Comments on: Backup and Disk Imaging via Macrium Reflect Free Edition

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:45:39 +0000

I’ve reviewed and tested 3 freebie backup solutions –Paragon Backup & Recovery, Macrium Reflect and Todo Backup. And, my choice came to Paragon(http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/). because it has the widest range of backup & recovery options (differential backup; Automatic data exclusion; Built-in ability to create bootable USB Flash drive ; three recovery environments restore, GPT Volumes Support and Basic Partitioning) comparing to others and it simply does it says.
I like Macrium, but found one major bug– it cannot restore an image from a larger hard disk to a smaller one, even if backed up data is less than that of your destination disk’s capacity. As a pro I found good level of compression.
Regarding Todo backup –I couldn’t install it on Vista SP2.

By: Bill Sivula

Bill Sivula — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:18:51 +0000

Perhaps two hours later.

1. After restoring from the image file,
I could not-find any restored files
on the hard drive.
2. I conclude that the “Restore” failed;
3. I DID-NOT-DISPROVE the (Dec-31-2008) claim
that you cannot restore with “FREE” version.
4. Sorry about that.

By: Bill Sivula

Bill Sivula — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:45:03 +0000

On Apr-10-2009, I installed
Macrium Reflect Free.
To test re (Dec-31-2008) reply,
I did a small test
image-backup & image-restore.
I WAS able to restore (without paying).

I had trouble re the License Key when I first started the program, but by simply clicking “Okay” (without keying any License Key)
(rather than the other choice, “Cancel”),
the program somehow recognized a valid license.

By: Rex

Rex — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:42:08 +0000

Nobody mention the backup is free, but when it comes to restore, you have to buy licence…

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