Solved Latest Macrium Reflect updates

Stigg said:

If anyone hasn't yet updated, I'd avoid installing this update.

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Too late for me too, I have installed the update although I have not run a backup yet.

Considering the severity of some the posts, I am now worried about collateral damage to OTHER parts of my computer

Shall I uninstall Macrium Reflect altogether until the storm is over? (I run other backup apps)

Or is it enough to refrain from running Macrium Reflect until the storm is over?

Haydon said:

Too late for me too, I have installed the update although I have not run a backup yet.

Considering the severity of some the posts, I am now worried about collateral damage to OTHER parts of my computer

Shall I uninstall Macrium Reflect altogether until the storm is over? (I run other backup apps)

Or is it enough to refrain from running Macrium Reflect until the storm is over?

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I'm running full backup manually right now Seems to work.

This image mounts normally.

CountMike said:

I'm running full backup manually right now Seems to work.

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Yes, just did a Full backup. No icon or notification while running but the task is showing in Task manager. Image completed successfully with no issues, and it mounts.

Glad I did not updatet ! Will wait for next one ..........
Take my advice ; dont update your software ( AND Windows-updates!) too soon , just be patient for a few days ..........

I just ran a one-time Scheduled incremental at 9:38am. It worked fine, it mounted.
Yesterday I updated using the Macrium installer, as the Update file wasn't available at the time. Maybe installing this way does a kind of 'repair' as it installs the whole program again?

Can't think of any other reason why mine is working without issues.

I didn't have Reflect.exe enabled in startup and now when I enabled it it still isn't there but service is running. Another unusual thing for me was Malwarebytes installed but doubt it was the reason. The rest is my normal, as little startup items as possible, Only Security, AMD Radeon program and Realktek sound.

CountMike said:

I didn't have Reflect.exe enabled in startup and now when I enabled it it still isn't there but service is running. Another unusual thing for me was Malwarebytes installed but doubt it was the reason. The rest is my normal, as little startup items as possible, Only Security, AMD Radeon program and Realktek sound.

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Maybe try re-installing?

BrianInEngland said:

Maybe try re-installing?

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Not going to fight it now, MR will fix that pretty soon.

CountMike said:

Not going to fight it now, MR will fix that pretty soon.

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Fair enough. Seems weird though. I just booted into Macrium Recovery, verified the Full and Inc images from this morning. All good. I'm not going as far as restoring an image

CountMike said:

I didn't have Reflect.exe enabled in startup and now when I enabled it it still isn't there but service is running. Another unusual thing for me was Malwarebytes installed but doubt it was the reason. The rest is my normal, as little startup items as possible, Only Security, AMD Radeon program and Realktek sound.

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Malwarebytes full version/running in background? This has caused some problems with WIndows updates recently, maybe that could be the cause?
I have MWB installed but it's the free run-on-demand version that has no background processes running.

BrianInEngland said:

Malwarebytes full version/running in background? This has caused some problems with WIndows updates recently, maybe that could be the cause?
I have MWB installed but it's the free run-on-demand version that has no background processes running.

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MBam was there for only a week to check for something, I just uninstalled it
Good thing I tried to boot from MR rescue. found out it went bad (actually an old 8GB SD card in USB adapter), didn't show in BOOT order in BIOS and MR couldn't refresh it. Now made another one. it booted and I run verification of backup files, It verified but those 2 files of full backups that MR says are in error didn't even show. extenisons are .mrimg.error_loading. Let me see what happens if renaming without error part helps.
Edit.
Renaming worked, they show up now and are accessible and mountable.

I always remake the bootable Rescue media, when I update Macrium.
I also don't update Macrium, unless I need to... which I haven't since .6635

I also, only run Verification, manually. I run it after every backup... but manually.
I'm not a big fan of automatic anything on any program really.
Things just seem to work better when done in discreet steps.





But I only do full backups... from within Windows.
And I always use the bootable Rescue Media to restore.

Bitdefender AV/Firewall

For those worried if a restore will work, why not restore it to a virtual hard drive vhdx file and create a dual boot entry for it.

I am willing to bet all will be fine. I will try it myself later.

cereberus said:

For those worried if a restore will work, why not restore it to a virtual hard drive vhdx file and create a dual boot entry for it.

I am willing to bet all will be fine. I will try it myself later.

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I've restored back but I didn't have any errors on my images.

kado897 said:

I've restored back but I didn't have any errors on my images.

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Just done it as well - no issues but I will restore a backup with older version and wait till fixed as it is not urgent.

FWIW, I ran a full Macrium Reflect backup on Monday, I have a System Restore point on Wednesday, and I just ran my trusted RoboCopy without problems.

This gave me the courage to run a Macrium Reflect differential backup (after the most recent update) and lo and behold, viBoot works without a glitch (viBoot using Hyper-V is my go to verification, making sure the image can boot, looking at new and change files, etc.) and the Logs > View Events window is empty > big sigh of relief

Nonetheless though, I'll wait until the storm is over until I do anything else with Macrium Reflect

cereberus said:

Just done it as well - no issues but I will restore a backup with older version and wait till fixed as it is not urgent.

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I've gone back to the previous version too. I have no need to update.

kado897 said:

I've gone back to the previous version too. I have no need to update.

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I don't schedule any of my backups, just start each one manually. I don't really need the notifications or system tray icon either. I'd have to take some half-dozen machines back to the previous version. Everything I need seems to be working, I'll wait for a new patch.

Bree said:

I don't schedule any of my backups, just start each one manually. I don't really need the notifications or system tray icon either. I'd have to take some half-dozen machines back to the previous version, I'll wait for a new patch.

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That's fine for you but this behavior of last update shows a bad bug and lowers the trust to whole program.