Are there any good alternatives to Macrium Reflect?

p5200 said:

I'm just curious to what other good programs are available. Thanks!

Well, Reflect Free will continue to work until such time as MS make an OS change that breaks it. Of the alternatives, Hasleo, closely followed by Aomei seems to get mentioned most often. Long discussion here...

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p5200 said:

I read somewhere, that Macrium Reflect Free would end January 1st. Anyone else here that?

There will be no further updates for Reflect Free v8.0 after 1st January 2024. It will continue to work after that date, but if some future change MS makes in Windows breaks it, then Macrium won't fix it. The chances are slim, that hasn't happened so far. Even Reflect v6 still works.

Macrium said:

Macrium Reflect Free Product - End Of Life (EOL)

Will future security vulnerabilities be fixed?
Yes, security patches will still be provided until 1st January 2024. After that date we will no longer provide any changes to the v8 Free code base.

Can I continue to use Macrium Reflect Free?
Yes, you can continue to use the software in perpetuity, your license to use the software is unaffected.

Macrium Product Support Policy

p5200 said:

I'm just curious to what other good programs are available. Thanks!

AOMEI Backupper (freeware)

Try Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition Free Data Recovery software | Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition. May not have all the bells and whistles of MR but it's very fast and gets the job done. It even recognizes EXT4 and allows me to browse and extract files and folders from my Mint image, MR can't do that. I'm running W10 in VMware in Linux Mint for the odd Windows thing and installed Paragon in the VM and created the flash drive. Booted off the flash drive and Paragon works fine. No need to boot into full blown Windows to create the flash drive. I use it for backing up Mint.

Back up Windows to the same destination.
Macrium 75GB------>41GB 3m 37s
Paragon 75GB------>42.5GB 2m 15s

O&O DiskImage (German, vs Aomei - Chinese) if you've a preference.
The previous major build is often available as a lifetime giveaway.

@p5200


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