Question System Image Backup

[nbartolo7]

When choosing system image as a backup option in Windows, does the backup only save what's on the drive at that particular moment in time? Meaning, that if 2 minutes after it finishes backing up, I change a file or do whatever, and I want to backup that change as well, I need to do another system image backup manually?

 

[USAFRet]

Ok so at least I can have one image done in those 30 days, right? At least that's that. Sure I won't be able to do the automatic image thing every x amount of time.

Correct.

 

[nbartolo7]

On my main system, I do have the paid version. Bought years ago.
All the others free, apparently grandfathered, because they still work.

For me, MR is one of those applications that are worth the money, because they simply "just work".

Do you also have a cloud backup of your image or of your main system like Backblaze or something? Or do you only have an image?

 

[Lafong]

Ok so at least I can have one image done in those 30 days, right? At least that's that. Sure I won't be able to do the automatic image thing every x amount of time.

Do you know if you will be able to RESTORE that image on the 40th or 50th day?

 

[USAFRet]

Do you also have a cloud backup of your image or of your main system like Backblaze or something? Or do you only have an image?

On my main system, I have a rolling 30 days of Incremental images.

For my "cloud"...that is 2x hard drives, containing multiple Images of all my systems and drives, stashed in a desk drawer at work.
Refreshed quarterly or so.

 

[nbartolo7]

Do you know if you will be able to RESTORE that image on the 40th or 50th day?

They can block my restore remotely?

 

[USAFRet]

Do you know if you will be able to RESTORE that image on the 40th or 50th day?

Can only be proven when tried.

 

[nbartolo7]

On my main system, I have a rolling 30 days of Incremental images.

For my "cloud"...that is 2x hard drives, containing multiple Images of all my systems and drives, stashed in a desk drawer at work.
Refreshed quarterly or so.

Alright cool. One more thing, if someone steals my laptop or desktop (less likely), the image will not work on a brand-new laptop or system, would it? I heard I need to buy the exact same laptop or build the exact same desktop for the restore to succeed? Is that correct?

You said to this guy, that unfortunately, a Windows install is not that modular, even with Macrium ReDeploy.

 

[USAFRet]

Alright cool. One more thing, if someone steals my laptop or desktop (less likely), the image will not work on a brand-new laptop or system, would it? I heard I need to buy the exact same laptop or build the exact same desktop for the restore to succeed? Is that correct?

You said to this guy, that unfortunately, a Windows install is not that modular, even with Macrium ReDeploy.

Mostly correct, yes.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails.

I would not count on it working.

 

[Lafong]

They can block my restore remotely?

What would "remotely" have to do with it?

It may be that Macrium free/trial would be dead in the water on the 31st day.

Or not.

I have no idea. I have a paid for version, not "free", not "trial".

 

[Darkbreeze]

Cloud?

OMFJC. Really? No. That means you TRUST all your MOST important things, to somebody else. That's dumb. You know who you should trust? You. Period. I mean, at least if you ARE doing things right.

That means, figure out what you can live with in terms of backups, and then make them, religiously. On SOME kind of media that YOU own. External drive. Secondary internal drive. Optical media. "Cloud" backups should only be done because we want AT LEAST three instances of ANYTHING important. So, the actual system, plus a local media backup, plus a cloud storage, would be fine. The same thing but with the actual media, a local backup AND an optical spanned disk backup, would be better. AND, if you can ADD a cloud backup to that, even better.