Should I include all partitions in an image backup


wiganken

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My Asus laptop has six partitions (photo) but I suspect partitions 4 and 5 ('Recovery', 'Restore') partitions never change. I'm not sure if partition 6 ('MyASUS') changes when MyASUS app is run.
All I am really interested in being able to recover the laptop, all apps and and my user files in event of a failure and I feel that I do not need to include partitions 4 and 5 in my Macrium image backup. Not sure about partition 6. This will reduce the image size considerably since 4 and 5 take up 22.77 GB disk space.

Am I right that I only need to include the first three partitions in my images?

Asus has 6 partitions.webp
 

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