vipergg said:
So this is the recomended way to backup the image now ?
The main drawbacks (for me) with making disk images using Windows built-in backup is that -

1. It uses the same folder WindowsImageBackup every time, so it will overwrite the previous disk image saved in that folder, making it impossible to keep multiple disk images...unless you rename the existing folder.

Example:

You would have to manually rename the folder WindowsImageBackup to something like WindowsImageBackup-TodaysDate BEFORE creating the new image.

So, say if you wanted to restore a disk image from a couple of weeks ago, you would need to rename the current folder to something other than WindowsImageBackup (like WindowsImageBackup-Ignore) and rename the folder WindowsImageBackup-TwoWeeksAgoDate to WindowsImageBackup.

WindowsImageBackup is the only folder name that is recognized.

It's a mess.

2. There is no "byte-for-byte" validation, so there is no way to verify that files on the disk image match those on the drive that was backed up.

3. There is no way to control how the disk image file is compressed on the backup drive. Larger backups mean fewer disk images can be stored.