Macrium Reflect: Clone, Image, Backup Hard Drives For Free HOW TO
19Macrium Reflect: Clone, Image, Backup Hard Drives For Free HOW TO
Macrium Reflect is a backup and disk imaging software program for Microsoft Windows developed by Paramount Software UK Ltd in 2006. It creates disk images and file backup archives using Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to ensure 'point in time' data accuracy.
Macrium Reflect can create full backup, incremental backup and differential backup images to optimize speed and storage requirements. Data is compressed and encrypted in using Abraham Lempel's LZ-based compression and AES encryption algorithms. Images can be mounted as a drive letter in Windows Explorer and restored using a custom Live CD. Macrium Reflect can also backup files and folders into a compressed virtual drive. This can be mounted in Windows Explorer for file recovery using copy and paste. Compressed or uncompressed full, incremental, and differential backup files are supported.
Macrium Reflect can clone one disk onto another. A disk large enough to accommodate all the data can be made into an exact copy of the original. The underlying disk signatures and data structures are consistent on the new disk. All Macrium Reflect editions, except for the Free Edition, can restore an image to new hardware, for use for example in the case of replacement of failed equipment by more up-to-date hardware. Using a pre-created Macrium Reflect Rescue CD, critical drivers required by the new system can be inserted into the image taken from the old system, making it compatible with the new hardware.