Solved Latest Macrium Reflect X updates

Mark Phelps · Apr 22, 2025

I had a round of MR backups fail verification a couple of years ago. At the time, I was backing up a dozen systems once a month and half of those uses and external HDD which I then used to copy the backups to my file server. I had not seen any errors during the backup and verification process, despite doing this for months and months.

Then one day, I needed to do a restore -- and it failed. So, I ran verification on it and that failed. I then ran verification on the other five backups that used the external HDD and they all failed. I tried the previous month's six backups and all of those failed. So, I ran verification locally on a couple of those systems and it passed. Thus, something was wrong with the drive and/or the cables. So, I bought come new cables but the results were the same.

So then, I bought an external SSD and tried with it -- and all the verifications passed. I've been using the external SSD since and not encountered anymore verification failures.

Thus, it was not a problem with MR, but with the drive and or cables.

CountMike · Apr 22, 2025

Mark Phelps said:
I had a round of MR backups fail verification a couple of years ago. At the time, I was backing up a dozen systems once a month and half of those uses and external HDD which I then used to copy the backups to my file server. I had not seen any errors during the backup and verification process, despite doing this for months and months.

Then one day, I needed to do a restore -- and it failed. So, I ran verification on it and that failed. I then ran verification on the other five backups that used the external HDD and they all failed. I tried the previous month's six backups and all of those failed. So, I ran verification locally on a couple of those systems and it passed. Thus, something was wrong with the drive and/or the cables. So, I bought come new cables but the results were the same.

So then, I bought an external SSD and tried with it -- and all the verifications passed. I've been using the external SSD since and not encountered anymore verification failures.

Thus, it was not a problem with MR, but with the drive and or cables.

I had a problem with verification few times when I was experimenting with overclocking of CPU and RAM. Now I set verification as default.

kelper · Apr 22, 2025

I've done dozens of restores with nary a glitch so, personally, I see no need to verify. As I have dozens of backups, I think it unlikely that all would fail, especially as I back up on to several devices.
My data is all online, it is the OS I'm backing up and I restore rather than troubleshoot if Windows starts misbehaving.

garioch7 · Apr 22, 2025

The "gurus" on the Macrium Reflect Forums always advise users to do a VERIFY before doing a full system recovery or transfer from an MR image file. If not, and the backup image fails to restore, you are up the creek.

Twice in my years, I have had backups fail to verify in MR and in Easeus. The cause turned out to be dying external HDD drives. Verifications are like the canary in the coal mine. They can alert you to potential backup restore issues.

Personally, I "Verify" or "Check Image", depending on the backup program, every time I do a weekly system image of all partitions on both of my computers, so that I know the image can restored. at the time of creation.

That said, if I needed to do a full image restore from a backup image, I would follow the advice of the MR "gurus." Just because the backup image was fine when it was created, does not always mean that it will remain fine. The odds of subsequent corruption are very miniscule, but I don't want to have a backup restore fail on me, and leave me with an unbootable computer.

It comes down, in the end, to personal "comfort levels." I am very risk-averse.

Just my two cents. Have a great day.

Regards,
Phil

kelper · Apr 22, 2025

I like the suggestion to restore to a virtual environment as a test but my laptop is not up to it with only 4GB.

Bree · Apr 22, 2025

kelper said:
I like the suggestion to restore to a virtual environment as a test but my laptop is not up to it with only 4GB.

It doesn't have to be to a virtual environment. You could use Disk Management to create a virtual drive (a .vhdx file), mount it, and restore to that. You could then native boot from that vhdx (dual boot). This could be on an external usb drive if you don't have enough free space on the internal drive (if so, for speed it's best to use an external SSD if you have one).

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When done testing, just boot to your normal Windows, open 'System Configuration' (msconfig.exe) and delete the boot entry from its 'Boot' tab.

In fact, on my test machine I native boot multiple different Insider builds. That's how I created their .vhdx files in the first place, restored an image of one of my RTM machines, native booted it, then enrolled it in an Insider channel.

dbartenstein · 2025-05-19T11:10:06-0400

Looks like a new version:

Bree · 2025-05-19T11:22:18-0400

dbartenstein said:
Looks like a new version:

Thank you, post #1 updated.

This one is a full re-install....

Macrium said:
Bug fixes and Improvements, v10.0.8576 - 19th May 2025

Updating To This Release

This update requires a full installation; patch files are not available.

After installing this build, please rebuild your rescue media to ensure that it includes the latest fixes.

FrancoDT · 2025-05-19T11:51:21-0400

Installing the update now on a ARM64 machine since I was forced to upgrade it to X

. Found out the hard way Macrium 8.1 doesn't work on ARM64 PC's only X does.

trevo · 2025-05-20T08:12:15-0400

I carried out the update and rebuilt the rescue media...all relatively painless.

When I later created two system images on 2 separate external SSD's, I noticed that both were significantly slower than the ones done prior to the update.

Only of academic interest, plenty fast enough in any event, but would be interested to hear if anyone noticed similar.

FrancoDT · 2025-05-20T09:53:03-0400

trevo said:
I carried out the update and rebuilt the rescue media...all relatively painless.

When I later created two system images on 2 separate external SSD's, I noticed that both were significantly slower than the ones done prior to the update.

Only of academic interest, plenty fast enough in any event, but would be interested to hear if anyone noticed similar.

I've only have the X version on my ARM64 machine as mentioned but I don't find it any faster at backups then 8.1, maybe slower on ARM64.

trevo · 2025-05-20T11:59:55-0400

FrancoDT said:
I don't find it any faster at backups then 8.1,

I was comparing the X version before and after yesterday's update.

pietcorus2 · 2025-05-20T12:49:43-0400

The ISO is much smaller then previous , 774 MB/571 ...............is this ok ??
Started ok on my Ventoy , checked a backup , went fine ...........so , I guess its a reliable backupper ! (?) :wink:

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