With this setup, am I going to be able to boot from the “Emergency Disk” flash drive I created, and restore the O/S to my current system drive to make the computer bootable again? Or, in the event of a drive failure, will I be able to put in a NEW hard drive and restore to THAT drive so it’s bootable and has all the settings and programs available that were on the old hard drive?Īnd with the incremental backups, restore the system to the day of the last successful backup? I haven’t found an explanation of “appoint weekly first backup as” that makes sense, but I found a case study that specified the backups the way I did them. Somewhere in there it deletes the full and incremental backups that are more than 4 weeks old.

it creates a full backup and every other day at 3 a.m. For Image-Reserve Strategy I specified “no more than 4 weeks” and checked “Don’t delete the first image”. I then selected “System Backup” again and created ANOTHER backup with: Weekly, every day EXCEPT Monday at 3 a.m., specified “Incremental” in Backup Method, and told it to wake the computer if needed. In the free Todo Backup, I selected “System Backup” and created a backup with: Weekly on Monday at 3 a.m., specified “Full” for Backup Method and told it to wake the computer if needed. So I’m looking at a couple different backup/restore tools (including Windows) to see what'll be easiest for regular 'users' to use. Recently, an acquaintance who didn’t have ANY backup had a system disk failure and said it was “unpleasant” (I'm editing heavily). I've also never had to restore anything from the Macrium backups, but I hope it'll work if I ever have to. The interface seems more complex than Todo Backup (perhaps not as good for a normal 'user', and it doesn't make incrementals, so I'm looking around at others. I've been using the free Macrium Reflect for a little while, and as near as I can tell, it works.

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