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Have I done the right thing? Made a backup and an image file
I've been using Acronis for back up and it was really good until I tried to restore anything. When I did I got an awful lot of 'not responding' messages. I managed to get most stuff back and switched to Windows7 Backup (that was sort of fun because Acronis had left a pile of stuff in my registry even though I'd used Your-Uninstaller)
I have a drive, C: (587 GB) and I backed it up (494GB) to an external drive F: Later I put a system image on F: as well. It seemed like a good thing to do. I really don't know why. It took about 36 hours. I went to the pub after it was 96% complete. When I came back, I had a 'failure' message, but I did have an image file (533 GB)
Have I done OK? I have a backup scheduled on Sunday. Will this be an incremental backup? I hope so because I have about a TB of stuff. How often should I make a new image file? I know this is answered all over the place and I do apologise, but I find the instructions confusing. I guess what I need is.... If you want to do that, do this....
thanks, and a Happy Easter to one and all from Vancouver Island