![]() Win7 often conflates “image” and “backup”. You can’t replace a 2 Tb disk with a 1 Tb disk and then restore an image to the smaller one, even if there is plenty of room to do so.Ģ. If you are restoring an image with the Win7 built-in tool, the capacity of the target disk must be at least as great as the one it is replacing. The only glitch was that MSE did not function properly after the image restoration, so I had to uninstall and reinstall it.ġ. The Win7 tool worked very well after my wife’s hard disk crashed and had to be replaced. I use both the built-in Win7 tool and Acronis (free). Online research and participation in the Acronis user forum brought to light that this bug had existed through several recent versions of Acronis, and nothing had been done about it, while those of its people who replied to user complaints tended to BS their way around it. I used Acronis but abandoned it after experiencing repeated trouble with a bug that prevented computer shutdown. This strategy–desktop external hard drives for immediate access, portable hard drives to be taken offsite, and online backup–is the one often recommended by writers on the subject. I addition to the above, everything is backed up to Backblaze. The ability to choose whether a missed backup will run at next startup, is one of those neat features. I also image a second external hard drive to a third one, again when I leave the computer on. In addition to the monthly backup, I image one of the two computers daily to an external hard drive, when I leave the computer on. I tweak my backup plan every so often, so that control over design makes a huge difference. ![]() Reflect is very flexible and straightforward in allowing the user to design backup plans. It’s not like this is a big burden, once I figured it out. ![]() The interface is a bit clunky but everything works as advertised.īy “clunky” I refer mainly to the fact that the fastest way I have found to get going is to open up the list of backup plans and right-click “Run Now” on the one I want. I have been using Reflect for about a year and a half and the process has been trouble-free. I use the paid version on one machine and the free version on the other. I image two Win7 desktop computers to a portable hard drive once each month using Macrium Reflect.
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