How To Back Up?

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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       #92

    I'm running Windows 10 Pro by the way.

    Macrium is still considered the best backup solution for Windows 10?

    I know Windows 10 received a bunch of major updates since I created this thread so is the inbuilt backup system in Windows 10 Pro any better now?
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       #93

    NiceAndShy said:
    I know Windows 10 received a bunch of major updates since I created this thread so is the inbuilt backup system in Windows 10 Pro any better now?
    Microsoft recommends that you use something else:
    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ll-creators-up

    The following features and functionalities in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update are either removed from the product in the current release (“Removed”) or are not in active development and might be removed in future releases (“Deprecated”).

    System Image Backup (SIB) Solution
    We [Microsoft] recommend that users use full-disk backup solutions from other vendors.
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    10 Home x64 (22H2) (10 Pro on 2nd pc)
       #94

    NiceAndShy said:
    ... is the inbuilt backup system in Windows 10 Pro any better now?
    There has been no development of the in-built system imaging as it is a deprecated feature in Fall Creators Update.

    Microsoft said:
    System Image Backup (SIB) Solution
    We recommend that users use full-disk backup solutions from other vendors.
    Features removed or Deprecated in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
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  5. Posts : 696
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       #95

    Thanks for your replies!

    So it's now not possible to backup using Windows 10?

    So I have no choice but to use a 3rd party app for backing up now?
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  6. Posts : 18,424
    Windows 11 Pro
       #96

    It's possible, but not reliable.
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  7. Posts : 15,441
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       #97

    NavyLCDR said:
    It's possible, but not reliable.
    Not so much it is that unreliable but if you get any issues MS will no longer fix it. But overall Macrium Reflect has proved to be very reliable. I have only had one failure in over six years and that was more due to the backup drive beginning to fail.
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  8. Posts : 31,459
    10 Home x64 (22H2) (10 Pro on 2nd pc)
       #98

    There are backups, and then there are backups. One aim is safe keeping of user document and files, the other is a system image that can recreate the working PC should the drive fail or become corrupted.

    For the first aim...
    NiceAndShy said:
    ...Up until today I've been backing up my PC's internal HDD using a very crude system of "copying and pasting" folders to an external USB HDD...
    ...well, actually if you are methodical it's as good a way as any. I've automated that task by writing a batch file that uses RoboCopy to do much the same thing (with 'bells and whistles' on it to allow Full and Incremental backups).

    For the second I still use the built-in 'create a system image'. Yes, I'm well aware of it's limitations, but stay within them and I find it can be reliable.

    But you should never rely on just one 'backup solution', so I also have File History turned on.

    Macrium is versatile and flexible and can satisfy both aims in one package. As and when the MS imaging is removed rather than just deprecated, that would be my first choice as a replacement (but I'll still have my other 'backup' solutions in place - you can never have enough backups).
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