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Macrium is going subscription-only? (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
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Here is the black friday, usually the best time to get Macrium licenses. But this year the sale is really disappointing. https://www.macrium.com/products/home

There is no discount on single license, and only 25% on the 4 machine license. Last year it was 50%. They also introduced a stupid subscription plan, which is discounted to hell to lure people in.

But subscriptions for offline backup is a huge no-no. I won't pay yearly ransom to use my own data on my own drives. It was one of the reasons why I ditched Acronis (and there were other reasons to be honest).

Looks like I have to start the endless search again for a good image backup software.

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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

That's probably good for one-off backups but Macrium can do:

  • incrementals so you don't save again hundreds of GBs for a partition that not much has changed
  • split files at desired size (as opposed to having only the option for huge archives)
  • can exclude directories from images which can be EXTREMELY useful

Unfortunately Veeam doesn't do the last two, otherwise it's a nice contender.

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