All three of these programs did fairly well in all three of my criteria mentioned above, but Macrium impressed me the most.
Macrium Reflect is an awesome professional disk imaging software that allows you to create and compress full image backups, to explore each image backup just like you were viewing a folder useful if you want to only restore a certain file instead of the whole backup , has a scheduler and supports the creation of Linux and BartPE bootable disks. Here is a full list of features:. I set compression at its highest and the image file size was only 10 GB the image created by the Paragon software was The whole time the backup was running I was using my computer and never once did my computer even hiccup Macrium supports Microsoft volume shadow copy so you can make a full backup of your Windows partition while using Windows.
These rescue CDs are helpful if your Windows screws up and you are not able to login. All you do is pop in the bootable disk and run Macrium and restore your Windows installation from previously backed up image files without ever logging into Windows. To make everything even better, Macrium Reflect supports both 32 and 64 bit versions of XP and Vista and the size of the installation file you must download is only 27 MB.
Macrium Reflect Free Edition is dotTech. DriveImage XML. Paragon Drive Backup Express. Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8. Modified by Jason Baker. Get the highlights in your inbox every week. Clonezilla Clonezilla is an open source disk imaging and cloning tool built in two different editions, one for single machines and another designed to do dozens of computers at one time. Partimage Partimage is a Linux-based tool, commonly packaged for a live rescue CD, which supports a variety of partition types and has a relatively easy-to-use menu structure.
Topics Linux. About the author. Jason Baker - I use technology to make the world more open. Linux desktop enthusiast. Raspberry Pi tinkerer. Data analysis and visualization geek. Occasional coder. Web maker. Red Hatter since More about me. Recommended reading Run containers on Linux without sudo in Podman. Send desktop notifications and reminders from Linux terminal. Create bookmarks for your PDF with pdftk. One thing I did not see is how large the bootable or rescue media need to be. I have flash drives lying around from MB on up.
The only thing missing is what size the resulting file s are. Hate to go thru the whole process and find sorry, not enough space on media. We did a major comparison of resulting file sizes here: raymond. You could always get a full SP1 disc ; raymond.
Does anyone use Terabyte to backup their machines? More so, even when validates… I have had more restore failures with Acronis than any other app. So… now I migrate towards Aomei because they too have the lifetime license and they really make it easy.
I even cloned and restored a drive the other day and it worked great. I really think that in these situations when you need to do such critic stuff, like backup of the system you should rely on a good and famous program like Acronis… or the free version of Acronis.
I have tried many backup programs but most of these when the time comes failed. The only program that work for me is todo backup and it is also free. The option is not available in the free version…. Easeus makes the best free Windows partition program, but I am less than thrilled with Todo, so I appreciate this article and an actual email from raymond. I have tried clonezilla and it serves the purpose in most cases.
The ideal solution that I need is browsable image for linux or dual boot systems. I will greatly appreciate your help in this matter since I have spent a lot of time over the years looking for such solution.
There is at least 6 different version of the 3 applications, all have different sizes, maximum is about MB for the Acronis tools. We did some tests a few months back of imaging software compression ratio and speed, although not at max compression, they still give you a good idea. No point in us just repeating all the tech details of each app, the official website is for that…;.
Nice post Raymond. Thanks for writing. Plz Update all of us with your true knowledge. Conversion between gpt to mbr or wise versa. Great to read something new again! The program will either ask you to format and popup the formatting tool or automatically do it for you. A very well written and up to date discussion of some excellent utilities. I will carefully try it again with Win 8.
Aomei makes many good Programs, and they tend to be very supportive people…all big pluses, and BackUpper is new to me. I will try and let you know how it works for several systems. Easus TODO is a tool I also have used, and although there are a couple of awkward points in the process where it must restart and do magical things behind our backs, it generally produces good, safe results.
I understand why it was not reviewed here, and I like the idea of a top three comparison and review of the latest versions, especially when one or more are new versions or totally new product offerings. Glad to see you again Raymond. We missed you a lot! I have had a very good experience indeed with Macrium reflect, backing up an SSD with system on it win 7 before a firmware update of the SSD, which was a mandatory pre-firmware update backup Crucial SSD.
By the way, very big amelioration of the SSD speed after this firmware update. Another benefit Softpedia offer is to explicitly warn the user to be careful during installation, should the application contain PUPs. Hello Raymond. I thought you were lost to us. But, this is so timely!.
Trying to make an image of drive c.. Since it was not compatible GPT why do they not follow the movement? Did they intend to do it? When we ran our imaging software tests a while back the speed and compression ratios of Driveimage XML were awful, you get the feeling from the program they have done very little to it apart from minor fixes etc for many years. Yes, a great article. Perhaps I need more experience in cloning!
One other item that some folks like to do is clean out all of the crud at least with CCleaner , check for empty folders, defrag, check for malware, etc. Thanks jasray, these three are pretty much our favorite free imaging apps, EaseUs ToDo is probably number 4 or 5 on our list. AOMEI is still relatively new but has been very good during all out tests over the months, which is why Paragon and EaseUs have been pushed down….
Hi all.. First of all thanks Ray for this article…at last I have found an article to backup your disk other than Ghost.. Anyway, just came across this wonderful site today that informed me of the lovely macrium software. I actually went ahead and purchased it. I had it verified, and i can browse through the backup no problem. The program lets you mount the image onto a virtual disc it can create for you temporarily to allow you to do this.
I received an email in only about 15 minutes time showing ordering info, order number, license number and yes it did work , and contact info again, etc. You pay for it, they give it to you. Very delighted I found this site. Ive always wanted to make an image of my C drive, but never successful, because Norton Ghost basically sucks. I hate it.
Too difficult to use too. This looks and sounds easy. Thanks Ray!! Good artical ray.. You just hit the spot.
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