New in Macrium Reflect 7

Macrium Reflect 7 was first released on the 26th of February 2017. This article includes the new features that were included in Macrium Reflect 7. Extended support for Macrium Reflect 7 ended on the 18th of June 2022. To continue receiving support and product updates, it is recommended that customers migrate to Macrium Reflect X. This article contains more information about the new features that are included in Macrium Reflect X.

This article contains information about the features as they were released in Macrium Reflect 7; due to ongoing improvements to features, the information in this article may now be out of date.

Changed Block Tracking (CBT)

Macrium Reflect Changed Block Tracker (MRCBT) reduces the amount of time it takes to perform incremental and differential images by monitoring the changes to an NTFS-formatted volume in real-time. This is especially relevant when a file system contains very large files, such as virtual hard disk (VHD) files, where speed improvements are significant and can reduce the Incremental image time from hours to minutes or even seconds.

Macrium viBoot

Macrium viBoot enables you to instantly create, start, and manage Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines using one or more Macrium Reflect image files as the basis of the virtual machine storage subsystem.

Note: viBoot only supports Microsoft’s Hyper-V running on a minimum of Windows 8.0 or Windows Server 2012.

Task Scheduler 2.0

This is a 'behind the scenes' improvement over the Task Scheduler 1.0 implementation in Macrium Reflect v6.0 and overcomes the issues caused by problems with a Windows 10 Anniversary Update bug.

For more detailed information about the features included in the Macrium Reflect 7 release, you can download the Macrium Reflect 7 knowledge base here.