I figure that Macrium's last freeware distribution will still work for most HD/SSD cloning, for now, but I wondered if a spiritual successor had arisen yet?
Hard to believe that it's been 2 years.
Hard to believe that it's been 2 years.
Any successor to Macrium Reflect out there?
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Yeah, it's been a while. I still use Macrium Reflect Free. But AOMEI's products are really good. The company's sales tactics are scam-adjacent and feel a lot like the promotions scam companies like Mac Cleaner use, but the products themselves are really, really good. There a few devices that Macrium won't work with (CF cards, SD cards), and that's when I crack out tools like Partition Assistant.
www.aomeitech.com
Partition Asst, Backupper, etc have limitations for the free versions, but I don't hit them often.
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Partition Asst, Backupper, etc have limitations for the free versions, but I don't hit them often.
I used macrium free previously too. I recently used clonezilla for this purpose with my new 9800X3D build, worked fine moving from a 2TB to a 4TB SSD, extended the partition and everything, zero issues. It's free, you burn it to a flash drive and boot off it. CLI interface though, so it's less friendly than I remember macrium being.
No successor that was as polished and decently featured.
I use on occasion https://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html which is in the EU/DE based.
I use on occasion https://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html which is in the EU/DE based.
AOMEI's tools are solid, though their ads can be a bit sketchy. Clonezilla's free, but it’s more of a DIY solution with a CLI interface. If you're after something simple and free, Hasleo Backup Suite gets good reviews.
Why does everyone keep saying Clonezilla is CLI-only? It's not a fancy GUI but it is a menu-driven interface with ANSI-style "graphics". Definitely not as friendly as others, but not "you have to remember and type out commands".
I've been using Cobian Reflector for daily backups but the creator has discontinued support. From this thread I downloaded and installed Hasleo. It has a lot more features and seems to be working quite well for me.
I just used Clonezilla to replace a Ubuntu drive with a bigger one. It's unbelievably simple, quick, and worked very well. Replacement drive has to be the same size or larger, and then you have to resize partitions, which is also very quick and easy with GParted.
Clonezilla will resize for you, assuming you don't want to do anything non-proportional.
It'll probably do that too, actually, but didn't fit my personal use-case.
It'll probably do that too, actually, but didn't fit my personal use-case.
Yeah, Reflect is dropping all their normal licensing in favor of a subscription model. I am not interested. I liked the polish and used it for daily backups of my desktop, which was quite convenient.
I’ve been a customer of the 4-pack Home license for ages, and have bought the latest-version upgrades every few years. But this makes the software 2-3 times as expensive.
I’ve been a customer of the 4-pack Home license for ages, and have bought the latest-version upgrades every few years. But this makes the software 2-3 times as expensive.
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I've been using R-Drive Image for over a couple years now and like it a lot.
Canadian based company located in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Can be a little on the expensive side but they offer steep discounts on upgrades.
Canadian based company located in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Can be a little on the expensive side but they offer steep discounts on upgrades.