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Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium

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Jim the Geordie <jim@jimxscott.co.uk> wrote:
> On 16/02/2025 16:00, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Jim the Geordie wrote:
> > [...]
> >>> What I really want is to buy a new computer to replace this ageing one,
> >>> and to transfer as much of the info on this machine to the new one.
> > [...]
> > 
> >    Two additions to Graham's excellent (of course! :-) post:
> > 
> >    The new computer will not only have different hardware, which will
> > require different drivers, but it will also very likely have Windows 11,
> > instead of your current Windows 10, so a one-to-one copy is also not
> > possible for that reason.
> > 
> >    When - or before - you stop using your old computer - and perhaps get
> > rid of it - use Macrium Reflect to make a complete image backup of that
> > computer and keep it 'forever', just in case there was something on the
> > old computer which you forgot to copy, were not aware of that it was
> > needed, etc.. You can restore files from the 'old' image to the new
> > computer. External disk space is cheap, so no reason not to have this
> > fallback. (I still have image backup of my previous computer and the one
> > before that, covering 10 years (from last use of the oldest one.).
> > 
> >    Hope this helps.
> 
> So, you are saying that I could save an Image (not Clone!?) of my 
> present Windows 10 pc, using Macrium, and in the event of moving to a 
> Windows 11 pc, I could selectively copy files from that Image to the new 
> one?

  Yes.

> If that is the case then using the Macrium method which keeps the files 
> current (incremental?), would be better/easier than me just backing-up 
> 'Documents', 'Images' and the like when I remember to do so?

  I actually do *both*: Image backup of everything with Macrium Reflect
and file-level backup of my most important 'data' files (which also
includes files which are *not* in 'Documents', 'Images' and the like,
for example Thunderbird's mail store ('profile')).

  Image backup would be enough, but theoretically an image backup could
become corrupt in some way that you can not access any files in the
image anymore. Very small risk, but not impossible. Making both image
and file-level backup makes that I always can restore my most importnat
data files. "A single backup is no backup!" (Of course you should keep
multiple levels/copies of backup and preferably both 'onsite' and
'offsite'.)

  As to "(incremental?)": The free version of Macrium Reflect can only
do (Full and) Differential backups, where Differential is all changes
since the Full, so the latest Differential replaces all earlier ones.
The paid version of Macrium Reflect can also do Incremental backups,
which are all changes since the last Full/Differential/Incremental.

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Another dumb question? Re Macrium Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-02-14 18:05 +0000
  Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-14 13:18 -0500
  Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-14 13:34 -0500
    Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-02-15 09:56 +0000
      Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-15 05:43 -0500
        Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-02-15 11:51 +0000
          Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-15 07:07 -0500
      Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-02-15 11:46 +0000
        Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-16 16:00 +0000
          Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-02-17 00:14 +0000
            Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-02-16 23:36 -0600
              Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-17 12:38 +0000
              Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-17 15:03 -0500
            Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-17 15:27 +0000
              Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-02-17 16:09 +0000
                Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-17 18:41 +0000
                Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-18 15:36 +0000
                Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-02-18 18:25 +0000
      Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-15 09:44 -0500
        Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-02-16 00:53 +0000
          Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-15 23:38 -0500
      Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-15 09:52 -0500
        Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-16 15:36 +0000
        Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-02-16 16:48 +0000
          Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-16 12:39 -0500
          Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-02-17 00:17 +0000
            Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> - 2025-02-17 09:45 +0000
  Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-14 18:55 +0000
    Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-14 17:34 -0500
  Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-02-14 20:57 +0100
    Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2025-02-15 00:37 +0000
      Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-02-15 03:41 +0000
        Re: Another dumb question? Re Macrium Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-15 03:34 -0500
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