Disk clone software that works around bitlocker?

[Tiggsy]

I have my C drive on an SSD.

I have a spare SSD in the PC - I want to clone one to the other so if the first SSD blows up, I swap and go.

I assume thats possible?

The software I have tried (easeUS) requires full decryption first (a huge hassle) - any thing else out there that works better?

[Mr Pointy]

Have a look at Macrium:
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

It seems it might be possible:
https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW72/B...

[TwistingMyMelon]

I use EaseUS for cloning

Surely its pretty quick to de-crypt and re-crypt? Only takes about an hour each way on smaller SSDS

Even on older clunky systems using Veracrypt (much slower) ive left it overnight

[Tiggsy]

TwistingMyMelon said:

I use EaseUS for cloning

Surely its pretty quick to de-crypt and re-crypt? Only takes about an hour each way on smaller SSDS

Even on older clunky systems using Veracrypt (much slower) ive left it overnight

So my process would be (say, once a week)

Decrypt C drive

Run the copy

Encrypt C drive


I'm happy to do that but didn'y want to be missing a trick!

And I assume I just write over the back up each time I do it?

This is all so if the C drive goes pop I can just (I assume this bit is simple) boot off the back up and be like I only lost a few days?

[biggiles]

Can't you just do an image copy of the encrypted disk? Then you have an encrypted backup on your SSD.

[ArsE92]

I don't think I could be arsed with that. Just backup/store your important data on one of the many Cloud providers? If your SSD goes pop then it's only a couple of hours to rebuild the OS (assuming Windows 10) and applications?

[Tiggsy]

ArsE92 said:

I don't think I could be arsed with that. Just backup/store your important data on one of the many Cloud providers? If your SSD goes pop then it's only a couple of hours to rebuild the OS (assuming Windows 10) and applications?

It's borderline - I have a LOT of apps. It's easily a days work to rebuild it all.

[TwistingMyMelon]

Tiggsy said:

So my process would be (say, once a week)

Decrypt C drive

Run the copy

Encrypt C drive


I'm happy to do that but didn'y want to be missing a trick!

And I assume I just write over the back up each time I do it?

This is all so if the C drive goes pop I can just (I assume this bit is simple) boot off the back up and be like I only lost a few days?

I was a bit naive I thought it was for a one off upgrade that would be a pain

I would use an imageing rather that cloning application as above

[anonymous-user]

Depending on how you use Bitlocker (TPM based), restoring it could be an issue. It locks the software and hardware together. There is the bitlocker key you printed out should be kept just in case you need to do a restore.

[TwistingMyMelon]

Yeah good point above I had a tpm module go nuts a few weeks back and lock the machine out . The only thing that fixed it was entering the recovery key

[Brother D]

ArsE92 said:

I don't think I could be arsed with that. Just backup/store your important data on one of the many Cloud providers? If your SSD goes pop then it's only a couple of hours to rebuild the OS (assuming Windows 10) and applications?

I had carbonite installed for several years.
When I needed to recover a business hard drive (maybe 60Gb) it took 4 days to restore which is apparently a thing if you are not on the enterprise version