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From: Caesar Romano on 23 Jul 2010 07:25
Macrium Reflect FREE Edition v4.2.2733 - 25568 KB
The fastest disk imaging software is now available as a free edition.
Absolutely free! No strings! The only free XP, Vista, Windows 7. 32
and native 64 Bit compatible disk imaging software with BartPE and
Linux based recovery options.
- Create a disk image whilst running Windows using Microsoft Volume
Shadow copy Service (VSS).
- Image to Network, USB, FireWire drives and DVD.
- Built in scheduler.
- 32 bit and native 64 bit versions.
- Industry leading compression levels and speed.
- Linux based Rescue CD with Network access and full GUI. Only 6.5MB
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- Built in CD/DVD packet writing engine. Supports packet writing to
DVD DL media with Windows Vista.
- HTML log files.
Note: This installation file contains the 32 and 64 bit versions of
Macrium Reflect. The correct version will be automatically installed.

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http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp
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(reflect_setup_free_x86_x64.exe)
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From: Thore on 23 Jul 2010 08:53
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?

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From: VanguardLH on 23 Jul 2010 12:58
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).
From: Craig on 23 Jul 2010 13:29
On 07/23/2010 09:58 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for highlighting this. You saved me some time.

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From: Caesar Romano on 23 Jul 2010 13:44
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
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