Macrium Reflect 8.1 - Guidance and Updates.

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New update released: v8.1.7401 - 3rd March 2023



Macrium Reflect Patch Details

FreeBooter said:

In this guide, you will learn the steps to use the free version of Macrium Reflect 8 with the best settings to make automatic backups of a computer running Windows 10 or Windows 11.

May I request that you delete this or move it to a different thread.

This thread is about the Paid version and was set up specifically to not get inundated with posts about the free version.

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On main PC, I now have regular W11 on one disk and Insider Canary on another. In Regular W11 I have payed MR and in insider free version.
In regular W11 backup plan is automatic Incremental backup at 10AM every day.
In insider W11 my backup plan is automatic Differential because Incremental doesn't work automatically in free version. Differential is much larger and takes much longer so I have an idea to do both from payed version but separate from each other, at different times and to different disk/folder. Another reason for that idea is that in order to backup Insider disk I have to BOOT to insider.
How ?

CountMike said:

On main PC, I now have regular W11 on one disk and Insider Canary on another. In Regular W11 I have payed MR and in insider free version.
In regular W11 backup plan is automatic Incremental backup at 10AM every day.
In insider W11 my backup plan is automatic Differential because Incremental doesn't work automatically in free version. Differential is much larger and takes much longer so I have an idea to do both from payed version but separate from each other, at different times and to different disk/folder. Another reason for that idea is that in order to backup Insider disk I have to BOOT to insider.
How ?

You only need the paid version on Host (non insider) OS. You can backup the Insider versions from the Host OS including incrementals.

The only minor problem imaging the Insider version from Host may be that it will backup the Insider temporary files as well, making the image a bit bigger (try it and see).

I doubt you can run different schedules though. However, you can select both drives and do incrementals to a common backup set with both drives. You would need a third drive to store the backups.

cereberus said:

You only need the paid version on Host (non insider) OS. You can backup the Insider versions from the Host OS including incrementals.

The only minor problem imaging the Insider version from Host may be that it will backup the Insider temporary files as well, making the image a bit bigger (try it and see).

I doubt you can run different schedules though. However, you can select both drives and do incrementals to a common backup set with both drives. You would need a third drive to store the backups.

Tnx. but I would like to keep them separate, not both disks in one .mrimg. I can do it manually for insider disk.

CountMike said:

Tnx. but I would like to keep them separate, not both disks in one .mrimg. I can do it manually for insider disk.

Then it is even easier - just backup the Insider drive from Host OS. You do not have to be booted into a drive to back it up.

After all, you can boot from a reflect usb drive and backup any drive.

Actually, reading some Macrium Reflect Forum posts, it looks like you can have more than one backup schedule queued up but one has to finish before the next starts. I would ask on the Macrium Reflect Forum.