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Acronis True Image

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I can't get Acronis True Image in Windows 8.1 to backup a Mint 17 Mate Image. It worked with 16 and prior. I get the same results on my laptop and PC. I wonder if anyone else here has that problem.

Thanks, Allan
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Re: Acronis True Image

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Hello, Allan.

I cannot tell you why Acronis on Windows 8.1 was able to do an image backup of your Mint 16 partition and why it refuses to do an image backup of your Mint 17 partition.
I use Windows 7, not 8.1. I do not use Acronis at all.
But I do use Mint 16 and Mint 17. So I can assure you both use ext4 disk partitions by default, unless you instructed them to do something different. So from a formal point of view a Mint 16 partition and a Mint 17 partition must look absolutely identical to Windows 8.1. It does not understand either of the 2 without resorting to third party driver software.
No idea why Acronis recognized your Mint 16 partition, but does not recognize your Mint 17 partition.

Guess you may have to wait for some Linux Mint user who uses Windows plus Acronis to offer his help ...

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Re: Acronis True Image

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You can always use the Acronis Recsue Disk to make and restore your backups outside of the OS.

I've been doing that for over 8 years.
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Post by Cobber »

MartyMint wrote:You can always use the Acronis Recsue Disc to make and restore your backups outside of the OS.
I agree. I never run Acronis from within Windows. Create a rescue disc, with the Full Acronis Version on it and boot your computer from that disc.

You will be able to see ALL your partitions, including hidden system ones and Linux (including Swap).

The drive letters won't match though, so you need to ensure your partitions have a volume label (description) first, so you know which ones are which.
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Use the rescue cd, hmm never thought of that; thanks guys
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