I have used the Acronis TI Plus (restore to any hardware) hundred times through the years.
98% of the time it works very well. The 2% Not working is a relut of "Kinky" Hardware.
There are some times (especially in the past) compatibility issues between the tib (image file) and the version of the software that was used.
As a principle when I get a new verson first thing I make a bootable media and use it rather than using the installed software.
I kept all the bootable media since the first version that I got years ago. Thus I can restore very old backups too in case that they are not compatible with the current version.
P.S. Backup files are Not universal like txt or pdf, they usually using propriety structure and need to be recovered with software that can handle the specific structure.
