Have always tested my recovery environment though!īut I much prefer imaging Windows from a running system. Never had an issue doing it that way, even though I have experience with using Clonezilla and offline imaging of Linux systems. I have also been making images “live” from Windows since Win2000 and XP. That is still required in order to restore the disk volume, and unless that boot recovery is tested I agree that one is totally unprepared. I agree that it’s absolutely essential that one can boot from their recovery media. Unless one is dual booting, that’s the only way one will be able to restore an image backup should it become necessary, which, it seems to me, the OP is referencing. For one, it insures that one is able to boot from the recovery media. There are quite legitimate and sound reasons for booting from the recovery media in order to create an image. Recommended by whom? We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do. ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯īTW, please don’t use the term “ copy” for creating an “ image“.Ĭopying a drive and making an image of a drive are two completely different, unrelated things so, using those terms interchangeably, is causing confusion as to exactly what you “ mean” when asking questions. you don’t need to locate whichever extra disk has the image you want and ensure it’s plugged in when you boot the recovery disk.) The reason I always put the “ image” on the Paragon Recovery Disk (if it’ll fit) is that makes restoring it much simpler (i.e. the disk will be fully defragmented when the restore is done.)Īnother question: Is it possible to copy my current C: drive (in my laptop) as in an image backup using Paragon Backup & Recovery software onto an external HD? I already have a Recovery USB for both my desktop and laptop.Īs pointed out, the backup image can be placed anywhere that Paragon sees as a “ valid” destination ( note: don’t put it on the same drive you’re backing up as that defeats the whole reason for the backup - restoring that drive if there’s a problem.) One “ undocumented” advantage of doing backups/restores this way is, when you restore the backup image to a disk, it only restores the “ in use” sectors and they get restored “ contiguously” with no gaps between them (i.e. my drive is 512GB with only 95.1GB “ in use” and my current image backup is 34.5GB. Of course, it’s also possible to use a “ different” source for the backup image but you should make sure it’s plugged in before you boot from the Paragon recovery disk (sometimes the Paragon S/W won’t “ see” the other device unless it was actually plugged in when the system powered up.)īTW, your image backup will not be as large as the drive you’re backing up since it only backs up the “ in use” sectors on the disk. I use a 64GB USB thumb drive (which is large enough to hold both the Paragon S/W and a full image backup of my system drive) plugged into a USB 3.1 port on my PC and it takes ~20 mins to complete the backup. You boot from the recovery disk, choose the backup wizard, select the drive you want to backup, select the source where you want to put the backup, then apply the changes. I use Paragon and to do a “ full” image backup you need to use a Paragon recovery disk.
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