OK - looking at Cobian, it's slow, in fact very slow when broken down the actual amount of data i needed to backup was 43.27 GB. I started at 15.02 yesterday and it is now 07.16 and it is at 77% - so it is really slow, however the good news is that using SQX compression (Zip Compression can also be used) the compressed file is only at 9.6 GB so it certainly saves a lot of space it seems as though the full backup will come in at under 12 GB, so I'm happy in that respect could actually put that on to DVD by using the split file function. Even though it's slow I would recommend it as you can set it up to do a differential backup say once a month then it will only backup if the source has been changed from the last FULL backup. If there is no need to copy the file, it will be skipped, saving backup time. So all in all I would recommend it as a viable option to make a recovery copy of your runtimes (as long as you don't mind waiting, it will run happily in the background)- sure beats backing up an entire drive and the space required for the image.

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11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz   3.50 GHz
64.0 GB (63.9 GB usable)
Geforce RTX 3060 12 GB
Windows 11 Pro