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It is an external hard disk drive that contains both the Acronis Bootable Media files and a backup of your system partition, entire computer, or any disk backup. In Acronis True Image 2019 and later, an Acronis Survival Kit combines both components so that you could have a single device that has everything that you need to recover your computer in case of a failure. Previously these components were separated, for example, the system backup is stored on an external drive or Acronis Cloud and the bootable media is a small USB flash drive.
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To recover your computer in case of a failure, you need to have two crucial components-a backup of your system disk and a bootable rescue media. Acronis Survival Kit is a simple all-in-one recovery tool for external drive backups based on Acronis Bootable Rescue Media.
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