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Backups with Macrium Reflect

George Bowden, March 2017

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tinyurl.com/mu5fla8

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Why Backup

Your hard drive spins at 7200 rpm and wears out the bearings in about 5 years

Hackers may corrupt your computer to an unusable state

You might forget your laptop at the pub.

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Learn to view your storage disks

In File Explorer, right click on�This PC, and select “Manage”

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Your drives and partitions

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Insert your external drive into USB

  • External hard drives of 2TB cost about $100 and can hold about 50 backup images. Get USB3 for speedier backups.
  • Flash drives of 64 GB cost about $40 and can hold one or two images
  • We are going to backup only one small partition onto an 8 GB flash drive

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Backup programs

Windows

  • file history
  • backup and restore (Windows 7)

Acronis True Image

WD smartware

Seagate Dashboard

Macrium Reflect - we will continue with this one

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Start Reflect then WAIT

You may be prompted for the computer password:

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You may be prompted to update: DO NOT UPDATE.

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You may be prompted to make a recovery disk. Click No

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Option A

Get club member to create a backup definition. Then always run just that by clicking Run Full

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Option B: Create a backup definition

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Select sources and destination, then WAIT

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Continue

Edit the definition for this backup -- DONT.

Imaging Summary -- Read the bottom stuff:

  • Destination - Make sure it is the USB stick
  • Operation 1 of 1

Click Finish

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What do you want to do

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Backup in progress

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When done

Close

Note the backup definition name for next time

Exit Macrium

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Restoring from backup

You need club help if you need to restore the whole computer

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But you may want to get back just a few photos that you deleted and emptied from the trash.

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Start Reflect

In the menu bar click Restore → Explore Image

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Create a rescue disk

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Explore Mounted Image

Windows Explorer opens, and you can browse the image.

You can copy files to your desktop, and then read them.

When you are done, right click the drive and choose Macrium Reflect → Unmount the image. This is very important.

Then close Macrium reflect

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Continue

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And on a Chromebook?

Watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3sKlC2sRnk

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System backup onto an 8 GB flash drive in 20 min.

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Makes a backup of a factory system image only, not including apps and downloads.