I think I would try with another imaging tool having Linux capabilities, like Image for Linux from TerayteUnlimited, just to see if the issue is still there.
mastabog, I don't know if Macrium works the same as IFL. IFL restores are sector based. My Ubuntu partition has 4845 MiB Used, 2155 MiB Free and 6552 MiB to Restore. The sectors in use are spread over 6552 MiB. The Ext4 file system can't be compacted so the smallest partition I can restore into is 6552 MiB. Make sense?
I believe what you're trying to do (smaller partition restoration) is only supported under NTFS, not EXT4.
Macrium: definitely can't restore an Ext4 to a smaller size free space, even if the used space is lower Terabyte: says in the docs that you must compact/defrag if you want to restore to a smaller partition. Acronis: What do you know ... I just tried Acronis True Image 2016, backup the same 64GB Ext4 partition (20GB used) and I was able to restore it just fine into a 24GB free space partition. I'm happy and sad at the same time. I really liked Macrium Reflect's interface.
Same experience here. I have been using Acronis TI for more than 10 years, it never failed me. I used Macrium Reflect as a third disk imager on my list, however it's too slow as compared to ATI (granted, I only do full disk imaging from boot USB). It may be reliable also, however I have much faster solution with equal, if not better reliability.
I found Macrium Reflect v6 to be quite fast, and bloat free (and it's very scriptable from the command line), compared to Acronis TI who keeps adding bloat. Have you seen the amount of system services and user-space executables it starts at boot? (there are 6 or 7 of them, churning away). Gets the job done though, and in this case better than Macrium Reflect did, and with a smaller file in about the same time as Macrium's - max compression on both comes out smaller in Acronis TI by 1.3GB (Macrium: 10.9GB compared to Acronis TI: 9.6GB) ... quite a difference.
I test Macrium Free from time to time to process full images. In my hardware, it´s very slow. The difference in time compared with Image for Windows approaches 100%, and the image is about 10% larger.
Yes it's one of the potential problems for Acronis if you install it with your OS. For me I only use the boot media from a USB stick with cold backup/restore. I don't see the necessity of use differential/incremental backup/restore on my computers, as the full disk image backup/restore can be competed within less than 4 minutes when I use either Acronis TI or Drive Snapshot on most of my computers(4 out of 5). Macrium Reflect does have a nice GUI and it's easy to use, however as Robin A. mentioned, it's too slow when doing full disk backup/restore, and the disk image it made is generally quite larger than the ones made by Acronis and Drive Snapshot. If you prefer to install the disk imaging software on your OS and do incremental/differential, then maybe Macrium Home/Pro with Rapid Restore capacity is a good choice, as that feature is comparable to AX64/Flashback so I guess it must be fast.
I am doing incremental backups for space reasons (though consolidating full backups when merging the full with oldest incremental is painfully slow) so I want these installed in my OS. I didn't notice much speed difference between Macrium Reflect and Acronis True Image when doing full backups on max compression, but TI was still faster and got a smaller file, and it also allows me to exclude custom files or folders from the partition backups which is really cool. I really hate all the bloat though, really hate it (cloud, sync, online login etc etc could all be at least disabled ... it's ugly and some of the actually useful features have been dumbed down). p.s. TI has an issue for me in that I can't mount .tib files as drive letters as they are supposed to -- double clicking does nothing, right clicking has no option to mount. They have the Ti icon but seem associated with Windows Explorer. Anyway, I don't want to become (too) offtopic.
hi may somebody ask if they could add the possibility to add a comment to an image , or a differential image? i'm a terabyte user,but i could consider to buy it there is a forum for clients , and once i sent an email , they have never answered me thanks
Actually I had the Macrium free at 1 time and they did answer me. Anyway, I add a comment to every backup I do so am not sure if you selected the correct place to add the comment.
hi i created an differential image , but can't find any place to add a comment could you please post a screenshot ? thanks
AFAIK you can change the comment only when creating the image, chosing the menu "Prompt" in the backup definition files tab.
Go to the Disc Image tab then Backup Definition Files tab and highlight the backup you want to change. If you right click on the backup and at the bottom of the popup menu which says Advanced Properties then choose Comment and you can change/add it there. Also you can rename the backup from the right-click menu. Is this what you are after? jasper
All the tricks mentioned above are only for images yet to be created. Once created, they cannot be commented.
hi thanks jasper & TheRollbackFrog Jasper i will try later TheRollbackFrog , i have created a full image , i want to create a diffrential image with comment ,can't i do it?
Mantra, my YES may have been a bit pre-mature, sorry If your original FULL was created either through an existing DEFINITION file or it created a DEFINITION file when you ran it, then, YES, you may COMMENT an ongoing DIFF or INC (or even another FULL) if you use that DEFINITION to create it. If you don't have a DEFINITION file for that original FULL there will be no way to comment ongoing images based on that full. Lemme know if you do and I'll walk you through the process (it's pretty easy). Bottom line... if you don't have a DEFINITION established for that original FULL, you cannot comment follow-on images based on that full. Sorry for the false hope.
Like I said, use the "prompt" option when creating another image from a definition file, either incremental or differential.
hi TheRollbackFrog when i create my first entire image i haven't notice the possibility to add a definition (i guess it's a sort of comment,isn't it) so i can't add comments to my differential images thanks
hi i use create images and restore images always offline i have to see if i can add a create a definition offline of a created (months ago) full image http://www.macrium.com/help/v5/Main_Screen/Backup/Backup_Definition_Files.htm thanks
You cannot CREATE Definition files from an existing backup image... on-line or off-line. The off-line WinPE does not even have the section to handle/manage Definition files.
ok rip , that's sad , would be a great feature add a comment i like to create backups and restore offline thanks TheRollbackFrog
for you who think macrium is slow, i updated my win10 to the 14267 build this afternoon. i then ran a full macrium backup. took a whole 9 min. (approx.) to produce a 47gb file on my 2nd hard disc as well as copying it via macrium's robocopy option to an external usb3 passport drive. last time i had to do a restore was when i had 'updated' win10 to 14247 which hated my pc, so i restored from my prev. nite's incremental image; took 2 1/2 minutes.
This feature has been requested of Macrium to be incl. in a future release... hopefully, we'll see it.
