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Macrium Reflect 8 Home Edition - 20% off backup software $55.96

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Normal Price: US$69.95 -> $55.96 with 20% off

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Normal Price: US$139.95 -> $111.96 with 20% off

I used the Free version for moving from a 1 TB SSD to a 2 TB SSD recently and it worked very well. I wanted to take regular incremental backups of my Windows Desktop using this software (I do full system imaging) so I had a deal alert here on Slickdeals set for the past few months but it never popped. None of the deal site coupons worked since the one last Black Friday 2020. Then I saw their 20% off offer today coinciding with the release of Windows 11 and noticed nobody else had posted it so figured I better!
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Reflect Home
Normal Price: US$69.95 -> $55.96 with 20% off

4-Pack
Normal Price: US$139.95 -> $111.96 with 20% off

I used the Free version for moving from a 1 TB SSD to a 2 TB SSD recently and it worked very well. I wanted to take regular incremental backups of my Windows Desktop using this software (I do full system imaging) so I had a deal alert here on Slickdeals set for the past few months but it never popped. None of the deal site coupons worked since the one last Black Friday 2020. Then I saw their 20% off offer today coinciding with the release of Windows 11 and noticed nobody else had posted it so figured I better!

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Oct 5, 2021
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chigwei
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank chigwei

Macrium Reflect has been 50% off the past couple of Black Fridays, if you want to take the chance and wait a bit.
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AliveInTucson
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Quote from chigwei :
Macrium Reflect has been 50% off the past couple of Black Fridays, if you want to take the chance and wait a bit.
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Good point!
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Quote from chigwei :
Macrium Reflect has been 50% off the past couple of Black Fridays, if you want to take the chance and wait a bit.
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That is what I am doing. I am moving away from Acronis after all the bloatware and cybersecurity they added to their product. Not to mention no more perpetual Acronis licenses with the new versions. Using the free Macrium now and will pick it up on Black Friday hopefully at 50% off.
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Quote from SSteveTX :
That is what I am doing. I am moving away from Acronis after all the bloatware and cybersecurity they added to their product. Not to mention no more perpetual Acronis licenses with the new versions. Using the free Macrium now and will pick it up on Black Friday hopefully at 50% off.
Me too. I am on a trial. I think full price is not worth the upgrade from free especially when limited to a single machine install but for BF price I will actually pay.

This year the purchase will not include any free upgrades to Version 9 as that version will likely not be released until at least 2024

However when version 9 is released , if you have license for 8 it is 50% off for the upgrade - I wonder if that is stackable with BF but I am thinking to far in the future
Last edited by ScottoDono October 5, 2021 at 02:41 PM.
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wbs3333
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For those that can't afford this, look into CloneZilla. Not the same but good option for those with no budget.
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Quote from wbs3333 :
For those that can't afford this, look into CloneZilla. Not the same but good option for those with no budget.
I've used Clonezilla a bunch and it is great most of the time / has saved me with some full image restores for both Linux and Windows - I agree with your recommendation.

Most recently it let me down when I had some bad sectors on a drive I wanted to move things off of, and it refused to do a successful backup (of whatever good sectors it could which was 99.99% of them!). Same thing with Windows Image Backup - CHKDSK didn't help in either case. Both of their failures led me to Macrium which worked out and allowed for a successful migration. I also like the incremental backup feature with Macrium to save some wear and tear on my NAS instead of backing up the whole thing every time.

I think chigwei is right, probably best to hold out for Black Friday for most people. I'm kind of a spazz and want to get started with Windows 11 ASAP and know I'm bound to have to do a bunch of backups and restores .... so 20% off today was worth it for me ;-)
Oct 5, 2021
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xpfshost
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I'm also waiting until Black Friday, hoping for 50% off like in years past. I've checked out aLOT of reviews on alot of other backup software. It's really disappointing how much plain garbage there is out there. Reflect was the only real exception from what I could tell. fwiw

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tmarket
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Quote from AliveInTucson :
I've used Clonezilla a bunch and it is great most of the time / has saved me with some full image restores for both Linux and Windows - I agree with your recommendation.

Most recently it let me down when I had some bad sectors on a drive I wanted to move things off of, and it refused to do a successful backup (of whatever good sectors it could which was 99.99% of them!). ..)
On clonezilla you can pass the -rescue option under the expert section then try the -q1 sector copy if the rescue doesn't work. ... clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone/advanced/05-advanced-param.php

or try gnu ddrescue. All free.
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I've used AOMEI but I am paranoid worried that it could be Chinese spyware

I will go Macrium on BF
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vertigo_2_20
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Quote from wbs3333 :
For those that can't afford this, look into CloneZilla. Not the same but good option for those with no budget.
Another good option, and what I've been using, is Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. Very limited capabilities, but good enough for most, free, and I've been using it for a while now and it's worked well. I haven't had to use it to recover from a disaster, but I've used it to restore to previous configs and to get a file I needed, and I haven't had any major issues. In fact, I tested it and Macrium along with a few others a few years ago, and Macrium failed to create a recovery media, whereas Veeam worked perfectly, and has every time since. The only issue I've come across is that Veeam can't restore onto a drive with different partition sizes than the backed up drive, whereas Macrium can, according to their support (I haven't verified this). I will say Macrium support was moderately good, though it could have definitely been better. They answered my questions when I emailed, but then never responded to my reply.
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Quote from ScottoDono :
I've used AOMEI but I am paranoid worried that it could be Chinese spyware

I will go Macrium on BF

i have dabbled with aomei and easeus for a longer while, before having any thoughts of 'foreign' software. both appear to be mainland chinese from my last memory.

aomei works pretty well.

i have also used macrium free, it works well too. macruim appears to be foreign british.
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with respect to these apps for cloning a drive, they all seem to work well for when you just want to upgrade the hd in your pc or replace the hd due to a hd crash.

But for leaving one PC FOR another PC, -dissimilar hardware, I'm not sure (and was recently a bit surprised as it was 10 yrs since I cared to attack this scenario) there did not seem to be one clearcut easy way software utility-wise, to do this.

i wanted to make a clone as it would bring over my desktop files, data files, browser settings, wall paper, browser extensions and settings, firewall settings, you name it.... but in the end i had to still, do a clean OS install and export import all the individual app stuff using a USB stick and external drive.
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Came back to check into this again because Veeam, which I recommended above, just irritated me and so I'm considering switching to Macrium after all, despite the cost. Veeam does work very well, but while I was able to export my config, when I tried importing it on a different computer to transition over, it wouldn't work. All I've been able to find is a CS rep on their forums stating that importing and exporting require a license. That would be fine if they wanted to make that a paid feature, but the fact it let me export, therefore leading me to believe I would later be able to import, is much worse than if they had actually prevented the export as well. It would have saved me a lot of time then and now. Something to keep in mind for anyone using it as a free alternative to Macrium.
Quote from kabukicho :
with respect to these apps for cloning a drive, they all seem to work well for when you just want to upgrade the hd in your pc or replace the hd due to a hd crash.

But for leaving one PC FOR another PC, -dissimilar hardware, I'm not sure (and was recently a bit surprised as it was 10 yrs since I cared to attack this scenario) there did not seem to be one clearcut easy way software utility-wise, to do this.

i wanted to make a clone as it would bring over my desktop files, data files, browser settings, wall paper, browser extensions and settings, firewall settings, you name it.... but in the end i had to still, do a clean OS install and export import all the individual app stuff using a USB stick and external drive.
You're not likely to find anything to do this, and if you do, you probably don't want to use it. The reasons you need to do a reinstall are because Windows licenses are often tied to the hardware and because of drivers, which will be different. If you just take an image, or even a drive, from one computer and stick it on another, it probably won't work because it has the drivers for the hardware on the old computer, not the new one, and even if you do somehow get it to work, Windows will likely complain about the license. Even if you could do it, you wouldn't want to.
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bkhbkh
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But for leaving one PC FOR another PC, -dissimilar hardware, I'm not sure (and was recently a bit surprised as it was 10 yrs since I cared to attack this scenario) there did not seem to be one clearcut easy way software utility-wise, to do this.
Macrium Reflect supports bare-metal restore onto different hardware. They include enough drivers to boot the new computer with network access, and then windows update fixes the rest.

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Quote from bkhbkh :
Macrium Reflect supports bare-metal restore onto different hardware. They include enough drivers to boot the new computer with network access, and then windows update fixes the rest.
Even if this technically works, I personally wouldn't do it. Between potential issues from old driver remnants lying around and having to trust Windows Update to do a proper job, despite a long, long history of Microsoft's incompetence both generally and with Windows Update specifically, I'd always do a clean install versus a restore in a situation like this. IMO doing anything else is just asking for issues.

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