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Image and Backup or just Image
I am now in the process of ensuring I am covered should my PCs crash. I will be using a NAS (WD Cloud Mirror) on my network. I must say after reading up on this I am a little overwhelmed not to mention somewhat inexperienced in this area. My goal is to schedule images and backups or maybe that's too much. So I came here to get some more experienced advice.
First of all, please correct me if I am out in left field on this. My thoughts were to use Macrium Reflect to create scheduled Images and Backups. I have created Images before with Macrium manually prior to replacing a hard drive. I was thinking of creating Images once a month with maintaining 2 images total at all times. In addition to the Images, I was going to create back ups of data, say weekly in order to not lose any docs, pics, music, videos (really I just have pics and docs).
When I did an Image I would create a partition just for the one image Image. I would assume if I wanted to keep 2 Images I could put them on the same partition (of course the partition would be larger)?
I assume that backups would be on a separate partition as well? Not sure how to calculate what size of partition needed for this?
As I continue on this project I know I will have more questions but I think it best to take it in steps in order to ensure I do this thing right. I have been reading the User Guide from Macrium but again I feel a little overwhelmed . By the way, I am using the FREE version.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Then I could strut my stuff to my instructor at the Technical College.