03-16-2025, 11:30 PM
There's really no need for sector-by-sector images at all... unless you're trying to do some sort of forensic analysis of your disk. The standard images include everything you need for a successful restoration, whether LIVE or otherwise.
...and, there's no such thing as a LIVE restoration of your OS partition (it is always LOCKED). When you restore the OS partition during a LIVE System session, it needs to BOOT into a non-LIVE System session (WinPE Recovery Media) to do the restore as well.
LIVE System images are pretty safe, although not as perfect as non-LIVE images taken from an Emergency Disk. The latter are always taken of a System partition that is not active, and as such, is as safe as it can be as far as activity is concerned.
...and, there's no such thing as a LIVE restoration of your OS partition (it is always LOCKED). When you restore the OS partition during a LIVE System session, it needs to BOOT into a non-LIVE System session (WinPE Recovery Media) to do the restore as well.
LIVE System images are pretty safe, although not as perfect as non-LIVE images taken from an Emergency Disk. The latter are always taken of a System partition that is not active, and as such, is as safe as it can be as far as activity is concerned.