| | | Josh, FWIW I use Acronis 2019, too. This year I began using the Survival Kit weekly and it's great. However the instructions here omit one important fact — it only seems to work reliably with USB 2.0. No matter what I did, if a USB 3.0 port or hub was used, the Survival Kit wouldn't work.
With all-USB 2.0 it's flawless. But slower, of course. Test recoveries (about 22 minutes) have been simple to execute, and work perfectly. So last thing every Thursday, I use one or the other of 2 WD Elements external drives, partitioned, for a complete system backup and turn off the monitor. Acronis shuts the computer down when backup is complete.
That leaves me with a week-old complete system restore -- or worst-case, if a drive fails -- 2 weeks.
Normal non-system Acronis backups are also done, daily. Because I offload unneeded data to external drives, daily backups take 5-7 minutes. Two Windows 7 computers only carry about 50 GB each, so daily backups are fast. Survival Kit backups (system) take about 23 minutes -- but who cares? They complete and shut down by themselves while I'm snoring.
For cloning, I also have this. Only cloned once with it, but it worked well.
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Just an opinion, but I don't really trust cloud backups -- or my ISP -- to be there when really needed. Friends have lost important files with cloud storage.
So for ~10 years have used redundant backups on multiple USB drives. So far, so good.
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