Pre-purchase question about Universal Restore & licensing

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I'm an IT guy at a medium-size business. I want to use an Acronis product to simplify replacing users' computers, I'm just not clear on how this works, specifically restoring to dissimilar hardware.

My dream is to have the Acronis software as a tool internal to the IT department alone, rather than installed on everyone's machines. The reason is that we have no need for continual backup of every workstation -- I'll likely be purchasing the server version which will cover all our data (I'm evaluating a trial of that now). I only want to use the workstation version as a tool when changing out a user's computer.

For example, I'd love to be able to:

a) pop the hard drives out of an old and new machine
b) image the old drive and restore it to the new drive
c) boot the new drive in the new system (which now has the old image on it).
d) ...and do all of this imaging and restoring from my own IT workstation, with a single Acronis Backup workstation license.

My fear is that this isn't how it works, though... Does restoration to dissimilar hardware work with the disk cloning tool somehow?

If not, how exactly DOES restoration to dissimilar hardware work? Do I need to create bootable media that will then detect the new hardware and change the image accordingly during the restore? Does every user that I perform this kind of restore for require their own workstation license?

...or do I have this all completely wrong...? I'm so confused, and would appreciate any clues. Thanks in advance.

Ven, 05/27/2011 - 05:59
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In Backup & Recovery 10, Universal Restore works only as part of restoring process - when image stored in .tib file is extracted to the disks, and, afaik, this process must be performed on the 'new hardware' so that bootable CD with Universal Restore detects present devices and patches image being restored with correct drivers. So the whole process must be performed on the 'new system' (that assumes a Workstation with Universal restore license). In Backup & Recovery 11 it will be possible to path already restored system, so that you can perform restore on one machine and perform UR on the target machine, but it requires a license per each machine too. If there are several new computers with the same hardware, you can perform Universal Restore once and then image/restore disks for other 'new' machines on the dedicated machine. There is also Acronis Snap Deploy 3.0 that is cheaper ($37 per license with Universal Deploy for dissimilar hardware) and can do the same without installation on end-user machines.

Ven, 05/27/2011 - 19:26