Set up Acronis on Laptop

Hi All

I am currently setting up Acronis on a Laptop with a 1 TB main and 4TB (Gamin,g etc drive)

How should I set up Office and documents as well as Acronis backups of files, e.g. Windows set-up, Documents and other important files? And in increments as the person has a 4TB external and can do an offsite backup on my backup server?

Many thanks

 

Hi, I use Acronis 22 I think (non subscription version) to take a whole disk partition backup of my 1TB C drive each night, on my other 6 drives I use Backblaze personal backup in selected photos.

I have not used acronis to take directory backups on folders outside C:/

 

I trashed my website https;//fearby.com last week but here is a old post in web archive I did on Acronis if that helps

https://web.archive.org/web/2024081...-to-backup-and-restore-your-windows-computer/

 

Is acronis 2018 still any good as latest non Sub that is on my account :'( Plus I have access to the free WD version

Thanks

 

Acronis 2018 will work. All you need is boot media on a USB thumb drive to boot into Acronis outside of Windows and make images and restore them. I find making full images rather than incremental images to be best.

 

>Is acronis 2018 still any good as latest non Sub that is on my account :'( Plus I have access to the free WD version

About 2 versions back Acronis went Subscription only, I stayed on my stand alone version and only took the latest upgrade offer when they said it was stand alone licence (no sub)

If it works on your hardware then its ok to use, The cyber stuff they are selling is not needed by me.

I am using Acronis True Image 2025 (Stand alone (upgraded from standalone v20 and v22))

Change Log: https://dl.acronis.com/u/trueimage/...ce=ati&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=ati_app_rn

 

I was offered the upgrade but didn't take it up. It wasn't cheap and Acronis may block you from installing True Image on another computer using the serial linked to your current computer after you retire it. I also don't need all the other stuff that Acronis does.

As long as you have the rescue boot media you can make Acronis images on any computer despite not having Acronis installed. Windows won't recognise the image but so what. If you have valuable data you don't want to lose you should also use a backup program otherwise you'll lose some data when you restore an image.

 

Could I install the backed up image on an external Nvme until I have everything set up how I want it on new install.

 

Yes, I have a Corsair MP600 that I backup daily. I bought a duplicate MP600 that is in a different pcie slot to use as an emergency DR restore target if the main drive dies.

windows will work off the device model is the same and no bitlocker is on, if not you will need to debug post restore