Acronis Competition
Been looking at alternative backup programs since True Image 2014 has been driving me mad with update notices for he 2015 version which should win a Golden Raspberry award.
Came across Macrium Reflect free version, it allowed partition and file/folder backup, image verification, bootable rescue iso, scheduling, compression and security that blows away Acronis.
Macrium Reflect does 256-bit encryption and compresses files better than Acronis.
Best of all it has a easy to use interface and doesn't hide the list of folders it backs up. Acronis just shows a useless blue progress bar. 2015 version looks like a throwback to software from the 1990's.
Purchased the full version of Macrium today. All I can say, wow, this app does the job and does it right.
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Macrium Reflect does 256-bit encryption and compresses files better than Acronis.
Acronis True Image does support 256-bit encryption as well. And it has three levels of compression.
ATI also supports backups to Cloud - Macrium Reflect does not it.
What about "AOMEI Backupper" ? There's a free version and a paid version with lifetime upgrades and free technical support by e-mail.
Also EaseUS ToDo Backup Home and Workstation. Brand new version 7. Also a free version that does basic backup and restore from a WinPE disk, created with the program. AND...it works. I have already backed up my laptop using the Workstation version.