run macrium reflect inside virtual machine

[shmu26]

host: ubuntu mint rosa 17.3 x64
guest: windows 10 pro x64

can I run macrium reflect inside the windows guest machine, and still back up the entire hard disk, including the ubuntu partition/s?

will MR be able to make incremental image backups of the linux partitions?

 

[jsmithepa]

My guess is no. But run it, and if it's able to SEE whatever then it should be able to backup whatever.

But there maybe another option. Boot from the recovery flash, in that environment it *may* be able to see everything, and if it does, ur set.

 

[shmu26]

alternatively, what imaging program could I run from the linux host that will replace macrium for me?
what's good?

 

[Alabalcho]

An application running inside a VM will see only that VM' resources, and any shared network resources. It won't see host machine' raw disk (in order to take image backups).

Most Linux setups use rsync as a base for their backup strategies. For image backups, you will probably need your system set up with LVM support (so that snapshots can be taken).