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Fruit Smoothies
Mar 28, 2004

The bat with a ZING
Not really what you want to hear, but I always recommend backing up in a way that doesn't require a system image restore. I've had windows backup restores fail a lot over my career, and so I wouldn't really trust them.

Is there a reason you need the operating system backed up? Are the many applications installed, or files in weird places?

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Fruit Smoothies
Mar 28, 2004

The bat with a ZING
http://pureinfotech.com/use-wbadmin-create-windows-10-system-image-backup/

That's a pretty good guide for getting the backup stored externally. As you said, you probably need to do it via a share, but that's not the end of the world.

You can use the microsoft media creation tool to make the bootable USB stick used to enter recovery as and when you need to.

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