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I'm a bit with Victor in that if I have any sort of problems after installing, updating or removing anything then I will restore an image and then redo to a good working system. I have restored many images, dozens probably, with Macrium Free edition and earlier with Acronis. None have ever shown any problems so that is as reliable as I would want. I tend to take an image every 2 - 3 weeks it seems after a certain amount of general updating, software changes, tweaking, hardware changes etc. but probably I could wait longer since most changes could be redone without much effort and I make a note of all changes to the system.
Imaging takes about 10 minutes and the images are backed up to a second internal drive and to an external drive. I normally have about 6 - 8 images to rely on and delete random intermediate images thus keeping some of the older ones and the most recent images. I image to a partition on the second drive and that image is backed up to a partition on the first drive. The fact that apart from one incident (going back about 6 images) I have just had to restore the last image seems to me to show my system works fine.
I think that reducing the system partition down to the minimum by separating the OS and programs from all data and temporary stuff does help. I manage with a 60 GB system partition.
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Last edited by pincushion; 07 Jun 2012 at 03:09. Reason: add