Macrium Reflect vs Acronis

JohnBurns · 02 Feb 2020

Steve C said:

My thoughts are that Acronis software is poorly engineered and supported. Use Macrium Reflect in preference.

I agree - My pc is hdd + optane memory. Macrium Reflect works perfectly - adding RST driver automatically. Even with Acronis Support, I can't get Acronis to work properly.

Steve C · 03 Feb 2020

JohnBurns said:

I agree - My pc is hdd + optane memory. Macrium Reflect works perfectly - adding RST driver automatically. Even with Acronis Support, I can't get Acronis to work properly.

You got good support from Acronis??

jimbo45 · 03 Feb 2020

Hi folks

Macrium even loads "Obscure" drivers if required

I have no problem restoring VM's created on QEMU/KVM using for the HDD drive the win-virtio paravirtualised HDD driver for the HDD's --- didn't have to do anything special -- just took a backup in the usual way from within Windows Virtual Machine and then tested a restore from the stand alone bootable media which I created . Macrium on restore automatically also loaded the paravirtualised drivers for Display adapter and network card -- using Virtio (dramatically improves VM performance !!)

Macrium Reflect vs Acronis-screenshot_20200203_082217.png

(Note QEMU/KVM VM's allow direct booting from a USB device from within the VM -- you don't need to create an iso image and boot from that -- however this isn't about VM's -- just that Macrium is capable of all the tasks I've thrown at it without fail).

Cheers
jimbo

JohnBurns · 03 Feb 2020

Steve C said:

You got good support from Acronis??

Actually support was reasonably prompt but not very helpful technically....they seemed to think I should have the answer rather than for them to to answer my question. It's still pending with no resolution after quite some time.

john510 · 26 Feb 2020

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Josey Wales · 26 Feb 2020

Macrium Reflect is the best out there. Acronis I used for about 4 days 9 years ago. It in my opinion is Garbage and as gar as I now they do not have a free version but MR does.

Steve C · 27 Feb 2020

Josey Wales said:

Macrium Reflect is the best out there. Acronis I used for about 4 days 9 years ago. It in my opinion is Garbage and as gar as I now they do not have a free version but MR does.

Not only is it garbage but the version I used did not uninstall effectively and left behind many remnants.

pietcorus2 · 27 Feb 2020

" Not only is it garbage but the version I used did not uninstall effectively and left behind many remnants. "................indeed!
After complete uninstall I could not use Windows Backup anymore , broken , I had to keep a few reg-files ( of Acronis ) , now all is ok again !
Will never use it again , only Macrium ( number 1!) , Aomei, Active Bootdisk...........

jimbo45 · 27 Feb 2020

Hi there
Years ago I tried it (Acronis) and it failed on RESTORE while BACKUP appeared to work -- so whatever package you use ALWAYS TEST RESTORE functionality --you don't want to find you've been taking apparently good backups for a while and then the first time you need a restore you get errors etc.

This was way before Macrium was even available -- so I went back to the old Norton Ghost for a while ---anybody out there old enough to remember that package -- which was for its day quite reasonable .

I was introduced to Macrium later (by member of these Forums --thanks people) and its been perfect ever since -- when there have been problems as I believe there was a big one around the time Windows version 1903 came out the MF team fixed it pretty quickly.

You can't IMO go wrong with Macrium --for I would suggest around 90% of typical users out there the Free version is more than sufficient (note no annoying "Go Pro or upgrade" nags either.

Cheers
jimbo

SoFine409 · 27 Feb 2020

Same experiences as previous posters. Acronis failed to restore and left remnants that could not be removed. Macrium has never failed me.