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Recovery onto a USB drive

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Luckily I've never had to do a recovery so am a bit vague on some steps, and the manual didn't help.
At the moment I do a full backup weekly and a separate daily incremental backup on a two week cycle. what I'd like to do after the full backup is do a recovery onto a sata drive in a USB cradle so in the event of the OS drive failing I can plug this in to get going straight away then if needed recover the previous days incremental.
When I go to do the recovery I select the C: drive, then all you get is a "recover" button, nothing about destination. When I click recover will it ask me where to recover to?
Also will there be any issues having a replica of the C: drive being available for the PC to see when I plug the drive in once a week?

Are there any issues with what I'm planning to do?

This is with ATI 2012 and PP

Thanks

...........Rikk

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You can recover an image to an external USB disk, but you will not be able to boot from the disk in the cradle, of course.
If you want to proceed with your approach:
- do the recovery from the recovery CD. Always do clones and image recoveries from the CD, not from Windows.
- do not boot the computer with the USB disk attached after recovery.
- put the recovered disk at the same spot as the original disk, and then boot the computer to test your backup disk.

The method you are using is actually a pretty good method to ensure that your backups can be recovered. Some users alternate their boot disk (they keep what is your test disk in their system until the next rotation).

Thanks for that, I had hoped to not have to leave windows to do it as with most things the more awkward it is the less chance of actually doing it.

I just need to confirm, when I do the recovery after I click recover will it ask for a destination?

Cheers.