Macrium - User Nameable Drives?

Hi, great that you're using disk imaging regularly.

Here's what I do to identify my image backup sets of files (full image + several differentials for the same partitions).

I create a folder on my backup disk with an appropriate name identifying the PC, the base build I started the image set with, and perhaps the partitions imaged in appropriate manner for each set of image files - each backup job.

The image files from that backup definition file are written to that folder.
That way I don't have to worry about the image file name at all.



There's part of the definition file I use for this Lenovo t440s laptop which just has a single disk.

You can see the image files a are all in a named folder on the backup disk, (allocated drive letter 'M' - later in the alphabet so it's always the same letter to make it easy).

That definition file is created when I create the base image for an image set.

To then create differentials: easy:
- plug in disk
- launch Macrium R
- rt click the definition file (which is appropriately named of course- the same as the folder on the backup disk

- click run now
- wait for it to complete.

That way the backup disk can have several different folders, one folder for each backup job if I wish.

The folder is even displayed here:


You can, of course, add a comment to backups as well.

You cannot change drive numbers. It is slightly annoying but Windows numbers drives 0, 1, 2 etc. but Reflect numbers 1, 2, 3 etc. i.e. one on from Windows.