Macrium Reflect Not Playing Nice

[easysurfer]

This post is more for humor than asking for help.

I use Macrium Reflect for my backups. Usually, it works flawlessly on schedule each night. Today after I got up, the backup was still running. I ended up deleting my backup set and starting from scratch making a new backup set as the consolidation of backups process of the program eventually gets a bottleneck if not deleting.

So, my current backup from scratch shows a finish time in 1050 hours! That's over 40 days .

 

[skyking1]

Do you back up to a portable drive?

 

[easysurfer]

Do you back up to a portable drive?

To an internal HDD.

Think I'm going to have a new plan though. I need to migrate some data off as the excess data is killing my backup times.

The good is that these days HDDs are a dime a dozen.

 

[skyking1]

I suggest that you move it off the computer completely, or it is not a true backup.
There are several levels of data security.
The first one is physical security. Right now all your eggs are still in one basket.
A burglar, house fire, or electrical event can take it all out.

I used to do a lot more with linux and had a file server with several drives in it, when GB was expensive per unit.
I came home one day to an awful smell. The power supply had gone rogue and sent high voltages through every board and circuit. Everything was lost.
I have something like this SATA dock.
https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/ref=asc_df_B0759567JT/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309743296044&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10048277219795418976&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9051901&hvtargid=pla-564037935583&mcid=c96060ec54383395a365a2af83d150c8&gclid=Cj0KCQiA4NWrBhD-ARIsAFCKwWsKwoD1ghO6ccX4nNV_CsQ73rpONa5PMzvnaAID5TERk4E8l264ZKwaApRzEALw_wcB&th=1
I take a drive off site. I really only care about the photos and I'd rather have a physical copy, rather than relying on the cloud for everything.

 

[USGrant1962]

If you are using the free version of Macrium Reflect, it was retired about a year ago and will no longer be updated or supported. You might want to switch to a different software.

 

[ShokWaveRider]

If you are using the free version of Macrium Reflect, it was retired about a year ago and will no longer be updated or supported. You might want to switch to a different software.

Are you sure? I am using it with zero issues and my last update was last week.

 

[USGrant1962]

Are you sure? I am using it with zero issues and my last update was last week.

Yup, they are still doing security patches for the next 21 days so that is probably what you saw. Scroll down to the bottom of this page:

https://www.macrium.com/product-support-policy

 

[ShokWaveRider]

Yup, they are still doing security patches for the next 21 days so that is probably what you saw. Scroll down to the bottom of this page:

https://www.macrium.com/product-support-policy

Thanks, I was not aware of that.

 

[easysurfer]

I'm using a purchased version of Macrium Reflect 6. I know that's a few releases back but still works fine for me. Not about to fork over the extra dollars for upgrades to newer versions. Version 6 still meets my needs.

I'm a bit puzzled about the security updates. Is that more a scare tactic to get one to upgrade? As, isn't security the job of the anti-virus and anti-malware software and not the imaging program?