External hard drive . I need advice

Hi,
As far as macrium reflect all one needs is the recovery cd/ flash media or winpe recovery media to be able to create or restore a system image
I've been using it primarily to create and recover system images for nearly a year
Best to get familiar with the recovery process you will eventually have to use it
Create Backup Image with Macrium Reflect by Britec - YouTube

One quirk with creating a system image in the recovery environment is one needs to create a folder on the hdd you want the image to be on first.

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
As far as macrium reflect all one needs is the recovery cd/ flash media or winpe recovery media to be able to create or restore a system image
I've been using it primarily to create and recover system images for nearly a year
Best to get familiar with the recovery process you will eventually have to use it
Create Backup Image with Macrium Reflect by Britec - YouTube

One quirk with creating a system image in the recovery environment is one needs to create a folder on the hdd you want the image to be on first.

I have been inspired by this forum to get serious about my backup and now have macrium backups on my internal hdd inside my computer. I had tried many times with paragon software which was just too confusing for me. It wasn't cheap software either!

The macrium backup tutorial here made it a piece of cake.

One query, if you utilize an external drive for extra backup purposes only, to store remote from primary location....

Do you just copy and paste the image files to the usb3 external drive or should you use the macrium software to produce the images to the usb3 external drive every time?

I guess there is no verification process with basic cut and paste...

I would like to do macrium incrementals daily and about once a fortnight bring the external harddrive home, copy all the macrium images and then take back to store at work...

juzzie said:

I have been inspired by this forum to get serious about my backup and now have macrium backups on my internal hdd inside my computer. I had tried many times with paragon software which was just too confusing for me. It wasn't cheap software either!

The macrium backup tutorial here made it a piece of cake.

One query, if you utilize an external drive for extra backup purposes only, to store remote from primary location....

Do you just copy and paste the image files to the usb3 external drive or should you use the macrium software to produce the images to the usb3 external drive every time?

I guess there is no verification process with basic cut and paste...

I would like to do macrium incrementals daily and about once a fortnight bring the external harddrive home, copy all the macrium images and then take back to store at work...

You can copy the Reflect image files where you want and navigate to restore them from within Reflect. However, Reflect will lose track of the backups if you do this and moving the image files is error prone if you forget to keep the original and differential backups together.