Macrium 6 used 15 DVD+R's to Image 83.01 GB in WIN 10 Pro

wen · 28 Aug 2015

Word Man said:

Macrium can back up just the system partition OR the entire disk, i.e., system partition, separate data partition and the hidden partitions. For me a full backup of the entire disk is the best alternative. I don't consider 83 GB too much to work with if you have a 1.5 TB external drive to store disk images on. Currently with the paid version, Macrium Reflect Home v6, I use the GFS scheduled backup template, modified to my own schedule and retention policy, to do full, differential, and incremental backups of my laptop's entire disk to a networked 2 TB Desktop External USB drive. I've also made a number of full disk images on a 1TB portable USB drive using the rescue CD WinPE environment all along the path through Win 8.1 to Win 10 upgrade to Win 10 clean install.

I "Backed Up" (Image file) the ENTIRE COMPUTER 85GB today and it only took 11 minutes !!

OldMike65 · 28 Aug 2015

ramram55 said:

Once you have Macrium throw everything else out of the window. It is that easy and good.

Using Acronis boot cd takes me 7 mins for a complete backup of partition and Windows 10 to my 2nd hard drive on my computer. Restoring any backup I want takes about 6 mins. works for me.

JohnBurns · 28 Aug 2015

snoopy51 said:

Wen:

15-18 DVDs are about right due to compression. You have to figure out why Macrium Reflect 6 Home does not write to external USB hard drive.

Office Depot just have a sale for 128 GB USB Sandisk Ultra for $29! Consider buy one and no more insert 15 DVDs and they reusable!

Thanks for tip on USB - good buy even tho shipping was $9.95.

justafool76 · 28 Aug 2015

OldMike65 said:

Using Acronis boot cd takes me 7 mins for a complete backup of partition and Windows 10 to my 2nd hard drive on my computer. Restoring any backup I want takes about 6 mins. works for me.

I too use Acronis and i love it, i have been able to back my lappy every day, i did my last back about 15min ago on to a 64gb usb drive...it took about 7mins and once compressed it used about 32gb. and if i need to do a restore, it takes about 10mins tops to do...

Slartybart · 28 Aug 2015

wen said:

we BOTH like the same Music............Smooth Jazz & 70's Rock !!

Temple University WRTI radio streams some of the best Jazz.

Listen Live to WRTI (Temple University)

Over Labor Day weekend. the station will broadcast the top 100 jazz songs voted by listeners.

Who sung it? Who swung it? Who brung it?
We want to know. Vote for your #1 favorite jazz song here.

We're counting down our listener-selected top 100 jazz songs starting on Friday, September 4th at 6 pm.
The fun continues through Monday, September 7th. Please vote below.
Vote For Your Favorite Jazz Song Today! | WRTI

WRTI's 2015 Labor Day Weekend Jazz Countdown is a must-listen event.

Macrium 6 used 15 DVD+R's to Image 83.01 GB in WIN 10 Pro-wrti-jazz.png

You can save the m3u file and play it on many modern media players instead of the web player
(I use VideoLAN VLC).

Right click either (or both) Listen Live link on the WRTI page and select Save link as.. - give it a memorable name and then you can just launch the stream any time without going to the web site.

The Classical stream is just as good

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To make it even easier, here are the link addresses of the streams

Jazz:	http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wrti/ppr/wrti2.m3u
Classical:	http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wrti/ppr/wrti.m3u

Mark Phelps · 28 Aug 2015

Folks ... you ALL need to understand that the time that is required for backups is different for everyone's PC. One person might complete it in 5 minutes; another might take 45 minutes. What is useful to the OP is to see a general range of times so that they understand that several HOURS is outside any typical timeframe.

So, if mine takes only 5 minutes, and the OP's takes 15 minutes, that does not mean that there is anything wrong with HOW they are doing their backups. But there are sometime options that can be changed to speed up the backup process.

MR (the tool I use) for example, allows for different compression rates. The greater the compression factor (what they call High), the longer it takes to do the backups -- but the less space the backup takes on the disk. So, if my backup was taking longer than I liked, I could reduce the compression level and it would take less time.