Using Macrium Reflect

flashh4 · Oct 7, 2021

Hey gang, will Macrium Reflect copy all my files, pictures and OS system in the cloning procedure to make a back-up of everything ?? If so anyone have an excellent video to follow ??
Never used Macrium before, so this will be all new to me !!
Chuck

cereberus · Oct 7, 2021

Yep - Macrium Reflect is perfect for this.

See tutorial from sister site

Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect

How to Create and Restore a System Image Backup with Macrium Reflect

www.tenforums.com

It is slightly out of date as new version is out but still easy enough to follow.

Bree · Oct 7, 2021

flashh4 said:
will Macrium Reflect copy all my files, pictures and OS system in the cloning procedure to make a back-up of everything ?? If so anyone have an excellent video to follow ??
Never used Macrium before, so this will be all new to me !!

Yes, whether you clone a disk or make an image of it, Macrium will copy everything that's in the partitions you back up.

Macrium themselves have some video 'Webinars' that demonstrate the process.

Webinar - How to Clone a Disk with Macrium Reflect

Macrium Software - the creators of Macrium Reflect backup, imaging and cloning software.

www.macrium.com

Webinar: How to image a disk with Macrium Reflect - Part 1 The Basics

Macrium Software - the creators of Macrium Reflect backup, imaging and cloning software.

www.macrium.com

flashh4 · Oct 7, 2021

Thanks guys .....

Bree why does #2 say unformatted primary ?? Not sure where/what is next in the process ??
Chuck

cereberus · Oct 7, 2021

flashh4 said:
Thanks guys .....

Bree why does #2 say unformatted primary ?? Not sure where/what is next in the process ??
Chuck
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You have also selected disk 2 as a source disk. Uncheck it, select disk 1 and you will be able to image disk 1 to disk 2.

The-Hive · Oct 7, 2021

flashh4 said:
Hey gang, will Macrium Reflect copy all my files, pictures and OS system in the cloning procedure to make a back-up of everything ?? If so anyone have an excellent video to follow ??
Never used Macrium before, so this will be all new to me !!
Chuck

Great Program Easy to use

Ghot · Oct 7, 2021

@flashh4

All four of those partitions on Disk 1 are necessary to boot Windows.
Here's a picture guide for backing up that drive...

Step #1 you will see "four" checkmarks. One for each partition on Disk 1
Step #2 is where you will save the backup. Where mine says: G:\ you will need to put... D:\
Step #3 is what you will "name" the backup. I usually put the date.
The "size" of your backup will be approx. 50GB at default settings.

It'll take about 5 minutes to make the backup.
It'll take about the same if you ever need to restore from the backup.
You can do this. :)

hsehestedt · Oct 7, 2021

flashh4 said:
Bree why does #2 say unformatted primary ?? Not sure where/what is next in the process ??

FYI, that is the MSR (Microsoft Reserved Partition). That is exactly how it should be displayed.

IanMosley · Oct 7, 2021

flashh4 said:
Hey gang, will Macrium Reflect copy all my files, pictures and OS system in the cloning procedure to make a back-up of everything ?? If so anyone have an excellent video to follow ??
Never used Macrium before, so this will be all new to me !!
Chuck

This image shows the backup history for taking a full system image of my OS partitions every day.
It currently takes about 16 - 18 minutes to run to completion.

This image shows the 'File & Folder' backups that I take. At the begining of a month, I take a 'full' image of my data partitions; subsequemtly, for the remainder of the month I take a 'differential' (only backing up changes) backup every day.

The number of backups you can retain is only limited by the size of drive you are backing up to; I have a 2TB backup dive, of which approx 1.5TB is currently 'free'. You can configure your minimum free space that remains on the drive, and when this limit is reached, Reflect starts to delete the oldest backups to make room for the backup you are trying to take.

The really good point about Reflect is that when you want to do a restore you can overwrite your current partitions completely OR you can restore to a completely unformatted drive, creating your partitions to match the partitions you backed up previously. For a 'file & folder' you can restore everything or individual files if you so choose,

I can restore my full OS backups in about 8 - 10 minutes

flashh4 · Oct 7, 2021

Thanks gang, all done & appreciated the help !
Chuck

Ghot · Oct 7, 2021

flashh4 said:
Thanks gang, all done & appreciated the help !
Chuck

Good job.
Don't forget to make the rescue media (USB)

Bree · Oct 7, 2021

flashh4 said:
Bree why does #2 say unformatted primary ?? Not sure where/what is next in the process ??

Partition 2 on your disk 1 is a 16MB unformatted partition. This is correct, it is the Microsoft Reserved partition (MSR) that will be found on every GPT formatted disk. This has always been there, but is hidden from view in Disk Management. Macrium will include it in the 'partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows'.

Microsoft Reserved Partition - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Pulcinella · Oct 16, 2021

With W 11 I was finally able to do a full backup on external HHD with Macrium and on a second internal HHD with windows backup.
I was never able to do so on W 10.
Does anybody knows how to get the tray Icon to work? It is enable on taskbar setting but it does not shows up.

RogerOver · Oct 17, 2021

It only shows up, when Macrium (edit: I mean a backup) is running !

jimbo45 · Oct 17, 2021

Don't forget also you can mount the backup image (whether you took an image or cloned a full disk as an image) as a disk - then browse contents with file explorer so you can recover data without having to restore if you just need missing or accidentally deleted files. Note though it's a read only process which is a good thing as you really don't want to corrupt reliable backups.

Cheers
jimbo

RogerOver · Oct 17, 2021

Ghot said:
Don't forget to make the rescue media (USB)

You can also put the rescue media into the logon; see picture; Macrium has PE with it.

Ghot · Oct 17, 2021

RogerOver said:
You can also put the rescue media into the logon; see picture; Macrium has PE with it.

Up in post #2 is the complete Macrium Reflect guide. My guide is just a quick, down and dirty reference...

RogerOver · Oct 17, 2021

Quote: "Up in post #2 is the complete Macrium Reflect guide ..."

Thank you very much for this. Sometimes I Iike "quick and dirty" !

ThrashZone · Oct 17, 2021

RogerOver said:
Quote: "Up in post #2 is the complete Macrium Reflect guide ..."

Thank you very much for this. Sometimes I Iike "quick and dirty" !

Hi,
Take special attention to the useful winpe recovery media
You can create and of course restore system images with it so get used to it it's the only way I roll.

Pulcinella · Oct 17, 2021

Since creating Macrium Rescue Media at boot I'm asked to choose W11 or Macrium?
Is this the norm?

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