Windows 10: Should I settle on Acronis True Image (paid version) or Macrium?

I think you find at least 80% of the macruim users here were ex-acronis !

 

Guilty as charged, in fact.
--Ed--

 

Hi,
Never tried the other one but reflect free is good
Here's tutorial mentioned
I always liked this video too
Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect Windows 10 Tutorials

Create Backup Image with Macrium Reflect by Britec - YouTube

 

It was the Acronis uninstallation I had most problems with. Their poorly engineered uninstaller left various crap behind including low level disk drivers / filters which were very hard to remove.

 

You can get your monies worth for quite awhile if you made an ATI 2018 boot USB and/or DVD just before all your ATI2018 troubles began. I too have MR7 pay-for (the 4-computer-pack), Image for Window/.BootIt Bare Metal (5-computer pack), and Acronis True Image 2016 nonCloud. I have USB and DVD boots for all three, and can use any one or more for any particular backup session.

 

I use a scheduled job in Macrium Reflect Free to image my system every day. Easy to configure, and the instructions are clear and easy to follow. Create the Rescue Media with a wizard that builds the WinPE environment for you on a USB stick. Now you are ready for anything. Set and forget!

You can also mount a Macrium image in the Windows explorer to recover individual folders/files, so a separate backup job for folders/files is not really required.

I have used Norton Ghost, Acronis, Windows 7 Image, and this is the best so far.

My 2nd choice would be the Windows 7 image utility, but is a totally manual process. I still run it occasionally to have a backup that is accessible directly in Windows without any 3rd party software. Windows 7 Image is still supported in Win 8 and 10. These image files (.vhdx) can also be mounted and browsed to recover files without a full restore.

 

Hi there

@EdTittel

can I plead "The 5th" on that one -- also Guilty as charged m'Lud'. !!!!!

Getting rid of acronis was the best backup solution for windows I've ever done !!!! = Acronis used to be brilliant but times (and applications) move on !!!

Never a problem with Free macrium for Windows Imaging -- for data backups though on NAS I use GRSYNC (Linux GUI version of RSYNC).

Cheers
jimbo

 

Ex Acronis user here. I switched to Macrium last night. It is much nicer than Acronis for me. I have Macrium free version and it does what it is supposed to do unlike Acronis which does this and then adds in so much more bloat and running services, etc.

I have a clean install image with all programs setup saved. I do a 3x weekly image of the SSD, weekly backup of my data drive and monthly of another drive that is 1.4GB. I added in the Macrium boot menu that loads before windows to ask what I want to boot into. Now if I bork the system, I just choose Macrium when I reboot and restore the clean image. If it is totally gone, I have bootable media.

I like it much more than Acronis personally. It is a bit more complex to be honest, but it didn't load a ton of bloat on my system either.

 

Another vote for Macrium Reflect Free here....

 

I've been using MR6, now MR7, and Image for Windows/BootIt Bare Metal for some time now. I do have my ATI2016 nonCloud version DVDs and USBs at the ready, hey I got to get my monies worth *Smile

 

+1 and I bought the software also because it's so good, I wanted to support the company.

 

Yes, I started with Macrium Reflect back in 2012 when I first encountered UEFI/GPT And by 2015 I had moved all my computers to MR, Reason by 2015 Acronis still was not able to create a Disk Image and be able to reliably restore a booting hard drive/SSD. MR has never failed and they do have Intelligent tech support for paying customers.

 

Macrium all the way! Delta Restore, fast, reliable backups (40GB in < 4 mins, with verify), tons more features.

 

I never understood this attitude. Macrium isn't made by a teenager in his bedroom relying for pocket money from well meaning passers by - their last published results showed net assets of £800k (quite why I bothered looking this up idk). It is a surely sensible to use the free version if it does what you want (that is their business model after all). If the extra features in the paid version are worth the money then buy it.

No-one would (for example) change to a more expensive electricity tariff if their current supplier didn't interrupt delivery for a year just to support them - so why give extra money to a software house for making something that works?

I'd appreciate the extra income if it was my company for sure - it just seems a weird thing to do.

Mind you I'd probably buy them a beer if I met them in the pub (which destroys my argument somewhat I can tell).

 

Funny thing is I recently had a protracted discussion with Acronis pointing out their poor image, and gave a number of supporting links, and they replied their marketing demonstrated they had best customer satisfaction. I challenged them to find one post where users are dissatisfied with Macrium Reflect, and they just replied I had deliberately chosen links to make Acronis less attractive and I should BUY new version and judge myself.

As my dear departed Gran used to say "There are none so blind as those who refuse to see!".