I use Acronis True Image and it takes about 2 hours to fully back up my 500GB boot drive. Easily saved to an external USB drive (at about 300GB size with compression) and yes I've run the restore to make sure the backup works. I just set it to go at night and go to bed.


John

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Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 11TB SATA

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