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Best option for SSD Boot drive backup

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Evening all... I just did a clean install of Win 10 64bit on my new SSD.  I have now loaded some programs and added my email accounts, I want to back it up and am confused on best way to do this.  I want to:

1) Do a full backup and save that backup. No overwriting.

2) Then, say every month or other month, do a backup.  But what scheme is best if I were to have a full breakdown of my C drive say in 10 months, how would I restore the C drive to the SSD? If I did incremental backups there's multiple files?

3) What is the best way to have a boot disk USB or CD created and on hand in case of a crash?

I did read the FAQ and options but still confused on how to do it, and more importantly in the event of a Boot Drive crash how to restore.

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Create full disk mode backups. You would select the checkbox for the entire drive, which therefore includes all partitions and hidden partitions. This creates a .tib archive. You can save many .tib archives, backups of various disks at various times, to a single external hard drive.

Wih a full disk mode backup, even if you suffer an entire hard drive failure you could just insert a fresh drive, recover from the image, and your system would be back exactly where it was before the disaster. All your system settings, all your installed software, all your files, your desktop, everything... would be exactly as it was.

It's your choice what sort of subsequent backups to make. Yes, you can make incremental (or differential) backups, to save space. A task for Incremental or Differential will always begin with a full backup. That is necessary, as that becomes the baseline.

For an Incremental task, after the first full backup, subsequent backups will be incremental, each one based on changes since the previous Incremental backup, all the way back to the second backup being incremental based on changes since the full backup. As such, you need all links in the chain, all incremental backups right back to and including the first full backup, in order to Restore.

For a Differential task, after the first full backup, subsequent backups will be differential, each one based on changes since the first full backup. To restore, you would need just any Differential and the Full backup on which it is based.

You should not allow an incremental chain to become too long. An incremental restore depends upon every incremental in the chain being valid, including the original full. It's better to limit each chain to just a few incrementals, followed by a fresh full backup to start a new chain.

You should validate backups periodically. That would alert you much if the full backup were missing or unreadable.

Personally, I prefer always to create full backups. While they take more space than Incremental or Differential, I like the fact that each full backup depends upon no other file. My external hard drives are large, so I don't need to save space.

If you ever need to restore a disk/partition backup, you should boot from the ATI Rescue Media. So, create it now and see if your system will boot from it.