Macrium Reflect Introduction

Macrium Reflect is an award winning disk imaging and file backup solution for Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003.

Disk Imaging: Using the latest compression and multi threading techniques, Macrium Reflect has unrivalled disk imaging speed. Full, differential and incremental images can be restored or mounted as a virtual drive in Windows Explorer.

System Recovery: Macrium Reflect is the only imaging solution to offer Linux, BartPE, *and* Windows PE 2.0 based system recovery options.

File backup: Backup files and folders to a compressed virtual drive in Windows. Restore your data with a simple wizard or use Windows Explorer copy and paste.

Main features:

Macrium Reflect have three main features: file backup, disk imaging, and scheduling.

File Backup

• Create a single backup file of one or more folders on you hard disk
• Include and exclude filter ensures that you only backup relevant files.
• Browse the backup file as a virtual FAT32 hard drive in Windows Explorer.
• Files in use by Windows (such as Outlook .pst files) are backed up even when locked!
• Multiple compression levels.
• Backup files can be saved to local or network drives or optical storage (CD, DVD)
• Optionally exclude system and hidden files.
• Supports Incremental and Differential backups.
• Password protected backups to prevent unauthorized access.
• Restore specific files or the entire backup.
• Restore to any location.

Disk Imaging

• Create a single backup file of a complete hard disk
• Create a single backup file of one or many partitions
• Restore a partition to a different type. e.g. a logical partition can be restored as a bootable primary partition
• Resize the restored partition. A hard disk upgrade can easily be performed by increasing the partition to fill the new disk.
• Track 0 (The Master Boot Record) is saved with all backups.
• Backup files can be saved to local or network drives or optical storage (CD, DVD).
• Disk image can be created whilst Windows is in use.
• Verify images. Images (Backup files) can be separately verified or automatically verified before restore.
• System files such as ‘pagefile.sys’ and ‘hiberfile.sys’ are not included in the image.
• Three compression levels can be selected to optimize between file size and speed.
• Password protected images to prevent unauthorized access.
• AES 256 bit encryption for ultimate security.
• Set image filenames automatically.

Scheduling Features

• Schedule daily, weekly or monthly.
• Unattended completion.
• Automatic incremental / differential images.
• Automatic disk space management for local / remote hard drives.
• Full logging of all backup operations.

System Requirements of Macrium Reflect:

Windows XP SP2 32 & 64 Bit, Vista 32 & 64 Bit, Server 2003, Server 2003 R2 32 & 64 Bit; 500 MB of RAM; 100MB of Free Disk Space.