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Can Simple rescue disk access my NAS and USB backup drives?

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Hi,

Not got a problem at this moment, but wanting to avoid having one in the future. I need to know if the Simple Acronis rescue USBs I have created would be able to access the routine Acronis backups that I maintain. Would not be much use if, in the event of a disaster, being able to restart my laptop from the rescue USB stick, but then unable to restore from the Acronis backups we routinely make, which are on both NAS and a removeable USB drive.

Recently updated mine and my wife's laptop to Windows 11 (from 10), and Acronis cyber protect home office (from ATI 2020). All existing backup jobs still running fine. A disk/partition one that I call my System backup, and another files/folders one for data. I have two sets of these, one backing up to NAS, and another backing up to removable USB drive. Timings interleaved so system backups every 2 weeks to one or other, and data every few days.

Similar for my wife's laptop, also backing up similar frequencies to NAS and removable USB drive.

So what I need to know is if the rescue media I have created will have the necessary functionality to access my network drive and the USB drive? Will it have sussed out the drivers etc. it needed to install on the rescue media?

I appreciate I could create the a survival drive, but would need a big USB stick. Being I've already got system backups anyway, it feels like I only need to ensure the rescue disk can access them.

Any advice on this please. Thanks

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Barry, the answer to your question should be yes if the rescue media was created on the same system where it will be used using the 'Simple' method which picks up drivers for Windows PE from the Windows Recovery Environment on that system.

USB drives shouldn't be an issue but I would recommend doing a test of the rescue media to ensure that you can ping your NAS across the network to confirm that it has the required drivers for the network card.

Note: it is also best to use a wired network connection for such recovery - in part because that should be faster for copying data, but also because wireless connections are that more complicated to get working whereas a wired connection should pick up automatically, i.e. get an assigned DHCP IP address from your router.

I would recommend using the MVP Assistant - New 2.0 with Rescue Media Builder (New Version 2.7.5.1) which has additional utilities to help check the connectivity in the rescue environment, i.e. a web browser.

Barry,

Steve offers sage advice here.  One note from my perspective is that since you have upgraded from ATI 2020 to Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office you should recreate your Simple Acronis rescue media using the newest Acronis product.  There have been changes made to the rescue media in the newest version of Acronis from that of ATI 2020.  These are not readily apparent to the user but do exist in the product. 

Doing the above will help ensure compatibility and improve performance of the recovery media.  I too recommend the MVP Assistant tool for creating media in light of the additional capabilities and tools that can be added to any media created.

Enchantech,

Yes, though I didn't make it clear in my post, that is exactly what I have done. Upgraded both laptops to Win 11, then updated both to latest Acronis, then created two Simple rescue disks, one for each.

I'd forgotten about MPV Assistant, though hoping the newer Simple option might be good enough.

Many thanks.

Steve,

Yes, exactly that for each laptop. I'll do that test thanks.

Both our laptops are very thin, so when I bought them I also bought a USB-C to Ethernet adapter, for exactly this reason. So provided the rescue disk manages to handle that then should be OK. But can double check.

And yes, sounds like I should make a point of looking at the new MPV assistant.

Many thanks.