Macrium Reflect is intuitively designed and organized organised with simple to follow wizards guiding you through tasks. If you have never used backup software before, however, you might feel some trepidation, needing a little extra guidance to get you started.
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We recommended that the first time you use Macrium Reflect, you create bootable rescue media before performing any other tasks.
Click the Create bootable Rescue icon media icon to access the Rescue Media Builder wizard.
For further guidance see Creating rescue media.
Imaging disks
Disk imaging is a backup a Backup task and can be accessed from the Create Backups taskbarthe Backup task bar.
For further guidance see Creating a backup of your computer.
Differential and incremental disk images
After When your first Full Image, full backup you can run Differential and/or Incremental Images differential and incremental backups to capture changes made since the Full Image was created. Differential Images capture all changes since the Full, and Incremental Images capture changes since the last Image. This is usually substantially faster than creating another Full backup and also gives you the same number of restore points and flexibility. Differential and Incremental Images create Image 'sets' that contain a chain of dependent Image files. Macrium manages these Image just the changes because it is quicker. Macrium then manages these backup sets for you.
Right - click the backup definition that file you want to run backup up and select the type of image to create.
For more information see Differential and incremental disk images.
Backing up files and folders
Creating Fullfull, Differentialdifferential, and Incremental incremental backups of specific files or folders can optimize backup speed and disk space requirements. The wizard can be accessed from the Create Backups Backup task bar.
For more information see Backing up files and folders.
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Cloning is particularly useful if you are upgrading to a new, larger hard drive or if you need to quickly swap failed disks out of your system.
Select the the disk or partition you require from the Create Backupsa Backup screen and click Clone this disk.
For more information see Cloning a disk.
Scheduling, retention
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and disk space
Whenever you create a backup, regardless of the type , you have the option to create a backup plan using the scheduling and retention wizard.
Click below Select a Template for your you Backup Plan to select from industry best practice backup plans templates, quick-start backup plan templates , or even templates that you have created. You can even skip over scheduling to simply take advantage of the retention rules for managing your disk space.
You can then customize the plan to suit your needs.
You can view, edit, cancel or run scheduled backups from the Scheduled Backups screen.
Backup plan templates
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To manage backup plan templates click Backup and select Backup Templates... .
If you are new to scheduling backups read Planning a backup strategy.
For more information about using backup templates see Scheduling backups.
For more information about retaining backups and backup plans see Retention and consolidation.
Restoring files and folders
To directly restore the contents of a file and folder backup use the Macrium Reflect file and folder restore feature.
For more information see Restoring a file and folder backup.
Restoring images
Select the Existing Backups taskbarRestore task bar, choose the image you want to restore , then and click Restore Image.
For more information see Restoring an image from Windows.
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Macrium ReDeploy is included in all licensed the Server editions of Macrium Reflect. With ReDeploy you can restore an image to a replacement computer or even create various types of virtual hard drives to virtualize the machine, a technique sometimes called Physical to Virtual or P2V. ReDeploy modifies modifys an existing offline operating system to work with new hardware.
- Restore your system image to the PC being deployed before running ReDeploy.
Note: There is no need to reboot your PC after restoring an Image and before you run ReDeploy. - Boot the target PC with the Windows PE rescue CD or USB equivalent. There is a link to a video on creating a Windows PE rescue CD at the bottom of this page.
On the Existing Backups Restore task pane, click ReDeploy Restored Image to new hardware.
For more information see Re-deploying Windows to new hardware using Macrium ReDeploy.
Scripting backup processes
In the Scripts tab, VBScripts, Powershell and MS-DOS batch file tabs are available when you select the Backup task bar.
In each tab you can manage script files, run , or schedule them to run later. You can even create a desktop shortcut for convenience.
Managing Macrium files in Windows
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Note though, the best way to view backup sets is in the Macrium Reflect interface itself where it can automatically collate the multiple files involved in incremental and differential backups and you can manage them as a set.