Macrium Free vs Macrium Pay

I have the paid version of Macrium so I do a full image each week and differentials each day. My data is mostly on separate drives so I lose very little doing a restore.

kado897 said:

I have the paid version of Macrium so I do a full image each week and differentials each day. My data is mostly on separate drives so I lose very little doing a restore.

I just do weekly full images. Since I don't tinker with settings or add programs very often, I find just making a full image when I make a change to be adequate, easier, and safer. My OS and programs are on my SSD and my data is on spinners.

When you do weekly images it would be useful to state what the strategy is for deleting old images. You could have a problem (eg. virus) that goes back months. Backup disk space is finite.

I keep 4 full images and their associated differentials.

I keep about 20 images on 3 different disks including some very old ones.

I keep one monthly image, the first one of the month, for past months all the way back to when I first installed Win 7 except for the current month and the previous month; I keep all of the current month and the first and last image of the previous month. Since I make only weekly full images and occasional full images between the weekly images, what I do keep doesn't add up all that fast. Right now, that folder is taking up 311GB on a 2TB HDD; the earliest images are 20GB and the current ones are only 3GB larger. When I make my images, I save them to a folder on my main data HDD in my computer. Besides being more convenient to access and image if I want to restore it, it allows me to easily make multiple backups of that image without any extra effort on my part. It just gets lumped into my daily backups of the HDD it's stored on.

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