Alternatives to Macrium Free?

[slipd]

Hi guys,

I know this has been asked before but what are all you Macrium Free refugees using now as an alternative? I understand that was a big MS update in April that is blocked certain system files associated wit Macrium and a few other EOL products.

Thanks.

 

[Steampunk]

Hasleo Backup Suite. Used to be a fair bit slower than Macrium, but over the last year they've almost got to parity.

 

[slipd]

Hasleo Backup Suite. Used to be a fair bit slower than Macrium, but over the last year they've almost got to parity.

Ah, nice one! I nearly considered paying for Macrium previously but always talked myself out of it

I'll check Haslo out.

 

[adidan]

I've used AOMEI Backupper a few times, the free version is pretty capable and worked a treat for me for cloning/backup.

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[nade]

Was going to suggest giving "EaseUS Todo Backup Free". But just read some comments that some features have been pushed to their Paid version.

To be honest I am still using an old copy of Acronis which still does enough I need to do.

Clonezilla I think still gets good feedback, but I have not used it in a long time.

One little free backup tool I use to manage disk partitions is a gparted live image.

 

[slipd]

Thanks guys! Will check out your suggestions. In other news, having Macrium installed on my new build was messing up my start menu - I couldn't select the Power menu (for shutting down, restarting etc.), the menu just timed out. I removed Macrium (last version before it was pulled) with Revo - ensuring to remove all the orphaned keys etc., and now it's fine

 

[agw_01]

Clonezilla I think still gets good feedback, but I have not used it in a long time.

I use CloneZilla a lot and would recommended it. Decent little utility.

edit... Sorry, it was RescueZilla, not CloneZilla (but I believe they are related)

 

[Ice Tea]

While their primary domain registrar and some business listings use US-based registration services for global e-commerce and distribution, the core development, engineering, and support team is located in China.

I wonder why a lot of these free based clone software are registered in the west but run from China?

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

I've used Rescuezilla (on a Ventoy USB drive) a bit recently, which I believe is just a GUI for Clonezilla.
Seems OK, I think the image has GParted on it too, but I may be misremembering.