- #Using macrium reflect to clone a hard drive install
- #Using macrium reflect to clone a hard drive Pc
That said, the remaining space on the disk should be available to create another partition for the other data you mention wanting to be able to store. if you wanted to keep additional backup or other data on it). This approach will make the data more available, but will prevent you from taking advantage of the ability to compress the images to preserve more space on the backup disk (e.g. Another option would be to use Clonezilla to copy partitions from the source disk to the destination disk, rather than storing them as images on the destination. You mention not caring about being able to restore a complete image, but instead caring about the data / files on the disks. One benefit of this approach is that if you boot the computer using Clonezilla, you don't have to think about OS features like Volume Shadow Copy and the like it doesn't matter which OS you use, as you are copying the data with the original OS shut down and in a stable state. You would create a partition on the backup drive that is big enough to contain the relevant disks, and then for each computer you could boot it with Clonezilla and back up the disk to an image file on the backup drive. Though these tools happily image any disk format, most cannot mount the ext4 Linux partitions directly from the image you'd need a third-party tool if you want to mount them as virtual drives.