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From: Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Cult of Unix
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:48:52 -0600
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vallor wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:34:01 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote in
> <vmb8t8$3id01$1@dont-email.me>:
> 
>> On Thu, 1/16/2025 12:03 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:05:34 -0600, Hank Rogers wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think people are better off to get some type of imaging software ...
>>>
>>> On Linux systems, rsync works well. It’s essentially a bulk
>>> file-copying utility. That’s all you need to backup/restore Linux
>>> systems.
>>>
>>>
>> With Macrium, I can back up FAT32, NTFS, ExFAT, and ... EXT4. This means
>> when I image a dual-boot disk drive here, it is a *complete* image. I
>> can restore it to a brand new hard drive,
>> and it boots as if nothing had happened.
>>
>> As long as my Linux installs use EXT4 for slash, I'm fine and one
>> imaging tool does everything for me.
>>
>> The imaging is "smart". in that busy clusters and busy inodes are backed
>> up, not white space. If I have 20GB of files on a 1TB EXT4, the backup
>> image is a bit bigger than 20GB but not by much. Similarly, if I back up
>> 20GB of files on a 1TB NTFS, the output is not much bigger than 20GB.
>> And the NTFS and EXT4 can sit in the same MRIMG file,
>> there is no segregation involved and separate files for them. It's all
>> in a single file.
>>
>> Macrium even backs up the 16MB Microsoft Reserved, which has no file
>> system. It does that using the equivalent of "dd", but it does not throw
>> a wobbly and complain about what it has been asked to do. It puts that
>> back on a restore.
>>
>> Details and automation, are the key to push-button success.
>>
>>     Paul
> 
> I'm sure Macrium Reflect is a fine bit of software, but I wonder
> about the wisdom of imaging a mounted partition.  I think the only
> way to do that safely would be to boot to a USB stick -- that way,
> you aren't trying to image mounted filesystems.
> 

It works just fine on a running windows system. It uses Volume shadow 
service. I'm pretty sure most other backup software can also work while 
windows is running.