Clone the content from your files, folders or partitions and create images of your hard drives and archive them. Restore your system, upgrade your hard drive, optimize the disk space and schedule all processes. Browse the backed-up images, encrypt your archives and burn them onto external disks.
Macrium Reflect has been developed to help you create backup copies of your disks. In this respect, the tool supports both cloning and saving the contents of the disk in an image file. The program’s interface is quite straightforward, yet its successful use requires some computer skills.
The tool classifies as one of the best of its type. One of the features that make it stand out is its backup and restore speed, which is quite fast. Fortunately, it can also create live images of Windows operating system. Likewise, it supports incremental, differential and full backup schemes, which means that you can make different decisions based on your specific needs and conditions. Moreover, you can protect the copies with various encryption levels, using quite secure standards. It is a shame that it does not support high levels of compression, which would save some storage space in the target device.
If you need to perform frequent backups, it is ideal that the program allows scheduling this type of operation. Similarly, it lets you create boot-up emergency discs, which may come in handy in case of system crashes. The tool supports various target locations, such as local folders, mapped drives, and removable devices. In addition, it can burn data directly onto discs. It is also a great advantage that the program lets you load and explore the contents of the backup images.
All in all, Macrium Reflect is an excellent tool that deserves at least a try. It is available in various versions, including Free, Home, Workstation, Server, and Server Plus. The free version allows most basic operations, which is good. However, it does not support performing incremental backups, encrypting data or backing up specific files and folders.
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Macrium Reflect is a complete backup and disaster recovery solution for Windows XP and Vista. Reflect can backup files and folders into a compressed mountable archive file or your entire PC into a single image. Using this image you can restore the entire disk, partition or individual files and folders. You can create full, differential and incremental images to optimize backup speed and disk space requirements. Images can be stored on local or network drives, CD or DVD media, and removable drives connected using USB or Firewire (IEEE1394). In the event of a total loss of the Windows operating system your PC can be started using the Reflect recovery CD. This CD starts a compact version of Linux or Windows PE, both with a familiar mouse and graphical interface. You can then recover partitions and entire disk images with just a few clicks of your mouse.
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