TrustRadius Insights for Macrium Reflect are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Powerful and Reliable Software: Users consistently praise Macrium Reflect for its powerful and reliable software for cloning and copying HDDs. The free version of the software is highly effective, while the paid version offers even more features. Some users switch to Macrium Reflect from similar software due to its power.
Intuitive Interface: Users appreciate the ease of use and intuitive interface of Macrium Reflect. They find it easy to navigate through the software's features, such as cloning disks and creating images for later restoration. The clear interface makes it simple to create drive image backups and receive backup notifications via email.
Valuable Features: Macrium Reflect offers several valuable features that users appreciate. The password protection feature allows secure storage of disk images. Users also praise the scheduling feature for regular backups. Additionally, they find the ability to boot backups in a virtual machine valuable.
Note: These are the three most common pros identified based on user reviews in the given context.
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Macrium Reflect is one of the best partition backup applications available in the market. It can also clone drives in addition to making images of partitions and has a very useful feature of creating a bootable recovery drive for restoring partition(s) in case the OS is not booting. There are also different products for varying needs of the end user- Macrium Reflect Server, Workstation, etc. I have restored my system without any errors many times with Macrium.
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Verified User
Executive in Sales (Computer Networking company, 51-200 employees)
Macrium Reflect takes SQL database continuous backups every 2 hours and takes server volume backups and stores them in our repository to virtualize the image, mount it, or recover files.
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
Likelihood to Recommend
Macrium Reflect creates synthetic full images for fast recovery in case of disaster. It also works pretty well on creating SQL server database backups. It can send a report of taken backups and failures to get users' attention if backups are being taken. It has a good management interface called Macrium Site Manager that connects to installed agents on different servers and has 1 site management configuration for all site servers.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (Automotive company, 201-500 employees)