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Well I lost the debate per my esteemed adversary @hdmi - so I have no alternative but to go with Acronis , shall I or shall I not? hmmm .... LOL
Macrium Reflect vs Acronis
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Of course you are correct about that. But then you lose the option of being able to specify file/folder exclusions, which is the main important reason why I use True Image. I use a separate backup strategy on a large part of the data that I keep on my primary partition, and, moving it to a different partition is not possible due to how NTFS hard links are designed to work and besides, even if it were possible to bypass this limitation inherent of the NTFS filesystem, creating an additional partition for storing this data would only subdivide the available free space on the SSD, thus creating a barrier obstacle where currently there is none. For the average user who typically doesn't know what hard links are used for, Macrium can be already sufficient. Which one is better engineered? Is it the one that has the advanced feature that the advanced user typically requires, and that takes a little extra bit of knowledge and experience to get it to function right, or is it the one that uses zero engineering for the fact it quite obviously lacks this feature? Enough said.
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The only alternative you have is what they call an alternative fact. You know, one that's based on fuzzy logic.
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Just a final word on this...
As a developer one starts with an 80/20 conceptual plan - i.e. 80% is mission critical - that, when passed on set criteria gets expanded to include the nice-to-have's - the later may not be regarded as critical even then if the majority of users do not have a problem with it - some developers will include secondary features (sometimes without due diligence) to attain marketability - the bottom line is if the the nice-to-haves are not necessary, why bother.
Macrium Reflect is the most reliable backup app. I have used and I will recommend it.
(PS: If I knew more about these things I would probably write my own - but why when there is nothing to improve upon?)
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"...Backup software should NEVER fail anyway !!" Well, backup/restore software can fail and certainly has failed.
Both Macrium Reflect and ATI 20xx users can report something gone wrong with either backup or restore. I have both MR7 and ATI2016nonCloud, and Image for Windows 3x.
Awhile back, MR7[something] failed me a few times trying to make backups -- following DSperber's advice over in forum.macrium.com, had to use Wim W10 PE instead of Wim W7 PE when creating rescue DVDs and USB sticks.
While I cannot remember ATI2013-2015 failing, I do remember stopping with ATI2016nonCloud because of the monies that would be involved in upgrading two laptops.
Also, backup/restore operations can fail from any number of external-to-BR-software causes, such as sudden sectors failing either in the internal HDD or in the external HDD, intermittent loose or faulty cabling, drive controller failure, etc. That is why each laptop of mine has two dedicated ext usb 1TB HDD for OS partitions and two dedicated ext usb HDDs for data partition.
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LOL... Yup stir as you will...
I'm an MCSD, worked in companies that had MS Competency Centres for developing (only MS products Frontend to MSSQL)... never used a Mac (or iPhone) in my life . Invite me over to your place and teach me these foreign things...
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Again, you'll lose the option to specify file/folder exclusions. It matters because it matters to me and others like me who don't want to wait for it to churn its way through the whole primary partition a large part of the data on which is not required to be included in the image, but, if it doesn't matter to you, then there's no arguing against that. Whenever I create an image of my primary partition, the target folder in which the image file gets created is a folder that is located onto this same primary partition. That's yet another feature that Macrium lacks.
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