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You need Macrium in order to restore from it. The difference between Macrium and some other, dedicated file-and-folder backup programs which canвЂ™t image, such as Sync Back Free, is that Macrium does its file-and-folder backup under a proprietary format.

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One of Macrium advantages is precisely that you can have both modes in the same program, under the same user interface, with the same scheduling and retention system, the same verification system, etc. You can schedule both disk images for wholesale restore, and file-and-folder backups for very critical files, for instance. If you want to backup some files/folders/directories and not others, you use the file-and-folder backup mode. And it does not save empty space by default either, although thereвЂ™s an option to do that if you must : forensic mode). (All right, there are a few nuances, such as Macrium excludes some big, unnecessary files by default : the swap file and such.

This mode does not work at the file level. ThatвЂ™s the whole point : you image everything, so as to be sure to be able to restore everything as it was at date x. Image-type backup is precisely meant to backup everything indiscriminately. However, it strikes me that what youвЂ™re asking for is a barking cat, or tea tasting as coffee. You can exclude whatever directories/folders/files you want in the file-and-folder backup mode, but not in the disk imaging mode or the disk cloning mode. Macrium has three backup modes : disk cloning, disk imaging and file-and-folder backup. IвЂ™m not aware of possible changes in the server/enterprise editions. Rapid Delta Restore is supposed to greatly shorten restore (I canвЂ™t tell you about actual performance). There are other, useful options than have been added to the backup plans, for scheduling and retention.

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If you chose to have, for instance, one full and ten incrementals, when the eleventh incremental is saved, the oldest incremental is merged into the full (resulting in a synthetic full), and you still have your last ten incrementals you could go back to if you wanted to restore an older version. This means you never need to do a full backup again. In the past, the help I have received (and the threads I have read) were of good quality, with Macrium technicians popping in regularly.ДЇeature-wise, version 6 brings a nice-to-have mode : incrementals forever. To the extent that you might encounter problems, this might be important.

Accessing version 6 forum requires having bought version 6 (the free edition does not qualify). It has been closed (maybe you can still read the archives, but you canвЂ™t ask questions). Please note that v6 free edition is licensed is for non-commercial home useВ only.The most pressing need I could see is that you donвЂ™t have access to the version 5 forum anymore. We hope you will enjoy the improvements and continue to spread theВ word. It is built on the new v6 codebase and contains the following new features:

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To thank the Reflect free community for their support and efforts to make our software more widely known, we would now like to announce the release of the v6 free edition. Until now the free edition has remained on the v5.3 codebase. This has been downloaded over 4 million times and has a very active user base. For business users this can be extended to include phone support and annual renewal for ongoingВ support.ДЇor home users who only need to do occasional clones or ad hoc full backups, we have always had a free edition. As always, with a purchase of v6, MacriumвЂ™s renowned support is included. v6 is a large step forwards in speed, simplicity and flexibility. In February we released Macrium v6 including one edition targeted for home users and a further three for business users.