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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@cybmole - My suggestion is to get all your data off the C drive/partition onto a separate partition so that the only thing on C is Windows, 3rd Party software and 'dont care about' data. You can then use different backup strategies for System and Data - eg image copies for System and file system copies for Data.
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I've considered that, in fact I used to have the dropbox folder on an external drive, but then I think those drives can't ever sleep, as dropbox will keep checking for syncs-to-do ?
Actually windows system image has to snapshot the whole physical drive, you can't image only a partition. So to implement your idea needs 2 or more physical drives.
For all data sets that would be a pain to have to replace, I use free file sync to maintain backup copies on a secondary drive anyway. My C drive is 4 + years old now so I keep thinking I ought to swap it out anyway, but it's such a hassle
FWIW I've send a query to dropbox help, asking how they handle synching after a restore from system image.. I guess similar questions would arise for users of acronis or other whole disc backup solutions
I do also have the same dropbox account on a 2nd PC & when I switch that on I see it downloading any recent calibre library changes to the dropbox folder on that PC, so I know that sync works well across 2 PCs. If I had a primary drive failure, I think I'd go to that other PC & take a full backup of my dropbox folder on there, before bringing the 1st one back online, then if stuff gets wrongly synced , I'd know that i can fix it.