I’m switching to Macrium Reflect Free and Clonezilla (free too).
Ditching Acronis has been coming for a while. Over the last couple of years I have increasingly heard from users where Acronis True Image has failed them. Over the last year I’ve encountered issues on numerous occasions. The only thing saving me is I have dozens of full backups. Problems have included freezing during restore and multiple USB device issues.
*note – I only backup and restore offline using bootable media, old habits…
Although I will be using both Macrium Reflect Free and Clonezilla I will be recommending Macrium Reflect Free to the masses. Macrium Reflect Free is fast and easy to use. It provides a way to easily make a Windows PE based bootable CD or USB drive customized to your machine. It contains everything the majority of users could want.
Clonezilla is slower than Macrium but will image any and everything. Having no GUI, non-Geeks my be intimidated. Having said that, if you just follow the on screen instructions you should be fine.
Macrium Reflect 7 Free Edition is available. As of this writing I know the linked page says “coming soon” but you end up downloading v7.0.2199.
Goodbye Acronis True Image
Have been using Reflect for a few years……..as you know, Eric, I have been using two identical SSD (Samsung 850EVO 120Gb) for at least 2-3 years: When I screw up C:\ I plug in the other SSD with last updates, etc, and clone the good over to the messed up one and keep goin. Usually takes less than 4min to complete. I found a dandy 3.0 USB-SATA cord on Amazon to perform the Reflect Clone!!
Have to agree with you with respect to Acronis. The only time I ever needed it, it let me down. Took about two weeks of solid work to get things back right again. Still using it for lack of anything else (until now … maybe), but don’t trust it. Really chaps me when something I actually pay good money for does this to me.
Same here…. Acronis 2017 would backup a Windows 10 laptop (UEFI and M.2 SATA), the image would restore but would never be bootable. Tried all the advice to fix – nothing worked. Then I saw Macrium Reflect mentioned in a long Acronis forum thread – tried it, worked first time, boot USB worked, no issues, and easy user interface.
I not had any problems yet with ATI, but have been looking around due to the way the software has changed over the years, was first put off Macrium Reflect because of the price, almost 70 uk pounds for a single machine, thats bad, but will give the free vertion a try now i know they do one, I also like Paragon but the free is very very basic.