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Acronis back up #523020 02/06/19 09:26 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 662 Wisconsin critter OP Journeyman
OP critter Journeyman Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 662 Wisconsin	Will soon be changing computers, does Acronis do the job to transfer all files? If other options please let me know. Critter

Re: Acronis back up critter #523051 02/07/19 02:00 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jan 2016 Posts: 6 Australia, Queensland AlternTor Newbie
AlternTor Newbie Joined: Jan 2016 Posts: 6 Australia, Queensland	I've been using Acronis for years its good, if you BackUp your whole drive (C) with BiaB in it and transfer over to new machine should be no worries with authorization etc. Just to be safe de-authorize the current BiaB before doing so. If your just doing acronis BiaB tib from windows you will need all the other files that goes with windows and thats a pain in the fingers. Windows7 x64 Ultimate, Sound Blaster ZxR

Re: Acronis back up critter #523052 02/07/19 02:04 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 114 A Andy Ling Apprentice
Andy Ling Apprentice A Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 114	You can just copy all the BIAB files "by hand" then run just the BIAB installer on the new machine to set up the system to point at the right folders, copy DLLs etc. Unregistering on the old machine is good advice. HTH

Re: Acronis back up Andy Ling #523242 02/08/19 03:11 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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PhillyJazz Journeyman Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 593 Philly	I really like that method.. I do a file backup of my BIAB folder every night. A re-install makes sure fonts and setting are all re-integrated into the OS. De-Re registering is a key step. Jan - 12 Core AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 32GB DDR4 Win 10 64-bit Samsung m.2 SSD Boot drive,other SSD internal and USB drives. MOTO 2 Ketron SD4,SD1000 Yamaha RX-v381amp VB-Audio virtual cables

Re: Acronis back up PhillyJazz #523257 02/08/19 04:16 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 20,820 Hamlin NY MarioD Veteran
MarioD Veteran Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 20,820 Hamlin NY	He is changing computers so I think that he is talking about Acronis's Universal Restore. I use Acronis for my backups but have no idea how the Universal Restore works. Does anyone have any experience with this and if so could they explain how it works. I am interested also. I want my last spoken words to be "I hid a million dollars under the........................" 64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware

Re: Acronis back up MarioD #523283 02/08/19 05:43 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,486 UK Jazzman Expert
Jazzman Expert Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,486 UK	Hi MarioD Like you I have used Acronis for a number of years and its been a life saver My understanding of Acronis Universal is that you can choose the elements you require to put on to a different computer and skip the possible different issues like the operating system for example I did it on my change over a couple of years ago and it saved hours of reloading jazzman BIAB - RealBand - 2022 Windows 10 64 Zoo computer with 7i processor- SSD 1TB -2TB HDD Roland keyboards

Re: Acronis back up critter #523288 02/08/19 05:53 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 12,583 Pensacola, Florida jford Veteran
jford Veteran Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 12,583 Pensacola, Florida	I've used Acronis for years (and have restored images a number of times as the result of failed hard drives, but only on the same computer). But I have never done a Universal Restore from one PC to another. Sounds like Jazzman had some success with it. I would obviously take a full image of the new computer first, just in case the Universal Restore didn't. With Windows, I imagine you need to make sure your versions match (home versus pro) so that licensing/authorization at the O/S level works properly. John Laptop-HP Omen I7 Win11Pro 32GB 2x2TB, 1x4TB SSD Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 2x1.5TB, 2x2TB, 1x4TB SATA BB2024/UMC404HD/Casios/Cakewalk/Reaper/Studio One/MixBus/Notion/Finale/Dorico/Noteworthy/NI/Halion/IK http://www.sus4chord.com

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