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I'm not disagreeing with anyone's choice of verifying or not or their rationale. Just my opinion the extra 1 minute 30 seconds on average is not too high a price to pay, nor an inconvenience. I have a fast machine as others do, some have slower. It really does depend on your particular circumstances, including how much data is involved. There is no black and white correct answer.
Started doing more restores from backups since getting a new SSD while back. MR is so reliable, I recommend to anyone I talk, chat or post too. Another program (Acrony) failed me when I needed it, I searched for backup programs and it led to this forum and MR. Best google search I have done in years. So happy with MR and here. Just waiting on the coming update to see what they add into it making it so much better.
People have kind of forgotten that the roots of imaging backup goes back to days of lower capacity hard drives when backup was primarily to DVDs. Then verification was essential as read/write errors were common.
However, since large hard drives are the main target, read/write errors are pretty much a thing of the past with a healthy drive.
My laptop takes around 7 mins to backup - I am just not prepared to nearly double that for an action that has never had any postive impact for years. But hey I understand the risk.
I test the validity of a backup now and then by mounting image as a drive using viboot (available to all Reflect users on Pro). If it boots in viboot, the backup is fine. This is actually very quick and a better test than verification. Verification only tests that the image has been written correctly - it does not test that you have backed up the right things, so if you were not careful you may have a non bootable image.