External HD

External USB HD can be used to record / restore a drive image backup
of the resident HD (I 've Win Vista) ?
Thanks

 

If your question is can you use an external hard drive to backup a system partition/hard drive the answer is yes. Make sure though that you use the recovery cd first to make sure you can see your external drive and create a backup and restore before you purchase.

Thanks,

Chris

 

Thanks for your reply.

I've just downloaded version 11 , and I don't see the possibility to
create a backup on dvd ! Corrrect ? and if the HD has problems ?
Thanks in advance

 

Ha ha ... this must be the fourth time in the past week someone asked about this. The feature is buried deep deep down where you'll never find it:

Look under Tools/Options/Default Backup Options/Media Components/Advanced tab.

Be aware though that if the size of the backup requires more than 3 discs, when it comes time to restore you'll be swapping the discs in and out in a neverending process. Even 3 discs involves a lot of swapping. The Recovery proceedure does not call for the discs in the order they were made. Read here another user's experience:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=183442

What many users prefer to do is called the 2-step method. First make the backup to a hard drive but specify a split size (many use 1492Mb). Then afterwards use your burning software to burn the pieces to dvd.

 

Thanks,
Norton Ghost should not have these troubles......

 

Here is another example of how to store your backup files/sets on an internal or external drive.
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=184414#6

 

I' v done my first attempt using DVD driver !
I've done a partition C back-up ( the first time I 'd an Acronis crash ...) .
It takes two dvd disks . Then I did a boot . In the main window I see
an entry for Back.up and one for Recovery .
Under Recovery I read " Recover the entire HD contents or restore individual files " .
I stopped my attempt ( my system is OK...) . But shouldn't say also " recover af a partition " ?
Many thanks.

 

Help ! Thanks in advance.....

 

If you Click Next you should see the screen to allow the whole disk or a partition to be restored.

 

Yes, then I click NEXT and I' m asked to insert the last CD .
I do it then click on NEXT ....
now I receive the message " Acronis T I Home backup archive file
is corrupted. If the backup is an image , you may try to restore
data from it by mounting the image and restoring intact data. "
What does it mean "...mounting the image " ?
I reset the msg clicking on OK .
I clic on BACK ...and a GUI with drive C appears !
May be clicking on NEXT again the restore process would be started...,,isn't it ?
Is the normal behaviour ?
Thanks