Does destination drive get wiped before recovery
ATI 2018
C drive = 250 GB ssd
D drive = 1 TB sata
E drive = 1 TB sata
Performing a system backup of C drive and D drive.
First easy question:
Does the E drive (recovery destination drive) get wiped of all other files and folders on a restore? (It has appeared to have done so one time)
I am having all sorts of concerning issues so I started off easy. BTW: Looked at FAQs that I could find. The needed depth for discernment is lacking so please help. :)


- Accedi per poter commentare

thank you for that quick response and that confirms my recent restore and the destination drive only have the ATI backup I believe.
Here is the simple backup\restore I am trying to do with ATI. Done this for years with Microsoft backup\restore and it was too easy. I thought a premium software would be the same.
I just want to do system backups of the operating system (c drive) along with the data drive (d drive) and have the backup in an acronis folder on e drive. There is other data on the destination drive that I would like to keep after each c & d drive recovery.
Is this possible with ATI ?
- Accedi per poter commentare

Steve, that is one of the primary purposes / functions of Acronis True Image - to be able to make and store multiple backups on your destination backup drive.
Please see KB 1540: Difference between Backup and Disk Clone which gives a good overview of these two key functions of the software.
The key difference here is that you can store multiple Backups on a drive where these can coexist with any other data held on the same drive, subject to sufficient free space being available. This contrasts with using the Disk Clone function which has a 1:1 relationship between the Source and Target, so if you cloned your C: drive to your E: drive, then you would lose everything on E: and end up with an identical copy of C: as E:.
- Accedi per poter commentare

Thanks Steve.
I said that all wrong in the original question (I am doing 5 things at once here - apologies)
So my question is answered for --> the "e drive" which is my drive that holds the backups will NOT get erased during the recovery, correct?
If this is true then on to the next question:
When I do a recovery, instead of an easy restore all backup into the original drives, I get multiple screens asking which drive to restore the system backup to.
The problem I have is the default recovery drive for c shows "f:" on the screen. I do not have an "f drive and I want ti to restore to the original c drive?
- Accedi per poter commentare

Steve, how are you looking at doing a recovery here? The recommendation for when doing recovery is to use the Acronis bootable Rescue Media to boot the computer, where it is possible that some drive letters may be shown differently that you see in Windows. For this reason, it is recommended to give your drives / partitions obvious names, so that you can recognise which is which quickly.
The next recommendation is to keep any disk backup to a single drive only - do not include multiple drives in the same backup - this will make recovery a lot easier and simpler as you will only need to select the one drive for restoring from and to.
- Accedi per poter commentare

It will help if you give each of your drive volumes a unique name so that you do not have to rely on drive letters. If you click on a drive in Explorer to select it then right click on the selected drive and choose Properties from the menu, you can name the drive as the screenshot below illustrates.
- Accedi per poter commentare

Well I am testing a restore once again. Each of you rocket scientists hit the "nail on the head". Naming the partitions!!! The OS partition was taking on the "f:" drive name. I want to do the 2 drive backup restore scenario so I think this is finally going to work. will advise in 40 or so minutes.
Thank you super much.
- Accedi per poter commentare

Wohooo! Everything works!!
Thank you Steve & Enchantech!!
So in your opinion\experience, is the single version that overwrites the previous version dependable and trust worthy?
Thanks again!
- Accedi per poter commentare

Steve, good to hear your recovery tests were successful.
Personally, I tend to use an Incremental backup scheme where I keep a minimum of 2 backup version chains, rather than going for a single version chain. I prefer the flexibility of having multiple recovery points to choose from for when something gets to a point where a recovery is needed.
A backup version chain = 1 x Full backup plus all associated Incremental (or Differential) backup files that share the same _Bx_ backup sequence number in the file name.
- Accedi per poter commentare

Glad to hear of your success. In answer to your question, yes, I have found single version backups very reliable.
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