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Greetings Everyone,

                I am looking for a solution what will enable me to create a backup of a partition, and create a single click method of recovery. I often have customers request custom build IP Camera NVR, and would like to have the ability to create a simple recovery media method for them.

The ideal solution for my needs would be the following:

  1. Allows me to create backup and have this backup loaded onto a blueray disc and or Usb Thumbdrive.
  2. This single recovery media will enable the end user to simply insert the media, boot up, and will be prompted with some dialog. (Example press F11 to perform a full system recovery)
  3. This recovery method should only recover 1 partition *(example C:\NVROS) and not affect the other partitions
  4. The method has to account for in the event of hard drive failure, allowing the customer to recover to a new replacement hard drive.    

So can this be accomplished with Acronis? And if so where can I get some guidance I do not know any scripting methods. But I am a fast learner and willing to learn the process.

I thank you ahead of time for your replies.

Cordially,

Josh

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What you're asking for is not supported in Acronis 2016 or any commercial home backup products that I'm aware of.  I have used and use just about all of them, and none of them have this capability. 

The problem is that when you do a full disk or pariton recovery, the sytem must reboot to complete the task.  After the reboot, Acronis overwrites the bootloader and then boots into a mini Acronis OS- this is a risk and I don't recommend it as if things go badly and doesn't boot into Acronis, it may not have the opportunity to reverse the change to the bootloader and Windows might not boot then.  You're safer by using your offlne recovery media which will not make changes to the system bootloader.

That said, regardless of using Acronsi or another backup application, the recovery environment is a fixed/temorary environment (Windows PE in most applications, but Acronis uses Linux by default, but you can also create WinPE) and this temporary enviornment cannot be modified permanently and always returns to the same default state when booted up.  If you find a product that can do this, let us know.  

Just brainstorming here, but correct if I am wrong doesn't acronis support command line restore capabilities? So couldn't someone create a winpe bootdisc and run a bat script to auto restore? Once the operation is completed it will execute a user prompt explaining that the operation is complete, please shut down remove media device. And turn on PC  or something to that nature. 

 

Acronis True Image doesn't support command line restore capabilities. You would have to look into professional/business imaging tools. The problem with these tools is that you always start from a pre-defined/created image. So the notion of backing up and restoring is not really there.

You could script something in WinPE under the starnet.cmd file.  Problem is, with the WinPE, there is no backup job to refernce like there is in Windows.  WinPE does not mount drives as the same letter either and will often be different each time (only X: which is the default WinPE OS environment remains constant from system to system).  Things like your USB drive will change drive letter depending on what connects to the WinPE first, which usb port you use, etc. Even if you could do this, it wouldn't remain uniform across different systems (but as far as I know, it's not possible anyway).  Everything would have to be exactly the same on every single system (name fo the backup .tib, location of the backup .tib, internal hard drive, internal parition type (GPT/MBR). 

This can be done in full Windows where there are backup script jobs that can be called upon (https://kb.acronis.com/content/47143).  However it only relates to running a backup job, not a restore. 

There are only a few Acronis command line parameters that can be added when you create your bootable recovery media:  http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/#3425.html, but none are close to what you're looking for.