Macrium Reflect vs Acronis

I have been using Acronis for many years but lately have not been sure of its reliability. I recently tried Macrium but I noticed a difference. With Acronis when I have restored the Windows OS I have "sanitized" the SSD that had the corrupted OS on it. Then Acronis would automatically format and partition the drive prior to doing the restore.

When I tried to do a restore with Macrium it hung up with no error message. I suspected that it could not restore to an unallocated drive so I used diskpart to do just that which is more time consuming.

Am I correct? Does Macrium require the use of diskpart or some third party method of creating an active, simple, system partition?

I would like to hear other's thoughts.


I have experimented with a number of backup software brands and have yet to find one that is simple and reliable.

You can absolutely restore to a 100% clean hard drive with absolutely nothing on it with either Acronis or Macrium. I do it all the time.

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

Hi folks

also Acronis has a diabolical "activation procedure" (or it used to when I used it pre-macrium days) and I think there's always a nag feature for upselling to a more expensive "full featured" thing.

I know companies wanrt to make money but I really LOATHE the Upselling thing.

Cheers
jimbo

A few years ago Acronis used to be very good and reliable ......these days are gone (latest versions are bloated and buggy !)
Not using it anymore , reliability is number one for me , using Macrium , Aomei and Easeus Todo ..............
The Try&Decide-function in Acronis ( which could be very usefull ! ) is replaced by Shadow Defender , works awsome on latest 10 !

I used to use Acronis True Image. It failed me twice and it didn't get a third chance. Even the Linux recovery disc wouldn't work in one PC I had. As noted later versions became bloatware with apps other than the backup/recovery.

I've used Macrium Reflect since dumping Acronis and it has worked well for me. Macrium is the only software that I was able to successfully do a clone with.

I really appreciate everyone's help and thoughts on the subject and it appears many of us have had the same experience with changes in Acronis.

The verification box had been unchecked when Macrium became hung up.

I have an earlier post with a problem recovering from foolishly experimenting with creating a RAID. I have not yet received any responses:Problem With Restore of Dynamic Disk Data, Not the Boot Drive

If someone has any experience with this I would appreciate your help.

I started with Acronis and bought a copy back in the Windows 7 days. Liked it enough, but when the new UEFI Bios's and such were coming out, I had to upgrade Acronis to get it to work. Found Paragon Backup and Restore did the same thing, but at a lower cost than Acronis, so I switched over to that.

When we built a new Windows 10 system for my son at Christmas and I took his old box to become my Windows 10 box at home, decided that I should make some images again. Looked into Paragon, but my copy was really old. So, I just switched over to using Macrium Reflect free and avoided the cost of another piece of software. I had used Macrium in the past for some projects and stuff, so was comfortable and confident with it.

I will keep my eyes open for a reduced price on the Macrium 4 pack in the future. Would be nice to get incremental backup support and I'd like to support the company for making a solid product. But it's currently $139.99 and that's more than I want to spend at this time.

My Macrium Reflect is a paid copy. I only do full disc images (backups). When I was working (as a Network Manager) we tried Incremental backups on our servers. Turned out to be a headache and took longer to restore than a full backup if it was needed. We made full backups at 2AM each day (unattended backups).