Best SSD Backup/Image Software

Hey guys,

So I bought Acronis True Image 2015 and had a full disc backup of my SSD. Every time I tried to restore the image it would fail. I guess Acronis isn't a good backup/image software for SSDs. I've heard that Macrium Reflect and EaseUS To Do are great to use but would like some advice. What kind of backup/imaging software do you use for your SSD and what have been your experience with them?

 

I have used Acronis True Image since many years.....unfrotunate when GPT became the standard for most new SSDs/HDDs sold now in new computers, this caused a lot of problems, even I installed the necessary add-on in Acronis to support GPT, backing up was fine, but I could never restore sucessfully......that's when I switched to Macrium Reflect Free which works perfectly with any type of disk......

now the only issue with it is, if you want to restore an image you created, you have to boot off the Macrium Reflect Rescure CD, since time is money for me, I went ahead and bought a license for the PRO version which basically gives you the option ot add the recovery environment to your boot options, then I would disable it from appearing at every boot so I boot directly into Windows....

now when I want to restore an image, I simply hit the restore button and the computer would reboot into the recovery environment, to the restoration, then back to Windows the same way you had your computer when you imaged it..

I recommend you try it, and if you want to have the ease of restoration, go for the Pro version

 

I had a little problem a few months ago when using TrueImage 2014 on a bootable flash drive to restore an image onto a new SSD. My problem was that there are now different versions appropriate for non-UEFI / MBR and UEFI/GPT but wasn't isn't obvious which was which. So the first time I ran it to restore the image the computer wouldn't book. Then I tried again with a different version (choose from menu) and everything worked OK.

John

 

I have recently gone with Clonezilla for full images of windows and Linux Os's. Very fast and images can be verified easily prior to restoring. thanks to the experts here in the Linux subforum!

 

Macrium Reflect :thumbsup:

 

OK so I got Macrium Reflect Pro 30-Day Trial. I haven't done much with it right now. I do have a few questions though.

Do I need to do any prepping before making an image? I currently have rapid mode on as well as using overprovisioning. Do I need to turn off rapid mode and remove my overprovisioning before making an image or should all of that be saved in the image and upon restore be set as it is now?

Also I really want to try and image my SSD and then wipe it and do a restore to see if everything goes well. Only problem is I have a lot of games installed and for me to basically go from a factory restore to my current set up, it takes about 4 days due to installation and downloading. I'd be pretty upset if I imaged the SSD and then wiped it for it to not work. Any ideas on how I can maybe test this without compromising my current SSD state?

I figured I could take a regular HDD and restore to that and just remove rapid mode and overporvisioning before the image to see what happens. That way I remove my current SSD and have the image stored on a external HDD and replace my SSD with my HDD. Would that work?

 

First, launch Macrium Reflect Pro,

then there is a drop down list either in the last file menu portion or the one before it that says: "Add Recovery Boot Option"

Choose that, then select Windows PE 5 files

it will then do its thing and add the recovery boot option

once its done, right click on computer, go to properties, then Advanced System Settings from the left pane

Now under Startup and Recovery, click settings,

you will see you have to options now, Windows 7 or 8, and under it, will be Macrium Reflect

Where it says "Time to display list of operating systems"

Uncheck that so you won't get a choice when booting everytime to choose either Windows or Macrium Reflect, that's NOT NEEDED

after you've done that

create a backup

now when you want to restore, simply launch Reflect, and go to the restore tab, select your image, then restore it, then click on copy selected partitions

then the system will automatically reboot into the recovery environment and to the restore

very fast and easy

make sure when you are creating the recovery, to only select the partitions you want, which should be the system partitions and C: and select everything else like your D: partition, external USB, etc.

 

I found this article when I was chosing a image software: AOMEI Backupper Standard vs Acronis True Image, i tried, it worked. FYI, How to Do a System Backup, Back Up System Files & Boot Files will help you a lot i guess.:thumbsup:

 

Wow that's ridiculous about true image not working easy-especially since its a pay version, I have heard its buggy, Macrium Reflect,Clonezilla work, I use the backup utility in Win 8.1, I downloaded Linux Mint 17.1-Rebecca for another laptop I have and when I uninstalled the the torrent client it bunged the start menu, I used the M$ 64 Bit disk and went to advanced and selected the newest image, within a few minutes, the whole disk was reimaged and all good, It seems certain free and included on M$ get the job done without hassle-work as they are advertised. I also used Windows 7 backup and restore utility and its works good as well.USB 3.0 is much faster than USB 2.0 for storing and installing backup images.

Heres a link to Clonezilla from SourceForge: New Update

http://sourceforge.net/directory/os:windows/freshness:recently-updated/?q=clonezilla

Cheers
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