Question about Macrium backups

[Mark Kaine]

So I'm just wondering , does it actually save open programs too or can there be issues? (if so it should at least tell you I guess...?) 

 

because I'm just making a backup of my system drive, it takes unusually long and i just noticed I still have Precision x1 and Steam open, should that matter? 

 

 

really strange it takes that long, 25 + minutes, opposed to 10 minutes usually, and file size isn't any bigger than previously either because I keep my OS drive 50% free. it's also taking forever to "verify"... o.o

 

 

Is there a way to check? It should at least copy the settings of these programs, right? 

 

I'm really a bit worried now, thanks. 

 

PS: this is a full backup, I only do full backups, incremental or what it's called is useless to me. 

[Quickstrike]

I used Macrium a few times on a mechanical hard drive . 
It wont backup what's loaded in ram, only on the disk you are imaging. If your file has a temporary file on disk, yes it will back that up, otherwise it won't.

You can verify the integrity your image if you are worried once the backup is over.

[Mark Kaine]

58 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

I used Macrium a few times on a mechanical hard drive . 
It wont backup what's loaded in ram, only on the disk you are imaging. If your file has a temporary file on disk, yes it will back that up, otherwise it won't.

You can verify the integrity your image if you are worried once the backup is over.

Right, I just meant programs that are currently active, I read somewhere it wouldn't back them up but I guess that's bs... I checked at least Steam seems to be copied / backed up completely... 

 

Idk ever since they updated macrium became really confusing to me, like I barely know which drive I'm actually "imaging"... 

 

And now it took really long, so I was wondering if something is up, but seems to have worked. Hopefully because this is my windows installation with "update services" removed, which I was dragging out to backup for a while now, precisely because I wasn't sure if macrium would bitch about it, but it shut up thankfully! 

 

 

 

so yeah 45 minutes, for this 

 

 

 

I coulda sworn this took like 5-10 minutes last time, so I still don't quite trust it... I guess I could try comparing windows folders or something. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯