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Today's thoughts on backup and Macrium Reflect
I selected Macrium Reflect for my backup and restore software, but I must say my experience using it has been rocky.
I used the MR tutorial, which I struggled with because (as F14 Tomcat later told me) the tutorial contains images from a mix of versions, possibly none of the the current version. Not being current is o.k. *if the tutorial is dated or says which version it is for*, but a mix?
I stumbled across the actual means of creating recovery media. The program now is nothing like the tutorial, which is too bad because the prompts and texts in the tutorial would have been so welcome if they had been in the actual software. I never learned what the check mark to the right side of each disk on the backup menu was for, but I hope it was o.k. to uncheck it. I have no idea what the mystery disks are that were listed for possible backup but I unchecked them all, fixing all of my attention on the disks to be backed up (C and D) and the one to back up to (L).
I put a couple of comments on the tutorial pages, and learned from the responses that there may be a review of the newest version of the software on the W11 forum. Hey folks, many of us are still here. (My computer repair man told me just today "Don't go to Windows 11. Trouble." He is a man of few words.
Also from those comments I learned from Denis that Microsoft no longer recommends its backup and restore tools. Folks, can we please have a note to that effect at the head of each page of the tutorials for that?
My backup seems to be chugging along (it says it has done C and is on D) so it is a good day. However, once before I went from backup software to just periodically copying my most-changed folders to my backup drive, and I had hoped the backup process was less fraught now.