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Recommended backup before making changes - hardware vs software?

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SLP Firehawk

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Hello. I have a physical drive duplicator that you remove your system SSD from your PC and put it in the device and it clones the drive bit by bit at the base level to another identical SSD.
Once my PC is "finished" my procedure has been to make a physical clone, and that way if something bad happens I simply take out my system drive and put in the clone and I'm back in operation without all the headache and time of trying to re-stall everything. I have A LOT of software licenses.
Likewise, prior to any new major system configs/changes/software mods, I do the same procedure in case something breaks I can quickly resort back to the way it was.

Problem is now I have several PCs and extremely busy with no time. So physically removing and cloning etc is a chore. Do you know if the built-in Windows restore point will accomplish the same thing?
I am about to troubleshoot some software issues that will require installing windows updates (which sometimes break things) and likely some new drivers too.
So, say I install the updates and causes major problems, I can go to my previous restore point and my system is back like it was?
I am using Windows 10 Pro 64, and Windows 7 Pro 64.
Thank you in advance for any help.
 
Honestly, you have a fool proof way to make sure you get exactly what you want, a perfect clone of a drive. So why would you risk a software solution, that you won't find out until it's way too late to see if it worked the way you expected it to? Seriously the only downside to this other than like you said, it's a physical interaction that takes time, would be the potential wear and tear on the drives and their cables. Now I want such a device. Dang.

You can test it to see which will work better, have a drive you cloned with your physical drive cloner, and then create a Windows restore point on another drive. Change some things on the cloned drive and then use the Windows restore point on it to see if it gives you the results you want.
 
Thanks guys.
On my newer PCs with NVME drives, it involves several steps to hardware clone them, so I'd like to save that process for when I get the PC to the point where I consider it "finished". But to get to that point involves several changes along the way and a software backup sure saves a LOT of time during those steps.
 
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