Alternatives to Macrium Reflect
Windows disk imaging and recovery with rapid delta restore. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Macrium Reflect
Windows disk imaging and recovery with rapid delta restore.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Macrium Reflect.
Acronis True Image
Personal backup application from Acronis that combines image-based backup with anti-malware protection.
Acronis True Image is also paid image-based backup, adding anti-malware protection, an optional cloud destination and macOS support.
AOMEI Backupper
Windows backup and cloning tool with scheduled system and file jobs.
AOMEI Backupper provides system and disk imaging with a bootable rescue disc and free scheduled incremental jobs, with dissimilar-hardware restore paid.
Hasleo Backup Suite
Free Windows backup for system images, disks, partitions and files.
Hasleo Backup Suite includes system imaging, cloning and bootable recovery media for free, though commercial use requires a paid licence.
Veeam Agent
Image-based backup agent for Windows and Linux endpoints, free for individual machines.
Veeam Agent offers free image-level backup with bare-metal recovery for one Windows or Linux machine, with central management in paid editions.
EaseUS Todo Backup
Windows backup software for system, disk and file backups on a schedule.
EaseUS Todo Backup gives scheduled incremental system and disk backups with boot media in its free edition, while system clone is paid.
EaseUS Todo Backup Home
Windows backup software for file, system and disk imaging with a free edition.
EaseUS Todo Backup Home combines file backup, system backup and disk cloning, with a free edition and a paid Home edition for full features.
Rescuezilla
A bootable disk imaging and cloning tool that is Clonezilla with a graphical interface people can actually use.
Rescuezilla is free open-source bootable imaging with a graphical interface, but it has no scheduled backups and no Rapid Delta restore.
Clonezilla
A bootable disk cloner that images a whole drive or partition, including systems it cannot understand.
Clonezilla is free open-source bootable whole-drive imaging with network deployment, but it uses text menus and offers no scheduling or single-file restore.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Macrium Reflect as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Active@ Disk Image
Windows disk imaging software that makes exact copies of disks for backup, upgrades and duplication.
Macrium Reflect has no free Lite option because it is now a paid product with a trial. It adds Rapid Delta imaging and restore with a well-tested rescue environment.
Disk2vhd
Sysinternals tool that turns a running Windows system into a VHD or VHDX disk image.
Macrium Reflect adds scheduled disk imaging with a rescue environment and Rapid Delta restore, but it is a paid product and does not produce bootable VHD files for hypervisors.
Image for Windows
A Windows disk imaging program for full and incremental backups of whole drives and partitions.
Macrium Reflect is paid Windows imaging with a well-tested rescue environment and Rapid Delta imaging and restore, though its long-standing free edition was retired.
MiniTool ShadowMaker
Windows backup software for system images, file and folder backups, syncing and scheduled jobs.
Macrium Reflect is now a paid Windows product with a trial, offering well-tested bare-metal imaging and Rapid Delta imaging and restore.
O&O DiskImage
A Windows backup program that makes complete system images and file backups and restores them after failures.
Macrium Reflect is also paid Windows imaging software, adding Rapid Delta imaging and restore and a well-tested rescue environment.
R-Drive Image
Windows disk imaging utility that creates byte-by-byte image files of drives and partitions for backup.
Macrium Reflect is also paid Windows imaging software, adding a well-tested rescue environment and Rapid Delta imaging and restore to shorten both operations.
Redo Rescue
Create and restore disk images from a bootable rescue environment.
Macrium Reflect is paid, closed-source Windows imaging with a tested rescue environment and Rapid Delta restore, instead of a free Linux-based boot disc.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Windows File History
Built-in Windows tool that versions files to an external or network drive.
SystemRescue
A bootable Linux toolkit for repairing a broken machine: partitioning, filesystem repair, data recovery and network tools on one USB stick.
