Macrium Reflect

Score9 out of 10

17 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

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.

Reviews

5 Reviews

Macrium Reflect - Powerful and reliable

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 13, 2025

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

The program has a lot of features. I like to backup or clone entire disks or operating systems. You may of course also just select a range of folders and files. Furthermore, you are also able to create backup templates, schedule them all and deploy full, differential or incremental backups. The only disadvantage I see is the lack of cloud backups.

Chaim Moykopf

Researcher in Research & Development at Targum (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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System Engineer's Review of Macrium Reflect.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 10, 2025

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

This application is best suited for a 1 to 1 disk image of a healthy drive or volume. While it can provide backup capabilities, it's not a backup solution.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

A gem for for people looking for Partition Backup software

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 25, 2022

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.

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.

Verified User

Executive in Sales (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Back up absolutely everything on a PC for free

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Macrium Reflect internally to create drive image backups of our computers and servers. We also advise our clients on the selection and use of Macrium Reflect to protect their businesses. Macrium deserves our recommendation for our customers because it is more intuitive and less complicated that many other similar applications.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

The free version of Macrium Reflect is licensed for both commercial and personal use. It works well on MS Windows computers, but cannot back up servers, where a paid version is required. The free version does full and differential backups, but not incremental as do the paid versions. If a large volume of files are added every day, a paid version would be more suitable as it supports incremental backups.
The Macrium Reflect server version is very suitable for backing up physical servers.

Wells Anderson

CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Professional Services at SecureMyFirm (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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Great and fast backup system

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 7, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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