App Review Macrium Workstation 8 Image Guardian

[cruelsister]

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https://youtu.be/aAzXnaKbRB4

 

[Bot]

Thanks for sharing this video! It will definitely help other users understand more about Macrium Workstation 8 Image Guardian.

 

[WhiteMouse]

I expect Ophelia to do better since she encrypted files under WD Controlled Folder Access protection before.

 

[ErzCrz]

Interesting video. I do backups to external drive though I'm looking at my backup plans at the moment. I tend to use just ToolKit that came with the Seagate drive which is a little limited as just does straight forward backup but doesn't include appdata folders or system files etc. I have experimented with Aomei and Macrium both free versions but indecisive. What I;d like is a one of pay for solution rather than all the subscription stuff going around these days but I guess what I'm using works for the moment.

Anyway, good to see it did some protection but probably best solutions are cloud or external I think.

 

[ForgottenSeer 114834]

Anyway, good to see it did some protection but probably best solutions are cloud or external I think.

Best solution is external, multiple devices/copies of. Hardware failure is a real thing as well.

 

[Dave Russo]

Thanks for the test, does Acronis fair any better, if you can test Thanks for your post

 

[cruelsister]

I expect Ophelia to do better since she encrypted files under WD Controlled Folder Access protection before.

She was curled up sleeping, so I had to go Old School.

Interesting video. I do backups to external drive though I'm looking at my backup plans at the moment. I tend to use just ToolKit that came with the Seagate drive which is a little limited as just does straight forward backup but doesn't include appdata folders or system files etc. I have experimented with Aomei and Macrium both free versions but indecisive. What I;d like is a one of pay for solution rather than all the subscription stuff going around these days but I guess what I'm using works for the moment.

Anyway, good to see it did some protection but probably best solutions are cloud or external I think.

Veritas System Recovery (formerly the Symantec product) is paid and rock solid. You may also want to check out Hasleo Backup. For the past few months I've been doing a backup and restore test with Veritas, Hasleo, and Macrium. On my system Hasleo was a bit more efficient than the other 2 by about 5-8% in regard to completion time, and only Macrium resulted creating a corrupted image (which has happened in the past for me also).

So on my production system I've ditched Macrium in favor of the other two (and as noted it is Best Practice to save images on both internal secondary drives as well as an air-gapped external appliance (even if only for potential catastrophic hardware failure) and ALWAYS create a recovery disk.

 

[Acadia]

Veritas System Recovery (formerly the Symantec product) is paid and rock solid.

Cruelsister, you mention Veritas. I went to their website and they appear to have two products, System Recovery and Backup Exec. What is the difference between the two, which would be better for a single, home pc?
Thanks, Acadia

 

[ErzCrz]

She was curled up sleeping, so I had to go Old School.

Veritas System Recovery (formerly the Symantec product) is paid and rock solid. You may also want to check out Hasleo Backup. For the past few months I've been doing a backup and restore test with Veritas, Hasleo, and Macrium. On my system Hasleo was a bit more efficient than the other 2 by about 5-8% in regard to completion time, and only Macrium resulted creating a corrupted image (which has happened in the past for me also).

So on my production system I've ditched Macrium in favor of the other two (and as noted it is Best Practice to save images on both internal secondary drives as well as an air-gapped external appliance (even if only for potential catastrophic hardware failure) and ALWAYS create a recovery disk.

Thanks so much for this information! I'll give both of them a try

 

[Andrew3000]

Always enable backup integrity verification. It will take longer to complete the entire process but will save you some headaches later (applies to any software you use for backups)

With Macrium I have been fine, other software that has left me satisfied is Veeam Agent

 

[cruelsister]

Cruelsister, you mention Veritas. I went to their website and they appear to have two products, System Recovery and Backup Exec. What is the difference between the two, which would be better for a single, home pc?
Thanks, Acadia

I use System Recovery.

 

[bazang]

I use System Recovery.

Which Veritas partner do you purchase from, or do you obtain a license via "other means"?

 

[cartaphilus]

She was curled up sleeping, so I had to go Old School.

Veritas System Recovery (formerly the Symantec product) is paid and rock solid. You may also want to check out Hasleo Backup. For the past few months I've been doing a backup and restore test with Veritas, Hasleo, and Macrium. On my system Hasleo was a bit more efficient than the other 2 by about 5-8% in regard to completion time, and only Macrium resulted creating a corrupted image (which has happened in the past for me also).

So on my production system I've ditched Macrium in favor of the other two (and as noted it is Best Practice to save images on both internal secondary drives as well as an air-gapped external appliance (even if only for potential catastrophic hardware failure) and ALWAYS create a recovery disk.

That's interesting. I've ditched Acronis for exactly the same reason and started using Macrium. I used to be an Acronis user since 2008??? And in 2019 it failed me multiple times with a unrecoverable backup when needed the most. Making me revert months to the 3rd full backup in the series. Macrium on the other hand only once had a failure in recovery but it's a known error (found a corrupted sector and failed to recover) which requires increasing the "disregard corrupted drive sector #s" and it results in complete recovery.

And I always do I integrity verification upon backup and then a monthly all backup integrity verification checks.

 

[cruelsister]

My experience with Acronis was identical to yours. It was the bees-knees in the past but progressive restore failures made me ditch it entirely; even worse was the constant addition of "bells and whistles" addons that did nothing really useful but did bloat the system. I did learn the same thing you did- the absolute need for a secondary backup/imaging application.

or do you obtain a license via "other means"?

Was given a license in return for future feedback at a meeting.

 

[Andrew3000]

That's interesting. I've ditched Acronis for exactly the same reason and started using Macrium. I used to be an Acronis user since 2008??? And in 2019 it failed me multiple times with a unrecoverable backup when needed the most. Making me revert months to the 3rd full backup in the series. Macrium on the other hand only once had a failure in recovery but it's a known error (found a corrupted sector and failed to recover) which requires increasing the "disregard corrupted drive sector #s" and it results in complete recovery.

And I always do I integrity verification upon backup and then a monthly all backup integrity verification checks.

If possible, try the 3-2-1 rule. Minimise the possibility of losing data

 

[harlan4096]

I usually create 2 full image backups every week of my main system with Macrium Home 8 and Hasleo... and Macrium is, by far (10 minutes or even more) always faster than Hasleo.

About restoring images, I never restored so far any Hasleo image, but lots of Macrium, and never failed me...

Also, Hasleo failed here once also even creating the image.

 

[EASTER]

I locally tested something similar as this useful setup, by unleashing a ransomware (i forget which one) onto Shadowed system with Shadow Defender. The file encryptor did the exact same dirty work as in this example Video, trashing every file inside the Shadow Defender folder in Program Files. What surprised me at the time was i did a Hard Reboot and Shadow Defender wiped away any signs it was ever infected. Interesting video on Macrium's Image Guardian. Thanks to @cruelsister for this demonstration of their backup file protection feature.

 

[Marana]

This video was great news! Macrium Image Guardian was working just as expected and fully protected the backup file.

Yet another reason to continue relying on Macrium.

 

[franz]

I have to be honest, if I had been exposed to this music for more than a day, they could have committed me to a psychiatric hospital

 

[ForgottenSeer 114834]

I have to be honest, if I had been exposed to this music for more than a day, they could have committed me to a psychiatric hospital

It's primarily a psychological phenomenon. This particular instance exemplifies the Pygmalion effect.