How to make image backup with Macrium?

Laz123

Heedtheadvice wrote: »

A few things I might add; and I am a fan of Macrium!

Here are several versions of Reflect. Release 6 still has the Free version that will do most of what a home user will require, will do full and differential backups but not incremental. Although I use free I do like the incremental facility -it just costs!

It is good to make a reflect boot disk in case of the need to recover when windows is broken. Can be done to usb but I prefer CD, but each to his own.....

It is very useful to keep all data separate from system and programs/apps as this makes it easier to backup/recover.

If system is on SSD then clone (as has been mentioned) or clones is useful but macrium will do backups for essential bits of windows too. Apart from time and memory requirements it is often advantageous to have several backup copies/types.

I would suggest backup (unless to nas or raid array) to, as a minimum, if you value your data, to two separate external methods (hard drives) backed up alternately that each will hold all your data/system/progs. However with separate copies of system/progs and data.
You can do this to your D or F drive without new partitions (can just be new folders) but if you prefer to keep separate to new partitions. However if you want to backup what is on those drives (presuming they are not just backups themselves) far better to new external drives, they are not very costly these days. They haven't heard advantage of not being connected all the time so are less prone to a 'common' failure mode, can be stored in a safe location and less risk of inadvertantly damaging the backup such as if trying to free up space!

This requires a bit of organisation of data locations but then makes separate backups subsequently easy.

As writ by were, clones for system/progs on SSD and then images of the selected partitions on disks with the data locations updated most frequently (assuming they change frequently) and system areas less frequently and after important changes.

Macrium menus etc. are fairly self explanatory - for options if you do not have the knowledge just use the defaults.

Thanks for giving the answers that I wanted. Cheers.