What is it you're trying to do? I demo'd Macrium because of their
technician license, which I think would be cost effective for cloning an
existing Windows computer to a different one. I used to use Acronis for
all of that till the licensing changed such that I'd need an expensive
license per PC. For just cloning on the same hardware, I'd suggest
PartedMagic which has CloneZilla all set up and ready to go. It's the
only place I've gotten CloneZilla to work personally, but there is a
free CloneZilla disk that you can dl and use.
If you want to do deployment, I strongly endorse SmartDeploy. The
Sysadmin reddit turned me on to it, and while it's not free, it is a
reasonable price for what you get, even though you do have to license it
per PC. The main advantage is that if you use business class PCs, they
pretty much do all the driver crap for you, you download a "Platform
Pak" and off you go with your image. It's much slicker than Acronis /
O&O / Macrium style HAL/mass storage driver only injection for a base image.
It's also much simpler than MDT - it holds your hand through the whole
thing. The only thing I miss is that their incremental image updates are
no where near as good as Acronis's were, so I just do full images every
few months to capture Windows Updates. The WSUS offline updater helps
fill that gap, and I guess it may be moot come October with potentially
just 1 update to get and install going forward from WSUS.
James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University
On 08/23/2016 06:14 PM, Mark Gottschalk wrote:
I've used it for years, but for backup imaging and not imaging new
machines. Been very happy with it for what I use it for (several 2012
R2 servers and a few critical workstations). Images can be mounted as
drives in another system and individual files restored from any of the
backups. Full emergency restores by booting to USB key or burned
CD/DVD, which you create from Macrium Reflect in advance (have only done
this once, with success, thankfully). Backups are encrypted and
compressed in my case, which works fine. I've got a rotation of
daily/weekly/monthly full and incremental backups across some NAS's and
removable drives for taking offsite. Makes use of OS shadow copy
function to deal with open files during image/backup.
I have used it multiple times to clone machines to the same hardware
with success. Mostly for reconfiguring RAID drive arrangements or
simple stuff like moving to a larger drive on a workstation. It will
clone to smaller drives if the data fits.
-- Mark
From: Harry Smith <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: 08/23/2016 12:10 PM
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Macrium Reflect Opinions anyone?
Sent by: <[email protected]>
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Reference: Macrium reflect
I have used it across my home machines (ThinkPad's, hp desktops, acer
desktops, and an ideapad) to image to
(and from) local drives, and to (and from) a networked 2012 server (dl380).
I had no issues during cloning. Est 1 hr per 100 gig over gb backbone
at my home, your results may vary ;)
CAN create a boot partition change, so the user could boot off the
Macrium boot code to restore or boot off c drive or boot off the main os.
I found that very useful, but, it must be updated per o/s, so if you
update from 7 (winpe3) to 10, you must update the pe to 10.
I did not test boot loader OR imaging with encryption on or enabled.
It can also back up individual partitions, and be scheduled with its
built in scheduler.
The only issue I can (so far) see is each machine copies the drivers for
THAT machine into the boot stick or dvd/cd.
I would imagine you can copy from one hardware stick to another, but I
have not yet tried it.
Good luck!
hsmith
"You can patch software, but you cannot patch experience” me
"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm." -
Hippocrates
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darren Martin
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 1:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Macrium Reflect Opinions anyone?
Looking into it myself for Win 10 clients. Interested to hear responses
on this also...
D
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 8:44 AM
To: ntsysadm
Subject: [NTSysADM] Macrium Reflect Opinions anyone?
I am looking at Macrium Reflect for imaging Has anyone used it and could
give me their opinion's of it?
TIA
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