Anyone using Macrium Reflect on Windows 11?

[flugel45]

I've been happily using the free version of Macrium Reflect for years, and it's worked great for backup images and restoring my PC systems up through Windows 10.

With MS supposedly ending Win 10 support this year - and needing to upgrade my two 9-year-old PCs anyway - I'm planning the jump to Win 11, and have been looking at Macrium Reflect Home version to handle backup duties as before.

Anyone here relying on Macrium (free or commercial), or maybe another utility, for their Win11 backup images? Thoughts? Complaints?

[Pictus]

I use from a bootable USB flash drive.

[lfm]

I use free version on windows 11. The code for registering is based on you email, not the computer as far as I could see. So no problem using that again having old installer.

A few tips though for those that use retain differential backups
- those numbers count for all backupsets(full + diffs) you have going
- and if the retain diff number exceeds it starts removing differential backups from other backup sets
- this way other sets are no longer complete

So if having retain 2 backup sets and set differentials to retain 4 to do 4 differential each backup set
- this is not how it works
- it's adding differentials from all 2 backup sets, meaning you need to set retain differentials to 8 in each backup scheme definition, or it start making other set incomplete
- incomplete backup sets are useless

But the main retain backup sets works as expected.

[flugel45]

Thanks. guys. That actually answered two key questions I had.

[vitocorleone123]

Yes I use the paid version. I grit my teeth if I think about the subscription aspect they moved to. It’s the only sub I have that is worth it to me. I also have an Adobe one for Photoshop that’s barely worth it.

Macrium has yet to fail me when I need it.