Solved Latest Macrium Reflect updates

Quandary · Feb 7, 2023

JohnnyFire said:
Im in love with this backup app! works like a champ fast and works everytime!!!!!!!!!

And you will be even more in love after you have done your first restore and discovered how easy it is. Then with any hiccup you just restore to the last backup, or if you deleted some files a while ago and find you need them... then just mount an old backup and pull them off.

Wisewiz · Feb 7, 2023

What @Quandary said.

Stigg · Feb 7, 2023

I haven't had time to test Reflect v8.1.7367 yet, but there still appear to be a few issues getting reported in this thread.

v8.1.7367 Update

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Bree · Feb 7, 2023

Stigg said:
I haven't had time to test Reflect v8.1.7367 yet, but there still appear to be a few issues getting reported in this thread.

v8.1.7367 Update

forum.macrium.com

I've not had any issues. I've made a backup successfully (image and verify). It was a little faster with v8.1 than the same backup with v8.0.
(SSD system drive, USB HDD destination drive).

Scott · Feb 8, 2023

NVMe to NVMe

PerpetualCycle · Feb 8, 2023

Have restored several full backups 63 GB C:, no issues at all
Full image (don't use CBT or any differentials)
nvme to nvme directio
Default Compression (medium)
encrypted 128 bit

8.0 5 minutes -> 8.1 1 minute
So factor of 5x speedup

JohnnyFire · Feb 8, 2023

Quandary said:
And you will be even more in love after you have done your first restore and discovered how easy it is. Then with any hiccup you just restore to the last backup, or if you deleted some files a while ago and find you need them... then just mount an old backup and pull them off.

yeap the app works wonders!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mark Phelps · Feb 12, 2023

Bree said:
I've not had any issues. I've made a backup successfully (image and verify). It was a little faster with v8.1 than the same backup with v8.0.
(SSD system drive, USB HDD destination drive).

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I've also switched over to MR v8.1 -- but find the speed increase varies greatly with the hardware being used.

In the case of NVMe drives, I get an AMAZING improvement! Backups previously reaching 2.1Gb/sec and taking three minutes, now reach nearly 7Gb/sec and take under a minute. I used to walk away during the backups but now sit there, being awed by the speed!

The 2.5" SSDs are somewhat slower taking about half the previous time.

The HDDs are no faster at all -- so rather than use up limited MR 8.1 licenses, I switched the PCs using HDDs over to MR 8.0 Free version.

PerpetualCycle · Feb 12, 2023

I just used the backup file verification in Reflect 8.1 today for the first time. Compared to V8 .0 and earlier it is blindingly fast (on nvme). More Kudos to Macrium. Their backup performance was one place where they needed improvement.

CountMike · Feb 13, 2023

WTH is this thing doing and why oh why ? This started wit 8.1 now fully updated. It's payed version. It's set up same as before. Incremental backup, set for 10AM every day, keep 2 incremental backups. It used to make .mrimg files in order of 1-3GB depending on changes but last 2 were and it took over 15 minutes to complete while previous smaller ones took barely 30 seconds.

cereberus · Feb 13, 2023

CountMike said:
WTH is this thing doing and why oh why ? This started wit 8.1 now fully updated. It's payed version. It's set up same as before. Incremental backup, set for 10AM every day, keep 2 incremental backups. It used to make .mrimg files in order of 1-3GB depending on changes but last 2 were and it took over 15 minutes to complete while previous smaller ones took barely 30 seconds.
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Reflect has ability to merge incrementals with full to create a synthetic full. Is that what yiu wanted - maybe default has changed - check advanced settings to turn it off?

CountMike · Feb 13, 2023

Just run incremental manually

Don't know what that 87GB is for but may think of reason for other happening,I changed to keep 2 instead of 3 incrementals so it may consolidated the two.

CountMike · Feb 14, 2023

Just now. Fresh of the presses

kado897 · Feb 14, 2023

CountMike said:
Just now. Fresh of the presses
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Thanks Mike.

Bree · Feb 14, 2023

CountMike said:
Just now. Fresh of the presses

Thank you, First post updated.

Stigg · Feb 20, 2023

Did anyone manage to download this version before it was pulled?

Macrium Reflect Patch Details

Bug fixes and Improvements v8.1.7387 - 19th February 2023

Disk Images

Some customers have reported images failing with error 'Invalid Function'. This has been resolved.

Server Plus

Server Plus could fail to start on Server 2003, and on Operating Systems where Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) instructions had been disabled, or not implemented, in the CPU. This has been resolved.

Various

Various other minor fixes and changes to improve Macrium Reflect.

Stigg · Feb 21, 2023

Compumind said:
I have the above running with no issues.

Macrium Reflect 8.1 - Guidance and Updates. - Windows 10 Help Forums

Hi all - I will request that this thread by made "sticky" so we have a new one to build on. MR 8.1 Revised Final will be released by the end of this week. Keep a lookout for it. Any further questions regarding MR 8.1, please post here. Many than

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pietcorus2 · Feb 21, 2023

Not so good , all these bugfixes with new updates lately ................
This backupper used to be the most trusted program for me !

jimbo45 · Feb 21, 2023

With Macrium it's usually best to wait until you get a notification "Updates available" and then do it. Macrium is usually a totally reliable program although for total Disk cloning I go for the Linux DD command as I don't have to worry about any partitioning, file system, efi / mbr issues or "ownership" of file issues. For OS backup and image browsing Free macrium is usually 100% safe and reliable.

Of course DD takes longer and will also copy bad data as it's a purely physical thing sector by sector copy including unfilled spaces but it always works under any condition. However for 99.9999% of people on this board Macrium is just about perfect for backup / restore tasks.

As for archiving large amounts of data then that's another story -- different strategies needed there -- e.g if you have say 4TB of music etc most of that doesn't change and you only need to backup the changed data -- but you still need to archive the whole lot somewhere prefereably on a NAS.

If you DO update Macrium then check after you take a backup with the new version / update that the RESTORE works -- how many people even bother to regularly check that restores work after normal backups !!! sometimes they can fail for all sorts of reasons e.g I/O error on the medium etc -- even though the backup reported no errors.

Cheers
jimbo

CountMike · Feb 21, 2023

jimbo45 said:
With Macrium it's usually best to wait until you get a notification "Updates available" and then do it. Macrium is usually a totally reliable program although for total Disk cloning I go for the Linux DD command as I don't have to worry about any partitioning, file system, efi / mbr issues or "ownership" of file issues. For OS backup and image browsing Free macrium is usually 100% safe and reliable.

Well, I did update thru notification and they pulled update soon after, that happened at least twice. Luckily It didn't affect me as much as some others.