Software Update: Macrium Reflect 5.2.6427

Paramount Software recently released an update to version 5.2 of Macrium Reflect. This program can create a disk image of a partition or hard disk. Macrium Reflect is free for private use, but there are also paid performances, That extras including being able to perform a file backup or an incremental backup, encryption, and restore a backup to hardware other than that on which it was created. The standard version costs 45 euros, the pro version 60 euros and the server edition goes home for 193 euros. The changelog for this release is as follows:

What’s new?

• Rename XML Definition Feature
  A new menu option has been added to rename existing XML backup definition files. Right click on the file and select ‘Rename’. Note that this also automatically updates scheduled tasks and scripts that references the file as well.
• Increased number of characters for the image comment field.
  The 256 character limit in the Image/Backup comment field has been removed.

Bug fixes:

• Restore/Clone crash
  In rare cases a clone or restore operation could crash after the end of the operation. Note: This didn’t affect the integrity of the clone or restore. This has been resolved.
• CSV export or backed up files.
  The CSV export of files backed up now correctly uses quoted strings.
• Installer issue with paste.
  When pasting a license key into the installer and an existing key was already populated; this would cause the new key to be appended to the original. This has been resolved.
• Explorer context menu bug
  Using the Windows Explorer context menu to directly run a backup would fail if the file name contained white space. This has been resolved.
• Restore error for file systems > 3.3TB
  Restoring a file system greater than 3.3TB could cause a program error. This has been resolved and it’s now possible to restore a single partition up to 30TB in size.
• Incorrect log Message for File and Folder read failure.
  If a file and folder backup was unable to read/open a file then ‘Error Success’ was incorrectly written to the backup log. This has been resolved.
• Comment decoding error in Windows Explorer.
  When viewing backup comments in Windows Explorer some XML escape characters were being shown as comment text. This has been resolved.