The data files (such as Microsoft Word documents, photos, and videos) can be on a separate hard drive or volume.
For example, you may want to have the “perfect setup” for your family or office, with all applications and settings that you can use again at any time.
When compared to backup software, the biggest benefit of cloning software for most home computer users is that you have a complete image of your computer at a single point in time. You’ll need to use some operating system setup features to make sure all the latest hardware is supported, or use a backup and recovery tool such as Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office with Acronis Universal Restore to support restoration of a disk to a computer with different hardware than the original computer.
If you need to upgrade your computer hardware, simply popping in a cloned disk in the hardware may not work.
Set up one computer the way you want, clone the hard drive, and then install the clone on each subsequent computer.
The second disk is then created with the contents of the image. Often, the contents of the first disk are written to an image file as an intermediate step. VISTA Home Premium has not the built in Backup as the Ultimate.Basically, disk cloning is the process of perfectly copying every bit of information from one computer hard drive to another disk. The Acronis site is not clear as to what is the best option -Differential or Incremental with regard to the above senerio. Or I should opt for Differential backup for the above mentioned situation. If it is Incremential back up, when I come to restore to a new HD will I have to one by one upload in the order of incremental back up that was saved after booting with the Acronis True Image Home boot disk I created. Should I follow one of the Incremental or Differential backup.
Now is it better for me to do a full back up of the entire HD with partitions, from time to time and save with a date to recognise the latest back up, is the best course of action OR One also make a boot up disk through the Acronis True Image Home to boot up in the eventuality. To copy the entire hard disk with partitions to an external HD for any unforseen eventualities such as a HD failure. In Acronis True Image Home 11 there are facilities for