Macrium Reflect

Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by Stigg, Nov 23, 2013.

  1. xxJackxx

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    On my desktop the default width on mine was too narrow to see much of the text. This is 100% scaling on a 34 inch widescreen running 3440x1440. On my laptop I would have not spotted it right away. It is a 4k screen with 250% scaling (which is the default). I would have expected the opposite but it needs work either way.
     
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    I am using Shadow Defender when I am testing software. :thumb:
     
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    I store my backups in a VeraCrypt container on a HD that is physically offline. :thumb:
     
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    I have a 1GB VeraCrypt container that is dedicated to storing important files such as vital records, tax return forms/TurboTax files etc. This container file is stored offline on 3 portable HDDs. These HDDs were pre-formatted with NTFS and full-HDD encrypted with BitLocker.

    Other larger sized important files such as family photos and videos I store them directly on the 3 portable HDDs that were encrypted with BitLocker.
     
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    I switch between using my system on 2560x1440 @ 100% and 1920x1080 @ 125% (when RDPing into my system from another system). The screenshot below is from the latter setup, before making any column width changes. I can see everything I need to here. Can you post a screenshot of what you see, just for comparison?

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  6. xxJackxx

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    That is similar to the view I got with version 7. My version 8 does not look like that. It will be several hours before I get home to be able to access that system. I will see what I can do when I get the opportunity.
     
  7. jphughan

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    Ok, definitely curious, because V8 looked just like V7 there for me, which is why I didn't notice anything.
     
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    What about v8 Free? It is not available to download.
     
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    Not available yet. V7 Free launched later than V7 paid. Can't remember exactly how much later, but somehow I'm thinking it wasn't until 7.1.
     
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    https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/macrium_reflect_free_edition.html
     
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    You can definitely get the installer for v8 free. I manually upgraded a couple of PCs that had v7 free. In my testing so far if I go to the Scheduled backups and right click one of the entries and click "Run now" the main UI crashes with an error about the scheduler. The backup continues to run as expected. This happened on both PCs. The paid version does not seem to have this issue. I assume the response at the moment will be that that free version is not officially released and there will likely be no priority given to it until it is.
     
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    This is a downloader, the same downloader can be downloaded from macrium.com after e-mail registration, but the downloader will download Free v7.3.
    Hopefully it will appear in a few days.
    In principle, downloading v8 Free from the forums is not a problem, but the very fact that it cannot be downloaded from the official site is important.
     
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    Here it is. It resets to this every time.
     
  14. jphughan

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    Wow, not sure what’s going on there. Unfortunately the person who reported it in the forum didn’t include a screenshot, possibly assuming that everyone was affected by that issue and that it would be obvious. But I would bet we’ll see a patch release soon to fix this, a file lock issue on F&F backups, and an issue that prevents Reveal Password from working when you authenticate with Windows Hello rather than a password. Haven’t seen anything reports of anything critical being broken (except maybe that file lock issue). The most widespread report seems to be issues getting V8 keys on upgrades, especially on 4-packs, although Macrium says only about 20 early orders were affected, so maybe it just seems worse on the forum because only the people experiencing problems are posting.
     
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    Yeah, I waited a day to purchase hoping to avoid any issues with the licenses. I had no problems at all. This is really the only thing I have noticed. It appears to me that it is just defaulting to the width of the labels on each column. I resized them all and on the next launch it was back to this. I would have to assume there is no code to save the width. But that isn't hard and as you stated I would expect there will be a patch shortly. Overall I am liking the upgrade and I recommend getting it.
     
  16. TheRollbackFrog

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    The original issue in the Beta Forum was that when columns would be changed dynamically, they wouldn't hold. That was fixed but we were warned when we left that screen and came back, the display would be automatically resized for the screen once again.

    From the looks of your screenshot, it has been automatically resized, but Reflect thinks your screen real estate is HALF of what it really is. Yes, this could be a Reflect issue but I'm thinking it's a W10 issue of some sort related to screen size and presentation size (100%, 125%, etc.). Reflect gets the screen size via an OS API so unless it's making a simple math error, I think W10 may be your culprit as far as your large screen is concerned... even maybe something with your monitor settings
     
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    ...and despite all of that, version 7 was fine. I assume an error was made somewhere and will be corrected. :)
     
  18. beethoven

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    Just trying to do an image and got stumped that the internal drive is not recognised - any idea what causes this issue? And not wanting to confuse anyone - this is Macrium Server Version 6.3
    I intended to do a normal image of the drive shown as Data (D) / Disk 1 in Disk Management - in Macrium this drive either does not show at all or is greyed out with no way to tick the box? Disk Manager.jpg Macrium.jpg Macrium Greyed out.jpg
     
  19. Brian K

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    I suspect there is something wrong with that partition. I'd backup (copy files/folders to another partition) the data in that partition and then use your BootIt to...

    Delete the partition and Clear the Boot Sector
    Create a new NTFS Data partition
     
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  20. beethoven

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    Hi Brian, thanks for your input. The thing is that there is a software running on this server that was purpose built for our warehouse and I am not exactly sure if the program is running on the C: Drive or D: Drive. I suspect it's running on the C: Drive with data files on the D: Drive but some of these might be SQL. The developer is overseas and I will need to find out more details before taking radical steps. The strange thing is though that I can do file & folder backups via Macrium but not an image. If I knew that the files for backup are plain office files etc, I would not care but due to the possibility of some SQL I would feel better having an image with everything in place.
     
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    Die Free-Version wird laut Macrium etwa 9 Wochen nach Veröffentlichung von Macrium Reflect 8 (Home und höher) erscheinen.
     
  22. jphughan

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    I mostly agree with Brian K's diagnosis, except I don't think it's an issue with the partition. I think it's an issue with the partition table. The reason is that Reflect isn't even identifying that disk as MBR or GPT and therefore isn't even displaying a partition layout. That to me speaks to a more fundamental problem than one with a specific partition on that disk. I have no idea what the specific issue might be given that Windows seems to be using the disk just fine, though. But the reason you can't see it at all in the wizard screenshot is because if Reflect sees it as an uninitialized disk, then it would have nothing to back up. I don't think Reflect supports creating a forensic mode image of an entirely raw disk that it believes doesn't even have any partitions, even though it does support forensic mode captures of defined partitions.

    As for why F&F backups work, that's because in that case, Reflect is performing a file-level operation, like almost all other applications, and is therefore relying on Windows to deal with the lower-level access to the disk. With an image backup, Reflect is performing a block-level operation and therefore needs to work with the underlying disk/partition information directly.

    But I agree that you should make an F&F backup of that volume asap -- except you may want to exclude the System Volume Information folder, which can be problematic to restore over the existing folder on the target. That way if something happens to the disk, you can just re-initialize and reformat it, confirm Reflect now sees it disk properly, then restore your data from the F&F backup and make image backups going forward.
     
  23. Brian K

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    If you can do this the result might be interesting. Or not. It won't make any changes to your system.

    Boot BIBM. Partition Work. Select the problem partition. Click Properties.
    What are the Start and End LBAs?
    In Additional Information, is there a Warning?
     
  24. beethoven

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    Thank you Brian and Jphughan - I need to obtain more info from the developer of this program first.
    As for BIBM, the server is not at my location, so I won't be able to use Bootit today and even tomorrow I am a bit reluctant as this obviously means rebooting the server. We have duplicate hardware available and may want to create a clone first and testing the system on this. I am a bit concerned that a reboot in itself may cause the underlying issue to become
    more pronounced.
     
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    According to Macrium, the free version will appear about 9 weeks after the release of Macrium Reflect 8 (Home and higher).

    It's best to post in English on an English language forum.
     
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