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Reserved Copy TI 2014

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I use TI 2014 to back up my pc to an external hard drive and all worked ok until I dropped the external hard drive while it was running. (Bad thing to do) now the hard drive is stuffed so no backup.

My question is a few years ago I used to make two backups at the same time I think Acronis calls it a reserved copy this as I understand it makes another copy to a second hard drive at the same time, if had been using this after the accident I had I would have another version to use, I have decided I want to go back to this method of backup but I have a small problem.

I have always thought it would be best to make a backup of my C: drive via the boot cd. IE before windows starts so none of the windows files are in use.

But after booting with the CD I can’t find an option to make a reserved copy is this option only available via booting into windows and running TI first.

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It is not better to backup from the recovery CD if you can backup from Windows. With multi boot/multi file systems configuration, it is different.
Reserve copies are useless IMO. They always produce full backups and you don't save any time. You are better off running 2 different tasks pointing at 2 different disks for redundancy.

As MVP Pat L has indicated, the Reserve copy is always a full backup and it is run AFTER the first or primary backup is finished.
There is no savings of time but you do have a redundancy which is better than no Reserve.
Having a 2nd task pointing to another disk accomplishes the same and you can use the inc or dif method which the Reserve option does not offer.

Ok thanks guys, so there's no benefit in using the boot cd to make a backup before windows runs, that does surprise me.

But I take your word for that

Thank you

Any time you can isolate a disk so Windows is not involved is a plus. If I were to choose between a backup via CD or a backup via Windows, I would choose the CD version.

It is the CD which is the restore vehicle so a backup created via the CD certainly can be brushed away.

The point that was made is that the Windows backup is a reliable backup and it has the benefits of being scheduled and there is the convenience involved. Make your choices and both blend nicely together.

Now I am confused I made a test backup via booting form the CD and one with windows running and the one made with the CD was quite a bit larger file size

So CD boot or within widows what is to most reliable

I do not make differentials or incremental backup I only make full backups