Paid version of Macrium also worth it if you like incremental and differential backups and are not a Linux user.įrom a Linux based NAS it's easy to do a data backup / restore to / from Windows drives via rsync / grsync (grsync is the gui version of rsync).

That's though a Windows problem rather than Macrium. Rsync/grsync for data backups - there's though no reason why you shouldn't use macrium for these too but disadvantage is if you have long file + directory names (> 266 chars) you get the 'truncated' version. I also use DD command on linux - reliable, 100% independant of disk format / geometry (so long as image fits on target drive) - disadvantge is complex to use if you don't like command line and takes quite a long time to run as it copies everything bitwise from Disk a to Disk b.

+1 to cereberus -> Macrium definitely reliable, easy cheap (free for basic use) - pretty well all other windows stuff found failed at some critical point. I've done backups also on all conceivable hardware

Paragon backup and recovery 17 free