Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect  

Bree said:

Here's the v8 Beta Knowledge base, so you can get a head start....

403 Forbidden

FWIW, I get a "403 Forbidden" message when I click that link now.

phrab said:

FWIW, I get a "403 Forbidden" message when I click that link now.

Interesting, so do I - now.

That was a Beta knowledgebase, it's removal could be a sign that v8 is about to be released.....

fdegrove said:

The V8.0 knowledge base isn't available online yet.

The v8 Beta knowledge base was freely readable until recently, you can read an archived copy of it in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201229...isplay/KNOW80/

Kari said:

This tutorial will need to be completely rewritten. As version 8 is so close, to avoid two rewrites in a few weeks, I'll wait until version 8 is out, before rewriting the tutorial.

Be patient, geeks.

Kari

You are aware, Kari, that patience and geeks don't go together, right?

Wynona said:

You are aware, Kari, that patience and geeks don't go together, right?

I can wait ....and when its released I'll buy it ...

Hi guys, using fully patched MR .v7 free for few years now but never delved into inner workings or using only for full system disk backups. Until now windows were on a 250GB SSD but now I doubled it to 500GB divided into 2 partitions of about equal size.First ones are for Windows and second part (H:) is for games.


Although initial backup goes to another NVME 1TB drive, it takes 30 -40 minutes to finish backup of whole disk. (used to take 10-12 minutes for 250GB drive with about 180GB in files). To shorten and speed up backup process I started to make Differential backup and now I have this:

as the result.Top one is full disk backup and second one I presume is Differential.
Which is just fine but now I'm not sure what would happen when I go to restore. This is what it shows in Restore section

In this mode it doesn't even see differential .mrimg.
Am I right to suppose that in case I want to restore it to already working Windows it would use just differential .mrimg but in case of not working windows or on a new disk, it will use full backup + Differential. ?

CountMike said:

Hi guys, using fully patched MR .v7 free for few years now but never delved into inner workings or using only for full system disk backups. Until now windows were on a 250GB SSD but now I doubled it to 500GB divided into 2 partitions of about equal size.First ones are for Windows and second part (H:) is for games.


Although initial backup goes to another NVME 1TB drive, it takes 30 -40 minutes to finish backup of whole disk. (used to take 10-12 minutes for 250GB drive with about 180GB in files). To shorten and speed up backup process I started to make Differential backup and now I have this:

as the result.Top one is full disk backup and second one I presume is Differential.
Which is just fine but now I'm not sure what would happen when I go to restore. This is what it shows in Restore section

In this mode it doesn't even see differential .mrimg.
Am I right to suppose that in case I want to restore it to already working Windows it would use just differential .mrimg but in case of not working windows or on a new disk, it will use full backup + Differential. ?

The second one from the naming looks like a separate full backup. This is what a full backup and a series of differentials or incrementals looks like. Note the same base name and increasing numerical suffixes.

Just started new differential backup, will see what it will come out of it

CountMike said:

Just started new differential backup, will see what it will come out of it

Not convinced that is the log of a differential. On Disk C: it should show Looking for Changes before Saving Partition. Are you using the same definition file for the full and differential images? If not then I don't know whether MR will be able to find the full image to base the differential on and will do a full backup again.