Recent content by misterpersister

Thank you for this explanation. I'll try to research that, I'll also try Acronis before deciding on the product. I imagine you're annoyed with these questions and also about the fact that, as you mentioned, you have to repeat the same idea but it gets ignored. But I'll definitely rely on your...

Can you please clarify if you mean usage of VSS or you're speaking about Macrium in general? If I should consider better (more reliable) backup software, could you please share what you'd use? I mean, besides copying directories to external drives, I thought that versioned images (full, diff...

But you do use FastCopy, right? If you mean that Macrium is bad software, can you please explain why (besides the VSS stuff)? I'm still evaluating it and I don't want to spend money on a bad solution. So you don't do the usual "versioned" backups like full, differential and/or incremental, but...

Allright, fair enough. I didn't measure my speeds yet. If it's as fast or faster than a copy, then why not? It's just another thing people argue about: creating multiple images to different destinations vs. creating one image and copying it to different destinations. I've been even told that...

Oh, thank you all so much for the responses. I didn't expect this forum to be this friendly and helpful (after visiting r/DataHoarder). Thank you! Will try to figure out how it works. Honestly, didn't expect it to be that complicated. @Froggie @Bree I just re-ran the same copy and it completed...

I'm setting up a backup process from scratch. Currently planning to use Macrium Reflect (MR). I want to store backup images on multiple drives (3 of them). How to copy images produced by MR to other drives? First, I wanted to use FreeFileSync or TeraCopy, but seems that Macrium Image Guard...