New Macrium Reflect Updates

I was just wondering when you install a new version of Macrium Reflect, do you uninstall the old version first or do you just install the new version on top of the old one? I did a couple of Google searches but could not find any information on it.

TrustMe said:

I was just wondering when you install a new version of Macrium Reflect, do you uninstall the old version first or do you just install the new version on top of the old one? I did a couple of Google searches but could not find any information on it.

Just install your new version over the old......or ask Macrium Reflect to look for update, and it will apply a patch to your existing version. :)

You may want to recreate your rescue media also as this release has a fix for it which you'll only get if you recreate it.

Thanks everyone for all the replys. Good information indeed. I'm new to Macrium Reflect so I was just curious. I switched from Paragon just because of this forum. So many people here use it I wanted to give it a try. I must say I really like it and am going to keep using it.
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Thanks for the heads up about creating new rescue media. I'm definitely going to do that.

Word Man said:

Hi, folks. Looks like another (minor) revision of Macrium Reflect is up: http://updates.macrium.com/reflect/v...ls6.1.1023.htm

From that page:

Date	11th January 2016

Bug Fixes: 6.1.1020 Exchange Verification Date Issue The Exchange Verification dialog would show the incorrect month for backups. This has been resolved. Exchange 2010 Restore To Target Issue Restoring private Exchange databases to a new name/location would incorrectly create public databases. This has been resolved. File Split Retention Issue Retention rules could cause files not to be deleted on backup sets with file splits. This has been resolved. VBScript RoboCopy Issue Auto generated VBScript files may not correctly detect RoboCopy when using the synchronization function. This has been resolved. Restore Dialog Issue Hiding the restore dialog could cause other apps to lose focus. This has been resolved.

Seems we're getting finer and finer increments on revision, slowing down - perhaps a good thing.

Well at least Macrium Reflect updates its self, correctly. :) Thanks Word Man for the heads up.

OldMike65 said:

Yes I would think cloning two SSD's would be much faster method, than using a backup image, from another drive. So MR only failed when you tried using the imaged backup, but when using MR's cloning feature it worked without any problems and like you said was much faster. So to me I would think that MR worked just fine when used correctly. Cloning feature for cloning 2 drives, image backup for making backup of existing drive. Their must be some difference between those 2 methods, I would think, or why would MR give us those choices? I would still trust Macrium Reflect, but that's just me. :)

They have fundamentally different purposes.

You can only make a single clone of a drive. Cloning is for transferring a drive to a DIFFERENT drive for immediate use.

Image backups are PRIMARILY intended to revert the SAME drive back to a known state at a given point in time. You can have as many image backups as the backup drive will take. You cannot clone to SAME drive of course.

It just so happens you can restore image to a DIFFERENT drive as well ie indirect cloning.

An image backup is far more efficient in space terms, and if you had a 500GB drive with only 80GB used, you can restore image to (say) a 128 GB drive.

An additional benefit of backup images is you can make multiple backup copies to other drives simoly using file explorer.

Also image backup and restore is safer than cloning. With cloning if you made a mistake and got the full source and blank target drives back to front, you can overwrite the full drive with blank data ie wiping drive! OK sounds silly, but it does happen!