Edit: many changes. Done.Brian K wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 12:09 am Ok. IFW won't suit you. How do you run IFL? While in Mint or from Boot media?
(nothing Terabyte runs in Mint or any Linux (unless maybe in a VBox) - it is a windows program, but that is very fine - don't need it... )
You need to understand Terabyte, probably by installing/playing with it.
There are a bunch of those Terabyte 3-letter things
IFL image for linux
IFW " windows
IFU " UEFI
etc
They are all just iso's that are burnt to a USB stick to be stand-alone bootable. Gives you the choice of whether you want to a) boot to a linux kern to do your backup, or b) boot to windows PE to do your backup, or c) whichever. The backup image would be the same in essence. Some people are more comfortable with one or the other so Terabyte gives them all. But it turns out that though they produce the same backup image in essence, they do it in the "linux", or "windows", or UEFI", etc way, which is very different at the hardware chain-write-command level, thus very different speeds. (it is theoretically possible to do the entire backup with one write command. They were doing this I/O-chaining back in the '60's on the IBM mainframes. Saves a ton of processor (and thus wallclock) time.)
Then there is the Terabyte image suite which is an exe that is installed to windows. It, itself, can do a backup on windows while windows is running (remember macrium could do that), and can also write the isos to sticks (I think it's (on windows) Terabyte app/Utilities button/...) for whatever flavor of bootable you wish to use, if you wish to use one.
Now I'll beat the robot and say
You do you
because that is so helpful.