Solved Latest Macrium Reflect updates

kado897 · Nov 26, 2022

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. Everything I need seems to be working, I'll wait for a new patch.

Yeah, it was easy for me. I had an image taken just before the update, and I don't have the menagerie of PCs that you have.

CountMike · Nov 26, 2022

Just restored system to yesterday's state literary just minutes before MR update. MR is now not offering last update which should mean it was pulled ? Anyway, as soon as I booted it automatically made new Incremental backup as scheduled.
Gonna do same to Insider dev now.

kado897 · Nov 26, 2022

CountMike said:
Just restored system to yesterday's state literary just minutes before MR update. MR is now not offering last update which should mean it was pulled ? Anyway, as soon as I booted it automatically made new Incremental backup as scheduled.
Gonna do same to Insider dev now.

Interesting, it did offer the update to me.

BrianInEngland · Nov 26, 2022

kado897 said:
Interesting, it did offer the update to me.

Just got offered the update on my VirtualBox install

cereberus · Nov 26, 2022

BrianInEngland said:
Just got offered the update on my VirtualBox install

Why would you ever use it in a virtual machine when you can backup the vm anyway?

BrianInEngland · Nov 26, 2022

cereberus said:
Why would you ever use it in a virtual machine when you can backup the vm anyway?

Just because.....

kado897 · Nov 26, 2022

BrianInEngland said:
Just because.....

I back up VirtualBox disks using a tool called CloneVDI. It can compress them removing all the bloat that builds up over time too. virtualbox.org • View topic - CloneVDI tool - Discussion & Support

cereberus · Nov 26, 2022

BrianInEngland said:
Just because.....

What a pointless answer

f14tomcat · Nov 26, 2022

I've update on 5 machines so far and have not experienced any of the issues posted here. Odd, I know. All done thru the normal update process, no installers.

BrianInEngland · Nov 26, 2022

f14tomcat said:
I've update on 5 machines so far and have not experienced any of the issues posted here. Odd, I know. All done thru the normal update process, no installers.

Yes mine seems to be ok too

kado897 · Nov 26, 2022

f14tomcat said:
I've update on 5 machines so far and have not experienced any of the issues posted here. Odd, I know. All done thru the normal update process, no installers.

BrianInEngland said:
Yes mine seems to be ok too

I wonder what the differences are.
My installation doesn't have CBT configured, but everything else is running.
I'm on W10 22H2.
Programs that could interfere Malwarebytes and Windows Defender. Neither have reported anything.
Reliability History shows no associated crashes.

f14tomcat · Nov 26, 2022

kado897 said:
I wonder what the differences are.
My installation doesn't have CBT configured, but everything else is running.
I'm on W10 22H2.
Programs that could interfere Malwarebytes and Windows Defender. Neither have reported anything.
Reliability History shows no associated crashes.

No CBT, but do have Guardian running. No ViBoot or other things. MBAM and Defender. 22H2. Win 11.

f14tomcat · Nov 26, 2022

For those with errors and oddities, maybe downloading the full installer and doing a Repair might help. Always a possibility of a mucked-up update download. (they were having slow CDN issues)

pietcorus2 · Nov 26, 2022

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

Indeed true , I dont want to loose my faith in Macrium , so I will update to newer version(s) after a few weeks ( when all bugs are reported !).............

kado897 · Nov 26, 2022

pietcorus2 said:
Indeed true , I dont want to loose my faith in Macrium , so I will update to newer version(s) after a few weeks ( when all bugs are reported !).............

Makes sense and is what I say I'm going to do next time, but it never happens.

BrianInEngland · Nov 26, 2022

f14tomcat said:
For those with errors and oddities, maybe downloading the full installer and doing a Repair might help. Always a possibility of a mucked-up update download. (they were having slow CDN issues)

That's what I did and I've had no problems (other than the lack of systray icon and notifications)

BrianInEngland · Nov 26, 2022

Just remembering back to yesterday morning when my daily Incremental backup ran - I had no system tray icon then, nor notification for the backup start/end. This was BEFORE the newest Macrium update was installed.

dbartenstein · Nov 26, 2022

BrianInEngland said:
Just remembering back to yesterday morning when my daily Incremental backup ran - I had no system tray icon then, nor notification for the backup start/end. This was BEFORE the newest Macrium update was installed.

I do my daily backup overnight, so I would not notice the tray icon, but I do note that I do not see the start/finish notifications.

kado897 · Nov 26, 2022

BrianInEngland said:
Just remembering back to yesterday morning when my daily Incremental backup ran - I had no system tray icon then, nor notification for the backup start/end. This was BEFORE the newest Macrium update was installed.

dbartenstein said:
I do my daily backup overnight, so I would not notice the tray icon, but I do note that I do not see the start/finish notifications.

I don't know about the tray icon but the previous version output messages at start and finish for a scheduled backup yesterday and my restored version put out messages and a tray icon for today's scheduled image. I watched it very closely and hid and showed it to make sure.

IanMosley · Nov 26, 2022

f14tomcat said:
I've update on 5 machines so far and have not experienced any of the issues posted here. Odd, I know. All done thru the normal update process, no installers.