Software Update: Macrium Reflect 7.2.4859

Paramount Software has released an update to Macrium Reflect. This program can create a disk image of a partition or hard disk. In addition to the free version, there are also paid performances those different extras such as being able to do a file backup or an incremental backup, encryption, and restoring a backup to different hardware than it was created on.

From version 7.1 the free version may now also be used in commercial environments. There is also Image Guardian, which protects backup files from unauthorized modifications, improvements have been made to virtual images, and several bugs have been fixed. The following changes and improvements have also been made in this release:

Bug fixes and Improvements:

• We’ve excluded MS Volume Shadow Copy from participating in backups of removable drives. Previously, a File and Folder backup would report VSS errors before continuing if folders on a removable drive, such as a Flash drive, were included. VSS is not supported on removable media.
• Some customers have reported an application crash when running MS Exchange incremental backups. This has been resolved.
• We’ve added an additional check to allow the GPT partition table to contain gaps when loading disk layouts in Reflect. It’s possible that GPT partition tables can be non-contiguous if the disk has been formatted or updated using Linux.

Rescue Media

• To distinguish between multiple Ethernet Adapters with a similar name, the Windows PE Network Adapter dialog now shows the MAC address of each adapter.
• Changing the rescue media staging area volume would not always remove all the files on the old volume. This has been resolved.
• If a new edition of Reflect is installed, eg, Workstation to Server, the Rescue Media Builder will now prompt for a rebuild of the rescue media.