Image your system with free Macrium

kado897 said:

This may help.Understanding Image Verification Failures (Verification)

Excellent article. Thanks for linking it.

One curious discrepancy, though. According to the screen shot Gary provided, Reflect Free has an option for automatic verification but, according to the article, it doesn't. Being happily "stuck" with Pro, I have no way to verify (pardon the pun) that one way or the other.

I'd rep you but the forum won't let me (mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble).

Britton30 said:

mjf said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

In Pro, verify is also available in Restore. Did you check where I asked?

Probably not. The thread is:
"Image your system with free Macrium"

Ya oughta have a look anyway, you may discover something new.

Apparently not.
See post 1490
"Free is the one I was asking about."

kado897 said:

This may help.Understanding Image Verification Failures (Verification)

Sounds like I guessed it right. They check the hash.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

kado897 said:

This may help.Understanding Image Verification Failures (Verification)

Excellent article. Thanks for linking it.

One curious discrepancy, though. According to the screen shot Gary provided, Reflect Free has an option for automatic verification but, according to the article, it doesn't. Being happily "stuck" with Pro, I have no way to verify (pardon the pun) that one way or the other.

I'd rep you but the forum won't let me (mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble).

Gary's screenshot was not for verification of the image, but for verification of the filesystem being imaged before the backup.

kado897 said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

kado897 said:

This may help.Understanding Image Verification Failures (Verification)

Excellent article. Thanks for linking it.

One curious discrepancy, though. According to the screen shot Gary provided, Reflect Free has an option for automatic verification but, according to the article, it doesn't. Being happily "stuck" with Pro, I have no way to verify (pardon the pun) that one way or the other.

I'd rep you but the forum won't let me (mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble).

Gary's screenshot was not for verification of the image, but for verification of the filesystem being imaged before the backup.

You are correct; sorry about that! Apparently, the free version will not automatically verify an image after creation; yet another reason I'm glad to be using the Pro version. I'm surprised Macrium doesn't promote that when comparing their various versions; that's a marketing goldmine.

that's a marketing goldmine

Is it?

SIW2 said:

that's a marketing goldmine

Is it?

Absolutely. I would have upgraded for that alone. Not to mention any point on a comparison chart is valuable.

I think you are a little unusual in that.

I can't remember the last time I bothered to verify an image. I only do it when testing products.

Not for my own use.

I never verified an image and never had a problem. Maybe I was just lucky.

SIW2 said:

I think you are a little unusual in that.

I can't remember the last time I bothered to verify an image. I only do it when testing products.

Not for my own use.

What bother? I start the image, then leave it alone and do something else (watch TV, web surf, skip to my loo, snag a snack, whatever). About 9.5 minutes later, the image is done and verified without any bother on my part. I've had only one image to fail to verify. Had I found out just before or while restoring it, I would have been powerfully P.O.ed. Instead, I just ran it again and had no problems.