Macrium Reflect

I was reading about it here. Is that the same thing?

By the way. The link (Online help is available Error Code: 1) in the error message above is even invalid.

 

That's it. Steps 1 to 11.

"Clean" zeroes the first and last 2048 sectors on the drive. It might make the UFD work. As long as it's not broken.

 

I'm stuck at Step 9.

The error message is: The label is illegal.

 

It might be the " "

Use this... (forget the label)

format FS=fat32 QUICK

 

It worked.
Now, I will try to make a USB WinPE Rescue Media again.

 

Great. It made the USB WinPE Rescue Media.
Thanks, mate.

 

Excellent.

 

I would have thought that a product like Reflect could overcome this problem within the program itself.
Surely, it can't be that difficult. And I see on their forum that there are quite a few with this problem.

 

I went and looked at this again last night after the information provided. I also can't see a way to really do it without having to keep lots of incrementals, or having multiple full backups - 1 for each backup period I want (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly), which just wastes my storage space. The merging philosophy of AXTM seemed a good compromise for recent file access, old file access, and storage space.

 

I had a thought, some applications will want to create a system restore point before installing, would it be possible to direct this to start an MR backup instead?

 

I've settled for multiple backups as you say, each with a synthetic full: 6 hourlies, 6 dailies, and 12 weeklies. I've excluded the system reserved partition from the hourlies and dailies, in the hope that doing so might speed up those incrementals a bit (haven't tested to see if it makes any real difference though). I've also hid the notification pop-up, and disabled waking from sleep - all in all it's not too far off AX64 now.

 

Major differences.

V5 RESCUE MEDIA cannot read v6 images (v6 can read v5). v5 rescue media DOES NOT HAVE the "Rapid Data Restore" feature that makes restorations using v6 so fast (a DIFFERENCE restore instead of a FULL restore). AND... I believe the Macrium ReDEPLOY feature (restore to dissimilar hardware) has been changed for v6... made much more robust.

 

It's really not that painful to do a MANUAL incremental in those situations. In all my years with Rollback RX and recently, AX64, I've always had SYSTEM RESTORE disabled and used manuals for immediate protection.

Macrium makes it easy enough to do by allowing you to create a Desktop SHORTCUT (which you can put on your taskbar or START menu) for 1-click operation.

The only thing missing with MANUALS is the easy ability to do them with nothing more than a COMMENT change. To COMMENT a manual you need to use the UI, the selected backup definition, then a 5-<click> operation to do this... not terrible but it could be made easier.

 

BCW, can you tell us exactly what you want to accomplish with your backup philosophy? How far back do you want to reach for recent/old file access and is that all you care about... file access?

 

It's not really that it's hard but rather that it seems that whenever an application tries to do a system restore point, it re-enables the system protection which I previously disabled. I agree that it's not hard to do a manual backup with MR but would it at least be possible to prohibit applications from re-enabling system protection?

Edit: Also, something I would like to see is the ability to create a Desktop shortcut but instead of either Full/Diff/Inc you have the option "Prompt" - Simply because I want to make a comment on each incremental image, or perhaps a general option which you can tick called "Always prompt for comment." <- Or definition based.. Does Macrium take suggestions/requests?

 

My view... if you're using another application to provide for snapshot SYSTEM protection (MRv6, AX64, Rollback, etc.), there's no need to have SYSTEM RESTORE active and the whole problem becomes a moot point. There's absolutely nothing SR provides that isn't done much better by all the snapshot applications, and the space that it can eventually consume on your SYSTEM volume needs to be imaged by your snapshot app... I really don't see the need.

I wholeheartedly agree. You should make this suggestion via their FEEDBACK portal at <Support {AT} macrium {DOT} com>. I would use that feature all the time!

 

I just re-read this... that should NOT be happening if you have that protection turned off (properly) for the volume in question. When I have that protection turned off, apps that usually try and do a SYSTEM RESTORE no longer do so (like Windows updates for example).

 

I turn it off in the place in the screenshot. Not all applications enable it, for example Windows update doesn't, but certain applications seem to do it, and sometimes it seems like it just magically enabled itself.. This has been going on forever for me, since I started using Window 8 in fact, carried on to Windows 8.1 and is now also present for me in Windows 10 TP 9926.. So I sometimes have to manually go in there and disable it for the C drive..
Edit: Same thing with the Windows built-in firewall btw, I have it disabled but if an application requests to have firewall rules set up, it will re-enable the firewall... Sometimes I'm just done with Windows..

Edit: I have sent the suggestions I mentioned above to their support e-mail, hopefully they'll consider it, it would make using MR v6 much easier for me and requiring fewer clicks to do what I want.

 

Thanks Frog.
So, I will keep my v5 backup media until I update my other computers to v6.

 

I have 4 Pack license for Macrium Reflect Professional v5.
How do I upgrade to v6?

 

when did you buy the 4 pack? the free upgrade is only if you bough after nov 2014... there is a web page you can simple enter your v5 lic code and it deactivates it and gives you a v6 lic. but again they have to have been bought after the cutoff date.

 

It was before that date.
But do I even get a discount to upgrade?

 

Is it really worth the price to upgrade from Version 5 to Version 6?

 

John--it's obvious that you have not been reading this thread over the past week or so. If you had, you probably wouldn't ask that question. v6, in my opinion, is light years ahead of v5. I strongly encourage you to go back about a week or so and catch up on this thread. You will definitely be enlightened as to this new version. IMO, it's definitely worth the price!

 

yes there is some discount but not nearly what they were offering. i know they have a slightly discounted price for an upgrade then i think you can use the 20% code (not sure with the upgrade price if you can or not for sure) with that.

and imo yes v6 is far superior to v5 100%