It is important to note that Windows cannot boot using a USB connected drive, this is a restriction that is imposed by Windows. You can clone to a drive installed in your computer or to a drive that is attached using a USB caddy. Cloning your drive will create a bootable copy of the source drive with the state it was in at the time the clone took place. This is useful if you are upgrading to a larger drive and can often be faster than imaging the source drive and restoring to the destination drive. But some servers need better full backups.Using Macrium Reflect, it is possible to clone an entire drive or specific partitions on a drive. Usually I'd pair Macrium with a CDP backup program like Genie9 so that I'd have both a full image backup plus could spot-grab files for recovery (sometimes along with a network trashcan app for stuff like file servers, for convenience). This is a feature I've been wanting for a long time & have just been doing manually.

Intra-daily backups, which is basically super-fast backups on a very regular basis.

SUPER nice for photo & video people, especially if you want a full clone of a wedding shoot or something critical.Ĥ. Very handy when cloning to drives of different physical sizes & not having to futz with doing it manually.ģ. The automatic partitioning resizing is a nice feature. It's easy enough to install Hyper-V on Windows 10 FWIW.Ģ. Very useful for when a server crashes or when you need to get specific types of data from an old backup that can only be had from a running OS. I've used the Hyper-V version in the past & it's quite good.

VirtualBox for emergency booting is a nice addition.

Macrium reflect 8 user guide