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Can Macrium Free do "Backups", and can it make an Image of an Image?
Hello again Ladies & Gents!
My Dell Precision M6400 laptop is currently fitted with an SSD (namely C-drive, on which Windows dwells) as well as a larger HDD (namely D-drive, on which my data resides). But as part of my goal to establish a truly effective backup system, I am planning to connect another HDD externally via eSata in the near future.
Following that, I would like to be able to save images of C on D, and then save either images (or backups) of D on the external drive, that will hopefully include the images of C that were previously deposited on D. In this way, the images of Windows on C will be stored on 2 other drives (for the sake of redundancy), and the data on D will also exist on 2 separate drives (if the data's current location on D is counted...)
In relation to such plans, my questions are as follows:
1) Can Macrium Free v7.2 create an image of a partition that is already storing some images of another partition?
2) Can Macrium Free v7.2 perform plain old file-and-folder Backups? (which might be a handy adjustment to my planned procedure if the answer to the above question is "no"...)
3) If the answer to both of the above questions is "no", are there any other free Image-creating programs (including earlier versions of Macrium Free) that can produce acceptably-stable images of the installed Windows 7 system partition, whilst also being able to either perform file-and-folder backups, or create images of partitions on which images of other partitions have been stored?
I can't do any tests yet regarding the first question myself, because I haven't bought the necessary hardware yet, and I'm reticent to leap into any purchases at this stage lest the purchasing requirements are modified somewhat by the actual answer to the question...
As regards the 2nd question, I strongly suspect the answer is "no", based on my own download of v7.2, as well as what appears to be a passing reference in the negative regarding file-and-folder backups that was made a while back in the Macrium Free sticky/megathread.
Many Thanks in advance,
Clouseau.