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To: goldworldnet who wrote (99714)	1/20/2018 6:54:12 PM
From: PMS Witch	3 Recommendations Recommended By goldworldnet Gottfried SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110581

Knock wood, I haven't had an image created by any utility fail to restore yet, . . . I must learn to knock my wood harder because I have. I was making incremental images. Using them looked like a great way of using less media for storage. Unfortunately, one of the "updates" corrupted my image totally, destroying not only the latest incremental backup, but all the previous ones it contained as well. Since then, (for over a decade now,) I've created my image files individually and as yet, never had any problems with any of them when it came time to rescue my system(s.) Cheers, PW. P.S. I was using Acronis when I learned this valuable lesson.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (99714)	1/20/2018 9:16:04 PM
From: Don Green	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

I once used to back-up with Colorado tape drives but then when I tried to restore, it didn’t always work properly. Then I used Acronis and a few times had the same problem with occasional flawed back-up. So now I only clone my primary SSD drive every 60 days using Acronis 2018 or when I make a major change to the drive with some update. and then actually test it after completing the cloning to make sure it works properly, then store it away. Don