If you are going to use two partitions, I would wipe drive completely and start over, creating rescue drive anew. Once created, test it works ok, then shrink the fat32 partition to say 2GB, then add an exFAT or NTFS partition.
How often would you expect Macrium to REQUIRE an update that I would really have to apply to my bootable partition? For various reasons, I have about 20 USB sticks and while they are handy, maintaining a list of what is currently on each one is a nuisance. If I have to re-apply MR to my drive once every 2 years, that would NOT be a problem, since I could just do a fresh backup afterward if it gets messed up. More of a nuisance would be searching for TWO sticks if I needed to do a restore. And while the system stick could be small, my data runs to terabytes. Sticks can't beat the price!! (My weekly backup drive is 5 TB, but most of the data is fairly stable, so just keeping it offline is sufficient protection - I just REALLY don't want to have to do a clean install). I have a different drive just for a rolling backup of data every couple of days. That drive is protected by a physical USB switch, just in case of a ransom-ware attack. My system backup is only plugged in every couple of weeks or so, because I can always download system updates. I also plan to backup data on that bootable drive too, but that would only be a monthly capture.
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