Macrium Reflect or Windows Backup?

Thanks for the comments, people. Yeah, re V7. I get the impression it only has a few embellishments, like incremental backups.

Which makes the backup process a little bit more complex. And maybe more prone to errors?

Does v6 full have the incremental facility?

teckneeculler said:

Does v6 full have the incremental facility?

When you say v6 full does that mean V6 paid ?
V6 FREE does NOT have incremental, it does have differential.

I use MR V6 free, and i use differentials reliably.
I would not use incrementals, any imaging utility, free or paid.

When I first downloaded Macrium and the PDF instructions I was a bit overwhelmed and figured the Window's backup would probably be a bit easier. After using it many times now and purchasing it I found out how good a backup, imaging and cloning program it was. I like it's ability to make a recovery boot menu, create a rescue medium, clone and image, verification of the back up and I like the incremental back ups. I have used the free version to clone drives for updating to new ones on older machines.
I participate in the Win 10 Insider Program and always make back ups as new builds are released. Since my Win 10 machine has only 1 SSD drive, I use a portable SSD drives for my frequent Macrium back ups and it works great.

RolandJS said:

DavidE, thanks for updating my knowledge! I never knew v6 free lacked incremental operations.
DavidE, did the earlier versions such as v5 free have both incremental and differential?
Reason for asking: I only made full images, I never made either incremental or differential images.

I don't think MR free v5 had incremental or differential.
If i remember correctly, MR free v6 added differential.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Your memory is intact (said Jeannie jealously).

- thanks, i got it right this time! , and that don't happen much anymore

Almost three months later and I still haven't set up a backup system .

But Macrium 7 Free is gonna happen any day now.

A coupla questions for the Macrium pundits:

1) Can the Free version insert a Macrium Recovery option into the Windows boot menu? The paid versions do this. It enables you to boot the ailing PC direct to Macrium without a Rescue disk.
2) Is the free version able to create a Rescue disc?
3) Anyone know if it's able to do an incremental backup of an Outlook .pst file?