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| Ignore bad sectors when creating images. | Damaged disks may still be imaged if this option is selected. | ||
| Display backup notification delay for | Changes the time the 'Backup task' delay window is displayed before a scheduled backup starts.
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| Do not abort a file and folder backup if a root folder is missing. | Enabling this option will allow your File and Folder backup to continue even if a root folder of the backup is missing. | ||
| Enforce an entered image or File and Folder backup file name. | Normally, if you run an Incremental or Differential image of say drive 'C', the target folder is searched for a recent backup set for the same source (Drive 'C'). The backup set is then appended to. The file name you have chosen for the backup will not be used in this matching process. If you enter your own file name and select "Enforce entered image or file and folder backup file name" then only backup sets using the same backup definition file name and for the same source will be appended to, if none is found then a new full will be created. | ||
| Show a warning in the log if retention rules remove all backups in the destination folder. | If enabled, and all backups in the destination folder are deleted due to retention rules set prior to the backup starting, or the free space threshold is reached, then a warning message is shown in the log and the backup completes with a warning status.
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| Only allow Administrators to monitor running backups | For multi-user systems, such as terminal servers, ReflectMonitor will not run for non-administrator accounts if selected. | ||
| Report transfer rates. | Will allow you to change the way transfer rates are reported in.
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Enabling Delta indexes will reduce incremental file size and can increase the speed of merging Incremental backups during Synthetic Full and Incremental consolidation.
Additionally, all previous files in the backup set, up to the previous Diff or Full, are required to continue to append to the set.
For more information on Macrium Changed Block Tracker please see here Macrium Changed Block Tracker
Advantages of Full indexes:
| Incrementals are self describing | No additional backup files are required to be loaded other than the most recent Incremental when appending to an existing backup set. This enables backup sets to be 'split' over multiple locations; useful if you want to archive part of a backup set. |
| Mounting incremental backups is fast | Because the entire index is available when the Incremental file is opened the backup set can be mounted and browsed in Windows Explorer very quickly. See: Browsing Macrium Reflect images and backups in Windows Explorer |
Disadvantages of Full indexes:
| Increases the size of Incremental backups | When running Incremental backups on a data set where very little has changed the overhead of the Full index may be greater than the size of the data that's backed up. |
| Consolidation causes subsequent Incrementals to be updated | If your backup 'Retention Rules' invoke a 'Synthetic Full' or 'Incremental Merge' then indexes contained in more recent Incrementals are updated to reflect the consolidation. Without updating the Index would become 'stale'. This file change can cause excessive file copying when synchronizing consolidated backup sets to an archive location. See: Backup Folder Synchronization for more information on this. |
Advantages of Delta indexes
| Decreases the size of Incremental backups | The Incremental file index contains only a list of the changed data blocks in the incremental. This means that Incremental backups with only a few changes are optimized for backup file size. This is most apparent when performing frequent Incremental backups. |
| Later Incrementals are unaffected by Consolidation | Because the Incremental index only contains references to itself there is no need to update the Incremental backup file when earlier backups in the same set are consolidated. This overcomes the issue with Backup Folder Synchronization caused by Full indexes. |
Disadvantages of Delta Incremental
| Incrementals depend on all previous backups | A backup set cannot be appended to unless all previous files in the set are available in the same folder as the most recent Incremental. Partial archiving of a backup set is not possible. |
| Mounting incremental backups may be slower | Because the Full Index has to be constructed when the Incremental file is opened, this can lead to a delay of a few seconds when browsing images and backups in Windows Explorer. |
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