I'm so confident owning Macrium Reflect I keep W System Restore disabled!

Paul

Paul,

It can be VERY geeky or quite easy. In "Simple Operations" mode a backup can be made with 2 clicks and 3 clicks for the restore.

I hope we beat your team tonight. But I'm sure you hope the reverse.

 

I would hope so, but I think our team is in disarray at the moment
I may go for Terabyte in easy mode in future as a backup to MR. I also like Drive Snapshot as a portable solution, and I believe it now has a 'in product' (warm?) restore capability.
I bought an Acronis 2017 license after some time of not using it, but I think there is too much going on there; somewhere @Peter2150 called it his 'whore product'

 

I use ShadowProtect for my Vista and XP computers and Macrium Reflect free for my Win 10 machines. I'm going to buy at least one license from Macrium as it is cheaper than ShadowProtect and as good as far as I'm concerned. I do keep Win restore on, although I delete restore points very frequently to keep backup images smaller...

 

DS always had the ability to 'hot-initiate' a system volume restore. Once selected it automatically restarts the system and executes the restore (in DOS).

 

According to Froggie, deleting your system restore points shouldn't be necessary unless you do cold backups!

 

I still need to play around a bit with Macrium because I keep reading good things about it. But Windows Refresh in Win 8 has so far saved me once, but it will probably not help if Windows can't boot anymore.

http://www.howtogeek.com/132428/eve...t-refreshing-and-resetting-your-windows-8-pc/

 

Is that to be read as 1 hour and 58 minutes or 1 minute and 58 seconds? I would assume the former, but based on the comment that running the incremental takes about 1 minute... I'm not sure.

 

Obviously pete meant 1 minute and 58 seconds.

 

I could assume but it seems ridiculously fast for a restore.

 

It's restoring only 2gb (ish) rather than 130gb. Even restoring the whole system only takes 16 minutes.

 

I assume this is a function of the Incremental backups which is only available in the paid version? I will buy the paid version some day but I still wish they had more flexible options. 1 license or 4. I want 2. I'm even willing to pay a little more than competitors, but not triple what I can get a 3 user license of other products for.

 

Thanks for clarifying. Sounds like I will absolutely have to buy the licensed version at some point. Hoping for a sale.

 

I just recently purchased my second license and I found a 10% or 20% discount code online. (Can't remember which.) Do a search and you'll probably find at least a 10% discount code.

 

Perhaps a dumb question, but can you compare Macrium with Rollback RX? I was always amazed by the restore time, when I tested it in virtual machines.

 

Rollback RX, for recent snapshots, is a bit faster, BUT... it is not a backup/disaster recovery solution. If you want to protect yourself against System hardware failures, that solution is REQUIRED.

 

You misunderstood, I was wondering if it's comparable to Rollback, but it has already been answered.

OK I see, so Macrium is almost as fast.

 

i just use macrium, i do however sync my backup folder from my second internal disk (where i also have my temp file areas and archived application installers - anything rarely changeing that i do not want on my system drive) to an external usb3 hd. i do a full file backup - less the macrium backups folder - of the 2nd hd to the usb hd periodically when the mood strikes me.