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POTENTIAL PITFALLS? Backing up an external USB to another external USB using Acronis 2017

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Hi,

INFO

My Dell has a 256Gb mSATA C drive (W10 OS) and a full 6Tb HDD SATA D drive used for general data.

I also have approximately about 5Tb of deep nested files held on my external 8Tb Seagate USB drive, and a cleanly formatted 4Tb WD 'My Passport' USB drive.

MY AIMS

I want to backup the (source) 5Tb of files with a password using Acronis 2017 (perpetual)  onto the (target) external WD 4Tb USB  drive - and because it will take a long time -  I want to avoid as many potential pitfalls as possible before I start.

I am proposing to boot and use the Acronis 2017 ISO version to do this,  rather than use the installed Acronis program. I am also assuming that the 5Tb will be compressed enough to fit on the 4Tb drive.

After the backup has been done, I will be be erazing the original files on the source 8Tb USB drive, However,in the years to come I need to be able to read but not change data held on the Acronis 5Tb WD backup.

ALREADY DONE

I have reformatted the target 4Tb WD drive clean, and I have run chkdsk 'x': /f on all drives.

QUESTION

I would welcome helpful comments and suggestions before I start !

Thanks in advance

Pete

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Pete, one point not addressed in your details above is the type of files that will be involved in the 5TB of source data?  This can be important given your requirement to compress this data to fit on your 4TB target backup drive, as some file types compress better than others.

Personally, given your system specs, I would perform this type of backup from within Windows using the ATI 2017 main GUI rather than needing to boot from the Acronis Rescue Media .ISO (which is Linux based).  The backup should be a lot quicker from Windows than from CD because of being able to take full advantage of caching etc.

 

En réponse à par truwrikodrorow…

Thank you Steve,

I hadn't considered this.

Appreciated.