Legally, you need a license for each machine. I'll just leave it at that...

But, no you don't need a spare PC to test the backup images. You just need a spare disk, or even a spare partition on the current disk. You may have to change which disk is the first disk in the chain (to get the OS to boot), but that's easy enough. That let's you restore without overwriting something important (like your current system).


John

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