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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. -- Peter Kozlov |
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