20140121

Automate disk backups with Macrium Reflect (free)

I've had really good luck with Macrium Reflect Free.  It is a free disk imaging program, and has most of the features of the major corporate players, but there is a free version.

With a little looking around I figured out how to automate backups with the Windows Task Scheduler.

You have to run an initial backup, and save it so you can run it again later, it saves as an XML file.

Now you just have Task Scheduler run a batch file containing the following:
call "C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect\Reflect.exe" -e -w "[path to Macrium saved backup document]\[backup name].xml"

This will run the backup on whatever schedule you have set.

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