Backing up files problem

GM66 said:

Okay! I just need Backing up of files and folders feature. I do not need any imaging software.

A system image is always a useful precaution. You may never need it but if all goes badly wrong (eg. your hard drive dies) you'd be thankful you had one.

A Macrium Reflect image can be mounted as a virtual drive and files copied from it with File Explorer. So it does back up your files and folders, it just includes a lot more besides.

Paul Black said:

NOT advisable.

Personally, I would stay clear of the Windows Built-In Imaging & Backup option for the reasons I have given below, because they just don't work most of the time.

Information:

DOWNSIDE:

It is common knowledge that most of the time you CAN'T trust ANY of the MS built-in Backup or Image facilities because they just DON'T work. The System Imaging facility is a deprecated feature which is NO longer being developed or updated [ it used the same executables in every version of W10 ]. Even MS say that the built-in System Imaging facility should NOT be used . . .




SOURCE: > Features Removed or Deprecated in Windows 10

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UPSIDE:

If you do use the built-in MS System Imaging facility, then a Recovery Drive USB from almost any version of Win 10 is capable of restoring any other version of a Win 10 MS System Image. A Recovery Drive USB and the System Repair Disk DVD are functionally identical. The only requirement is that it is the same Win 10 bit type [ x86 or x64 ] as the System Image to be restored.

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I hope this helps.

File History Backup is a totally different feature to the imaging and backup feature.


As I said FHB is not a deprecated feature.

cereberus said:

File History Backup is a totally different feature to the imaging and backup feature.

That will teach me to read the thread properly.
Thanks, I have deleted my post.

GM66 said:

Getting heated in here after marked solved!

Everybody play nice!

Nah this is not heated. See thumbs up from @Paul Black.

GM66 said:

....with Microsoft claiming their will never be another OS after Windows 10, years ago, and then Coming up with 11....

No, that was never an official Microsoft statement. Jerry Nixon made an off-the-cuff remark at the Ignite conference in 2015, that's all.

According to the transcript of the session, Nixon’s comment was more of a throwaway line, one that he literally referred to as a segue...
. ...But give Nixon a break, too: He made an enthusiastic, throwaway comment that ended up being understood as company policy.

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