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Which is faster? Macrium or Acronis?
Hello,
I use Macrium Reflect Home and like it very much but I am unfamiliar with Acronis.
Which one is faster? Need an opinion.
Cheers?
Hello,
I use Macrium Reflect Home and like it very much but I am unfamiliar with Acronis.
Which one is faster? Need an opinion.
Cheers?
I can tell you Acronis is poorly engineered and has poor tech support.
It is checking files afaik. Really does not matter how.
E.g. I take an incremental backup if I install something like aanew driver that I want to try.
I install the driver, try it, and if not happy, I restore the incremental image and it only takes a minute or two instead of a full restore which takes around 15mins on my pc.
This is a bit like doing a system restore assuming you created a restore point when installing driver but it is much more reliable.
I never use system restore anymore. I do store data on a different partition as an image restore will delete data on backed up partitions if newer than the backup.
Yes, that makes sense. Thanks again.
I had both installed on my system a number of years ago. I actually performed a couple of bench marks between Acronis 2015 and Macrium Reflect 6 (Which didn't have RDR). It was performed on a 3rd Gen I5 system with USB 3.0 External units and Windows 7. On full backups, it was a dead heat. Both took the same amount of time (Note this included Verification). On Full Restores, Macrium was about 15% faster than Acronis (Note when I built a WinPE disk w/Acronis) the restore times were pretty equal. But Acronis never offered a WinPE environment only a Linux for restore functions.
When I first upgraded to Acronis 2015, after I tried my first test to restore my system, Acronis couldn't find any USB 3.0 drives. Their Linux kernel didn't have 3.0 support. Took them a few months to get that corrected. When I discovered this problem, I began looking for a replacement. I tested Aomei, Easus and Macrium vs Acronis. Macrium won hands down. Been a Registerd user since then.