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I created ISO with recommended network settings & hardware drivers.
You added additional network & storage drivers?

If the initializing procedure is attempting to discover drivers, & you have added additional drivers, drivers discovery could be the reason i.e many drivers, more time.

Here drivers list i.e load drivers option in recovery media show 6-7 drivers.

 

I created the RE same as you. This is very strange; obviously VAW is VERY BUSY doing something as my RE initializes that isn't happening with your RE?!?!

 

Do you have secure boot, & enabled?

 

This is as stupid as AOMEI Backupper. If the actual boot partition was not selected by default, what the heck does that constitute an system backup?

 

I'm using BIOS firmware, not UEFI.

 

Macrium Reflect rocks!

 

I was wrong. The ESP (boot partition) appeared in the volume list, but without its label, and was included in the backup.

 

Mine too is BIOS

 

I have partition C (system) & partition D (data)
I backup C only & backup is on D

 

Yes, you have to select the option "show all" to see all the partition, etc.
If you select C (system), required or boot partition is automatically selected.

 

I keep data backup on external drive. And I do data backup everytime anything is added or removed. I do mirror backup with FreeFileSync.
I do system backup for convenience. If anything goes wrong, I am fine to do a clean install.
If drive dies, I will not lose anything important, & external backup is there too.

 

Yes, I do, to a 2nd internal HD..
I'm using this program for almost 2 years now (starting with VEB) and have done many backups and restores, even to brand new hard disks, and it never let me down.

 

Some more information. Since the latest wave of ransomware, I changed VAW to backup to my Synology server and Resilio Sync will take care that the backup files also end up on my 2nd internal HD. I use RansomOff to protect this folder on my 2nd internal HD.
Furthermore, my Synology server is not visible in my Windows environment...in the unlikely event of a ransomware attack, I hope it will not be discovered..

 

Apologies for reviving an old thread, but I wanted to thank the people here for saving my ***. Last year when Crashplan made their announcement I went looking for a replacement, stumbled across this thread and decided to give Veeam a shot. I installed it (to backup to a NAS) and never paid it much attention since. Two days ago through my own stupidity I messed up my system while cleaning out some old drivers and (I thought) unnecessary files, and I was able to use a bare metal restore from Veeam to recover as if nothing had happened.

Like others on this thread I found the initialization of the recovery environment surprisingly slow, but the time wasn't as much of an issue as was simply the worry that it might not be working correctly.

Of course, I have redundant backups in place for critical data, and every so often I do a full disk image (using Paragon), but I like having something running in the background that I can basically ignore.