System recover from an hd crash - tips for a beginner
Hi... I've just started to use ATI 2017 and I made different backup tasks form my pc: one for the "entire pc" and 3 for other personal folders.
I need some explanation about the "entire pc" backup. My hard disk has 5 default partition: system EFI, window C:, OEM partition and two other restore partition. With the "entire pc" task ATI creates a backup containing all these 5 partition.
My question is: if I have a disk crash and the hd stop working, with this type of backup I can reproduce an exact copy of the original hard disk into a new blank hard disk... is right?
I'm asking this because I'm coming from an old desktop with win vista and I was used to handle just a unique partition, so now with all of these partitions I don't know exactly how they have to be managed.
Thanks. Fabrizio
IN the backup source, the "entire pc" is designed to backup all internal drives of a system (and in some cases, will grab eSATA drives and possibly usb drives too), which include ALL paritions on those disks. If you're not careful, you may end up backing up other drives that you don't intend to when these backups run and other disks have been temporarily attached.
IN the backup source, the "disk/parition" backup allows you to select just the disk(s) you specifically choose. I always recommend a disk/parition backup where you pick a single disk per job and select the full disk (all paritions). That way, you get the full disk as it exists. If need be, you can always restore just certain paritions (for instance if your just need to restore C, but not the recovery partition), but by getting everything on the disk, you have the option to do everything or pick and choose. 99 out of 100 times, if you're restoring our full disk backup to the same computer, restore everything that was in the full disk backup if you want it to be how it was exactly when the backup image was taken.
Well IanL-S... yes my pc has just one internal hard disk with 5 partition (1 for drive C and the remaining 4 for system/oem) and one external usb drive used for acronis backups. About the recovery media I have already made one.
I choose the "entire pc" as backup scheme because choosing the partition backup I could see/select only 2 of the 5 partitions of the hard disk, so I though that the partition backup doesn't do a "full" backup of the hd.
But... accordingly to what Bobbo said, I can understand that when the backup job starts, if in that moment I have an usb stick, rather than anoter external usb hd that was not connectet at the time I defined the backup scheme, this temporary attached usb device too could added to that backup job?
Just one more question... even with the entire pc backup, during a restore process, I could select the partition to restore or should I always have to restore all the backup partitions togheter?
Thanks.
Fabrizio.
You can select the partitions that you want to restore, for exaple C:. I have done that many times in the past. In you case the OEM partitions will not (usually) change over time so there is no need to recover them unless they have become damaged.
Except for my Laptop and Tablet all my computers have multiple HDD so I alaways select the HDDs/Partitions I want to include in my backup. As I store most of my date on a different HDD to the system (Windows 10 in most cases) I use different backup intervals for them. I do an incremental backup of the data partition each day and a less frequent backup of the system disk.
Ian
Ok... me too I do daily incremental backups for personal folders and a weekly backup for all the system. Apart for the backup hd I have no other hd connected to my desktop because for storage of other data, I use a small nas with a raid 5 protection.
So I think that the backup task I've set up are suitable for my needs.
Thanks for support.
Just one more question... is it normal that if I want to restore a file located into a hidden folder, the ATI "restore file" function doesn't show me hidden folders unless I turn on "show hidden folder" option in window explorer?
Today I need to restore a file that was on the public desktop but using the "restore file" option inside ATI app, under C:\users\public I coudn't see the "desktop" folder. So I tried to open the tib file to search the file I needed and to do so I had to turn on the "show hidden folder"... and after that, even in the ATI app I could see the "desktop" folder under "public" folder
Yes, to your question, Acronis integrates into the Windows OS and therefore plays by the rules for the file system with regards to hidden files & folders, therefore you would need to enable this settings to see such files.