Acronis True Image Home 2010 and 2011 Compatibility with TrueCrypt 7.1

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I have a laptop with a TrueCrypt 7.1 encrypted, standard container file (30GB in size) that is stored in my Windows 7 "My Documents" folder. Let's say I image my whole disk (the only disk on my laptop) WITHOUT the TrueCrypt standard container file mounted as a volume, using ATIH 2010 or 2011 (latest builds).

If I restore the ATIH 2010/2011 disk image to my original laptop HDD (say, because of some disaster), will my restored HDD now contain a faithful copy of the TrueCrypt standard container that can be mounted as usual with the correct password and with access to all the files inside the container?

Thanks so much in advance for your help.

Mar, 10/25/2011 - 14:10
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Yes, if you image the whole hard drive, that would include the file container. So, if you were to restore this image (or simply mount it on another workstation and extract the TC container) you should be able to mount it.

Extracting and mounting the container on another workstation would obviously require TC to be installed.

I would even recommend not mounting the container because if you mount it, and then backup it, the backup would be unencrypted unless you have Acronis encrypt it.

Mar, 10/25/2011 - 14:37
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A TrueCrypt file container will always be backed up in the encrypted state when creating an image because TI reads at the sector level.

Mar, 10/25/2011 - 17:03