Macrium Reflect

Cerawy · 23 Mar 2023

Compumind said:

I wouldn't even consider it.

Use an external drive like a portable HDD, SSD or Thumb Drive.

No thanks. I have one usb memory stick which i use to install windows with, that's enough.

I'd also like to get rid of the extra partition that i have, where my backup file is stored, so that i only have a c-drive and that's it.

Bree · 23 Mar 2023

Cerawy said:

....I'd also like to get rid of the extra partition that i have, where my backup file is stored, so that i only have a c-drive and that's it.

You cannot save an image to a partition that's being backed up. It has to be saved to another drive that's not being included in the image, either a separate partition or an external drive.

Compumind · 24 Mar 2023

Bree said:

You cannot save an image to a partition that's being backed up. It has to be saved to another drive that's not being included in the image, either a separate partition or an external drive.

Cerawy · 29 Mar 2023

Bree said:

You cannot save an image to a partition that's being backed up. It has to be saved to another drive that's not being included in the image, either a separate partition or an external drive.

Yes i know, that's why i was wondering if you could create a backup image with macrium and save it to your cloud, but i guess that macrium, or any other backup software does not have this feature?

I'd just like to get rid of the macrium start menu, as well as the extra partition.

Bree · 29 Mar 2023

Cerawy said:

Yes i know, that's why i was wondering if you could create a backup image with macrium and save it to your cloud, but i guess that macrium, or any other backup software does not have this feature?

Backiing up to the cloud (OneDrive, etc) may be difficult, but you can certainly back up to and restore from any drive you can access as a network share.

Reflect can back up to a network drive.....

...and the Macrium Recovery USB includes networking, so you can map a drive to a network share. If you use WinRE to build the rescue media it will also support WiFi.

SIW2 · 29 Mar 2023

you probabaly can.

paragon explain how to do it here. You can probably do the same with any other imaging program if your cloud storage supports it.

https://download.paragon-software.co...oud_WebDAV.pdf

cereberus · 29 Mar 2023

Cerawy said:

Yes i know, that's why i was wondering if you could create a backup image with macrium and save it to your cloud, but i guess that macrium, or any other backup software does not have this feature?

I'd just like to get rid of the macrium start menu, as well as the extra partition.

If you get rid of the setting in boot menu, you are 100% reliant on usb flash drives to do restore. A better option is to keep the boot entry (you have to set it up) but reduce the time to say 3-4 seconds to boot to windows if you do not select anything. The minimum is 2 seconds which is just a bit too fast to react (imo).

You can image to Onedrive, but you need a really fast internet, and most in UK just do not get high enough speeds (I do not know where you come from, so only you can judge that). Backup to another drive, and copy it to onedrive syncing overnight say.