POTENTIAL PITFALLS? Backing up an external USB to another external USB using Acronis 2017
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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En réponse à Pete, one point not… par truwrikodrorow…

Thank you Steve,
I hadn't considered this.
Appreciated.
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