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How to restore drive image to new partition

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I've used ATI (older version) for years but am perplexed with the current version.  I have my main OS drive and then I have a a back OS drive.  Previously, I'd make a drive image and restore it to the back up OS drive, but can't figure out how to do this simple thing in the current program.  What am I missing?  It was simple in the past:  either back up or restore.  Now it seems needlessly complicated.  How do I do this?

Note that I don't want to clone drives as I have another partition on my back up OS that I want to keep for data.

What is the oldest version of ATI that will support NVMe drives?

Thanks,

 

Reid  

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I think I figured it out, but it seems if you change the name of the drive image file, as I do so I can make new complete back ups, you can't easily access that image file in the program

Reid, if you are creating a backup image, then the file name is taken from the name of the task that creates the image.

If you want to have a specific name for the files, then set the task name to that name - there is an option to rename the task in the GUI if needed. 

If your backup task has already created files using the default name, then using rename will only apply to new files being created, it won't rename the current files.

If you rename your backup image files on the disk outside of ATI, then I would recommend removing the task from the GUI then using the option to 'Add existing backup' that is found to the right of the normal 'Add new backup' option.  Doing this will require you reconfigure the backup as all you are doing is associating the file with the GUI, you have to set the Source selection and other options again if you want to add backups for that new task.

Thanks.

 

I got an error, appxblackmap.xml in use.  I finally just decided to clone the drive

Interesting - I'd submit feedback on that file (just in case).  Acronis uses Windows VSS (Volume Shadow Service) to snapshot the system at that moment which should not care if a file is open or not.  Any backup program using VSS (which most do), would likely behave the same way under the same circumstances though since they do rely on Windows to accomplish this.

I don't know much about that file or how it operates, but appears to be part of Visual Basic Studio or the MakeAppx package.  Here's a Microsoft article about it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/schemas/blockmapschema/app-package-block-map