Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect  

Matthew Wai said:

He does not have a lot of non-portable apps, so he need not back up the partitions.

I prefer reinstallation over using an image, and I am not wise enough to use such sophisticated software as Macrium Reflect, which is intended for wise users, I suppose.

Do not confuse common sense with intelligence.

One may not be the most intelligent but have the common sense to understand importance of backups.

People can be intelligent and have no common sense.

Making image backups is not rocket science and it is never too late to learn.

Matthew Wai said:

He does not have a lot of non-portable apps, so he need not back up the partitions.

I prefer reinstallation over using an image, and I am not wise enough to use such sophisticated software as Macrium Reflect, which is intended for wise users, I suppose.

Nope. If I can use it, anyone can.

PostmanPuzzled said:

Thank you for very clear tutorial. I have saved Macrium Reflect to my User Account Download Folder. Would I be wiser to move it to a special partition of my Computer ? I am downloading an image of my Computer Disk Management. I cannot see any way of creating a small partition but I have no experience of doing this and would appreciate some further clarification before continuing.

If you're talking about your images, it would be best to save them to an external drive or to a thumb drive. That way, if anything happens to your computer, you have your backups safe. Personally, I create 2 incremental images daily: one to an external drive that I leave plugged in & one to a thumb drive that I remove every morning & plug it back in at night (which is when I create my images).

If I leave home, I can take my thumb drive with me.

Thank you. I had not yet got on to Backup and Restore and do intend to save those on USB Flash Drives. I was referring to item 12 of the Tutorial re Creating a Recovery Image (sorry prob not quite correct title but I cannot see it without losing this thread message). It talks about creating a small partition on your INTERNAL Drive, I assumed for the ISO required for setting up the Recovery Image, if I understood it correctly.

PostmanPuzzled said:

Thank you. I had not yet got on to Backup and Restore and do intend to save those on USB Flash Drives. I was referring to item 12 of the Tutorial re Creating a Recovery Image (sorry prob not quite correct title but I cannot see it without losing this thread message). It talks about creating a small partition on your INTERNAL Drive, I assumed for the ISO required for setting up the Recovery Image, if I understood it correctly.

Sorry, I couldn't find what you're talking about. FWIW, to duplicate a tab, you usually can right click on it & choose "Duplicate tab". You can also use Alt+D+Enter in Chrome.

PostmanPuzzled said:

Thank you. I had not yet got on to Backup and Restore and do intend to save those on USB Flash Drives. I was referring to item 12 of the Tutorial re Creating a Recovery Image (sorry prob not quite correct title but I cannot see it without losing this thread message). It talks about creating a small partition on your INTERNAL Drive, I assumed for the ISO required for setting up the Recovery Image, if I understood it correctly.

I've only been using MR since 2019, but I've searched and can't find the tutorial you're referencing. That said, the hard drive partition that the RM builder creates, is just another recovery media - flash drive, an ISO file, etc. All of them do the same thing - let you perform backup and recovery operations outside of Windows. By having that rescue environment on the HDD, it's faster. 'Course, if the HDD bites it, you have other media you can boot from.

FWIW, you can get the complete user guide for v8 at: Macrium Reflect KnowledgeBase

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PostmanPuzzled said:

Thank you. I had not yet got on to Backup and Restore and do intend to save those on USB Flash Drives. I was referring to item 12 of the Tutorial re Creating a Recovery Image (sorry prob not quite correct title but I cannot see it without losing this thread message). It talks about creating a small partition on your INTERNAL Drive, I assumed for the ISO required for setting up the Recovery Image, if I understood it correctly.

I've only been using MR since 2019, but I've searched and can't find the tutorial you're referencing. That said, the hard drive partition that the RM builder creates, is just another recovery media - flash drive, an ISO file, etc. All of them do the same thing - let you perform backup and recovery operations outside of Windows. By having that rescue environment on the HDD, it's faster. 'Course, if the HDD bites it, you have other media you can boot from.

FWIW, you can get the complete user guide for v8 at: Macrium Reflect KnowledgeBase