Solved Image your system with free Macrium

[kado897]

The free version does not support incrementals. It does however now support differentials.

This knowledgebase article explains how the different type work. Differential and incremental disk images - KnowledgeBase - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase

 

[oscarcat]

a bit puzzled

Just been looking at the suggestions and advice on backups.
I assume you have to create an individual rescue disc for each PC, be it a desktop or laptop?
The 'official' 'how to' tutorial for Macrium v6 is pretty extensive - even though described as 'simple' and straightforward. Is there a more manageable newbies idiot's guide version that will enable a backup of a newly installed OS to be made, leaving a more detailed study of the full tutorial until later?

 

[kado897]

This is a more up to date tutorial. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html?filter[2]=Backup%20Restore. It is for V5 but the GUI and facilities are much the same.

It may not be necessary to create a separate rescue disk for each PC. It just depends on the drivers but it doesn't take much effort to do. You should always test that your rescue disk can boot and see your backups.

 

[truckinguy]

David, I have multiple OS's and use Paragon Migrate. It works perfect. When you start it will show every OS you have installed and just ask which one you want to transfer. See this if you care to watch.

Me too...it was so easy to Migrate to SSD with this program.

 

[mjf]

I assume you have to create an individual rescue disc for each PC, be it a desktop or laptop?

I don't think so. I still use the latest V5 on my current PC along with 2 others and use the same V5 rescue disc/USB. A recent build has Macrium V6 and I use a V6 pe5 rescue disc for it.

I foget how it goes...I think the V6 rescue disk is ok for V5 images but not the other way around???

 

[kado897]

I assume you have to create an individual rescue disc for each PC, be it a desktop or laptop?

I don't think so. I still use the latest V5 on my current PC along with 2 others and use the same V5 rescue disc/USB. A recent build has Macrium V6 and I use a V6 pe5 rescue disc for it.

I foget how it goes...I think the V6 rescue disk is ok for V5 images but not the other way around???

That's correct Michael.

 

[lehnerus2000]

I haven't been able to successfully re-image a Linux partition since v6 was released (they always fail to boot).
I know I was able to restore Linux partitions using v5.

Luckily it only takes 10 minutes to completely reinstall Linux Mint (using the DVD).

 

[DavidE]

I haven't been able to successfully re-image a Linux partition since v6 was released (they always fail to boot).
I know I was able to restore Linux partitions using v5.

Luckily it only takes 10 minutes to completely reinstall Linux Mint (using the DVD).

If you still have a V5 recovery CD could you boot with that whenever you want to backup or restore Linux ?

 

[lehnerus2000]

I haven't been able to successfully re-image a Linux partition since v6 was released (they always fail to boot).
I know I was able to restore Linux partitions using v5.

Luckily it only takes 10 minutes to completely reinstall Linux Mint (using the DVD).

If you still have a V5 recovery CD could you boot with that whenever you want to backup or restore Linux ?

I haven't tried it yet, but I still have the ISOs.

I was just wondering if other people can still do it.

 

[DavidE]

I haven't been able to successfully re-image a Linux partition since v6 was released (they always fail to boot).
I know I was able to restore Linux partitions using v5.

Luckily it only takes 10 minutes to completely reinstall Linux Mint (using the DVD).

If you still have a V5 recovery CD could you boot with that whenever you want to backup or restore Linux ?

I haven't tried it yet, but I still have the ISOs.

I was just wondering if other people can still do it.

All my Linux OS's are VMware VM's so i never used imaging for backups.

 

[kado897]

If you still have a V5 recovery CD could you boot with that whenever you want to backup or restore Linux ?

I haven't tried it yet, but I still have the ISOs.

I was just wondering if other people can still do it.

All my Linux OS's are VMware VM's so i never used imaging for backups.

Mine are VirtualBox VMs so I don't image them either.

 

[lehnerus2000]

I don't know if the issue also occurs if a drive is cloned (as opposed to using individual partition images).

Update
I normally image each partition separately:

select partition > image (repeat for all partitions)
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I imaged my laptop in a different way and I was able to successfully restore both W7 & LM17.

This time I selected both W7 & LM17 at the same time and then imaged them:

select "W7 & LM17" > image
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[Electron]

I have an unusual situation when booting the Macrium Rescue Media and wonder if anyone understands what is taking place. I recently upgraded to Macrium Free Edition Version 6.1 from Version 5.3.

The system is a desktop computer running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. When I boot the CD/DVD, the BIOS displays a logo and provides an opportunity to hit Delete or F2 to enter the BIOS. That is followed by a message to hit any key to boot from CD/DVD. If no key is hit, another message in larger characters appears to again hit any key to boot from CD/DVD. The same sequence occurs with Macrium Rescue Media Version 5.3 and 6.1.

The problem is that I have to use the second opportunity to boot the Macrium Rescue Media. If I use the first opportunity the system boots into a Windows menu with various recovery and booting options.

I'm just wondering why the Windows option occurs. It's not clear if the system is booting from the Rescue Media or the Windows disk. The boot takes a modest amount of time and is much slower than booting the Windows Safe Mode menu using the F8 key.

If I boot a Linux DVD, Acronis Rescue Media, or Windows 7 Rescue Media the boot proceeds normally with no keyboard interaction required at all.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
You can always recreate the WinPE disk with the new version and see if it does any better.

 

[kado897]

It is a feature of WinPE3.1 CD/DVD that it has a press any key to boot from the CD/DVD message. Linux CDs do not and boot directly. The later WinPE versions don't do that either so you could just create a new rescue disk and change the PE version. There will be a new download of 2-300MB. I use the PE5 version (windows 8.1) which works just fine with my Windows 7 machine. I haven't tried the one which comes with the Windows 10 so I can't comment on its stability.

 

[ThrashZone]

I get a lot of driver "X"s on the win-10 version trying to create the WinPE disk so I bailout and focus on the messed up drivers :/
Then I just stopped messing with them and ejected the win-10 ssd and reinserted the win-7 one

 

[kado897]

It's new and buggy, I believe, which is why I'm sticking to PE5 for the moment.

 

[ThrashZone]

Seems more like a win-10 compatibility bug to me it works perfectly in win-7 :/

 

[kado897]

There have been a few minor bugs with MR using the Win 10 PE.

 

[essenbe]

I created a PE for 10 and it booted and seemed to work fine. I didn't actually do a restore but did take it as far as selecting the backup and where to restore and quit. The only problem I had was making it boot, but that's the case with most everything using UEEFI. I created a recovery partition using the Macrium rescue files and it boots and is very fast.