Macrium Reflect image storage

[DRIFT-O-MATIC]

I have a question about storing the Macrium Reflect images. I have around 15 computers that I have scattered all over the city that I maintain for several friends and relatives. I have a portable 200 GB hard drive that I travel with for temporarily storing system backup images of these computers, using Macrium Reflect Free. At home, I have a desktop computer that has an internal secondary 3 TB physical hard drive, aside from the main physical hard drive. I periodically cut and paste all these different system images onto the secondary HD, to make sure I have a backup of all those computers, in case of a catastrophic failure on any of them. I use Carbonite to back up all these images to cloud storage. The portable hard drive is too small to store them all.
My question is this: If my portable hard drive should ever fail, could I still copy any of these saved images from my home computer to a new portable hard drive, and be able to restore one of my friends failed hard drives successfully to a new hard drive in their same machine? Or does the backup image have to be extracted from the original portable drive that Macrium sent it to the first time?

 

[drtweak]

IF you make an IMAGE with Macrium reflect all you need to do is restore that image to a hard drive. You can either use the Recovery DVD and boot off of that and then restore the image from a coping it to a portable hard drive, or connect the new hard drive directly to your PC that has the Image and and restore directly to there.

I use it all the time. It is a great program.

 

[CountMike]

Yes, you can copy .mrimg files anywhere you want.

 

[DRIFT-O-MATIC]

Yes, you can copy .mrimg files anywhere you want.

So it will work, even if the image file has been moved around to several different storage devices?

 

[CountMike]

Yes no problem. As long as file is not damaged of course.

 

[USAFRet]

Agreed, no problem moving that Macrium image to somewhere else.

When needed, boot from the Macrium Rescue DVD that you create, and navigate to the relevant image you wish to use.

 

[duppcopy]

IF you make an IMAGE with Macrium reflect all you need to do is restore that image to a hard drive. You can either use the Recovery DVD and boot off of that and then restore the image from a coping it to a portable hard drive, or connect the new hard drive directly to your PC that has the Image and and restore directly to there.

I use it all the time. It is a great program.

 

[duppcopy]

Weee...that's a convoluted answer to a very simple question. He's only inquiring if it's ok to copy and paste macrium reflect image: of course the answer is YES. You're answer is way-off the target.

 

[drtweak]

Weee...that's a convoluted answer to a very simple question. He's only inquiring if it's ok to copy and paste macrium reflect image: of course the answer is YES. You're answer is way-off the target.

First this is a 6 month of thread so why even bother and second I did answer his question but only with full instructions to restore from a portable as well. Read it again.