::: Method to run commands before Macrium Reflect starts backing up. I use Robocopy in my batch files to do the moves.

True that folders can’t be excluded, but they can be automatically moved to another drive, then automatically moved back. We’ve had nothing but success with the program. In any event, Macrium is “sweetness and light” when it comes to backups and restoration. maybe we use a different product, or maybe I misread the post. I don’t think VirtualBox offers such a feature, so. If needed, one can boot from the BIOS or a DVD/USB, and restore a full image in much less than an hour. ViBoot, even in the “free” edition, mounts any system image in its entirety for exploration. Not sure what you refer to when mentioning the inability to mount images larger than 4GB or why VirtualBox is mentioned. The prominent feature of Macrium for us is ViBoot. “Macrium Reflect 8.0 introduces support for Oracle VirtualBox and users may switch between Hyper-V and VirtualBox modes.” “While you could create backups that exceeded 4 Gigabytes in previous versions, Macrium Reflect would split those backups in multiple parts and that prevented the backups from being mounted.” The workflow for adding new folders to File and Folder backups has been improved users may use drag & drop to add folders, or the 'add source' option. Previous backups are supported by the new driver. While you could create backups that exceeded 4 Gigabytes in previous versions, Macrium Reflect would split those backups in multiple parts and that prevented the backups from being mounted. Additionally, it is now possible to mount File and Folder backups in Windows Explorer if the size of the backup exceeds 4 Gigabytes. The new driver supports a maximum file size of 3.9 TB, the previous driver supported a file size of up to 4 GB only. Macrium Reflect 8.0 includes a new driver to mount File and Folder backup files. Macrium Image Guardian, a security feature that protects backups from ransomware attacks, will protect backups stored on ReFS or ExFat systems in the new version on top of that. Instead of copying everything and creating large backups, only used clusters are copied in the backup process this speeds up the process of creating images and also the space the backups occupy on the storage device. The release of Macrium Reflect 8 changes the behavior. While you could backup partitions with these file systems previously, previous versions of Macrium Reflect would do a sector by sector copy of the disk. Support for ReFS and ExFAT file systems has been boosted in the new version. Plenty of things have been improved under the hood.

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