Solved Can I store/employ a system image on C: Drive ???

[BuckSkin]

Like the title says, can I store a system image on the active C: drive and then employ it from there should I ever need it?
If so, can I just store it in an ordinary folder in My Documents or somesuch ?
I do have system images stored on ext-drives in the event that a hard-drive crashes; but in most situations, it is not a hard-drive failure that creates the need for an image and it would be a lot handier to access from within.
Thanks for reading.

 

[strollin]

No backup software I've ever used would allow this. How can an image be taken of a drive and then be stored on the same drive? That's like taking a picture and having that picture be part of the picture.

It doesn't make any sense to do it anyway. If the C: drive fails or gets corrupted, your backup would get corrupted as well.

 

[BuckSkin]

No backup software I've ever used would allow this. How can an image be taken of a drive and then be stored on the same drive? That's like taking a picture and having that picture be part of the picture.

It doesn't make any sense to do it anyway. If the C: drive fails or gets corrupted, your backup would get corrupted as well.

That makes perfectly good sense and makes me feel dumb for the asking.

Thanks !

 

[RolandJS]

That makes perfectly good sense and makes me feel dumb for the asking.
Thanks!

Actually, that was not a dumb question; it makes sense to be prepared for computer software failure. All that is needed: have that full image of that partition on any reliable external media.

 

[strollin]

That makes perfectly good sense and makes me feel dumb for the asking.

Thanks !

I apologize that my answer to your question made you feel dumb, it was not intended that way. As RolandJS suggested, it's great that you asked the question since now you know. It's definitely a good idea to make an image backup, just not a good idea to try to save it to the drive being imaged.

 

[badcrc]

No backup software I've ever used would allow this. How can an image be taken of a drive and then be stored on the same drive? That's like taking a picture and having that picture be part of the picture.

It doesn't make any sense to do it anyway. If the C: drive fails or gets corrupted, your backup would get corrupted as well.

Recursive or self-referential photos are a genre in graphics eg Pink Floyd's Ummagumma album sleeve.

Droste effect - Wikipedia

How to create a Droste Effect recursive photo | Discover Digital Photography

 

[strollin]

Recursive or self-referential photos are a genre in graphics eg Pink Floyd's Ummagumma album sleeve.

Droste effect - Wikipedia

How to create a Droste Effect recursive photo | Discover Digital Photography

From what I read on your links, it's an "effect" meaning the picture is altered AFTER it was taken, in order to add a smaller image to the original. As far as I know, it couldn't be done real-time.

The closest you could get to real time would be to take a picture of a monitor displaying what the camera sees. It still wouldn't be a picture with the picture in it though.