New Macrium Reflect Updates [2]

IronZorg89 said:

Just a little reminder: Never a good idea to save your backups on an internal HDD and I know you can understand why...

": Never a good idea "?????
Never say never.
If your an overclocker and like to benchmark on the very edge of stability, using an internal SSD for backups is a must, in case you get a system corruption from a BSOD, the internal SSD get's you back up and running in a few minutes.

A combo, as I do. My dailys are to an internal, with weeklys and monthlys to external.

Same rationale as Cliff. I mess around a lot, and the internal is quick and convenient for a fast Incremental before playing, used "like" a restore point or Checkpoint. Something goes wacky boop, and I'm back in a couple of minutes.

Although either could fail without notice, odds of both (Int/Ext) failing at the same time is nil.

If you're using a backup system, such as Macrium and others, that has a Rescue Media capability, that can be used in the event of boot drive failure to access any of the backups made anywhere.

Cliff S said:

": Never a good idea "?????
Never say never.
If your an overclocker and like to benchmark on the very edge of stability, using an internal SSD for backups is a must, in case you get a system corruption from a BSOD, the internal SSD get's you back up and running in a few minutes.

f14tomcat said:

A combo, as I do. My dailys are to an internal, with weeklys and monthlys to external.

Same rationale as Cliff. I mess around a lot, and the internal is quick and convenient for a fast Incremental before playing, used "like" a restore point or Checkpoint. Something goes wacky boop, and I'm back in a couple of minutes.

Although either could fail without notice, odds of both (Int/Ext) failing at the same time is nil.

If you're using a backup system, such as Macrium and others, that has a Rescue Media capability, that can be used in the event of boot drive failure to access any of the backups made anywhere.

As long as you know exactly what you are doing. Even for overclocking, apart from backing up on an SSD, it is always good to cover your back with a backup on external HDD in case something goes amiss. I won't argue much with you guys, who are gurus and have a lot of experience tinkering around with the system. The general consensus is to backup on external HDD and even have a reserved copy on a portable HDD.

IronZorg89 said:

As long as you know exactly what you are doing. Even for overclocking, apart to backup on an SSD, it is always good to cover your back with a backup on external HDD in case something goes amiss. I won't argue much with you guys, who are gurus and have a lot of experience with tinkering around with the system. The general consensus is to backup on external HDD and even have a reserved copy on a portable HDD.

That is the best advice for newbs and general home users. No argument there.

Ditendra said:

Finally, yesterday installed free edition of Macrum Reflect. I did my first full backup and configured schedule option easily too. Now I have one more question. As I see from now on, I should let my computer sleep instead of shutting it down, so in case my PC is off (maybe I'm out of home), Macrum can wake my PC up and do the scheduled backup. However, in my bios wake up option was disabled by default and when I was putting my PC to sleep, it wouldn't wake up by clicking my mouse or hitting the keyboard unless I would manuall hit the reset button on my case. So, I went into bios and checked the area of wake up. There are 2 options there: To wake up computer either by Bios, either by OS. First, I tried by OS and when I put PC to sleep, I was unable to wake PC by clicking mouse and keyboard. Again needed manually hit reset button. Then I tried Bios option and enabled other sub-options to wake up PC by this, by that and etc... Then I tested it and computer woke up from sleep by clicking the mouse and keyboard. Anyway, which option should I choose there in order to make Macrum Reflect work, so it can wake up PC when it's a schedule time?

Also, another question: What happens if instead of sleep, I shutdown my PC and Macrum is unable to run the backup on a scheduled time. What happens after that, when I will turn on my PC?

If your computer is off at the scheduled time it will perform the backup when you restart it by default but you can change that if you wish. I tend to schedule my backups for a time that I will have my PC on and never use sleep so I can't answer the first part. Perhaps others can.