What do you mean?

 

Hi,
My first post to say Macrium reflect free edition for a bootable backup (system+ softwares). Choose the disk to clone. Drag and drop blocks from disk to clone to your backup disk. Then go on. Bet patient. Done. Now, you can choose the backup disk in the bios and boot on it. let Windows repair boot. Et voilà. If I have a crash disk I can boot on my backup (clone). And It's free. I use macrium every weeks. But there are no incremential parameters. I dont' care.
I hope it helps.

 

Yeha it worls liek a charme, the paid version included incremental cloning

 

Acronis True Image worked great for me. cloned my hdd to sdd in an hour and a bit
you can find the full version on the Russian website

for anyone wondering

 

is incremental cloning really useful? I don't think so, are you cloning your disk every week?

Clonezilla is a monster and eat everything, not to mention it is open source.

 

Yeah it is useful if you want to have a bootable clone at anytime and always uptodate

 

In one year how many times have you restored your cloned system image?
better to clone the system once in a while and backup data on different drives, never one only.

I'm still skeptic about incremental cloning practice, modified or erased files could lead to unexpected errors or missing files.

 

Hey Moonlight. What are the benefits of Hackintosh for you? I've considered trying it myself but I haven't yet decided whether to do it or not. Cheers.

 

Thanks for this recommendation, I just downloaded it myself and will try it out soon. Cheers

 

How often have you restored your backups in one year ?

I only had positive experice in teh last years with this practice.
It it so convenient when you hackintosh no longer boots, simply attach the clone boot from it , fix the error done.
What missing files from what ? If you clone a valid system your clone will be valid either.

I started with this practice long before using hackintoshes under windows after creating asystem image/backup using windows built in tools.
And then the doomsday apeard and I had to restore my sytem image. Windowes just said ,, eek restoring sytem image not possible.
THATS why why I prefer to have a independent bootable copy of my system where I 100% know that it is booting and working.

Recently after using windows more I use Macrium Reflect free to craete a bootable clone and a weekly differential backup on a NAS drive.
But I think I will buy the full version to make clones more often.

There are some interesting appliocations exclusively available under macOS.
I use Hackintosh over 10 years now and anything works great.
The only 'downside' is that you really have to spend some time to learn how things work.
At the moment I have a dual boot system with indepndent SSD's for Windows and macOS and I use Windows more often since Studio One works better there.

Just make sure to buy compatible hardware. and then you have best of both worlds Windows & macOS.
And do you self a favour when you try it, do it on a separate drive not on teh same as windows. less hassle.

Actually in review to my Apple Mac times (MBP, MacPro, iBook...) I had far LESS trouble with hackintosh than with Apple Hardware.

related:
https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Desktop-Guide/
https://www.tonymacx86.com/

 

very intersting I do a search, thank you.

[edit]
as simple as

Code:

net start "Macrium Service"
net stop "Macrium Service"

I tried Macrium Free again the service seams to no longer create dropouts here.

The free has no delta/incremental/differential backup. :/

 

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In the first few months of 2018 I restored around 40 times using Easeus Todo backup because I was installing all kinds of DAW stuff and trying new things. I have used it since early 2000's and only had one backup that I tried to restore that would not (It checked ok, but failed every time)
I do many backups and delete them when they get old.
I've probably done over 100 restores in total, because I used it on 3 computers at our business for 15 years and 3 of my own and a few family computers.
Much of that was disk upgrades .. in size or speed at least (some drive swapping as they got full) and some truly new drives of course..

It is impossible to guess how many backups MIGHT not have restored over those years, but judging from the ~40 in 2018 that were 100% successful, I would guess not many were bad... but it seems things are better these days too with disks & hardware and maybe even the OS is not so bad.

Years ago I used the free version and always ran it overnight, but in more recent times with SSD and paid version (offers faster backup and etc), in only takes 30 minutes with a 100 G OS SSD to a 5400 RPM drive, and I can do lightweight stuff at the same time.
When the OS disk was around 50 Gig it took about 20 minutes to back up and 20 to restore.
That size was when I was doing most of my restoring.
I got an 8 TB external 5400 RPM drive for data backup (basically cloning my 8 TB archives drive) and a 5 TB external for backup up OS & other disks. The OS backups are small compared with my other disks, and much of that won't compress much, either.
My OS drives usually end up around 1/2 actual size (Well, 59 Gig for a 105 Gig OS disk).

NOTHING beats being able to load up a working system in 30 minutes after finding some problem.

 

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If you care about data and don't want to waste iops, use ZFS !

 

Ceph on ZFS is a nice solution

 

any downsides using ZFS instead of ntfs ? Is it possible on windows 10 ?

 

It's a bit complicated and to utilise it properly, you need 4 drives.

 

and is it worth it ?

 

Macrium Reflect

 

Thanks for your reply Moonlght