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GFYI [Official] Macrium Reflect Home Edition ver8 Christmas 2021 Giveaway - jasonX - 09 December 21 We at Geeks For Your Information are very pleased to announce our
Macrium Reflect Home Edition ver8 Christmas 2021 Giveaway! We would like to thank Macrium Software
for sponsoring the giveaway prizes. Macrium Reflect is the complete "no-bloat" backup solution for personal use. Protect documents, data and operating systems using advanced disk imaging technology. It will backup your data/sensitive files into protective storage --encrypted and safe from corruption. In the event of computing disasters, (like partial or whole system failure) Macrium Reflect can recover from any backup image created and restore your data, partitions or even whole hard disks in a matter of minutes! Macrium Reflect also helps you upgrade your hard disk or try a new operating system with the knowledge that everything is securely saved and can be easily recovered. Taking full advantage of Microsoft Volume Shadow Service data is managed efficiently and can be automatically streamed to a secure storage even when your drives are active and in-use. Improved UI with Macrium Reflect 8
Macrium Reflect creates an accurate and reliable Image of a hard disk or the partitions on the disk. In the event of a partial or complete system loss, you can use this image to restore the entire disk, one or more partitions, or even individual files and folders. During the imaging process, Macrium Reflect copies the contents of entire volumes including a reference to their physical location on the storage device to an image file (.mrimg). You would normally store the image file on local or network drives, or removable drives connected using USB or eSATA. New in Macrium Reflect version 8:
ReFS and ExFAT Support Macrium added support for Windows Resilient File System (ReFS) and Extensible File Allocation Table (ExFAT) file systems for Intelligent sector copy, MIG and, in the case of ReFS, for CBT as well. In Macrium Reflect v7 and earlier, both ReFS and ExFAT file systems would appear as unformatted volumes. Creating images of unformatted volumes causes every sector in the volume to be copied. Although such images are perfectly good, they take a long time to complete and the image file sizes are much larger than necessary. In v8, Intelligent sector copy has been introduced for both file systems. This means that only used clusters are copied, significantly reducing the time to image and also reducing the size of the resultant image files. Additionally, MIG now protects Macrium backup files saved to either file system and CBT can be used to further increase the speed of Incremental ReFS images. Windows ReFS Support with Macrium Reflect 8
Features:
Disk Imaging Macrium Reflect creates an accurate and reliable Image of a hard disk or the partitions on the disk. In the event of a partial or complete system loss, you can use this image to restore the entire disk, one or more partitions, or even individual files and folders. During the imaging process, Macrium Reflect copies the contents of entire volumes including a reference to their physical location on the storage device to an image file (.mrimg). User can store the image file on local or network drives, or removable drives connected using USB or eSATA and assign the storage to be protected by Macrium Image Guardian. Configuring a Backup with Macrium Reflect
Differential and Incremental Images Macrium Reflect can create Full, Differential, and Incremental images to optimize backup speed and disk space Full Differential Incremental requirements. When you image a volume for the first time, it is referred to as a image. A image file Full contains the data Full stored in the volume. Macrium Reflect provides two alternative methods of all backing up your data after the initial full image has been completed:
How to create Incremental and Differential Backups using Macrium Reflect
File and Folder Backups To create a backup, select the files and folders you want to backup, apply File and Folder filtering File and Folder criteria to include and exclude files and/or folders, and Macrium Reflect creates a compressed backup file (.mrbak) that can be restored directly or browsed using Windows Explorer. Storing backups in a single file is beneficial because it can be compressed, encrypted and stored elsewhere with ease. As you can for images, you can also create, and file and folder backups to optimize backup Differential Incremental speed and disk space requirements. File and folder backups are ideal if you only wish to backup specific documents, photos or music, rather than your whole system. File and Folder Backup using Macrium Reflect
Disk Cloning Macrium Reflect, you can clone your system disks to enable you to swap failed disks out of your system and get things back up and running again in minutes. Cloning is often confused with imaging. The process is identical but instead of storing data to a file, it replicates volume contents and disk structures to an alternative device. When the cloning process is complete, the target disk is identical to the original and contains a duplicate of all volumes, files, operating systems and applications. Cloning a disk is particularly useful to upgrade an existing hard disk and in the event of a hard drive failure, you can simply replace the failed disk with a clone and have your system up and running again in minutes. However, cloning a disk is not an efficient way of backing up your data if it changes frequently because the clone will only contain one point in time as there is no 'Backup Chain' history that is available with disk images. Also, "disk images" can be compressed and saved to any location. Cloning a disk using Macrium Reflect 8
Restoring Images Macrium Reflect restores disks or their partitions exactly as they were when the backup was taken. The restore process also enables you to expand or shrink partitions if the restore target is a new disk and a different size to the original. If your whole system becomes corrupt, you can load Macrium Reflect and restore your image despite being unable to boot Windows. You can boot from the Macrium Reflect Windows PE rescue media and use Macrium Reflect to find and restore your images. Restoring a System Image with Macrium Reflect
Restoring files and folders Macrium Reflect restores selected files and their folder structures from File and Folder backup .mrbak files. There are a number of ways to restore backups: Macrium Rescue Media If in the event that your system or Windows OS is unbootable or if you lose it, you can start the PC using the Macrium Reflect rescue media on CD, DVD, or USB stick. The rescue media contains a bootable, lightweight version of Windows and a full version of Macrium Reflect. This lightweight version of Windows is called Windows Pre-installation Environment (also known as Windows PE or WinPE) and is provided by Microsoft. Macrium Reflect downloads the WinPE automatically for you and writes it to the rescue media. It will download just the components you will need to create your rescue media thus rescue your system. Macrium ReDeploy From the rescue environment you can launch Macrium to adapt the recovered Windows system to its new ReDeploy environment whether that is a virtual machine or a different computer. With Macrium Reflect, you can ReDeploy restore an image to a replacement computer or even create virtual hard drives to virtualize the machine, a technique sometimes called Physical to Virtual or P2V. Macrium ReDeploy is now included in all editions of Macrium Reflect except for the Free Edition. VBScript, PowerShell and MS-DOS batch file support Macrium Reflect stores backup definitions as XML files that are loaded using the Reflect command line. This enables powerful batch and scheduling processing using VBScript, PowerShell or MS DOS batch files. Macrium Reflect includes a VBScript and PowerShell generator that creates template script files for programmable control over your backup cycles and Pre/Post backup events. Macrium Reflect - Rapid Delta Restore Animated Demo
Macrium Rapid Delta Restore (RDR) The concept of RDR has been something that has been thought about for quite some time here at Macrium Software. We were aware of competing technologies that offer fast restore capabilities but wanted to build something better. Where Macrium RDR differs is that it isn't dependent on VSS and a delta restore can be perform to any disk that has a previous copy of the imaged file system, no matter what its current state. This means that you can restore quickly back to the original disk (similar to the Open Snapshot) method, and have the flexibility to restore to a different disk that contains the same file system on it in any state. Macrium Rapid Delta Clone (RDC) As with Rapid Delta Restore (RDR) the concept of RDR has been something that has been thought about for quite some time here at Macrium Software. We wanted to build a clone solution that would effectively and rapidly copy only the differences between the source and target file systems. The advantage of this is obvious, RDC offers similar a performance increase as an Incremental disk image offers over a Full image and enables regular clones to be a viable and fast DR solution. Changed Block Tracking (CBT) Macrium Reflect Changed Blocked Tracker (MRCBT) reduces the amount of time it takes to perform incremental and differential images by monitoring the changes to an NTFS formatted volume in real-time. This is especially relevant when a file system contains very large files, such as virtual hard disk (VHD) files, where speed improvements are significant and can reduce the incremental image time from hours to minutes or even seconds. Traditionally, Macrium Reflect has detected changes to the file system by comparing the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) on the source volume, with the MFT of the most recent image in the backup set. While this is method is one of the quickest solutions available, we do not consider it an optimal solution when used in a continuous incremental scenario, especially if multi-GB files are present in the file system. In addition to numerous performance improvements, MRCBT tracks TRIM events (started with version 7.2). These events are generated by NTFS when a file is deleted or moved and are used by MRCBT to optimize the image by excluding the relevant blocks from the backup. Macrium viBoot Enables you to instantly create, start and manage Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines using one or more Macrium Reflect image files as the basis of the virtual machine storage sub-system. Macrium viBoot will create two Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (.VHDX) or VirtualBox (.VMDK) files respectively for each of the disks described within the selected Macrium Image file. The first VHDX/VMDK file is incomplete and only contains enough information to describe the disk layout and a signature to mark it as a Macrium viBoot VHDX/VMDK. The data for the disk is retrieved from the Macrium Image File by the Macrium Virtual Disk Provider filter driver as required. Because the data is not stored with the VHDX/VMDK, it size will never exceed a few megabytes. The second VHDX/VMDK file is a standard differencing disk that will receive any modifications made to during the lifetime of the virtual machine. Quote:Note: The default location for the viBoot Microsoft Hyper-V VHDX files is C: Macrium viBoot
Instant Virtualization for everyone with Macrium Reflect 8
Macrium Image Guardian (MIG) The new Macrium Image Guardian (MIG) feature will prevent unauthorized modifying of Macrium Reflect backup files on local and USB attached volumes. MIG provides assurance to every Macrium Reflect 7.1 user that their latest backups are recoverable, even after the worst-case scenario of a ransomware attack. MIG is focused on the single task of protecting Macrium Reflect backup files, so has a small footprint and is very easy to administer. MIG protects backup files on local NTFS volumes by blocking unauthorized write activity. MIG is network aware and allows other networked Macrium Reflect v7.1 clients to backup to shared MIG protected volumes. Macrium Image Guardian protects these file extensions below. Latest stable version is Macrium Reflect v8.0.6392 (18-November-2021)
Note: The latest update can be skipped if it doesn't apply to your installation or usage. Please see here
Bug fixes and Improvements v8.0.6392 - 18th November 2021
Bug fixes and Improvements v8.0.6353 - 6th November 2021
Macrium Reflect Product Comparison HERE PERTINENT LINKS
Macrium Reflect Home Page HERE
Download Macrium Reflect Home 30-day Trial HERE Macrium Reflect Support HERE Macrium Reflect Blog_Techie Tuesday HERE Macrium Reflect User Forum HERE Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase HERE Macrium Reflect Customer Support Portal HERE Macrium Reflect Home Edition Licenses for this giveaway contest
Macrium Software has provided Geeks For Your Information Forum
5 licenses of Macrium Reflect ver 8 Home Edition as Christmas 2021 prize. (12 months Essentials Support included) CONTEST RULES
As Christmas 2021 gift, everyone can join in this contest including approved "new members" .
Note: 'new members' must have posted in the "Introduction" section HERE to qualify. 1. Please answer the question below. "What feature/s of Macrium Reflect 8 Home convinces that it is the superior choice for your backup/imaging need?" Post your reply as contest entry WITH your social media share. Please see sample entry below. 2. REQUIRED: Please share this giveaway by pasting the quoted text below in your Facebook/Twitter/Google+ Account. (Share is NOT limited to popular social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Instagram.) Quote:Geeks For Your Information Forum [Official] Macrium Reflect Home ver8 Christmas 2021 Giveaway Optional: You may want to like/follow Macrium Reflect's social networking sites as added support. 3. One entry per IP address ONLY. WE WILL BE CHECKING! Only one entry per member is allowed. Dual entries will both be deleted and user will be banned from giveaway so please be careful. If there are any questions / concerns pertaining to the giveaway/contest please get in touch with me through PM. Do not post it in this thread. Doing so will merit a warning and ultimately be banned from entering further giveaway/contests. WINNERS WILL RECEIVE
Each of the FIVE (5) winners will get one (1) Macrium Reflect Home ver8 license inclusive of 12 months Essentials Support.
Winners will be selected by random.org and once posted,
winners will only have 5 days to send a PM to claim their prize. Please include your details (Name / Email) in your PM claim.
NO CONFIRMATION FOR THOSE WITH INSUFFICIENT/INCOMPLETE DETAILS.
Prize will be FORFEIT if a PM claim is not received within the specified timeframe.
Prize will be FORFEIT if a PM claim is "not confirmed".
The Giveaway will run
from December 10, 2021 to January 10, 2022 Good luck to all!!!
RE: GFYI [Official] Macrium Reflect Home Edition ver8 Christmas 2021 Giveaway - jasonX - 10 December 21 GIVEAWAY / CONTEST IS OPEN!!!! RE: GFYI [Official] Macrium Reflect Home Edition ver8 Christmas 2021 Giveaway - dinosaur07 - 19 December 21 Thanks again for this exclusive and unique giveaway, jasonX. Trully appreciated your efforts and the passion in convincing the sponsors to support us. Chapeau. "What feature/s of Macrium Reflect 8 Home convinces that it is the superior choice for your backup/imaging need?" Macrium Reflect 8 Home is my preferred backup software because of the fluid interface. It's quick and easy to navigate, so I can get to what I need without any hassle. The level of customization is another bonus for me as I'm able to set up my own customized folders for file types so that all my storage needs are met. It is so easy to install, backup, and restore my data. My share is below: Twitter.com giveaway share RE: GFYI [Official] Macrium Reflect Home Edition ver8 Christmas 2021 Giveaway - damien76 - 19 December 21 "What feature/s of Macrium Reflect 8 Home convinces that it is the superior choice for your backup/imaging need?" I have used Macrium Reflect since 2012 and I have always relied on it. Never let me down even once. With Acronis True Image (which I started to use 2009) I had some mishaps of not being able to recover images or sometimes a backup repeats itself over and over but in the end will not finish eating up some space. With Macrium even if that issue happens space is not used as it uses memory before committing a backup. The Rapid Delta Restore is always a welcome feature as it is the fastest recovery I experienced. Clone feature is also the best! There are only a couple feedbacks I want to share with Macrium. One is I hope in the future you will add "clone partition". You just have "clone drive". I use the competition for cloning a partition. And I hope that also in the future you add that folder checkbox functionality in your MacriumRescue environment. That improvement in the Windows based folder backup cuts the time to select individual folders. Please place it in the MacriumRescue environment also. Other than the two, your imaging app is GREAT as usual. Thanks for continue support for our community! Merry XMAS to you all at Macrium! I tweet, https://twitter.com/damienTh66/status/1472682693477351424 RE: GFYI [Official] Macrium Reflect Home Edition ver8 Christmas 2021 Giveaway - ttyx - 29 December 21 "What feature/s of Macrium Reflect 8 Home convinces that it is the superior choice for your backup/imaging need?" What attracts me most is the differential and incremental mirroring of Macrium Reflect, which can not only increase the backup speed but also save disk space. Macrium Reflect v8.0 now provides near continuous backup protection. It can ensure the timeliness and integrity of the backup files, and minimize the loss in the event of an accident on my computer system. In addition, I think imaging and cloning USB Flash drives are also very useful. Wish everyone happy, safe and healthy in the next year, and stay away from Coronavirus. My share RE: GFYI [Official] Macrium Reflect Home Edition ver8 Christmas 2021 Giveaway - Trump 2024 - 29 December 21 "What feature/s of Macrium Reflect 8 Home convinces that it is the superior choice for your backup/imaging need?" I like the inclusion of Macrium Image Guardian. With all the ransomware problems through out the internet going on now, it is great peace of mind to know i am protected in the aspect! Instantly boot a backup image with viBoot, To me this seems like the one of the main reasons to Buy Macrium reflect 8. ViBoot retrieve data from old applications stored on a bootable image, I have run into issues where need data from a program that I had yesterday, now I can point to that program and recover my data. Always loved the option in Macrium , on startup instant choice of recovery console or continue loading windows. Thank You Macrium and GeeksFyi for this wonderful Contest! Merry Christmas and happy new years to all!!! My social share: Tweet RE: GFYI [Official] Macrium Reflect Home Edition ver8 Christmas 2021 Giveaway - sty - 31 December 21 "What feature/s of Macrium Reflect 8 Home convinces that it is the superior choice for your backup/imaging need?" Macrium Super-Fast Imaging is my favorite feature. With Macrium Reflect, it took about 13 minutes to back up my win10 system disk about 28G at a high compression level. Compared with another backup software, Macrium Reflect saves about 5 minutes. Its fastest backup speed is over 500M/s, and more importantly, its image size is about 3G smaller. This is very important for my computer. My hard drive has not much free space. I like and need it. thank you a lot. Happy new years and good luck to all! RE: GFYI [Official] Macrium Reflect Home Edition ver8 Christmas 2021 Giveaway - dhruv2193 - 31 December 21 https://twitter.com/dhruvmercury/status/1476831267249295363 "What feature/s of Macrium Reflect 8 Home convinces that it is the superior choice for your backup/imaging need?" I like the following features which convince me that Macrium Reflect is the superior choice for imageing/backup:- 1.Macrium Reflect can recover from any backup image created and restore your data, partitions or even whole hard disks in a matter of minutes! 2.Macrium Reflect also helps you upgrade your hard disk or try a new operating system with the knowledge that everything is securely saved and can be easily recovered. 3.OAuth 2.0 email authentication for Gmail and Outlook 365 Macrium Reflect v8.0 includes OAuth 2.0 to authenticate Macrium Reflect to send emails using the user's Microsoft or Gmail account. It's easy to setup and uses the user's account sign in, including two factor if enabled, to securely authenticate. 4. Macrium Image Guardian (MIG) The new Macrium Image Guardian (MIG) feature will prevent unauthorized modifying of Macrium Reflect backup files on local and USB attached volumes. MIG provides assurance to every Macrium Reflect 7.1 user that their latest backups are recoverable, even after the worst-case scenario of a ransomware attack. RE: GFYI [Official] Macrium Reflect Home Edition ver8 Christmas 2021 Giveaway - kubik67 - 02 January 22 "What feature/s of Macrium Reflect 8 Home convinces that it is the superior choice for your backup/imaging need?" Macrium Reflect 8 Home is a simple and reliable backup program, has an intuitive user interface and consists of a set of useful utilities for data backup and recovery. The advantages of the program include the ability to create an image of the system "on the fly" without rebooting, high speed, as well as a high degree of compression. The program makes correct backups of even large hard drives. Macrium Reflect 8 Home has a Macrium Image Guardian (MEF) feature that protects backups from ransomware. The program allows you to clone and restore a computer using Rapid Delta technology. You can create images and clone flash drives and SD cards as regular internal disks. Thanks for this contest Macrium! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! Facebook Share Twitter Share RE: GFYI [Official] Macrium Reflect Home Edition ver8 Christmas 2021 Giveaway - pisondi - 03 January 22 Oye and praise for health to all of you for organising this draw. "What feature/s of Macrium Reflect 8 Home convinces that it is the superior choice for your backup/imaging need?"Macrium Reflect 8 Home is a vastly superior choice for my backup and imaging needs. It has a simple interface, it's intuitive and offers a deep but understandable level of control, all at a reasonable price point. The free version is amazing! I have been a Macrium Reflect user for a while now and find it to be the best backup software available so far. It's easy to use and compatible with multiple platforms, which is a huge plus for me. https://twitter.com/pisulika/status/1478133385679802372?s=20 |