Help me to decide: AOMEI or EaseUS or Macrium

@Peter2150/@Minimalist

I wonder what I might be doing wrong with Macrium...
Created an Windows image for the 2nd time, it takes exactly the same time as the 1st on: 11:07.

You are saying Macrium is fast. I do not complain about the quality, just wonder about the big differences in speed.


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Does the easeus file backup have a filter for different filetypes?

I want to compress most files but not video files

 

@wiwul
My system is 21 GB large and I have it installed on SSD. I place backup on HDD. Comparing to your system (47 GB of used space) we have similar speed. As Pete mentioned you need paid version to be able to create Incremental backups.

 

Thank you very much! Actually sofar I have been using other imaging software. Paragon HDM v15. However, it got me problems with regards to drivers.
So I uninstalled it and cud only run it from CD-ROM. Consequently a series of booting, setting boot priority etc.
Also, sofar, I have always created 'full' images only. No doubt it is possible, but I have not 'experimented ' with it. Being totally unfamiliar with it,
frankly speaking, I feel unsure. I know, it sounds pretty much 'newbie', but it is something I simply never considered (did not want to run any
risks of an image that would not restore or something). If my memory serves me well, there were some drawbacks, reason why I just did not
consider any further.

I tend to Macrium, but it is more a 'feeling' to use very decent software, but no proof that the other software isn't decent.

Coincidentally I found out that Macrium can only convert images to .VHD files (virtual machines). I have vmware workstation,
requiring vmdk files. EaseUS creates vmdk files. For Macrium on needs a 3rd party converter.

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Afaik the problem with incrementals is that all must be kept for restore to complete. And that restoring takes much longer & isn't as dependable.

 

I guess it works the same way as drive snapshot, it relies on hash tables rather than on bit per bit comparison. But that's just a wild guess.

 

Not just Macrium, Acronis and Paragon also do incrementals which are much faster than full backups.
Have a look here plus the following 2 posts:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thre...omei-partition-assistant.361543/#post-2352237

Cheers
manolito

 

Have decided to purchase Macrium Reflect.

- recommended here (and elsewhere) for its stability/reliability, with special thanks to Peter2150 and Minimalist
- over the last couple of days I enjoyed a good email support from them (I asked quite some questions)
- not technical, just a matter of taste: I like their interface. The layout, tabs, etc. is making it more userfriendly,
quicker and easier understand/to work with. Well, that is to say, for -me-

Anyway, based on the feedbacks here I am convinced to have made the right decision


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Thank you all.

 

Nice to see that you decided to buy Macrium Reflect. I hope that it will serve you well.

P.S.: version 6 will come out soon and I guess you will be eligible to free upgrade as described here: http://blog.macrium.com/2014/11/full-steam-ahead/

 

For years i have used Easeus paid versions and i find it solid, however since after version 6.5 stable. I have had a few problems with 7, 8 etc
Universal restore is a winner for me and as i type this I am currently doing an incremental back up with Farstone Total Recovery Pro 10.51

A solid product again but also had glitches on versions 8,9 and like normal Backup programs can be stable one minute. Flaking the next.

I need universal restore, So Paragon, Easeus, Farstone cut it. Macrium has this, Aomie Does not.

Also a few backup programs tend to slow down the machine when performing a backup. Farstone does not. Hence why im using it again.
Over 20 years in the game says a lot about Farstone/Driveclone products.

 

For newcomers who're trying to decode the secret messages, this article might be helpful:
Part 1:
https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-comm...-features-and-backuprestore-speed-comparison/
Part 2:
https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-comm...eatures-and-backuprestore-speed-comparison/2/

E.g., "SP" is apparently ShadowProtect.

 

I would just like to caution that the article was last updated a year ago. Macrium Reflect 6 is much, much faster than version 5. I suspect that the others have had new versions since as well.

 

Macrium Reflect 6 still slower than Acronis in hot-image on my PC
*I have not tested the speed of restoration

 

For me, the speed of restoration and incremental imaging is actually more important than the initial imaging speed.
In addition, are you talking about an initial image or an incremental image?

Please clarify if you are using the free or paid version of Macrium Reflect v.6? The free version does not offer Rapid Delta Restore. http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

 

Show us with your data. "much, much faster" is very subjective and basically useless info to other people. For full image backup, MR v5 and v6 are about the same speed.

 

Yes I was aware of the RDR of MR V6 which results in fast restore. I was talking about the speed of full image backup. I doubt V6 is much much faster than v5. In my test, the full disk imaging speed is about the same for v5 and v6.
For folks like me who only do full disk backup/restore, RDR is of no interest so I never tested that feature.

 

Too bad you just perform full disk backup, it's so much faster when performing a full disk incremental backup. Around 10 mins on my very slow Lenovo G505 which has a 1TB HDD which is half full... You can even perform them in cold mode with Macrium Reflect. AFAIR.

 

What is "SP"? Did a search, and found nothing that seems to pertain? Southern Pacific RR, Spanish, Special, etc.