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Hi there
I don't use viBoot !! however whatever you use for backup / recovery one should always test that it works !!!! If viBoot can restore a machine to what is required then that's fine. With Linux also its easy with things like dd to copy disks / partitions and the OS can load and run entirely from an external device even if there's no bootable HDD in the computer.
You can make a Windows to Go machine easily enough also but it's complicated cloning your current running OS to boot and run totally from an external device.
Macrium is 100% good enough for backup and restore of Windows OS or if you want to image entire disks (or clone them). For data backup - especially with large volumes of data you definitely need another plan -- it's no point imaging a 10TB data array when your data doesn't change that much --e.g music etc. In some ways backing up user data is more important than backing up the OS - the OS can usually be re-installed again and even old legacy abandoned software can often be found on Internet Archive sites - but if you lose say music ripped from several 100 or even 1000's of CD's - especially rare music or performances - well that's a different ballgame.
Cheers
jimbo
How can I fix this problem when trying to run getting this error "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect"
The word in the Beta bushes says next week... hope it's true!
<Yikes!!!> Now I'm gettin' scared ... need to hide in the pond for a while.
Last edited by FroggyTheGremli; 14 May 2021 at 18:30.