There's no rule against having more than one backup program installed.On the 14th of January 2020, Windows 7 and Server 2008R2 reached end of life (EOL). If you want sync or plain file copying, then look at the equally free Aomei Backupper Standard or Paragon Backup & Recovery. We've been using it for seemingly forever, and it's never let us down yet. If all you want to do is image your system or data, then Macrium Reflect Free 6 is a great way to do it.

And much better than the six invoked by Acronis True Image. On the bright side, the free version of Reflect spawns only a single background process, down from the three that the pay versions create. Backup generally takes place during off hours or in the background, so we don't lend performance a lot of weight in our evaluations. That's about two minutes slower than any of the competition, though CPU usage was minimal. That might be nice, as Reflect Free 6 took just over nine minutes to perform our 115GB system backup. Macrium claims increased performance for the latest version 7, of which a free version is promised soon. PE allows driver injection (adding them at restore time), so you're likely okay there anyway. It also lets you choose the drivers you want to install. Reflect Free supports both MBR and GPT disks (it was late to the GPT game), and it has a great boot media creator, which lets you change flavors of Windows PE to best suit the operating system being backed up. Several flavors of the Windows PE boot environment are supported by Reflect Free 6 Password protection and email notifications are availableÂ only in the pay versions. You may not be able to back up specific files or folders with Reflect Free, but there are extensive scheduling options and retention rules (how long to keep and what to delete when space is low), and jobs are saved as standard XML files. Reflect Free offers extensive schedule options and differential backup.

You can always drag files to a folder, but it's still a slightly puzzling omission. Note that even the pay versions back up only folders, not individual files. Same deal with incremental backup, though the free version does support differential (all changes since the initial backup). If you want file and folder backup, you'll need one of the pay ( $70 or more) versions.

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