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Two free copies sounds better than an annual upgrade charge when all I do is simple backups. My concern is that Macrium has to be as reliable as Acronis as I lost everything years ago with another backup product that I thought was working until I needed to do a restore and it failed.

Note that I'm currently running Windows 10 Pro, 21H2 patched to the January 22 level Acronis has never let me down but if Macrium is just as good or better I may switch. Note that I'm currently running Windows 10 Pro, 21H2 patched to the January 22 levelThere is a good reason why Macrium Reflect is a firm favourite on this forum. However, it is missing several important features most notably incremental backups, file exclusion and encryption. You can see the features that are missing from the free version in the image below or at the product pages online.I have literally done hundreds of backup and restores on a wide range of devices and it has never let me down. There’s no pay version on the MiniTool site, just a free beta 3.0 with the pro features. The relationship between the free version and the pro version that’s currently under development is a bit sketchy at this point. If you only need to restore certain files, MiniTool ShadowMaker will mount the image as a virtual hard drive so you can browse it and copy stuff off.

The program will cull older ones to make room for the new ones, actually removing backup “sets,” i.e., the full and incremental portions of a prior backup.īeyond choosing the partitions (drive letters) to back up you can manage the level of compression define email alerts and notifications choose between backing up only used sectors or all of them decide to shut down the computer post facto and password-protect the images.Īs mentioned, there’s also boot media with full restore functionality. This isn’t the same thing as a differential backup, which backs up everything that’s changed since your last full backup, ignoring any partial backups that might have happened in between. You’re free to limit the number of backups. The free version of ShadowMaker performs incremental backup, which backs up any changes since your last backup.