Each person has to decide what works for them - no one size fits all.īack in 91, my best friend, a chiropractor, got his first PC. If I was to use two, I would use Reflect on say a weekly basis, and other once a month. Whilst point about using two backup systems is truly valid and a sound strategy, I have found Reflect to be so reliable, I gave up using other programs (not saying that others should follow me on that - merely stating my experience). It's Rapid Delta Restore is awesome, and ability to mount images as Hyper-V virtual machines without faffing around is brilliant. Of course, the paid version of Reflect is a different level still. Many posts like thisĪ good 'New kid on the block' is Aoemi Backupper which is quite good for noobies but does not have the overall flexibility of Macrium Reflect. Macrium Reflect is very reliable and clear leader in free versions. Macrium is much faster than Easeus and very reliable.Īcronis is not free except if bundled with a hard drive purchase. If i had to rank them: win7,Macrium,EaseUS Acronis

Macrium and EaseUS are reasonably priced, while the win7 of course comes free with win10. Acronis sells you a subscription so i won't be reupping when it expires. I have also used Aoemi BackupperStandard and it works fine too. Win7,Macrium,EaseUS the Acronis in order of ease of use.

Twice with win7 restore and once with Acronis. I have restored my current system 3 times since late 2018. 3 of the 4 offer different compression levels and image verification. The Macrium7 and win 7 backups are the fastest on backup, around 300gb. Acronis 19, has features that have nothing to do with system image backups. Acronis has a F11 key you can push at bootup to go into their restore too. Macrium and EaseUS allow you to put entries on the blue screen boot menu where you can select to boot direct into their restore programs. All 4 allow me to create and boot to restore from bootable winpe usb or dvd.

On Sunday's i make a system image with all 4. I use all 3 and the win7 system image backup in win 10. I own Macrium Reflect 7 Home, EaseUS Todo Backup and Acronis 19.

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