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Macrium offers the process of verification for good reason. It is not mandatory. It is a user defined option. This article from the Macrium site on troubleshooting verification errors explains in detail. It is not a matter of trusting or not trusting the Macrium Software. An excerpt, and link to full article:
Verification errors are extremely rare and generally caused by hardware or media faults.
Troubleshooting Verification Problems
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Yes, hardware failures can be identified through a failed verification by Macrium well before other indicators show up. I had 1 stick of RAM failing recently. Although the failure was not enough to yet affect the Macrium images, it would have been, eventually. And as I said, I've also seen backup drives beginning to fail, which had no other indication except a Macrium verification failure to tip me off.
Doesn't apply to me. I image (2 images to different drives) only after restoring my last image and applying updates.
I can only lose the last image - which has never happened after hundreds of restores.
It not worth the time to me.
If any corruption occurred, it could double the time of that particular update, but that's it.
Of course I do data separately.