Saving a bootable disk image
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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In risposta a Barry, welcome to these User… di 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.
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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.
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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
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