Compare Macruim v8 and EaseUs Todo Backup

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I’ve been using EaseUs ToDo backup for many years and have been satisfied (not overwhelmed).  Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of references to Macrium.  I’m wondering if I should switch.

Does anyone have experience with both of the and can offer a true comparison?  I’ve done some searching and there are several comparisons written out there in Google-land, but they’re all pretty top-level.  I’m hoping I can get some better idea from the folks in this forum.

TIA,

Jim

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I don’t know if this helps at all.  I’ve been using EaseUS for years since that what’s Woody was recommending. In EaseUS most recent update (build 20211220) they completely changed the look of their software and I HATE IT.  I ended up contacting Susan who recommends Macruim – I had tried it initially when she took over as AskWoody publisher and she recommends Macruim instead of EaseUS.  I didn’t care for Macrium at the time – but now I am reconsidering because I HATE EaseUS’s latest update.

I find Macium’s screens too muddled to figure out what exactly to do to do a simple backup each month before installing Win10 updates (when AW gives the green light).  For example I have an internal SS hard drive & 3 external drives for backup.  I know I don’t want to do a backup of a backup on my external drives.  I just want to do a backup of my internal C drive to external I drive (see attached).

What I don’t like is how my “Disk 1” breaks down each item – file allocation tables, multiple NTFS beyond just my C drive.  This is what I find too muddled.  Just include them all behind the scenes – I don’t need to know about them.

That said – I recently accidentally deleted my Quicken files from the past decade and was able to EASILY restore them from my last backup using EaseUS – so that was a plus.

For that one reason – I decided to stick with EaseUS for now and see if I could get used to their AWFUL recent update (build 20211220)

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Blueboy (Love the Steal Your Face),

This type of granularity has always been the case under EaseUS ToDo Backup when doing a “Disk/Partition Backup”.

??Have you tried doing a “System Backup”??

(BTW, I’ve looked at the latest user interface and am not fond of it either, but perhaps it’s just a learning curve.)

Zig

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I agree. I am hoping it’s just a learning curve and I suspect it is the case. If it’s not then I will abandon easeUS

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Macrium is fine if you are technically inclined, but that means there are lots of options to make the backup do what you want.

For mere mortals (most people) I suggest you try Minitool Shadowmaker free. Simple interface but does all you need.

cheers, Paul

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Zig wrote:

Blueboy (Love the Steal Your Face),

This type of granularity has always been the case under EaseUS ToDo Backup when doing a “Disk/Partition Backup”.

??Have you tried doing a “System Backup”??

(BTW, I’ve looked at the latest user interface and am not fond of it either, but perhaps it’s just a learning curve.)

Zig

@Zig – yes I did and it looks different from older version before they muddled their software up.

Previously I was a getting system backup PBD file (i.e. System Backup(20211119)_20211119_Full_v1.pbd) that contained my C drive and no “Disk 00” (FAT, NTFS , etc.) data.

Now with god awful update I seem to limited to creating separate C drive backup and Disk 00 backup – so that I have 2 PBD files.  I cannot figure out how to combine them into one nice PBD file as they did prior to the update.

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?Why bother combining them??

Zig

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Zig wrote:

?Why bother combining them??

Zig

That’s what EaseUS was doing before their fracked up upgrade.

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perhaps that’s why I keep certain older versions of EaseUS Todo Backup free app (like the old reliable 4.0.0.5 version – use that one only for WinXP/Win7 systems; for Win8.x/Win10, I use the 12.0.x version)

I do NOT use the latest versions (unless if it adds or improves compatibility with newer Win10 releases or if running Win11)

I mainly use Easeus Todo backup for system cloning or disk cloning

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