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Saving a bootable disk image

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I have installed the trial version for evaluation.  It won't let me do what I want to do.

I presently back up a bootable disk image (using another product) to an external drive.  Image size is roughly 300GB.  I have 2 identical laptops.  One is just for recovery if the first one fails.  I use a boot (recovery) disk to restore the image to the 2nd laptop, and I am back up and running in the shortest time possible.  I want to continue this practice, but use Acronis cloud backup.  If I purchase the full version, will there be any problem doing this?

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Barry, welcome to these User Forums.

You should be able to continue the same practice of backing up to your external drive and restoring the backup image on the second laptop by using the trial version of ATI 2018.  There are normally some caveats when doing this, such as Windows activation is based on the hardware signature of the laptop where first activated, but not normally a problem with Windows 10 providing both laptops have been activated for the same version of Windows, i.e. both for Home or Pro.

You would need to purchase a Subscription version of ATI 2018 in order to use the Acronis Cloud and would also need to have 2 licenses, one for each laptop.  300GB is a large volume of data for uploading to the Acronis Cloud so you need to understand how long this may take.  There is normally a large difference between broadband upload & download speeds, i.e. my own ISP gives me upto 100 MBps download speed but only upto 5 MBps for upload - so getting data back should be fairly quick, but getting it into the Cloud takes a very long time!

En réponse à par truwrikodrorow…

Thanks for enlightening me.  If I did the math correctly, it will take nearly a week to upload!  My upload speed is roughly 5Mb/s. Not at all practical to do the same thing I do with an external drive.  So, it seems that whatever cloud backup scheme a person uses, the initial upload would take this long, correct?  Then, I guess an incremental backup would be feasible from that point on.  I guess the cloud is only good for backing up my working files.

Barry, it sounds like you are on a very similar ISP arrangement to me with only 5 MBps upload speed.  I have a couple of Cloud backups from 2 laptops where the data uploaded is about 160GB in total (for the 2) and took nearly a day for each system to upload.

Cloud is fine as an extra form of protection / an offsite backup in case of disaster, but there are some downsides too.  A subscription is required and should you not renew this, then all your cloud data gets deleted after 30 days, plus the subscription version of ATI becomes as useful as a chocolate teapot, in that it can only be used for recovery of existing backups, not to create any new ones!

I would recommend keeping hold of a perpetual license for ATI alongside any subscription license version.  The perpetual product will continue to work regardless, at least until such time as Microsoft change Windows in such a way as to stop it working!

See KB 60121: Acronis True Image 2018 licensing for more information. 

On the licence issue, it may be less expensive to get a 3 PC licence rather than 2 single PC licences. At Australia at any rate they currently have a 50% off sale. They periodically have good deals so I suggest keeping a eye out; you can take advantage of such deals even if a current subscription has not expired.

Ian