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System Imaging is still in W10 but well hidden in 'Backup and Restore (Windows 7)' - at least on my machine. Personally I don't use it, as I have a second machine with the most important applications on it.
In your scenario I would probably have a mirrored (RAID 1) pair of system drives. That should give you zero downtime on single drive failure. But it's not going to protect against downtime on PSU or motherboard failure.
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I use MiniTool ShadowMaker https://www.minitool.com/backup/system-backup.html (mainly because I use their Partition Magic a lot).
It seems fine but I've never actually had to restore an image from it.
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We use Veeam at work for physical and virtual machine backups
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What's the current best way to backup a Windows machine?
I'm not bothered by file backup... I don't keep data files in a single place, that's covered.
I'm more worried about disaster recovery, i.e. disk failure and time to restore the system including all software installed and working.
Basically full disk imaging is what I'm looking for.
Windows 10 built-in seems to only be file backup. I've installed the free Macrium Reflect for now... but what are others using, what is recommended?