I had one fail and it was game over immediately. You don’t have to be anywhere near TBW for an ssd to fail and there is no warning. plus, I don't expect my boot drive's SSD to fail anytime soon as I am not even close to the official TBW write rating of it. so even if my main drives SSD's were to fail in a month, data loss would be minimal enough for me. I keep backups of anything important on additional hard drives (and for more limited higher importance data I also use DVD recordable discs). so if the boot drive fails, not that serious of a problem. even the stuff that is important enough, I already have backed up elsewhere. So even if my main SSD fails, the damage would be limited since I don't really store anything of high importance on that anyways. I generally would not need to do that level of backups since all of my real important data I already have backups on other hard drives etc through standard copy/paste through file manager etc. because some people might not realize that Clonezilla, when restoring a image will wipe any changes made since. I figure it's better to be crystal clear than be vague. Clonezilla is good enough for someone who just wants to make a backup of their boot drive occasionally in case they need to restore it to a previously working state from not all that long ago. I would never want to rely on backup software that's primarily for imaging hard drives to do that. copy/paste) of having two copies on two different hard drives at the minimum. Sure, I agree it's not the most easy way to image ones boot drive but it does what it does well and for an occasional hard drive image, it's sufficient, especially given it's not backing up high importance stuff for me anyways.īut depending on what one wants to do, Clonezilla can still be 'good enough'.īut personally for general data backup I prefer a manual approach (i.e. it's not as easy as point and click, but it's closer to easy than difficult at the end of the day as you just select what you want to do on each screen shown with keyboard's up/down arrows etc and press enter. In 2023, we shouldn’t have to reboot to backup our machines. It’s done in the background while I work. I backup daily every morning at 9am and I’m not disrupted by it. Gonna suck when during that month duration if you crash and burn, losing data. it's probably not as convenient as software that runs within Windows itself, as it will probably take a bit longer to image since you got to reboot, boot to USB stick and do the imaging process, but it's reliable. I typically use Clonezilla on my main PC about once a month to image my main PC's boot drive (SSD) to a image file on another hard drive I have as it's solid insurance in case the system ever gets into a non-working state. but when 'restoring' I make sure to slow down and pay extra attention since if you are not careful and go-through-the-motions, you could potentially wipe the wrong hard drive (assuming you got multiple HDD's in the first place). when I make a image I pretty much know what to select almost instinctively by what the screen looks like and not much risk here. but it does give you two warning screens before doing anything potentially destructive. It's not super easy to use, so if you want super easy you will have to go with something else (but it's easy enough once you learn source/destination etc), but it works outside of the OS (it runs from a bootable CD/DVD or USB stick, so it does not matter if you got Windows or Linux it will work) as it's a rock solid way to restore your system to a EXACT state it was at the time you imaged it (so any files added/changed/deleted since won't matter since the image restored will be EXACTLY like it was at the time you imaged it, meaning it's like the whole drive you are restoring is essentially wiped and restored to exactly how it is in the image file).
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