I found Reflect so good I bought licences for it which are often available at times for a substantial discount. You can still find the free version here which will be updated for a while longer

I prefer to do backups on inactive drives anyway, so I routinely boot from those USB drives for all my imaging. Booting from those to do imaging won't go away even if the original MRF install fails. Use your MRF install to create MRF USB rescue drives. It's a solid piece of work and open source (which I consider a plus) but the user interface is profoundly fugly!Īny other/better suggestions for rock solid and free software that can make images of bootable drives? Right now, one of the few products I have used and trust for making a disk image is CloneZilla. I use other approaches for backing up my data drives. Mainly MS Windows but some of my machines have a bootable Linux drive too. I use Macrium to image systems disks only. I understand that existing copies of the software may continue to function but there's a risk they won't and I don't want to discover that the hard way. That's a real shame.Īs one who takes his backups seriously, I need to start thinking about replacements. On another thread I leaned that Macrium Reflect Free will be going away at the end of the year.

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