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Macrium Reflect

Score9 out of 10

17 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Macrium Reflect?

Macrium Reflect is an endpoint and server backup and cloning solution from Macrium Software (aka Paramount Software UK), available in personal and professional editions.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Macrium Reflect has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 17 ratings of Macrium Reflect's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Recovery verification

    Recovery verification is automated testing and verification of backups

    Category average: 8.6

  • Replication

    Exact copies of the system are created and can be restored

    Category average: 9.3

  • Multi-location capabilities

    The product be deployed and managed across multiple separate locations

    Category average: 8.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Encryption

    Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up

    Category average: 9

  • Ransomware Recovery

    The ability to recovery data in a timely manner after a ransomware attack

    Category average: 9

  • Continuous data protection

    Data is backed up every time a change is made, and the system can be restored to any previous saved version

    Category average: 9.3

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Macrium Reflect
Based on HG Insights installation data
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

20.9%

9 installations of 43

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

18.6%

8 installations of 43

#3 most frequent

Health Care and Social Assistance

7.0%

3 installations of 43

Reviews

What users are saying about Macrium Reflect.
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Macrium Reflect - Powerful and reliable

Incentivized
Chaim MoykopfView profile
Researcher in Research & Development at Targum (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Since you need a backup of your data in cases something goes wrong, I tried a couple of different programs. I finally stick to Macrium Reflect because it is easy to handle and reliable. Each time I needed a copy of a certain drive, it was easy to restore the data. So far, in over five years I didn’t encounter a single problem.

Pros

  • Macrium Reflect ist easily manageable.
  • Macrium Reflect backs up fast.
  • Macrium Reflect accurately handles scheduled backups.

Cons

  • The program could reduce a bit the space it takes for its backups.
  • It should be more affordable.

Return on Investment

  • Impossible to specify.

Usability

Other Software Used

Acronis Cyber Files

System Engineer's Review of Macrium Reflect.

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Macrium for disk imaging tasks and to produce accurate concatenated, compressed copies of volumes, sets of volumes, and/or disks.

Pros

  • Image drives/disks/volumes.
  • Provide incremental backups through imaging.
  • Provide mountable disk or volume images.

Cons

  • I can't think of anything which needs improvement at the moment.

Return on Investment

  • We are not quantifying impact for our company.
  • Macrium Reflect has allowed several system transfers from a failing drive to a new drive.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Clonezilla, Acronis Disk Director, Acronis Advanced Backup and MiniTool Partition Wizard

Back up absolutely everything on a PC for free

Incentivized
Wells AndersonView profile
CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Professional Services at SecureMyFirm (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Clear interface for creating drive image backups
  • Reliable, every day backups
  • Accessible log showing successful backups and any failures
  • Creates differential backups that are small in size
  • Fast, easy method for recovering individual files or folders from an image backup

Cons

  • Capability to create an image file to restore directly to a cloud computer
  • Use a different default naming pattern for backup files
  • Support for Linux

Most Important Features

  • Reliable nightly backups
  • Full drive image backup with trustworthy restore feature
  • Ease of use

Return on Investment

  • Macrium Reflect as provide protection to our customers
  • Macrium Reflect has the fast update process we have every seen
  • Macrium Reflect requires very little if any support

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup & Replication, ShadowProtect SPX, Acronis True Image and MSP360 Backup (formerly CloudBerry Backup)

Other Software Used

TextPad, ISL Light, pCloud

A gem for for people looking for Partition Backup software

Incentivized
Verified User
Executive in Sales (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Some users are currently using Macrium Reflect backup windows partitions to have an of the OS to restore in case of any hardware crashes, virus attacks, etc. The application is easy to set up. It reliably makes a backup of partition(s) and restores them without issues. I also like that its speed of backing up and restoring is excellent.

Pros

  • Speed is excellent.
  • Easy to setup.
  • Did not face any issues till now when restoring.
  • Free version available for commercial use also.

Cons

  • Some of the features can be explained in the program itself as some are a little too difficult to understand.

Most Important Features

  • Backing up OS image partitions and restoring them in case of any emergency.
  • Cloning HDD's to each other.

Return on Investment

  • Reduce the impact of emergency situations like ransomware attacks, hardware failures, etc.
  • Restore the backups quickly and reliably.
  • Free version availability for commercial use is an added bonus.

Great and fast backup system

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Virtualize images to restore services
  • Mount backup images to restore files
  • Takes incremental backups pretty quick compared to other software
  • Creates synthetic full images well

Cons

  • Has ransomware protection that could be better at letting users configure exeptions

Return on Investment

  • Improved our time on backups
  • More secure backups of our databases

Other Software Used

Veeam Backup & Replication, Tivoli