Macrium Reflect Home Edition

The Macrium Reflect product lineup is among the more recognizable names in the backup industry. In seeking to encompass a great many needs, the available offerings cover home to workstation-level uses in a manner that could best be described as thorough.

If you're a more casual user, the former software proposition should sound more enticing to you. Macrium Reflect Home Edition is a solution designed for personal backups, with features that help preserving select files and folders, imaging and cloning entire partitions, and even recovering data, being most notable in this edition.

Users who prefer having more than one choice when it comes to backing up their data should find this offering to meet most of those demands. Besides being able to manage a set of files and folders in different ways, you're also fully able to preserve entire disks through cloning and imaging functions.

Even if you're a more casual user, you should nevertheless try your hand at scheduling your backups. It's a good way to ensure that the most up-to-date version of your data stays preserved.

Cloning and imaging a drive should also be considered, especially if you're looking to transfer data over to a new drive. While cloning is the best option if you value speed, imaging will provide you with more options if you're looking to back up a drive periodically. Users have plenty of options to fine-tune those processes, including the creation of differential and incremental backups.

A more power-user audience is catered to by way of the support for definition files and scripts. To put it simply, users can more handily manage XML definition lists, as well as be more in control of their backups through custom scripts. As for supported extensions, users will be able to work with .ps1, .vbs, and the usual .bat file types.

Data recovery is another possibility that may come in useful to some, whereby users are able to create a bootable rescue media drive. Several options are available when it comes to configuring a WIM build, including choosing your preferred base WIM and its architecture, and even supplying your own pre-prepared WIM file.

All things considered, Macrium Reflect Home Edition should be able to handle personal backup duties without any difficulties.