Back up absolutely everything on a PC for free
April 30, 2021

Back up absolutely everything on a PC for free

Wells Anderson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Macrium Reflect

We use Macrium Reflect internally to create drive image backups of our computers and servers. We also advise our clients on the selection and use of Macrium Reflect to protect their businesses. Macrium deserves our recommendation for our customers because it is more intuitive and less complicated that many other similar applications.

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • Capability to create an image file to restore directly to a cloud computer
  • Use a different default naming pattern for backup files
  • Support for Linux
  • Reliable nightly backups
  • Full drive image backup with trustworthy restore feature
  • Ease of use
  • Macrium Reflect as provide protection to our customers
  • Macrium Reflect has the fast update process we have every seen
  • Macrium Reflect requires very little if any support
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.

Do you think Macrium Reflect delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Macrium Reflect's feature set?

Yes

Did Macrium Reflect live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Macrium Reflect go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Macrium Reflect again?

Yes

The free version of Macrium Reflect is licensed for both commercial and personal use. It works well on MS Windows computers, but cannot back up servers, where a paid version is required. The free version does full and differential backups, but not incremental as do the paid versions. If a large volume of files are added every day, a paid version would be more suitable as it supports incremental backups.
The Macrium Reflect server version is very suitable for backing up physical servers.

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