Macrium Reflect vs. EaseUS Todo Backup Home

mngerhold · 08 Aug 2022

cereberus said:

Best I can do as it is a picture of an excel file

Ta !

cereberus · 08 Aug 2022

TairikuOkami said:

I am using EaseUS because of PreOS, Aoemi has recently removed it from the free version and creating bootable USB also fails, Macrium does not work on my PC. EaseUS free unfortunately does not allow to disable compression, so it takes a toll on my SSD and makes creating system backup to last 60 secs vs 40, but that is a little price to pay .

It is easy to create your own pre-os provided you create an iso. You create a small fat32 partition say 1 GB, assign it a drive letter, mount iso as a drive, then copy iso files to partition.

Then you create a boot entry for the pre-os. You can use following batch file (admin), or use easybcd for example

Code:

title Wimboot Menu creator

Rem - change Wimname to what ever you want boot entry to be shown as e.g. Macrium Reflect
Rem - Set Wimname=Macrium Reflect

Set Wimname=AOMEI PRE-OS

rem ================================ YY.MM.DD

color 17

:start

cls

echo.

echo ===============================================================================

echo.  YOU HAVE CHOOSEN TO ADD A WINPESE BOOTABLE PARTITION TO YOUR HOST

echo ===============================================================================

echo.

set /p drvlttr= ^> ENTER THE DRIVE LETTER ASSIGNED TO THE WINPESE PARTITION: 

if [%drvlttr%]==[] echo.&echo Invalid User Input&echo.&echo The Partition Drive Letter Can Not Be Blank&echo.&pause&goto :start

if not exist %drvlttr%:\sources\boot.wim echo.&echo Invalid User Input&echo.&echo The %drvlttr%:\sources\boot.wim Was Not Found&echo.&pause&goto :start

cls

echo.

echo Configuring UEFI Boot Option for WinPESE Recovery Tools

echo --------------------------------------------------------------------------

for /f "tokens=2 delims={}" %%g in ('bcdedit.exe /create /d "%Wimname" /Device') do (set deviceid={%%g})

echo --------------------------------------------------------------------------

echo DEVICE ID = %device

echo --------------------------------------------------------------------------

bcdedit /set %deviceid% ramdisksdidevice partition=%drvlttr%:

bcdedit /set %deviceid% ramdisksdipath \boot\boot.sdi

for /f "tokens=2 delims={}" %%g in ('bcdedit.exe /create /d "%Wimname" /application osloader') do (set guid={%%g})

echo --------------------------------------------------------------------------

echo GUID = %guid%

echo --------------------------------------------------------------------------

bcdedit /set %guid% device ramdisk=[%drvlttr%:]\sources\boot.wim,%deviceid%

bcdedit /set %guid% osdevice ramdisk=[%drvlttr%:]\sources\boot.wim,%deviceid%

bcdedit /set %guid% systemroot \windows

bcdedit /set %guid% path \Windows\system32\boot\winload.efi

bcdedit /set %guid% winpe yes

bcdedit /set %guid% detecthal yes

bcdedit /displayorder %guid% /addlast

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu False

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} timeout 10

echo.

echo DONE... Reboot your PC

timeout /t 5 >nul

John035 · 08 Aug 2022

cereberus said:

Here is a summary of key features of Paid versions of Macrium Reflect, Easeus Todo Backup and AOMEI Backupper. I have all three paid versions and tested them.

Also included is summary free version of Macrium Reflect

A minor negative of Macrium Reflect is the GUI is not so easy for new users but for paid versions, users are normally quite experienced (new users would start with free version).

In my opinion, it is clear that the Paid version of Reflect is much richer in features than the other two packages, and is simply far superior.

AOMEI does have a nice file synching feature. I bought it just for this feature alone, and use it occasionally.

AOMEI also has ability to use its own VSS method rather than relying on Windows VSS. I have never needed this.

Easeus is a good tool but is not really any different to AOMEI (but lacks two above features).

Also, you can see free version of Reflect has most features of paid Easeus / AOMEI versions.

I have not shown features of free versions of Easeus and AOMEI but there are some feature restrictions - you would have to check their websites.

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We made such comparisons by ourselves, but it seems we can't avoid being subjective. There is a new perspective from your summary.

Thanks a lot for the info.