Articles tagged: Macrium Reflect
Let’s Talk About Macrium Reflect X
Macrium Reflect X is the successor to version 8. It includes a few new features and a controversial change to the licensing model.
Should You Use the Free Backup Software that Comes with Some External Drives?
Many external drives include free backup software that I never use. I'll explain why, and what I do instead.
Why Do You Prefer Macrium Reflect Over Windows’s Own Image Backup Program?
Macrium Reflect is clearer and more fully featured than Windows' built-in backup. It's easier to understand and ultimately, I trust it more.
Macrium Reflect Free is Going Away
Macrium has announced end of life for Macrium Reflect Free. Here are your alternatives.
How Do I Back Up My Computer?
Backing up your computer is critical to avoiding data loss but can seem complicated. I'll give a suggestion for typical users.
How to Back Up a Machine That Won’t Boot
The rescue or emergency disk provided by many backup programs is more useful than most people realize.
How to Create an Image Backup
Once I've convinced you that image backups are important, your next question is most likely to be "OK, how?" Here's a short-and-sweet answer.
Restoring an Image Backup from One Computer to Another
The concept seems simple: take a system image of one machine, restore it to another, and avoid lengthy setup time. Unfortunately, it's not that simple.
How to Protect Your Cloud Storage and Backups from Ransomware
There are additional protections for your data if your machine becomes infected with a form of malware known as ransomware.
What Backup Program Should I Use?
Backing up your computer's data is critical. What backup program should you use? There are many, but pragmatically, the best is whatever you'll actually use.
What Good Is an Image If I Can’t Restore an Old Backup to a New Computer?
Image backups are excellent protection against data loss, but restoring an old backup to new computer isn't why you do them.
Why Don’t You Back Up Your Computer?
Backups are one way you can protect yourself from everything from hardware failure to virus infections. So why don't you back up?
Setting Up Macrium Reflect Free (Webinar #2)
I neglected to set up automated backups on my rebuilt laptop. I'll walk you through downloading and installing Macrium Reflect free, and scheduling automated backups.
Do I Need to Make a New Rescue Disc Every Time My Backup Software Updates?
If you don’t have rescue media, you can use another machine to make it. You certainly don’t need to make one every time you back up or update the software.
What Backup Program do You Use?
I find myself looking for a new candidate backup program to add to my stable of recommendations - and you can help!
How Do I Schedule Automatic Backups?
Next to simply making an image backup, scheduling those backups to happen automatically is one of the topics most people find confusing. Depending on the backup software that you're using, it's typically not hard at all. I'll show you by walking through the steps of scheduling a monthly full backup, using the free version of the backup ... Read more
How Do I Create a New Machine Image?
When you get a new machine, creating a new machine image backup as soon as you can is a convenient way to reinstall should you ever need to.
Can my image backup of Windows XP be used on my Windows 8 computer?
Backing up, particularly with backup image software, is for recovering from a disaster. It can also be handy when moving to a new machine, but probably not in the way you are thinking.
Will Macrium Reflect Free keep working in XP?
Current versions will continue to work. The real problem is what happens with future versions.
How Do I Recover My Data from a Crashed Computer?
As long as the problem isn't a damaged hard drive, you may be able to access your data with a Linux CD, or even better, a backup recovery CD.
Will locking my computer prevent scheduled and autorun programs from running?
Macrium will run just fine as long as your computer is still turned on. Other automatic programs may have trouble, depending on their configuration.
Will a failing hard drive have warning symptoms?
Hard drive failures happen. Everyone needs to realize that. You can probably guess my recommendation for staying safe.
Does Restoring Windows 7 from a Backup also Restore XP Mode?
When you create a backup image of your machine, it contains everything; that’s the definition of a backup image.
What is WAIK that Macrium seems to want me to download?
The Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) allows programs like Macrium Reflect to create bootable rescue media. If you don't have this, you have two options.
Can I Just Run Macrium and Do a Restore?
You typically can't just run Macrium in Windows to do a restore because you'd be restoring on top of a running operating system. But yes, you can easily restore the whole machine. I'll explain.
Can I create rescue disks for any point in time?
You can indeed create rescue media to restore your machine to any point in time. Rather than calling it rescue media, though, it's nothing more than an image backup.
How Do I Automatically Clean Out My Accumulation of Backups?
Many backup programs allow you to specify that old backups be deleted. It's not always obvious how, so I'll show you in Macrium Reflect.
Macrium Reflect – Powerful Windows Backup Software
Macrium Reflect is a full-featured backup program that supports everything that I consider critical to keeping your important data safely backed up.
