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I have my hard drive partioned to several drives. Can I backup each drive to its own separate backup file? I feel that's safer than having them backed up together in a single file. Can multiple drives be backed up in a single operation as opposed to doing a backup of each drive individually? Thanks

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Larry, welcome to these user forums.

The answers to your questions vary.  Yes you can backup each partition (drive) to its own separate backup file but this would need to be done by using separate backup tasks, one per partition.

Yes, you can backup multiple drives in a single operation but if you do so then this would be to a single separate backup file, not to separate files per drive.

Thanks for your answer. What I was asking can be done by Shadowprotect which I now have. I can backup all the drives in a single operation, leave the computer for a few hours to do other things, and they're backed to individual files when I come back. It looks like with Acronis I would have to sit by the computer to backup each drive individually. I'll hold off on buying Acronis for now.

Larry, with Acronis you could schedule your backup of your individual drives then the backups would run to that schedule, so you could set them to run at 30 minute intervals of each other and they will be queued if the earlier task hasn't finished without any need for user interaction.

Larry Mark wrote:
It looks like with Acronis I would have to sit by the computer to backup each drive individually.

Just as Steve says, there is no need to sit by the computer. All your backup jobs could be run as a group from a single manual task launch, or automatically on a schedule. I have my father's system set to backup at midnight, so that he doesn't need to remember to do it.

 

Based on your answers I might give it a try. It looks like you can get three licenses for the price of one which is cheaper than Shadowprotect. It would be nice if the backup is fast as Shadowprotect is slow. Also I assume it isn't hard to set up a single manual task. I'll read the Acronis manual to see how to do it. I also assume that if I'm not satisfied I can get a refund.

Larry, you can normally get a refund within the first 30 days as far as I understand - that is the period that the trial version of the product will also work for.