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Incremental backups of a clone a good idea?

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Hi all,

I'm using True Image 2010, and have just cloned my HDD onto an SSD so that I can retire the old drive (clone operation was done by Macrium and was succesful).

However as the cloned SSD files were not verified, I would feel safer doing a full verified backup from the original HDD using Acronis. Then I'll swap the HDD over for the new SSD and retire the HDD. And in the coming months do incremental backups from the SSD.

Will this cause problems? As the first full backup will have been done of the old HDD, but incremental backups will be of the new SSD.

Thanks!

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K D, welcome to these user forums.

A Clone is an identical copy of one disk drive to a second disk drive, so if the clone was successful and you are able to boot from this, after replacing the HDD by the cloned to SSD, then there should be no difference between the two drives and no need to do anything further with relation to the old HDD.

As for backups, the physical drives have changed, assuming that you have removed the HDD and are now booting from the new SSD drive, so my recommendation would be to start a new full backup of the SSD and work forward from there.

Please understand that your ATIH 2010 only supports Windows upto Windows 7 as documented in KB 3553: Operating Systems Acronis True Image Home 2010 Supports so if you have a later version of Windows such as 8, 8.1 or 10 then I would strongly recommend updating your backup software to gain the additional security that newer versions can offer in terms of reliability, hardware support etc.

Thanks Steve. I take your point re the clone being indentical so just start new full backup from the SSD. However my hesitation is that the cloned copy is not verified. In theory something could have gone wrong in the clone process which is not immediately apparent, but might become apparent when you finally access the damaged files on the SSD many weeks or month down the line. Or am I being over-cautious?

K D, I can understand your caution but I would have expected the clone operation (Macrium or any other product) to have flagged up if any errors were encountered?

With ATIH the main issue for clone failures is bad sectors on the source (or target) drive which will flag an immediate error message if encountered.

SSD drives do not have sectors as such as they work very differently to spinning drives.

If you have been running the SSD for a while without problems, then I would expect all to be OK but if you want to be more certain, then open an Administrator level Command prompt window and run the command SFC /SCANNOW which will check the integrity of all your Windows OS programs and files.

Thanks Steve. Yes I agree if no errors were reported and the SSD is booting fine and I haven't noticed any problems then the chances of corruption (unless they were on the source drive) are unlikely. I might just keep the original HDD somewhere safe with the data, and then start backing up from the SSD from now on