Sorry to ask a dumb question, but . . .
I use Aomei Backupper to save the Documents folder (which contains all the files I might want to recover) every month. It has occurred to me that I do not have any means of recreating the system if it gets corrupted. (had a nasty shock the other day when it looked like the disc was playing up, but it settled down eventually).
Does the option 'System Backup' (as shown in the photo) do the business or is there some Microsoft option I should use?
Thanks
Silverback
Protecting system question
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HansV
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Re: Protecting system question
Yes, a system backup should enable you to restore your system after a crash. See for example How to Create System Backup in Windows Easily
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Hans
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Re: Protecting system question
Oh, wonderful.
That's clearly what I need.
Many thanks, again.
Silverback
That's clearly what I need.
Many thanks, again.
Silverback
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Re: Protecting system question
I'm using AOMEI Backupper as well. I am also experimenting with Macrium Reflect. The latter creates an image file and can do incremental backups. My strategy has been to create an image once a week and do incremental backups daily. If I forget to do a daily backup, MR will increment since the last incremental backup; so, the incremental doesn't have to be done daily.
I'm posting this in hopes others will chime in and critique my approach. Their comments should be useful to SIlverback as well.
I'm posting this in hopes others will chime in and critique my approach. Their comments should be useful to SIlverback as well.
Bob's yer Uncle
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silverback
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Re: Protecting system question
Bob
If you click on the arrow shown in the photo, Aomei offers an incremental backup.
I didn't know this, until your posting resulting in me experimenting!
Silverback
If you click on the arrow shown in the photo, Aomei offers an incremental backup.
I didn't know this, until your posting resulting in me experimenting!
Silverback
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JoeP
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Re: Protecting system question
When considering a backup regime, think about how many files you add, change, or delete in a day. Is it worth spending the time to do incremental updates? Incremental updates can complicate the recovery process as you need to process each incremental update after doing a full recovery. How long do full updates take? Do you have multiple partitions such as having the OS and data split over partitions? If so, you can do full backups of each partition on a different schedule as your data probably changes more frequently than the OS.
Joe