Macrium Reflect 8 Update Discussion

phrab said:

Thanks, Keith. I should have seen this. I had downloaded the manual for V7 & read it. However, I didn't click the link at the bottom that pointed to this very article. But now I know.

Always my first point of call if don't know the answer.

phrab said:

Thanks, Keith. I should have seen this. I had downloaded the manual for V7 & read it. However, I didn't click the link at the bottom that pointed to this very article. But now I know.

In any case, it's gonna take a while to transfer that much data.

kado897 said:

May be worth trying MR clone then.

Thanks, I think I'll try that first, and if it doesn't work, I'll go with Robocopy next.

CountMike said:

In any case, it's gonna take a while to transfer that much data.

You got THAT right! LOL

simrick said:

Thanks, I think I'll try that first, and if it doesn't work, I'll go with Robocopy next.

You got THAT right! LOL

Good luck Simrick. Let us know how it goes.

kado897 said:

Good luck Simrick. Let us know how it goes.

Ha! It's about half done now, and will have a full verification when finished.... off to bed!

simrick said:

Ha! It's about half done now, and will have a full verification when finished.... off to bed!

From the June edition of 'The Backup', the Macrium newsletter.....

Is it worth the risk?

It’s come to our attention that a number of third-party hosts are offering downloads of Reflect 8 Free - which we have not yet tested, finalized, or prepared for release. In the best case scenario, you’re downloading an incomplete version of our software. Worst case, you could download a compromised installer, thus exposing yourself to a myriad of security risks.

As always, we recommend getting any software from a verified and trusted vendor.

So take heed, it's not worth the risk - especially as you can get v8 Free direct from Macrium just by installing the 30-day v8 Home Trial and wait for it to expire

@kado897
Some hiccups for me...
I had a Dock plugged into the USB3.1 port on the MB.
I had a wireless NIC which has been giving me some problems the past few days, losing the 2.4GHz band and only seeing the 5GHz band. I presume this is indicative of a coming failure....Yes, yes it is.....and so my clone issue.....

Computer was locked up this morning when I tried to login - I assumed the NIC had completely died, and it had locked things up temporarily (as usual). Little did I know the USB3.1 port on the MB apparently died as well! No wonder my computer was having a heart attack and wouldn't let me in!

I held in the power button and rebooted. I went straight into Macrium and saw the clone failure in the log - it says it couldn't find the destination disk. That means the Red 3.1 USB port on the MB failed.

I rebooted again, went back to Macrium, and the log entry was GONE! This tells me it was either pretty close to being finished, or was in the verification phase. Either way, I am not confident about this and will now run a ROBOCOPY to make sure everything is transferred to the new drive.

p.s. WRLS-G is way too slow, so I'll be back later when I get a new NIC in this thing...

simrick said:

@kado897
Some hiccups for me...
I had a Dock plugged into the USB3.1 port on the MB.
I had a wireless NIC which has been giving me some problems the past few days, losing the 2.4GHz band and only seeing the 5GHz band. I presume this is indicative of a coming failure....Yes, yes it is.....and so my clone issue.....

Computer was locked up this morning when I tried to login - I assumed the NIC had completely died, and it had locked things up temporarily (as usual). Little did I know the USB3.1 port on the MB apparently died as well! No wonder my computer was having a heart attack and wouldn't let me in!

I held in the power button and rebooted. I went straight into Macrium and saw the clone failure in the log - it says it couldn't find the destination disk. That means the Red 3.1 USB port on the MB failed.

I rebooted again, went back to Macrium, and the log entry was GONE! This tells me it was either pretty close to being finished, or was in the verification phase. Either way, I am not confident about this and will now run a ROBOCOPY to make sure everything is transferred to the new drive.

p.s. WRLS-G is way too slow, so I'll be back later when I get a new NIC in this thing...

@simrick that's a bummer. Not sure what state the destination disk will be in after a failed clone as it does a sector copy rather than a file copy. You may need to start over with MR.

kado897 said:

@simrick that's a bummer. Not sure what state the destination disk will be in after a failed clone as it does a sector copy rather than a file copy. You may need to start over with MR.

Hi Keith.
What a mess I had this morning! And it was further complicated with a VPN in the mix, and a new router to boot. I have a new NIC in this rig now, the VPN is removed, the router is stabilized, and everything appears to be working well.

I looked at the properties of both disks, and the amount of data on each was very close, so it looked like the clone finished, and the difference was a few files I had downloaded after the clone had begun, which I intended to manually transfer over later. But, to be safe, I ran a Robocopy of all folders from source to destination, and it ran very fast. I had one issue, where the message said "unable to write to source" for a folder which had about 5 items in it. Afterwards, I checked the destination: all files were there; everything appeared to be intact, so I am not sure why I got the message from Robocopy about that. But everything else appears to be fine - Robocopy did not have to copy anything, just check, verify and go on to the next item.

Do you think I should still run the clone again and start from scratch? I've opened documents, photos, PDFs and various other files, and they've all been intact. I think I'm good to go. I've put the destination drive in the system, replacing the source drive, and it seems to all be in good shape. But you've got me worrying about this "sector copy" issue....