Reinstall windows & keep online backups of data drives?
I have a Windows 10 system that needs to have Windows reinstalled/reset. The system has multiple TB of data on multiple internal drives. All drives are backed up locally and online, with independent backups for each drive. All the OS and applications and home directories are on the C: drive, and all other data on the D:, E:, etc. drives. I want to hand-reinstall the OS and all the applications (including Acronis) on the C: drive from scratch without restoring the old, corrupt image. But I would like to do this in a way that when I set up Acronis TI again, I will be able to adopt the online backups for the data drives, which will not have been touched. I messed this up last time and it takes forever to re-backup TBs of data. Is there a right way to do this? Thanks.


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Steve,
Thank you! This sounds straightforward and logical.
Bob
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OK, so I've followed this procedure. Generally it worked well, except for one glitch, possibly my fault. While I was able to adopt the old backups, I also needed to grant my newly-created account full control of all the files in on the drive, which I did with a recursive icacls command. This (I assume it was this) resulted in Acronis wanting to re-backup everything. Clearly this is going to take a while, but still, this result is far superior to my previous effort, because this time I don't have to juggle space on the Acronis server to avoid crossing the 5TB limit, instead it is just systematically refreshing all the individual files in place. FYI/FWIW, and thanks for your help.
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Robert, glad to hear that you have been able to do what you wanted here and all is looking better now. Thanks for the feedback.
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