In addition to my new tests of Macrium Reflect on a dedicated, local, spinning, external USB 3 drive, I’m also and simultaneously running (a.) File History on a 3rd, dedicated, internal spinning drive, and (b.) two separate cloud data backups to iDrive and Google Drive. So I saw/see that as unnecessary because I could instead willingly wipe my SSD system drive and start over from unforeseen catastrophic failures of Windows 10 or the computer’s hardware. Tell us what programs you run and what data you keep locally and we can provide more specifics.Īlthough my preference would be to image the system drive each night to protect against Microsoft’s approach to Windows 10, with imaging softwares I’ve tested that would take several hours each night. But I have one PC where the data files are on a separate (larger) internal hard disk, and so the Macrium images from that PC contain just the OS and the installed programs.
For example, most of my computers have the OS, software, and data files in the same C: partition of the same hard disk, and so all of that is taken care of when I create a system image. It depends largely on where you normally keep your data. Regarding what to include in the backup, the simplest setup is to keep everything–OS, programs, and data–on the same Windows partition, but there are many ways to do it. If and when the time comes to restore a system image (usually because of OS software corruption or hardware failure of the drive that contains the OS), you would insert the Macrium rescue disk and connect the external drive containing the system image, then reboot into the Macrium rescue disk. The backup full system image on an external disk.The system itself (an internal drive containing your OS and programs and likely also your data.So your complete Macrium Reflect setup will have three components: The way I do it (and, I suspect, the way most people do it) is to create the Macrium rescue media on a CD or flash drive, and create the system image on a separate, external USB disk.
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