Windows 10: Recommendation for image backup software

Hi All,
Just wondering what image backup software do you recommend?
I've been using Acronis 2016 and I've had a couple of minor niggles with it lately and am thinking about changing.
I would prefer something with a small footprint and an easy to use interface.

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Backup complete C: ?

System Image Backup is about to be discontinued. Microsoft recommends the use of third-party image backup software.

 

Creating a backup of a complete Windows installation encrypted via a third-party application

You should not use Windows' own System Image Backup to make an image of your hard drives. Microsoft deprecated System Image Backup and recommends instead that people use third-party image backup software.

(Deprecated means that the software is still available but the developer - Microsoft, in this case - no longer recommends using it.)

Everything on your hard drives - your data, programs, settings, etc. - is really just one enormously long string of 0's and 1's. That's true whether or not the hard drives are encrypted. Everything is just 0's and 1's. Backup image software backs up the
0's and 1's. It doesn't know what the 0's and 1's are nor does it matter to the backup image software.

 

AOMEI Backupper or Macrium Reflect Free
They are both good but personally I prefer Macrium because the GUI interface is better.

 

I use Macrium and it has never let me down.

 

I have used Acronis, in various versions since 2008 because at the time it was the only product that would do incremental backups using the modified date instead of the archive bit. That is important to me since I do daily incremental backups of my data from a network drive that does not use the archive bit. I have stuck with it only because of my continuing investment in updates. I have seen them add more and more "features" and remove more and more "functionality" with each edition.

So: I set my sister's computer up to do image backups using Macrium several years ago. After the continuing good experience on her computer I recently recommended Macrium to a neighbor who was looking to replace the built-in Windows backup because it refused to burn his boot software to a flash drive. He has used Macrium for several months, including test restorations. He reports that it is faster and produces smaller images than the Windows version. And he can boot from a flash drive. Note that he is running W7, so can't speak for any changes which might have happened to the W10 version.

 

I think that I will migrate from Acronis to Macrium, or at least give it a try.
I have been happy will Acronis until recently, but have experienced a few hiccups with the software.
I shall keep Acronis installed for a while.
I have just downloaded and installed the free version of Macrium, then when, and if I need to restore my image, I shall use Macrium first, and see if all goes well. If it does then I shall uninstall Acronis.
I don't want to keep both.
I wonder if the free version of Macrium would suffice me? I just do full backups, once a month alternately to each of my two internal hard drives.

 

Google Redo Backup, works great and is fast

 

I've been using EaseUS and Macrium