivers etc to do the same (this is due to limitations of WinPE..!).
     
  4. If using rescue media to recover from the Acronis Cloud, personally I would not even try doing so over wireless.  I would connect my laptop via an ethernet cable to ensure the simplest and fastest connection for the amount of data that will need to be downloaded from the Cloud.
     
  5. All disk level recovery operations will wipe out the target drive contents & partitions as one of the first steps of the process.  This is normal and is required to recreate the partition layout from the backup image (local or in the Cloud).  If you have made changes to the layout, resized partitions etc, this will be lost unless your backup was updated after the changes.  Any new data not in the backup will be lost.

+1 to Steve's suggestions.

Wired connection for recovery from the Cloud would also be my preference. I have done recovery from cloud via WiFi, but it was for HP Windows Tablet running Win 10 Home 32 with little software - internal storage only 32 gig, but it at least had wireless ac. If you are doing it with wireless ax then that would be a different story.

Ian

Also, consider alternatives to the cloud for offsite backups. My own preference is to never use the cloud. Backup performance is generally dictated by upload speeds which can be rather limiting. Also, what if the failure you experience prevents internet access, or the cloud server is down, or the ISP is down.

I run backups on schedules to both my NAS and to an internal drive (C: and D: to G:). But for offsite, I backup to a USB drive and take it to the bank vault. If you have a job with a separate work location, that can be a nice place to store offsite backups. Or maybe grandma's (or grandkid's) house.

And for the offsite backups, I always create them from rescue media.