AOMEI or Macrium ?

I don't know anything about AOMEI. I used for a couple of years Macrium free, which I thought it was great despite the fact that some of its outstanding features are disabled. Now I have the full version, and it is amazing, backups and restores achieved within minutes, never ever a failure, and I love its bootable rescue media, two clicks and the restore is automatically performed . I actually often use it as a time machine, it is not as fast as RollBack RX of course, but no horror stories either. Definitely recommended.

 

Thanks to all the posters for their replies. Whatever the pros and cons of not installing may be - it is good to know that the option exists.

 

AOMEI or Macrium ?

-Macrium Reflect due to its Stability.
-AOMEI failed a lot

For almost two (2) years, I've used Macrium Reflect without a problem.
I make Full Back-Ups and successfully Restore them with Macrium Reflect.

 

Built-in Windows Backup and Restore isn't so bad. Never failed me and you can even create a boot media.

 

I tried Aomei a long time ago, but Macrium, which I've been using for a couple of weeks, is what I prefer now.

 

I've tried Macrium twice, both times resulted in a BSOD, no idea why. Using Aomei now, no issues and quite simple.

 

Am I now wrong or not?
I see the expression "offline" used in some replies. But to me that expression is used in the wrong way. In my humble opinion "offline" means that your computer is not online, your computer is disconnected from the internet.
But the way in which I read some of those replies is that posters are making the difference between using a bootable CD/DVD/USB-stick versus using the bootable recovery environment from the installed program. But that has nothing to do with being online or offline, isn't it?
Am I now wrong or not?

 

This is also my understanding, @FanJ , but maybe we are both wrong. If I uploaded my files and folders to a cloud server, I would have to be online, of course. If my backup is stored on an external drive, however, it doesn't matter whether or not my computer is connected to the Internet.

 

No, I think you are both right.

Correct. My question referred to comments by posters who used the expression "offline" but from the context it was clear what they meant: The distinction between either installing the program on your computer (especially in order to create an image) or to use exclusively the bootable CD/DVD/USB-stick (not only for recovery purposes but also for creating an image).

 

yeah, this is the context in which i used the term "offline imaging".

btw, the reason i prefer offline imaging is so that i can use any imaging sw i like to back up and restore without another defunct imaging sw on my systems.

 

Even if I use macrium paid as main backup soft, my failsafe one is WB&R.
In the past, when Macrium failed to restore after a Rollback RX corruption, WB&R saved me.

 

Thanks @Buddel , @Peter 123 , @imdb .
Yes, agreed, the context seems to have been more or less clear ...
I for one wished that the expression "offline" was not used (and will not be used) in this context because it is only confusing.
I may be accused of "nitpicking" here. And of course context is everything. But nevertheless ...
It can be confusing ...
You know, there is this thing that we call a "tulip", and suddenly a "dictionary" is also called a "tulip" .....

 

according to this official acronis user's guide, dl.acronis.com/u/pdf/SnapDeploy3.0Server_ug.en.pdf the term "offline imaging" refers to:

http://dl.acronis.com/u/pdf/SnapDeploy3.0Server_ug.en.pdf#[{"num":314,"gen":0},{"name":"XYZ"},70,772,null]

and "online imaging" refers to:

http://dl.acronis.com/u/pdf/SnapDeploy3.0Server_ug.en.pdf#[{"num":317,"gen":0},{"name":"XYZ"},70,772,null]

 

OK @imdb, thanks, then it seems that I stand corrected. First time I hear the expression "offline" used in that context, although I used Acronis long, long ago; but maybe that's just my fault.
Why on earth a company would use the expressions "Offline" and "Online" in that context, is beyond me. But so be it, as it seems ... It has absolutely nothing to do with whether being offline or online (as in the way those expressions are usually understood). What a nonsense.
Oh well, definitions change. What we called yesterday a "dictionary" may be called today a "tulip". We learn every day.

 

Others say "live" system. That's beyond me as well. I've always wondered.
If we have a live system then the opposite would be a... "dead" system?
lol

 

COLD and HOT have been used extensively in describing the same imaging environments.