![]() ![]() Then, between clones, I keep all of the data files and select configuration files on the clone drive up to date by automatically copying them over in close to “real time” using FreeFileSync’s RealTimeSync module. My ideal solution (in Windows) is to have a second internal drive that I periodically clone the system drive to - typically, just before I’m about to install Patch Tuesday updates, but also if I’ve installed a new program and done a significant amount of configuration work on it. (xxclone was even thoughtful enough to leave the target drive’s original volume label intact.) With the advent of 64-bit Windows, UEFI, and GPT drives, I had to switch to something different, and I ended up using Macrium Reflect for the cloning and imaging and FreeFileSync for the backing up. ![]() Having lived - whether vicariously, through friends and family, or personally, first-hand - through the IBM “Deathstar” hard-drive fiasco (vicariously), the WD “click of death” hard-drive fiasco (vicariously), several post-2014 system-borking-Windows-update fiascos (vicariously), one system-borking WireShark-update fiasco (personally), and one system-borking malware infection (vicariously), I’m borderline compulsive about maintaining up-to-date clones or images of my system drive and discrete backups of all of my data files and a lot of my configuration files.īack when I had 32-bit Windows XP on an MBR drive on a desktop computer with an old-school BIOS, xxclone performed a combination clone/backup quickly and reliably in a single operation.
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