I suspect I will continue using Acronis, but I would like to hear what other people think I should do. I have not idea what the Macriun capabilities are regarding NAS. I would have to copy the backup to another drive before doing a drive recovery. I know for a fact that the Acronis stand-alone recovery systems cannot access a NAS drive. The Acronis doc says only file/folder backups can be taken to a NAS, but I'm taking "Entire PC" drive backups of the laptop to my NAS drive. Tthe free version of Macrium Reflect does not take file/folder backups, and the cost of a 3 (actually 4) device license for Macrium Home costs quit a bit more than a 3 platform license for Acronis. Macrium mounts the backup image faster than Acronis, but I don't think it gives an option of the drive letter to use in mounting. I've done it successfully from the Acronis backup and have walked through the process with the Macrium. I've had to recover old data a number of times. I found configuring the backup process less straightforward with Macrium than with Acronis, but I recently discovered that Acronis has an exclusion list and was excluding files from its "Entire PC" backups. I don't remember how easy the Macrium process was. I had a couple false starts with Acronis because understand the process. I've done 1 recovery using Macrium and 2 using Acronis. I need to run file/folder backups of some files on the NAS drive from one of the PCs. Check out real reviews verified by Gartner to see how Acronis compares to its competitors and find the best software or service for your organization.
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