Aomei looks quite good. I have tested it on a small partition with no problems. I use it as my second backup program with the paid version of Macrium as my first. I have not yet had to do a full restore with it. One advantage over free Macrium is the ability to do incremental and differential images and file backups. These features are only available in the paid Macrium versions.
There is a high compression setting, it takes a little longer to create the image of course.
thank you guys is it safe and reliable to use high compression setting in aomei backupper for system image.what i mean if i used high compression do i have any problem while restoring.
I've never used Aomei, but it has a good reputation.
Macrium can make images with no, medium, or high compression. Medium is the default. An image with medium compression will normally take up about half as much space as is occupied by the partitions in the image. For instance, if you have a C partition of 500 GB and 200 GB are occupied, the image file of the C partition will be roughly 100 GB in size.
I've never tried high compression, so I can't tell you how much smaller those images might be.
only one more question guys i wont disturb you if i am going to restore system image from external hdd having large systemimagebackup file and other stuffs(on relation to system image) are there any chance of getting erase of other stuffs during restoring image
Let me start by saying that I have followed this thread in its entirety over the past year and found it fascinating. I have imaged various test partitions as suggested and restored them with success. Last week my C drive failed to boot so I bit the bullet and restored my saved image - it was easy and worked perfectly! But as my main C partition was 336gb it took quite a while. My next project is to move most of the data onto another internal hdd, and resize my main C drive partition to reduce it in size. My question is: if I change the size of the C partition and it goes wrong can I restore the image I have made of my original partition even though it will be larger. Thank you for your help.
Ian
I think you'll be OK if---and only if---the new smaller partition is still at least as large as the occupied space was on the earlier, larger partition.
Example:
C is originally 500 GB, with 200 occupied. You make an image of it.
You then reduce C to 230 GB. You can still restore that original image. If you reduce C to 180, you couldn't.
Great stuff Wolfgang that's why the Samsung flew when I ran the HD on it :) while the stick plodded along. You can see that in the pic what I am curious is that it throws those downward spikes each time I run it and am wondering if it just a changeover between the banks of chips within the SSD??
Sorry that is a bit OT but am curious.
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