Windows 10: Couple of Nooby questions about Macrium Reflect

OP

1) strongly recommend you create a MR Rescue usb drive.

2) Also from "other tasks", select option to create a boot entry for Macrium (as a dual boot option).

 

Hi OldMike. Reading your post motivated me to replaced my 2TB spinner (for data) with a Samsung 1TB that was on sale at a local store. It definitely improved my backup times, like cut them by more than half. That said its never going to be really fast because I have two SSDs with a combined total of 238 GBs backing up to a NAS. That why I do differential whenever possible.
Bob

I just replaced the HDD with all my data files with an SDD earlier todat and it really improved my backup times.

 

That is Great news !!! You will love your new found speed. *Smile Also My Macrium Reflect is version 7.0 Registered . And 7.0 seems even faster than their older versions.

 

Yup, I got my upgrade as well and its definitely faster. So glad I dumped Acronis. I cannot believe I put up with Acronis for so long. That's another good thing that being part or this forum did for me.

 

Thats kinda funny, as I did the exact same thing ...dumped Acronis 2 years ago now....*Smile

 

@OldMike65
Thanks for response. Can I ask why you format the USB as FAT?

 

It has to be FAT32 to boot on UEFI systems. If you have a large capacity one and want to store backup image as well, you select option to split backup into separate files and set max size less than 4GB.

 

When restoring a v7 image over aame drive but with files changed, Rapid Delta Restore is awesome.

Rougly if 10℅ of files have changed, it takes 10℅ of time to restore.

Great when you get a virus or malware, or you use ccleaner and go 'crap I did not mean to do that!).

Restoring full images seems to be quicker slightly as well.

 

cereberus has correctly answered your question. Sorry for the late reply, was not on computer until just now. *Smile
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Just one more question if I may.
If I can mount a saved image back up of my PC and copy back any individual file or folder, is there any point in using Windows File History to handle back ups of my photos/music etc?

 

I use both.

I find file history simpler as you can easily move back and forward through time rather than mounting an image and seeing if a file is there. I also backup changed documents hourly which is handy if you make a mistake on a document you are working on.

 

I have turned off anything to do with Windows Backup. *Smile All you need is Macrium Reflect and your MR rescue disk, unless you add it to your Boot Menu. Still always good to keep your rescue disk current and up to date.

But I'm sure you will get different opinions on this subject. *Smile

 

What is important here is to evaluate your data usage/needs. For LX07, he finds FHB useful. In my case, most of my data is videos, and FHB is way more complicated than I need and simple file explorer is adequate to copy stuff.

I keep data on a separate drive from OS+Progs as it means my main drive only really changes significantly when I install new programs or get a build upgrade. I do not always image backup after a cumulative update simply accepting I may have to update to them again but tbh that is me being a bit lazy.

What I would not do is put all data on same drive as OS and progs because it can create massive backup images.

 

FYI, This is not true. The real reason for formatting with FAT32 is for backward compatible with old version of UEFI firmware, with new version of UEFI firmware, it'll boot whether it's FAT32 or NTFS.

 

Well actually it is true. There is no mention at all of NTFS in the UEFI specifications.

While you might have UEFI firmware that contains NTFS drivers the UEFI standard doesn't require them and none (neither) of my UEFI systems have them.

Specifications | Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum

I need to load EFI NTFS drivers to access NTFS. This isn't required for booting Windows as the Windows loader deals with that but if you want to be able to access NTFS file system for some other reason you may well need them - I certainly do.

The rEFInd Boot Manager: Using EFI Drivers

Sorry to be so pedantic but I was reading the UEFI specs the other day for some reason.