BG, I need a li'l more info. When you say "same port and device that AX64 uses," are you still using AX64 v1 (which only does a single partition)? If you are, I would like you to change the way MRv6 is doing its backup. Lemme know and we'll move on from there...
I KNOW we are not talking about the free version here, but I can confirm that V5 FREE restored all 4 Partitions to my 64 bit Win 8.1 PRO GPT SSD. I used the Linux rescue disk that was made. I did not create a WinPE disk, and I believe that since I am not using RAID or USB 3 drives, I should be OK. My read and write speeds seem fast. Not sure what you all are seeing.
Froggie and all, Reinstalled Macrium 6 Home Trial again. Tried email settings given by Froggie and that works fine now. Thanks. Also, did a chkdis on my internal drive where images resite separate from system SSD and no errors found although Macrium gave me that error when trying to do first image. After that all has been good so far and have restored images of system drive from both external and internall drives. Really liking this product a lot. If and more likely when I purchase, will I need to uninstall the trial and install the paid version or just put in my license key? Also, will I need to redo the recovery USB flash drive or use the one created with the trial? Thanks for all. Gary
Great news! Just need the license name and REG code. Although I think they're the same, I would recreate it. I don't think that ReDEPLOY (restore to different hardware) is available in the TRIAL ISO but I'm not sure. Other than that, all is the same. ...and remember, if you decide to BUY before the end of the month, there's a 15% coupon running around earlier in the thread.
AlphaOne, just wanted to welcome you and thank you for taking the time to elucidate those points. I "think" most of them are accurate. Just now upgrading from v5 to v6.
As noted earlier I have more than 1 partition (there are 4 actually) but the first 2 are very small and the 4th was empty at the time that I did my testing (It no longer is). In short everything was on my C:\ drive. I had posted a screen grab of the details above and will try to find it and add a link to it to this post. At this point I have moved about 45 gigs of data to the previously empty 100 gig partition so comparisons between MR V6 and AX64 will be harder to do. EDIT: Here is the link to my screen shot https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/macrium-reflect.356309/page-54#post-2460886 I was puzzled as to why MR took 3 hours to image the entire drive and why AX64 could do it in (baseline) just over 1.25 hours. Its not a big deal as MR is set to do its thing at 5:30 AM so if its a bit longer or shorter time wise its no matter.
I had found a 20% coupon via a google search that is good until Feb 28, here is a link to the page http://www.retailmenot.com/view/macrium.com
Since upgrading from v5 to v6, my Full Scheduled Backup status is displaying "Not Scheduled". I have checked Task Scheduler, and the status is "Ready" in there. Could it just need a full backup run to rectify it? On my other computers, both the Full and Differential status is displaying "Not Scheduled" even thought the Task Scheduler status is displaying "Ready" and there is a "Next Run Time" displayed in Reflect.
Recovery ISO is not the same as created with the TRIAL version. In particular, the ReDEPLOY feature is not included in the TRIAL. Once you register, you definitely need to recreate the recovery bootable medium in order to be able to restore your backup to a dissimilar hardware. Without doing this - and ergo without registration - you may not be able to restore your backup to a new harddisk once your old one suddenly dies out... This is worthwhile to realize well in advance.
To try and clarify here... ReDeploy is not a feature required to restore to just a different HDD/SSD. It's a feature designed to provide restoration to totally different mainboard hardware (chipsets, drivers, etc.). Normal restoration can easily handle larger/smaller disks/partitons (constraint being "used sectors" must be smaller than partition required) without ReDeploy.
Thanks again for all testing and posts regarding Macrium 6. Just purchased today and baked up and restored an image via boot menu item and all went well. My question now is, I have about 50 GB of various data files audio video photo and Web files along with docs and presentations on 4 partitions totaling around 50 GB of space. I have no doube that Macrium is the best tool to be used for my system drive, separate from data drive but am wondering if I should use Macrium for these data partitions? I used Image for Windows for imaging these data partitions but am wondering if I should use a different strategy and program or should I use Macrium's folder and files backup function? If this is too far off topic I can start another thread but would be glad to hear some input and thanks. Gary
Date 23rd February 2015 Bug Fixes 6.0.482: Upgrade from v5 rescue media issueAfter upgrading from Macrium Reflect v5 the rescue media Wizard would not prompt to upgrade to v6 rescue media. It was necessary to click the 'Rebuild' button. this has been resolved. Windows PE prompt for XML file when cloningWhen cloning using the Windows PE rescue media, Reflect would incorrectly prompt to save an XML definition file. this has been resolved. Technicians portable USB stick issueThe Technicians portable version of Macrium Reflect would build a 'Trial' version of the rescue media. This has been resolved. v5 upgrade of XML definitionA v5 XML definition would incorrectly use the global v6 retention defaults if DSM was disabled in v5. This has been resolved.
From MR support: "Yes, Incremental images can be appended to any previous image in the backup set, Full, Diff or Incremental. We will update the article to reflect this." I've updated my post 1469.
Hi Froggie,Pete,just a quick question,every time that a new build is released,i have to rebuild the WinPE Recovery Media from scratch? or my previously created WinPE Recovery Media still could work?
Quick note: Just upgraded v5 standard to v6 workstation on my laptop, and v5 standard to v6 Server on my desktop. Dramatic improvement in speed, even of the program opening and analyzing. Shocked me!
I was really after something along the lines of what AX64 did, built up over a long time that would look like this full, Q, Q, Q, Q, Q, Q, Q, M, M, M, W, W, W, D, D, D..... where these are full, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily Make a full backup to start with, then start daily incrementals till I hit a threshold (maybe 10). After I have more than 10 daily incrementals, For earlier than this I would want some weekly files which are also incrementals, then monthly incrementals, then quarterlies, and I would probably just keep adding quarterlies. Probably after a couple of years I would close off the whole chain and start a complete new one. The dailies are to give me latest system recovery. The FB and quarterlies are for long term access to old version of files. Files I develop tend to go through periods of change, and periods of stability. Longer term, I will probably only want the stable version, but after a few years I would still like to be able to access the old v1, v2, v3 versions of the files, even though the current one may be v8. After some time, I probably don't need a specific days file, just some version that was relatively stable would have what I want to look at. It would minimise space usage for backups if it is all incrementals except the initial full backup. I would have some specific additional manual backups, but these would not be scheduled.
