[SOLVED] Macrium Reflect

[Midhun Kumar]

I am planning to use an external HDD to to create an image file of my system partition using Macrium Reflect. I want to know whether my HDD will be formatted in the process. If not, then can I use the externall HDD containing the iso file normally, like for storing media & other files?

 

[USAFRet]

I am planning to use an external HDD to to create an image file of my system partition using Macrium Reflect. I want to know whether my HDD will be formatted in the process. If not, then can I use the externall HDD containing the iso file normally, like for storing media & other files?

If you use Macrium to make an Image, the rest of the drive can be used as normal.
An Image results in a single file.....xxxx.mrimage.

 

[Midhun Kumar]

Thanks

 

[USAFRet]

I do a Full image, and then a rolling series of Incrementals.
Can recover the system back to any state it was in the last 30 days.

 

[Midhun Kumar]

If you use Macrium to make an Image, the rest of the drive can be used as normal.
An Image results in a single file.....xxxx.mrimage.

My external HDD will be formatted during the backup process? (I am new to Reflect, so, I am asking this for a confirmation)

 

[USAFRet]

My external HDD will be formatted during the backup process? (I am new to Reflect, so, I am asking this for a confirmation)

No, it does not get formatted.
Macrium just writes a single file out to the target drive.

I have all my systems, and each drive individually, write Images out to a space on my NAS.
Multiple systems, over a dozen individual drives, all in one folder tree.

Instead of the NAS, that could just as easily be an external drive or two.

What is your backup situation at home?

What is your backup situation at home? And if you don't do that, why not? Every single day, I read multiple threads here of "How do I get my stuff back?" or "That drive had 5 years of photos of my kids!!" Be it a dead drive, dropped phone, virus, accidental deletion, formatting the wrong...

forums.tomshardware.com

 

[Midhun Kumar]

Thanks for reply

 

[Midhun Kumar]

I want to create a backup image of my entire system using Reflect. My laptop has a 1TB HDD. It has no partitons, its a whole single drive. 56GB of the space is used. But, when I see in Reflect, it shows 4 different partitions
1 system_DRV, fat32(lba) primary, 30mb free/260mb
2 (None), unformatted primary, 16mb/16mb
3 Windows (c), NTFS primary, 56gb/930gb
4 WINRE_DRV, NTFS primary, 502mb/1000mb
Wat should I do? Should I select all the partitions for creating the image?

 

[USAFRet]

I want to create a backup image of my entire system using Reflect. My laptop has a 1TB HDD. It has no partitons, its a whole single drive. 56GB of the space is used. But, when I see in Reflect, it shows 4 different partitions
1 system_DRV, fat32(lba) primary, 30mb free/260mb
2 (None), unformatted primary, 16mb/16mb
3 Windows (c), NTFS primary, 56gb/930gb
4 WINRE_DRV, NTFS primary, 502mb/1000mb
Wat should I do? Should I select all the partitions for creating the image?

Yes. Select ALL partitions.
Creating an Image of that will result in a single file of 50-55GB.

 

[Midhun Kumar]

I created a system image. On the backup schedule plan window, I unckeceked all those boxes saying Full backup, Incremental backup, Purge backup & the like (because, I just want to create a one time backup). The backup image finally created was of about 27GB (real used space in my laptop is about 57GB). Unticking those options make a difference in the image? The image finally created covers all the data on my laptop?

 

[USAFRet]

I created a system image. On the backup schedule plan window, I unckeceked all those boxes saying Full backup, Incremental backup, Purge backup & the like (because, I just want to create a one time backup). The backup image finally created was of about 27GB (real used space in my laptop is about 57GB). Unticking those options make a difference in the image? The image finally created covers all the data on my laptop?

An Image leaves off things like the pagefile and hibernation file. It also does a little bit of compression.
Hence, the differing sizes.