Best free drive image/restore/backup software ?

[digitaldreams]

I have used Acronis in the past yet it gave some issues last time. There must be a good free one out there ? (for win7/10 64bit)

Thanks in advance !

 

[RJC]

Macrium Reflect is to be a good alternative.

 

[The1nonly1]

Same as above, Macrium Reflect

 

[Rannoch]

Macrium

 

[rolypolyman]

Yep Macrium, used it couple of weeks ago, very easy.

 

[labcoattech]

You wil need to purchase the home edition of Macrium if you plan on making incremental backups.

 

[bremen1874]

The free version does differential backups which in some ways are better.

 

[Cyclone]

Another vote for macrium. I used it to clone my drive to a new one, was easy

 

[Disco_P]

I don't like macrium cause it doesn't do incremental backups and wanted me to mess around with XML files for scheduling. I also tried Acronis, Aomei and EaseUS utilities but all of them had one issue or another that caused me to seek alternatives.

Now I use VEEAM endpoint which was incredibly easy to setup and use. Everyday it does an incremental backup, creates full backups on Sundays and keeps my last 2 weeks worth of backups.

 

[bremen1874]

I don't like macrium cause it doesn't do incremental backups and wanted me to mess around with XML files for scheduling.

If you're creating a full backup every week the difference between incremental and differential backups is marginal. I have a paid for version of Macrium that does support incremental backups and still choose to use differential.

For normal scheduling, there's no reason to go anywhere near the underlying XML files as the wizards handle everything. The only manual change I've needed to make was to add commands to the backup scripts to automatically copy the backups to a second location after they complete.

Now I use VEEAM endpoint which was incredibly easy to setup and use.

Veeam is a perfectly good solution and there's no reason not to use it.

 

[bledd]

Veeam is awesome. Just need to sign up for a free account.