Macrium Reflect vs. Paragon Backup & Recovery

Macrium Reflect is one of the best partition backup applications available in the market. It can also clone drives in addition to making images of partitions and has a very useful feature of creating a bootable recovery drive for restoring partition(s) in case the OS is not booting. There are also different products for varying needs of the end user- Macrium Reflect Server, Workstation, etc. I have restored my system without any errors many times with Macrium.

Incentivized

• Clear interface for creating drive image backups
• Reliable, every day backups
• Accessible log showing successful backups and any failures
• Creates differential backups that are small in size
• Fast, easy method for recovering individual files or folders from an image backup

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• Has ransomware protection that could be better at letting users configure exeptions

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We have not been opening tickets for support from Macrium at the moment, only for licencing issues, but good attention and fast response by the support team. They respond pretty fast to our emails and fixed our issues giving us a good explanation of our case without any complications. Due to the good functionality of the software we have not opened a ticket for support in years.

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Veeam offers Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, a product we also install and use. It compares favorably with Macrium Reflect; however, for small firms and individual wanting an added cloud backup of their full hard drive, Macrium wins out in requiring less cloud storage space by a significant margin. ShadowProtect is a rock solid competitor with a higher price and no free version. It is highly dependable, but more complicated to install and set up. The number of technical issues and quality of technical support have ruled out Acronis products. MSP360 Backup has impressive technology, but we encountered issues with restore times and full drive image restores.

Incentivized

• Reduce the impact of emergency situations like ransomware attacks, hardware failures, etc.
• Restore the backups quickly and reliably.
• Free version availability for commercial use is an added bonus.

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