On Thu, 17 May 2018 18:29:23 +0100, Ed Cryer
wrote:

I like safety in my backups. So I regularly do both a System image with
Win10's Win7-style app, and then a Macrium Reflect one.

I did two today; Win10 took almost 2 hours, Macrium took 19mins.

1TB spinning HD, C partition occupies it all, apart from a few small
ones for reset etc. Which means that Macrium had even more to write.

Why is this? Why does Windows take so long? It's not doing anything more
than Macrium, and, in addition, it comes from MS themselves, the
creators of this system, the supposed connoisseurs.

Ed

I don't mean to hijack your thread at all. I ran into this post by
luck. I just happened to be looking to backup two Windows 10 machines.
I bought 64 GB USB thumb drives so I could make a system restore drive
in case Windows fails to boot. I'd like to make a full backup that
includes a method booting such that the backup can be read and
restored. As a bonus I'd like to be able to image the full system SSD
and clone it to a larger SSD in the future. And as yet another bonus
if I could incrementally update this image as time goes on that would
be useful.

Does this Macrium home version do this? They have an option for a four
pack which I'm sure I can make use of. I have one machine which is
running an app which generated a finger-print string which was then
used to issue an activation code to run the app. I'd like to have to
repeat that whole process in the event the machine doesn't boot up one
day or I decide to increase the SSD drive size. Once I get these
systems installed just the way I like them I'd like to fully image the
machine as a safety net.

The time you mentioned to make your image sounds great. I'm using all
SSD's. These machines boot from SSD's and I would back them up to
Samsung T5 SSD devices which are USB 3.1 based. Hopefully that's not a
problem.

Does Macrium cover all those bases?

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Peter Kozlov