Macrium Reflect Question

CChamp said:

Got MR installed Rescue Disk made and an Image Backup. Feelin pretty good. One question tho, is it possible or even logical to put the image on a jumpdrive by itself, or is it better to put it on an external drive (which is what I did)?

Totally agree - flash drives are not that reliable. Morever you are usually less space constrained with a hard drive i.e. you can have multiple backups.

I also peridically copy my backup to cloud (pragmatically accepting I may have to reinstall some recent upgrades) to cater for backup drive failing.

cereberus said:

Whilst this is true, once data has been separated from the OS, there are better tools for backing up data drives.

Why use another tool when you can also backup the data partition using Reflect and recover individual files or folders?

ignatzatsonic said:

I wouldn't feel "pretty good" until I had:

A: confirmed that the "rescue disk" did in fact boot the PC. I would hope it's not a "disc".

and

B. had some acquaintance with restore procedures, well beyond "I'll figure it out when the stuff hits the fan".

You can use the viBoot feature to boot a Reflect image into a VM and test it works

Steve C said:

Why use another tool when you can also backup the data partition using Reflect and recover individual files or folders?

Other tools can be more sophisticated e.g. real time backups, multiple versions, syncing to cloud, other devices etc.

File History Backup is pretty good for data backup and is built in.
Equally, you can just simply use zip files, File explorer etc. and no need to mount images etc.

As I said, whist it is true, there are other (imo better) ways but in the end, it is down to user choice based on their needs.

I do not find file and folder backup (even though I have it) to be particularly useful.

Steve C said:

You can use the viBoot feature to boot a Reflect image into a VM and test it works

This is true for Pro users. However it has constraints i.e. there has to be enough space on the drive to load the created vitual hard drive (if at maximum size).

In practice, you need two drives with second drive having space equivalent to the size of imaged drive EVEN if imaged drive is not full.

There is a way round this i.e. clone drive to a smaller vhd first, and then create image backup of vhd.