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You missed my point.
You said: "Incremental backups contain changes since last incremental backup."
As such, that statement is not true. If it were true, where would the first incremental come from, if the next one could only contain changes since previous incremental?
In all backup plans, and in all scenarios, also in "branches", an incremental can follow another incremental, a differential, or a full backup.
Kari
Based on the drives you choose to backup, will Macrium tell you how much space on the destination drive is needed?
Is it common for people to backup user profiles along with system, or do they use some other method of backing up user profiles?
When I back up my C:drive I backup the entire drive and all the other Windows partitions. No exclusions.
I keep all my personal files, Documents, downloads, music, etc on a separate partition. The forum has a tutorial on how to move these.
Each backup definition (how often, type of backup, retention) can then be targeted to a specific purpose.
Your compression values will vary depending on source.
My scenario Is that I have a new PC with a smallish M.2 drive. I would like to image it and clone the image to a larger drive without first booting the PC.
Is it possible if I have created a USB bootable drive with the Macrium software?
Thanks in advance for your reply and help.
You can do this:
Install Macrium on your smallish drive.
Make the bootable recovery USB flash drive within Macrium. Confirm it will boot your PC.
Make the image file in Macrium and store it on some other drive, probably external.
Shut down and reboot from the bootable flash drive you just made, not the hard drive.
That will lead you to the Macrium interface.
Use Macrium menus to restore the image file you just made to the larger drive.
That isn't "cloning". Cloning is a possibility, but a different operation that does NOT involve making an image file. Either might work, but I'd try imaging first.