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Add to SafariWhen comparing Fog Project vs Macrium Reflect, the Slant community recommends Macrium Reflect for most people. In the question“What are the best software tools to replace content of failing hard disk to a new one?” Macrium Reflect is ranked 2nd while Fog Project is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Macrium Reflect is:
You can mount backups, then browse them in explorer to search for files and copy them back.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Network management
FOG is more than just an imaging solution, it also has network management features:
- Snapins to install software and run jobs/scripts on the clients
- Printer management
- Change hostname and join domain
- Track user access on computers, automatic log off and shutdown on idle timeouts
- Anti-Virus
- Disk wiping
- Restore deleted files
- Bad blocks scan
Pro Clone to smaller disk
FOG supports putting an image that came from a computer with a 80GB partition onto a machine with a 40GB hard drive as long as the data is less than 40GB.
Pro Free (Open Source)
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3).
Pro Can mount backups like a hard drive
You can mount backups, then browse them in explorer to search for files and copy them back.
Pro Recovery boot menu
The recovery boot menu enables directly booting to the recovery environment from the Windows OS selection menu, without the need to burn a recovery disk or USB flash drive.
Pro Multiple backup methods
Supports full, differential, incremental.
Pro Automatic schedule password protection
Pro The only cloning/imaging software we could get to work with Intel SRT
Odd tech like RAID arrays and Intel SRT cause a lot of cloning or imaging software to just give up, but Macrium is dedicated to updating the Reflect package to actually work with everything
Pro Nifty scheduler
Pro Clone laptop drive
Can clone a laptop Hard Disk to an SSD for instance, see SSD replacement for ASUS X53S.
Assuming you have another drive with sufficient free space to hold the entirety of your current drive:
Download and install Macrium Reflect
Run that, and create a Rescue CD or USB (you'll use this later). "Other Tasks"
In the Macrium client, create an Image to some other drive. External USB HDD, maybe. Select all partitions. This results in a file of xxxx.mrimage
When done, power OFF.
Swap the 2 drives
Boot up from the Rescue USB you created earlier.
Recover, and tell it where the Image is that you created in step 3, and which drive to apply it to...the new SSD
Go, and wait until it finishes.
Pro Easy XML File for editing schedules, etc.
Pro Supports Live CD
Pro Incremental backup
During the free trial or in the paid versions.
Cons
Con Needs a Linux server
Con Bit complex for a new user - best if you're experienced with computers
Not ideal for really basic users.
Con Incredibly intrusive - computer becomes unusable during backups
Con Incremental only for pro users
Con Installation needs a restart
Con Has some odd behaviours around cloning
For example, you can resize partitions when resizing but you need to drag each partition from the top area to the bottom yourself instead of allowing it to auto populate the field.
