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The upshot of all of this is DO NOT make any changes to an image file once it has been made. It can be moved but that can be risky because multiple image files may be associated with each other.
What's the doozie?
On a later comment... Using Windows inbuilt imaging or Macrium it is safe to copy out files from a mounted image but of course don't alter the image. When moving images you need to be clear what you mean by "move". Moving within a partition is a directory (file system) entry change and I have never experienced a problem. Moving across partition boundaries is a physical move and I would not recommend it.
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Macrium expects all Incremental and Differential backups to reside in the same folder as their corresponding FULL backup. You can move the folder with no problems.
If you move only some of the backups to a different folder then expect trouble,
but this is POSSIBLY mitigated if the Windows Service "Distributed Link Tracking Client" is running at the time the moving is performed.
I'll clarify. I am talking about one of (NOT incremental or differential) images - (made by Windows imaging and Macrium free. Macrium free is what the sticky is about).
Singling out my comment as a doozy (doozie your spelling) makes an unnecessary comment. Let me make it simple. There appear to be some concerns with Macrium cloning. If so then this a good place to document them.
LF is right. Macrium recovery does not care from where the image comes as long as you can properly point to it. This is not Windows imaging where moving an image would be fatal.
I save my images to an internal HDD and then copy/move them to an external HDD.
When I only had the Linux Restore Disc, I discovered that it would not recognise my external HDD (i.e. I could not browse to it, as it didn't appear in the file browser).
I have moved an image from an internal HDD to an external HDD and back to an internal HDD again and successfully restored using that image.
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