![]() ![]() In addition to a full backup, another often used method we’re testing is incremental backup. Test #5 – Similar to Test #4 apart from the the backup and also the incremental backup from Test #2 is restored to the hard drive. Test #4 – The time taken to restore the backup image from Test #1 to the original hard drive from the bootable CD/USB media. Test #3 – This is similar to Test #1 but the backup of the Windows drive is from the bootable CD/USB media available in the application. ![]() Test #2 – After installing a game which adds an overall 2.2GB to the C drive, we perform an incremental backup. The image is created on the second internal HDD and the amount of data to backup from C is 12.8GB. ![]() Test #1 – Make a backup image of the Windows 8.1 boot drive. O/S: Clean Windows 8.1 64-bit fully patched, defragged and checked for errors. As these programs are designed to be used straight away with minimal tweaking, the defaults should be good enough for the vast majority of scenarios. Backup companies obviously test their own software to find what they believe is the best blend of performance and compression, so it makes sense to use what they recommend. For the tests we left the compression/size settings in each program at the default. ![]()
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