Windows 10: I think I got blindsided by a recent Macrium Reflect upgrade

As I relate in my Windows Enterprise Desktop blog post for today, it looks like a recent Macrium Reflect Upgrade Cancels Backup Schedules. Can anybody else confirm, deny, or explain how it is that my Reflect backup schedules were all canceled without my knowledge or active participation in that change of settings? I'm surprised, and more than a little befuddled by this occurrence.
Thanks in advance for your responses/reactions to this discovery on my part, which was accidental and fortuitous.
--Ed--

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Hi Greg! Glad to see someone here recommending Macrium Reflect. Here's a fairly new feature that has been added toMacrium. I love this feature. I don't have to find my Macrium rescue CD! Let me know what you think friend!

Adding a boot menu option for system Image recovery - KnowledgeBase v7 - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase - KnowledgeBase v7 - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase

PS I love my Macrium Reflect! I've been a Macrium user for several years!

Gary!

 

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awesome I made your day I am happy to read that.I was very pleased of your article very informative as your advice was easy to agree to being that its 100% correct.

I also down loaded Macrium Reflect.

Macrium Reflect is a Free and Easy To Use Backup Utility

A lot of people will be upgrading to Windows 7 from XP over the next few months, and backing up your data is a crucial step in the process. Today we take a look at Macrium Reflect Free Edition, which is an easy to use backup utility
that should help make the process easier.

again thank you for your reply I will follow your ideas very much similar to old school blokes way of thinking

regards

jeffrey OBrien

 

That is common acronis does the same thing it's important to check previously done will restore as they often change the structure

 

That really is not the case for Macrium Reflect Free. It is very backwards compatible. It certainly restores old V6 images with no issue.

Ed's post is about schedule management not the actual backup itself.

 

I haven't checked the Macrium support forms, but is this a known problem ?

 

Can't find any mention of it there, and this has never happened to me before. That's why I'm asking here. Could be just a one-time hiccup, but now I know to keep an eye on it!
Thanks for the replies @storageman, @cereberus, @Samuria.
Best wishes,
--Ed--

 

Can't confirm as I don't use scheduled backups in Macrium. However I've ha similar issues with configuration/ settings files being overwriten when program updates are applied. In such cases I make sure that I store backups of the affected files/ folders so that they can be restored:




Test this backup:

C:\Users\Username\Documents\Reflect - contains .xml file used to define scheduled backups.

C:\WINDOWS\System32\Tasks - contains Reflect scheduled task but might as well backup everything.

Manual backup solution: SimplySync Backup

If you can mount a system image backup try copying files from the suggested locations.

 

Macrium 7 switched to using the new TaskScheduler2 (or whatever it may be called) API introduced with Windows
Vista. This probably invalidated all your existing backup tasks. It's quite regrettable that the Macrium installer
didn't detect that and at least notify. I'm pretty sure there's something about that in the Release Notes, but perhaps
I disremember. Going from Macrium 6 to 7 is something more than just an "update".

 

Aha! Thanks. I knew there had to be a good reason for this. Thanks for sharing your insight here. Much-appreciated!
It goes all the way back to 11/10/2017, where this entry occurs in the Macrium Reflect v7 release notes

I didn't really understand that this will "kill" existing scheduled tasks, but this does seem to be the upshot of that change.
Thanks again,
--Ed--

 

Nor did I, Ed, given the wording about not needing to take action. Fortunately for me, I never took any action and never saw a hitch in scheduled backups. [Or, I did and simply forgot *Zip]