Macrium Reflect 8 Update Discussion

Steve C said:

Don't you believe a successful boot to a VM using viBoot?

Hi there
I don't use viBoot !! however whatever you use for backup / recovery one should always test that it works !!!! If viBoot can restore a machine to what is required then that's fine. With Linux also its easy with things like dd to copy disks / partitions and the OS can load and run entirely from an external device even if there's no bootable HDD in the computer.

You can make a Windows to Go machine easily enough also but it's complicated cloning your current running OS to boot and run totally from an external device.

Macrium is 100% good enough for backup and restore of Windows OS or if you want to image entire disks (or clone them). For data backup - especially with large volumes of data you definitely need another plan -- it's no point imaging a 10TB data array when your data doesn't change that much --e.g music etc. In some ways backing up user data is more important than backing up the OS - the OS can usually be re-installed again and even old legacy abandoned software can often be found on Internet Archive sites - but if you lose say music ripped from several 100 or even 1000's of CD's - especially rare music or performances - well that's a different ballgame.

Cheers
jimbo

Bree said:

viBoot does not restore anything. What viBoot does is create Hyper-V differencing disks with your Macrium image file as the parent, allowing you boot your backup image directly as a VM. Come v8, it will be able do the same for a Virtualbox VM.

However I think all these people who like Viboot forget the essential problem : That if your HDD (or only HDD) on your computer is inoperative then Viboot is essentially a waste of time and no good whatsoever for a bare metal restore.

Cheers
jimbo

How can I fix this problem when trying to run getting this error "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect"

It's usually an issue with a faulty "C++ Redistributable Package," possibly needs re-installation. Lots of references on the net...

Here's ONE...

The word in the Beta bushes says next week... hope it's true!