Acronis Image Saved to Desktop?

Full backup images are just files in the final analysis, albeit very large ones. You can put them anywhere that you want. Your latter suggestion is the best; just create a suitable folder structure on the external hard disk and store your backup files there.

You will not want to have more than one SZ; that will lead to problems. It's your choice but if you have an external hard disk then there is no need for a SZ on your laptop's internal drive. Think of it this way -- if your laptop's hard disk were to fail someday then you would lose your backups that are stored on it in the SZ. Better to have them somewhere else, right? Having said that, redundancy is not a bad thing so it is even better to have them in more than one place. Just don't rely on the SZ as your only backup solution.

 

Thanks KOlo,

Appreciate all the help,


Ken

 

KOlo,

One more question. Is the below Seagate Forum comment accurate? You can't save any items from within Program Files and Outlook. I thought you could drag and copy those like I can to my thumb drive. What limitations does it have as far as what you can copy to it?


Ken

 

Ken:

No, that's clearly incorrect. The person who wrote that must have been doing something wrong.

If you can copy files to your USB thumb drive then you will also be able to copy them to a USB hard drive.

 

Thanks KOlo,

Ken