She'd just have to live with the imaging program's inadequacies as a personal file backup tool. If your wife would demand only a single tool, it would likely have to be Macrium or an imaging tool of some type because the "personal file" backup tools do NOT help you rebuild Windows in case of a serious problem. I'm specifically interested in whether or not ANYTHING on the external also needs to be "backed up". Save that image file to the the external.īut that advice might be inappropriate-depending on the purpose of her external drive. The standard advice for her would be to use Macrium to make ONE image file representing ALL partitions on the internal drive that contains C. Wife: does she keep personal files on BOTH her internal drive and the external? Or are the files on the external purely duplicates of certain files on the internal? On my W10 laptop I could use several backup tools if necessary. So I need something to set on her PC and forget about it and its attached ext hdd. Just boot any linux live distro and run the DD command to try it. Note backing up data needs different strategy from backing up the OS - remember though even with the Macrium Free version you can mount a backup image and browse / copy data files.įor cloning / copying HDD's / SSD's you can't do better than the old venerable Linux dd command - saves worrying about what file system, partition sizes etc etc - just copies sector by sector whatever is on the disk and in whatever format -it's just physical data - it doesn't care at all about format / file systems disk permissions etc etc. Anything that works is fine -just check that restores also work - many times I've seen people backing up stuff - no errors reported and when they come to restore - messages like Corrupt image etc etc.įor backing up data etc I rely on a Linux NAS system - I use rsync (or if you like a GUI Grsync) -advantage of Linux is easy crontab to schedule jobs whenever !!!
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