(Yesterday, 03:42 AM)garioch7 Wrote: I don't understand the import of the post by @al3x about VSS snapshots. Nothing has been stated about MR8 excluding those. I do have 17.9 GB dedicated to System Restore Points on my Drive C:, one of the six partitions on my Disk 2 SSD. I would like to have those System Restore Points available if I had to do a Restore.
My point is: Macrium excludes VSS snapshots if you're using the "Intelligent sector copy", see here for details. Macrium states: "This entry is essential and ensures that the shadow copy diff area is excluded from images. Without this entry images may become unnecessarily large."
In contrast, if you disable the filters in HBS, HBS will save VSS snapshots.
So that's why there might be differences between your Macrium und HBS backups.
(Yesterday, 03:42 AM)garioch7 Wrote: For me at least, it is not an issue, so I can't understand what mounting an MR8 image and examining it with one of those programs is supposed to prove ... ?
That's ok. I was just trying to help you finding out why there are differences in size. If you don't care about this, then that's totally fine for me.
By the way: Last time I checked, Windows can't reuse old restored system restore points after a full restore of your Windows.
So keeping those in your backup won't help you most likely. That's why Macrium deletes those and HBS also has a filter for those by default. Just a heads up.
