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Old May 18th 18, 08:23 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Kozlov
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Default Disc imaging

On Fri, 18 May 2018 12:45:29 -0000 (UTC), Dave
wrote:

On Thu, 17 May 2018 19:06:48 -0700, Peter Kozlov wrote:

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?


I think backing up to a thumb drive is a lousy idea, but to each his own.
I don't know why this discussion is going on so long. Windows backup on
windows 7 left a lot to be desired. Macrium is the best and it's free.
For platform independence I like Clonezilla, although it's a little less
user friendly than Macrium.


A T3 and T5 are not thumb drives. They are high speed SSDs that are
connected to the your computer via USB 3.1. They are basically M.2
drives inside a casing with a USB-C adapter. I've yet to see a thumb
drive do 500+ MB/sec read AND write. These do that and more.

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