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Image backups.
Using Macrium 7, is it required to close all applications before
starting the image backup? Normally I just leave them open. |
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On 03/21/2018 5:37 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
Using Macrium 7, is it required to close all applications before starting the image backup? Normally I just leave them open. I *Always* close down running applications before I do a backup. Rene |
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:37:49 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:
Using Macrium 7, is it required to close all applications before starting the image backup? Normally I just leave them open. It is not necessary to close your applications. Reflect uses Microsoft's VSS, which stands for Volume Shadow Storage. I will leave it to you to do any further reading if you feel you need to know the technical details of VSS. |
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Peter Jason wrote:
Using Macrium 7, is it required to close all applications before starting the image backup? Normally I just leave them open. There is a ten second interval, where VSS asks applications and subsystems to "quiesce" their file system usage. The VSS can then take a volume snapshot. Any file saved after the volume snapshot is formed, won't be recorded in the backup, but will be safely stored in the file system. It's good to not actively antagonize the thing. For example, maybe I could use File Explorer and copy 10GB of files from C: to D: . While at the same time, I have just started a Macrium backup of D: . The file copy might be creating 4000 files per second on my D: SSD. The VSS subsystem is supposed to be designed to deal with that, and the newly copied information at some point, is "cut off" from the volume snapshot, and won't be appearing in the backup. The 10GB file copying exercise will work as intended. Half of the newly copied files might be in the backup. The entire 10GB set will definitely be covered in the next VSS-based backup you make. It should all work, without dismissing programs. But common sense tells you that less can go wrong, if you don't go out of your way to "break things". You know how well tested computer code is. You should be able to continue to work, as the backup is running. If you save a Word document to your Home, it won't be in the backup (it's not in the VSS snapshot), but it will get backed up on the next backup you make. Which might be tomorrow. Paul |
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:39:06 +0000, Good Guy wrote:
On 21/03/2018 22:37, Peter Jason wrote: Using Macrium 7, is it required to close all applications before starting the image backup? Normally I just leave them open. No. Macrium will take care of anything you can't handle yourself. Macrium is smarter than users using it. And you are more obnoxious than words can describe. You were told to go away, can you not read or follow instructions. |
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:08:39 -0400, Paul
wrote: Peter Jason wrote: Using Macrium 7, is it required to close all applications before starting the image backup? Normally I just leave them open. There is a ten second interval, where VSS asks applications and subsystems to "quiesce" their file system usage. The VSS can then take a volume snapshot. Any file saved after the volume snapshot is formed, won't be recorded in the backup, but will be safely stored in the file system. It's good to not actively antagonize the thing. For example, maybe I could use File Explorer and copy 10GB of files from C: to D: . While at the same time, I have just started a Macrium backup of D: . The file copy might be creating 4000 files per second on my D: SSD. The VSS subsystem is supposed to be designed to deal with that, and the newly copied information at some point, is "cut off" from the volume snapshot, and won't be appearing in the backup. The 10GB file copying exercise will work as intended. Half of the newly copied files might be in the backup. The entire 10GB set will definitely be covered in the next VSS-based backup you make. It should all work, without dismissing programs. But common sense tells you that less can go wrong, if you don't go out of your way to "break things". You know how well tested computer code is. You should be able to continue to work, as the backup is running. If you save a Word document to your Home, it won't be in the backup (it's not in the VSS snapshot), but it will get backed up on the next backup you make. Which might be tomorrow. Paul Thanks, I notice Macrium 7 has a "Guardian" feature to prevent deletion of past backups. I wasted half an hour trying to delete a previous backup (to make room on my backup HDD). No wonder computers send people insane! |
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