Macrium Reflect Workstation reviews

Its easy to use
Allows you to back and clone drives with one click
Highly responsive support team

Downloading the software requires a bit of back and forth checking emails and then getting the link which if your network was acting up like mine was doing at the time, I almost thought it was no longer available to download.

does what it says, seems reliable and stable, have used it for business critical restores succesfully. Flexibel, overall the best solution we have tested and implemented.

Confusing interface, things not organized intuitively, you really have to use it regularly to remember how to do stuff.
The warning about purging before a backup is not secure enough, Its way to easy to accidentially do an unintended purge, that needs to be made more secure.

Reliable and easy to use. Recovery media creation is seamless, and Image Guardian is a great feature.
Switched from Acronis due to bloatware and issues. Macrium Reflect offers everything I need without unnecessary extras.
Extremely intuitive and always works flawlessly.

None. Never experienced issues or needed support.

Seems very reliable. Have been using it for a couple of years now.

New license policy. This makes you not own you software any longer.

Fast Backups, Easy Restore Process, Ability to change the size of restoration Drives

Loading drivers for different hardware. Lack of cloud backups.

It's backup speed and the ability to fine-tune backups.

Nothing much but, initially, it has a steep learning curve. I can't really say that's a Con though!

Ability to backup complete system image (which allows me to restore those pesky registry settings with no hassle)

I have to compute how many full, differential and incremental backups I can maintain on my external drive based on their average size. Before I started doing that, I would get errors upon failing to backup and not understand from the error message that it wasn't just deleting the oldest image to make room.

Works fine every night and Friday day. No glitches

Was supposed to be twice as fast. It isn't. Still takes 5 hours to back up my computer in full mode.

It is a program fast and reliable and in some occasions it help me really.

Notifications about failure and wizard may be more friendly.

works great good support people, fast and reliable

too expensive, and no accommodation for a home network with a windows domain server... way too expensive

Using the rescue medium to quickly make a copy of the existing partition and restore it on another device is very easy to work with.

The interface could need a little facelift.

It was easy to use. I have no doubts that it will do everything it says it can, even more than what I used it for.

I didn't see or find problems with the software.

Easy of use and powerful tools that save my organization time and money.

Its notifications persist even after I uninstall it from a system and move the license to another. Fixed manually, but the uninstaller didn't remove all components of the software automatically.

Fast imaging with ease of use. It provides options for creating bootable rescue media (USB or DVD) that can be used to restore your system in case it becomes unbootable.

At the end of 2023, support for the free version of Macrium Reflect will end. It's a shame because it was one of the best solutions for home users!

We have used Macrium Reflect for years. With 2 online backup systems I wondered whether it is was still worthwhile. Three months ago my Win10 laptop decided to totally destroy itself. I tried Windows Restore but that didn't work. Fortunately, I had run a full backup the night before and with a bit of help from a friendly techie, it was reasonably straight forward restore - and as if by magic everything worked again. That was a huge win because otherwise, we would need to have wiped the machine and done a clean Windows restore and then load all my software.

For security reasons we manually connect and run our backups on external drives. This process is against my preference for automated systems. However, it worked seamlessly, did exactly what it was supposed to do and I was both impressed and relieved.

It is a bit fiddly when you do the initial set up and there are plenty of features that I don't understand what they are for.

The amount of use I have gotten out of this software is astounding. First of all, the free version works wonders. The paid versions works even better. Doesn't let you complete a clone unless it knows it's going to fully work. I am impressed by Macrium, and every technician in our shop trusts this software for clones and copies of HDD's.

The updates are tedious and notifications can get annoying, but that's a small price to pay for how incredible this software is.