Macrium Reflect FREE Edition v4.2.2733
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From: lol on 23 Jul 2010 14:03 Thore wrote: >Still no possibility to boot from CD and make image? That would be nice ...it would get around the problem many people have with their darned MS/VSS stuff not working correctly, forcing Macrium to fallback to its own 'pssnap' alternative. Why not suggest it on the Macrium forum?? lol
From: Duddits on 23 Jul 2010 15:19 On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:44:38 -0500, Caesar Romano <Spam(a)uce.gov> wrote: >On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:58:43 -0500, VanguardLH <V(a)nguard.LH> wrote Re >Re: Macrium Reflect FREE Edition v4.2.2733: > >> I have Acronis TrueImage (payware) > >Just curious: Does Acronis True Image provide compression while doing >it's full, incremental or differential backups? I didn't see any >mention of compression at > ><http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/comparison.html> > >Thanks I'm a registered user of Acronis and yes it does. I changed over to Paragon DriveBackup(a free full version offered some time back) because of unresolved errors I had experienced with Acronis. Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Edition is a very robust program http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/ regards Dud -- "Science advances one funeral at a time." Max Planck
From: Rod on 23 Jul 2010 16:18 On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:58:43 -0500, VanguardLH wrote: > Thore wrote: > >> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:25:18 -0500, Caesar Romano <Spam(a)uce.gov> wrote: >> >>>Macrium Reflect FREE Edition v4.2.2733 - 25568 KB >> >> Still no possibility to boot from CD and make image? > > That's probably what the "with BartPE and Linux based recovery options" > means. If you visited the site, you would've seen "Linux based Rescue > CD with Network access and full GUI" along with mention of the BartPE > and Linux based rescue CD options in the features list. I've seen users > mentioning over a year ago about using the rescue CD (I didn't waste > time investigating how far back the rescue CD options were available). > > From the web page listing the differences between the free and paid > versions, it doesn't look like I'll be using it. Since it doesn't > support incremental or differential image backups, you can only do full > image backups. Those take up a lot more space. Forget doing daily > incremental image backups to restore your host; else, get a really huge > 2nd hard disk that is many times the size of the all the partitions that > you backup but still you'll probably have less history in backups than > if incrementals were available. I have Acronis TrueImage (payware) but > if I were looking for a freebie than I'd probably look at Paragon's > freeware offering so I can continue doing daily incremental image > backups without consuming gobs of disk space. Paragon's freeware > doesn't do incremental images but it does do differentials which can > still save on disk consumption for storing the image backups which means > I can have a longer history of images from which to select. However, I > have read that Paragon is much slower so the backup time is much longer. > > While perhaps not a big issue for users in this newsgroup, the free > version is for personal-use only. No business/commercial use. It's > free but it's not unfettered. > > Why does it need its own scheduler? The Windows platforms listed as > supported all include Task Scheduler. > > Since you can use Windows Explorer to access the "images", guess they > can't be compressed or in any proprietary or special file format. Makes > me wonder how the size of its image backups compares to other imaging > products. > > Before I'd spend time on Macrium's freeware, I'd go check to see how > well it does restores. Backups are nice and the faster the better (but > full-only images would just consume way too much disk space) but unless > it is reliable for restores than it is bogus software. Rather than > claim to have "used" this product to save backups, has anyone actually > had to do restores from it and do so several times to gauge its > reliability to actually make use of the backups? Do you lose the entire > image if a portion of it is corrupted (like the n-th CD out of several > used to store the image)? > > I found a comparison table of several free imaging programs (with > Acronis TrueImage thrown in for comparison). I have done several restores with Macrium Free without any problems. Just be sure that your PC will boot OK from the Linux restore disk.
From: M.L. on 23 Jul 2010 16:27 >>>Macrium Reflect FREE Edition v4.2.2733 - 25568 KB >From the web page listing the differences between the free and paid >versions, it doesn't look like I'll be using it. Since it doesn't >support incremental or differential image backups, you can only do full >image backups. Those take up a lot more space. Forget doing daily >incremental image backups to restore your host; else, get a really huge >2nd hard disk that is many times the size of the all the partitions that >you backup but still you'll probably have less history in backups than >if incrementals were available. I suspect most Macrium free users don't use it for daily backups. I use it for monthly backups. > I have Acronis TrueImage (payware) but >if I were looking for a freebie than I'd probably look at Paragon's >freeware offering so I can continue doing daily incremental image >backups without consuming gobs of disk space. Paragon's freeware >doesn't do incremental images but it does do differentials which can >still save on disk consumption for storing the image backups which means >I can have a longer history of images from which to select. However, I >have read that Paragon is much slower so the backup time is much longer. I use Paragon for backing up drives with multiple partitions since it can restore multiple partitions in one step, unlike Macrium. >While perhaps not a big issue for users in this newsgroup, the free >version is for personal-use only. No business/commercial use. It's >free but it's not unfettered. The free version is intended for home users and that's why I suspect most Macrium users don't do daily backups. >Why does it need its own scheduler? The Windows platforms listed as >supported all include Task Scheduler. > >Since you can use Windows Explorer to access the "images", guess they >can't be compressed or in any proprietary or special file format. Makes >me wonder how the size of its image backups compares to other imaging >products. Macrium images are compressed and proprietary but individual files can be viewed and copied using Explorer. Macrium creates a virtual drive in Explorer for that purpose. I think Paragon has the same capability. >Before I'd spend time on Macrium's freeware, I'd go check to see how >well it does restores. Backups are nice and the faster the better (but >full-only images would just consume way too much disk space) but unless >it is reliable for restores than it is bogus software. Rather than >claim to have "used" this product to save backups, has anyone actually >had to do restores from it and do so several times to gauge its >reliability to actually make use of the backups? Do you lose the entire >image if a portion of it is corrupted (like the n-th CD out of several >used to store the image)? Both Macrium and Paragon can optionally verify an image before finishing. I've done multiple restores with Macrium and Paragon without problems.
From: s|b on 23 Jul 2010 16:55
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:39:52 +0200, FredW wrote: > I made a "recovery"-CD to be able to start a restore. > But now I have a "recovery"-USB stick (an old one for which I had no > other use) and I can restore anytime. I wanted to ask "How?", but found out myself. Could be interesting: <http://www.macrium.com/KB/KnowledgebaseArticle50025.aspx> -- s|b |