When you do these images, how long does it take. Do you do incremental backups as well? Every time to talk about this I can't imagine why you would back up the same thing over and over and over when an incremental backup will just update anything that changed since the last time. The OS itself, well, if you get hosed by a botched upgrade, you are going to have to format the drive anyway.

Are you talking about the "Boot to a command prompt and image everything including OS", like with what I used in the old days (Norton Ghost, Disk Image, etc... Is Ghost even still around?) when you speak of imaging? (Because as we all know you can't backup files that are in use so you can't backup Windows FROM Windows.) For your image to be 100% accurate you'd have to do that every time you add files to it. Like, daily. You run a disk image every day?

I haven't done any such imaging in probably 2 decades. I do backups of files from a batch file I have here somewhere that looks for doc, txt, odt, jpg, etc and only copies new files, but I never cared about backing up my OS. I have a Windows 10 ISO file so in an emergency I can reinstall. Let me find wood to knock on before I say that I haven't had to do disaster recovery in so long that I don't know if I can find the boot CD with the DOC client on it. There's probably better ways to do all that but since I quit working in 2013 I haven't stayed up on things. The biggest thing I have done lately was when I moved my concerts and movies off spinning media onto 1 TB SSDs because they perform MUCH better with almost no buffering. And, when Windows wanted to look for updates it would spin up all 3 spinning drives to find which one had the OS on it, every hour! 1am, 2 am, 3am... whiiirrrrrrr...tick tick tick. Every technician I talked to said "All you have to do it....." and I tried what they suggested and nothing defeated that. I disables automatic updating and it still did it. I finally had enough and $250 later I don't get bothered by that anymore. Plus as I was watching anything from those drives every 30 seconds or so I heard a tick as the drive spun slightly to fill the3 VLC buffer that allows smooth playback.