Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect  

Well decided to learn it when the other day i was playing with theme on my W10, and it broke down and i sadly didn't have any backup So from now on i will have backup, i have made it so its backed up to another HDD and i have a rescue USB drive so i can restore in min.

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When i am making the rescue disk would this be the right way, the one i have highlighted is my USB drive where i have made the backup to.


The USB looks like this:


IMO, that should be enough to boot the USB and then restore from my USB L: drive to restore C: drive ?

sbh7600 said:

When i am making the rescue disk would this be the right way, the one i have highlighted is my USB drive where i have made the backup to?

NO! I hope you didn't already do it.

You lose the backups if you select that disk. Macrium formats the media you choose as rescue media.

Use a small USB Flash Disk (USB stick) for rescue media.

Kari

Hey,

Thats what i mean :-D i have made a USB drive with the rescue on the content of the USB drive is image no 2

In screenshot you have chosen a 1 TB USH hard disk, which you say contains your backup images.

My reply was to tell you not to choose that disk.

Kari

Okay, what would you do then ?

just make the rescue to a USB drive? i just though i would make the image file to a USB disk and then rescue drive on a flash drive with 8GB storage ?

I think I see the semantics of confusion. Rescue does not mean the images to save to get you back up and running. Rescue means the DEVICE you use that has the bootable Macrium on it. Rescue Thumb drive 8GB for booting. Seagate or WD 1TB to save your images.

f14tomcat said:

I think I see the semantics of confusion. Rescue does not mean the images to save to get you back up and running. Rescue means the DEVICE you use that has the bootable Macrium on it. Rescue Thumb drive 8GB for booting. Seagate or WD 1TB to save your images.

You are right

Macrium PE only uses about 1 GB, so quite a small USB stick is enough.


As F14Tomcat told, rescue media is the USB boot media you use to boot to Macrium when needed, to restore an image from from your USB HDD.

Kari

Yes then i have done i right
But i could spare the 1TB drive if i could make a bootable & image backup on the same flash drive ? if it's possible?