How to create Acronis Bootable Media with a backup archive on it (all-in-one)
USB
What a bootable media of an Acronis backup software is and what features it offers
Symptoms
When trying to create a bootable media on a stick with more than 32 GB capacity you get an error message "Media cannot be formatted" or bootable media is created, but the system does not boot from it.
This article describes peculiarities of backing up to removable devices
This article applies to:
- Acronis Backup 11.5 (Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5)
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Build 17437 or higher
By a removable device, we mean an RDX drive or USB flash drive. A USB hard disk drive is not considered to be a removable device unless it is recognized as such by the operating system.
If the flash drive is formatted in FAT32, then the size of one file is limited to 4 GB
Mount device manually.
Create special registry keys to fix this issue
Symptoms
- After you install Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 on the machine, certain USB drives/keys are not instantly detected. It takes 2-5 minutes for the drive to acquire a letter and be accessible in Windows Explorer.
- If you stop Acronis Managed Machine service, the same USB drives are detected instantly.
Cause
Hardware incompatibility: some specific devices incorrectly process standard commands issued by Acronis product components.
If your computer does not boot or you have a new computer without any operating system installed on it, you can boot your computer with Acronis bootable media. The bootable media is a USB flash drive or a CD with Acronis software on it. This way, you can recover from a backup in case your computer does not boot anymore.
How to create a bootable USB
All current versions of Acronis software can create bootable USB flash drives. We recommend creating a bootable media in advance.
All the current versions of Acronis products support USB 3.0.
USB 3.0 support has been implemented in the following products:
Correct configuring of backup to removable devices with regular drive swaps with Acronis Backup (Advanced) 11.5 Software.
If you are using Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 see Acronis Backup: Backing Up to Removable Devices with Regular Drive Swaps
Symptom
- "Clone Disk" feature of Acronis True Image 2019 is used.
- Before the cloning starts, source and destination disks are connected using different interfaces, for example, the source is an internal SATA disk and the destination is an external USB disk.
- The operating system is Windows XP, 7 or 8.
- You boot the clone system after the disk cloning finishes.
- There is no sound and/or USB devices do not work.
Cause
Known issue with the disk cloning tool in Acronis True Image, occurring sporadically.
Symptoms
1) An Entire machine backup fails with the following error:
ASYNC: Full barrier action job
Introduction
Acronis Survival Kit is a simple all-in-one recovery tool for external drive backups based on Acronis Bootable Rescue Media.
Introduction
This article describes how to set up Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office/Acronis True Image so that backups are saved to two or more external disks, which could be swapped or rotated on regular basis. For example, backup to disk A on even weeks and backup to disk B on odd weeks. The disk that is not used on a given week is usually kept in a different physical location as an extra layer of protection.
Instructions on how to troubleshoot and resolve issues with corrupt backups