Macrium Reflect v10

antspants · Sep 23, 2024

TraderGary said:
For me the real value of OneDrive is that it is a real-time mirror of everything that I'm doing with my data and photos in real-time. I can't lose anything I'm working on at any time throughout the day.

Can Macrium upload to OneDrive natively?
In actual fact, If I got a family subscription, I have enough computers to backup files to, and utilise the 1TB per user. That’s 6TB.
Or create 5 user accounts on my PC?

Fabler2 · Sep 23, 2024

TraderGary said:
As for OneDrive, I was curious whether Microsoft has a data center in Australia. Copilot says that Microsoft has several data centers in Australia. They currently operate data centers in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra. Microsoft has announced plans to expand their data center footprints in Australia, increasing the number of sites from 20 to 29 over the next two years.

Just a question. from a non OneDrive user, as you say it mirrors everything on your drive. How does it stop ransomware encrypting your files in the cloud if it's syncing? Just wondering?

Bree · Sep 23, 2024

antspants said:
I don’t get the obsession in here with backup times. You can continue working through a backup.
Some people commenting seem to use their computers for nothing but testing backup software… so what’s to backup?

Some of us would very much appreciate v10's 2x faster backup - my Hyper-V host machine with all its VMs for one :wink:

antspants · Sep 23, 2024

Bree said:
Some of us would very much appreciate a faster backup - my Hyper-V host machine with all its VMs for one

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A one hour backup? Well I’ve never…

Bree · Sep 24, 2024

antspants said:
A one hour backup? Well I’ve never…

There's over 350GB to back up, and verifying take almost as long as imaging!
And this is on a machine with a 10th gen i7 and an NVMe SSD.

TraderGary · Sep 24, 2024

antspants said:
Can Macrium upload to OneDrive natively?
In actual fact, If I got a family subscription, I have enough computers to backup files to, and utilise the 1TB per user. That’s 6TB.
Or create 5 user accounts on my PC?

OneDrive simply mirrors everything that is in your OneDrive folder. That's it. If you want to save a MR file to the OneDrive folder, it will be mirrored in OneDrive cloud. You're, of course, limited to your Internet speed. Mine is fairly brisk at 960 Mbps. But even at that, when I got this new computer last month and logged in to my Microsoft Account, it took several hours to download my complete OneDrive in order to have a mirror copy locally.

Once you have a Microsoft 365 subscription and a OneDrive family plan, you can do anything with it you want. I've read about some users juggling the accounts to have many terabytes of personal storage. I have the family plan for Kate and me. That makes the yearly cost just $50 USD for each of us. I cull ruthlessly with my amateur photography and with many decades of data and photos I'm currently using less than 20% of my 1TB of cloud OneDrive.

hsehestedt · Sep 24, 2024

To make OneDrive much more user friendly, I use a program called StableBit CloudDrive. It creates a virtual hard drive that looks just like any other drive on your local system but is in reality your cloud storage. Now any program at all including any backup program etc. can access your cloud storage just as though it were another drive on your local system.

But I do much the same - multiple backups to multiple systems including off site storage. I'm not quite at the point of real time data protection, but always within a few hours of the very latest data being backed up. Maybe I do need to consider a real-time solution if I can figure out the best way of implementing that.

TraderGary · Sep 24, 2024

hsehestedt said:
To make OneDrive much more user friendly, I use a program called StableBit CloudDrive. It creates a virtual hard drive that looks just like any other drive on your local system but is in reality your cloud storage. Now any program at all including any backup program etc. can access your cloud storage just as though it were another drive on your local system.

But I do much the same - multiple backups to multiple systems including off site storage. I'm not quite at the point of real time data protection, but always within a few hours of the very latest data being backed up. Maybe I do need to consider a real-time solution if I can figure out the best way of implementing that.

Some on the forum have multiple terabytes of data to contend with. I don't. As mentioned, all of my data and photos kept in my OneDrive folder are less than 20% of my 1TB of cloud OneDrive. So for my use, OneDrive with "Files On Demand" turned OFF in order to keep a real-time local mirror, works quite nicely.

TraderGary · Sep 24, 2024

@hsehestedt, is it my understanding that what StableBit CloudDrive does is turn OneDrive from it's native function of mirroring everything in your OneDrive folder to making OneDrive simply cloud storage and eliminating what OneDrive is actually designed to do?

TraderGary · Sep 24, 2024

Fabler2 said:
Just a question. from a non OneDrive user, as you say it mirrors everything on your drive. How does it stop ransomware encrypting your files in the cloud if it's syncing? Just wondering?

1. Ransomware Detection: OneDrive can detect ransomware attacks and notify you when your files have been compromised.

2. File Recovery: If an attack is detected, OneDrive guides you through the process of recovering your files. This includes confirming which files are infected, cleaning your devices, and restoring your files from OneDrive.

3. File Versioning: OneDrive keeps previous versions of your files, allowing you to restore them to a state before the attack occurred.

These features ensure that your files are protected and can be recovered in the event of a ransomware attack.

cereberus · Sep 24, 2024

Bree said:
It tends to grow in particular after a Windows update. After the usual clean up of system files for the native boot OS I boot to the PC's main OS, mount the vhdx, then defragment it. After that I can compact it using Diskpart. Here I have shrunk this dynamic vhdx from 36GB to 28GB, that's about the size of the used space in this vhdx.

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I have used this method before but found it is only partly successful due to the inefficiency of defrag.

I just reduced a 58GB vhdx to only 53 GB when the used space is only around 35 GB.

I have done similar using minitool partition wizard, shrinking c drive partition to minimum, reducing vhdx size, running compact expanding vhdx size then maximising Size of c partition.

It needed the step of reducing vhdx file to free up the space.

Without that step, I found not all nominally deleted space was recovered.

In the end, I found it was jusy easier to clone vhdx file.

cereberus · Sep 24, 2024

antspants said:
Can Macrium upload to OneDrive natively?
In actual fact, If I got a family subscription, I have enough computers to backup files to, and utilise the 1TB per user. That’s 6TB.
Or create 5 user accounts on my PC?

Well, on Windows 10/11, you used to be able to mount the online onedrive directory as a network drive and theoretically you could backup to that. However, changes in security prevents this now.

An easier method is to symlink a directory outside the onedrive directory tree (on a different drive/partition to C drive) to a directory in the onedrive (there is a tenforums tutorial how to do this).

Then you backup to the diectory outside the onedrive tree, and it gets automatically synced to online onedrive.

An alternative solution is to move the onedrive directory tree to another drive/partition, then you can image directly to a onedrive synced folder.

Syncing the reflect image will go as fast as your upload.

Trying to backup directly to the online will always be much slower because of vast amount of files being processed (similar to how file explorer takes much longer to copy lots of small files rather than one large file).

antspants · Sep 24, 2024

cereberus said:
An easier method is to symlink a directory outside the onedrive directory tree (on a different drive/partition to C drive) to a directory in the onedrive (there is a tenforums tutorial how to do this).

Yeah, cheers

Was looking into symlinking to help a member recently.
There’s a tutorial here also,

Sync Any Folder to OneDrive in Windows 11 and Windows 10

This tutorial will show you how to sync any folder to OneDrive for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. You can use OneDrive to sync files and folders between your computer and the cloud, so you can get to your files from anywhere - your computer, your mobile device, and even through the...

www.elevenforum.com

TraderGary · Sep 24, 2024

@antspants, you list in your specs that your Internet upload speed is 40 Mbps. I can't see why you would even consider uploading image backups to OneDrive.

antspants · Sep 24, 2024

TraderGary said:
@antspants, you list in your specs that your Internet upload speed is 40 Mbps. I can't see why you would even consider uploading image backups to OneDrive.

I can upload animated instructional videos for clients company training programs, sometimes 6GB. Not that painful, FTP is always much faster than the upload connection, I have no idea why. But yes, 100+GB would be God-Awful

I am still waiting for the 1Gigabit upload connection that they promised last year.

pseymour · Sep 24, 2024

100 GB at 40 Mbps would be 5.5 hours. You could do it while sleeping off a night of drinking. (I’m Irish.)

antspants · Sep 24, 2024

pseymour said:
100 GB at 40 Mbps would be 5.5 hours. You could do it while sleeping off a night of drinking. (I’m Irish.)

I think i’d rather get drunk and stumble into the post office, if I could find it, threaten a few tres on the way.
I’m Irish/Italian.

cereberus · Sep 24, 2024

antspants said:
Yeah, cheers Was looking into symlinking to help a member recently.
There’s a tutorial here also,

Sync Any Folder to OneDrive in Windows 11 and Windows 10

This tutorial will show you how to sync any folder to OneDrive for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. You can use OneDrive to sync files and folders between your computer and the cloud, so you can get to your files from anywhere - your computer, your mobile device, and even through the...

www.elevenforum.com

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antspants said:
Yeah, cheers Was looking into symlinking to help a member recently.
There’s a tutorial here also,

Sync Any Folder to OneDrive in Windows 11 and Windows 10

This tutorial will show you how to sync any folder to OneDrive for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. You can use OneDrive to sync files and folders between your computer and the cloud, so you can get to your files from anywhere - your computer, your mobile device, and even through the...

www.elevenforum.com

Here is original tenforums version. See who was credited for this approach

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Sync Any Folder to OneDrive in Windows 10

How to Sync Any Folder to OneDrive in Windows 10

www.tenforums.com

antspants · Sep 24, 2024

cereberus said:
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Here is original tenforums version. See who was credited for this approach.

Sync Any Folder to OneDrive in Windows 10

How to Sync Any Folder to OneDrive in Windows 10

www.tenforums.com

Sure, Brink. But I always go for tutorials for 11 on the Eleven forum. The slightest thing changes and it doesn’t work. As I have recently been finding out with some of Brinks tutorials that I have failed to keep up with.
I’ll look at them both

cereberus · Sep 24, 2024

antspants said:
Sure, Brink. But I always go for tutorials for 11 on the Eleven forum. The slightest thing changes and it doesn’t work. As I have recently been finding out with some of Brinks tutorials that I have failed to keep up with.
I’ll look at them both

No real need to look at older one - I was just saying really that thr method has been around for several years.

You are indeed absolutely correct to always use a W11 version of tutorial as that may have tweaks needed as a consequence of W11 "quirks".

Although I have never seen it stated, I presume @Brink will be updating all key tenforums tutorials (especially ones where menu inputs differ) over time.

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