Missing files reported when mounting backups
When mounting backup files, if required files are missing from the backup set then the original file names are now listed in the error message box.
Bug Fixes
Synthetic Full re-started backup sets
If all incremental images are deleted from a backup set with a synthetic full image, and the set is 're-started' by creating another Incremental then the error 'Invalid Parameter' would occur when mounting the Incremental image file. Additionally, a restore of this Incremental may result in the Full being restored. This has been resolved.
ReDeploy improvements for NVMe host controllers
When migrating a system to an NVMe booting device, ReDeploy required the user to specify vendor drivers for this hardware, even when the target OS has native support. This has been resolved. We recommend creating fresh Windows PE rescue media after updating.
Macrium viBoot
When running on systems that were configured in any language other than English, Macrium viBoot would sometimes fail to display information about virtual machines. This has been resolved
File and Folder search date parameters
When searching for files in File and Folder backups, if the From and To dates were the same then this would result in no results found. This has been resolved.
Backup priority setting
A bug with the backup priority setting forced backups run with the lowest priority set to run at highest. This has been resolved.
New Macrium update: Bug Fixes v7.1.2917 - 27th February 2018
Rescue media crash at boot
The rescue media could fail to boot and cause a run time error. This has been resolved. We recommend creating fresh Windows PE rescue media after updating.
Update only for Windows 7 and Windows 10 32 bit systems;
Bug Fixes v7.1.2963 - 17th March 2018
Windows 7/10 32 Bit BSOD when booting
A Windows Update on the 13th March has caused some Windows 7 and 10 32 bit systems to fail to load Windows after updating. The error occurs when kernel mode driver 'pssnap.sys' loads at boot time. This update removes 'pssnap.sys' from boot time configuration. Note: Simply deleting the file is insufficient to resolve the problem. We recommend that 32 bit installations of Macrium Reflect on XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 10 upgraded from Windows 7, 32 bit operating systems update to this release.
If you have already updated Windows and experience this error then please see this KB article for a solution: Windows 7 32 bit - pagefault_in_non-paged_area pssnap.sys - KnowledgeBase v7 - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase - KnowledgeBase v7 - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase
If you have not yet updated Windows then please update to this version of Macrium Reflect to enable Windows to update without problems.
After updating, XP, Vista and Windows 7 32 bit systems, will no longer have 'pssnap.sys' available. If MS VSS shadow copies fail, then your backups will no-longer fall back to using 'pssnap'. Please ensure that any VSS errors are resolved to successfully complete your backups.
Macrium Image Guardian
The Macrium Image Guardian system components have been updated to provide enhanced performance and reliability.
Backup definition encryption state change mid backup set
Macrium Reflect will now start a new backup set if the encryption settings in a Backup Definition is changed.
Bug Fixes
Technicians Portable USB Add Drivers
The Add Drivers Wizard in the technicians portable USB stick could fail to detect the correct version of Windows PE when reporting supported devices. This has been resolved
File and Folder Restore toast notifications
When restoring File and Folder backups, incorrect toast notifications could be displayed. This has been resolved
SQL backup error if the Computer DNS name is greater than 15 characters
For SQL backup, if the default SQL instance name was used and the Computer DNS name didn't match the Computer NetBios name then the backup could fail. This has been resolved
ReflectMonitor
Pressing the 'Escape' key while viewing ReflectMonitor would cause termination of the ReflectMonitor session. This would cause a delay when restarting and possible loss of log data in the monitor Window. This has been resolved
Various
Various bug fixes and changes to improve Macrium Reflect.
Macrium Image Guardian
On some computers, a situation could arise where Macrium Image Guardian would raise its protection level to the maximum, indiscriminately blocking all modifications to any image file. This has been resolved.
Incremental & Differential Image Corruption
Incremental and Differential images created since 17th April using Macrium Reflect v7.1.3147, 3159 or 3169 could be corrupt if the Changed Block Tracker (CBT) driver was involved in the Image creation.
This has been resolved.
Important: Please see here for more information on this bug.
SQL Backup failure if TLS 1.0 is disabled
SQL DB authentication would fail if TLS 1.0 was disabled and TLS 1.2 enabled. This has been resolved.
Clone and restore error message improvements
When a clone or restore failed the error messages could display incorrect or cryptic error text. Typically you may have seen 'Access Denied' for a failure, however the true cause of the problem would likely have been different. The error text now displays the initial and correct reason for the failure.
MIG installation
Macrium Image Guardian could turn off after a reboot if installed for a single user as opposed to the default 'All Users'. This has been resolved.
Another update, last one was pulled: Bug Fixes v7.1.3307 - 2nd July 2018
SQL Backup failure if TLS 1.0 is disabled
SQL DB authentication would fail if TLS 1.0 was disabled and TLS 1.2 enabled. This has been resolved.
Clone and restore error message improvements
When a clone or restore failed the error messages could display incorrect or cryptic error text. Typically you may have seen 'Access Denied' for a failure, however the true cause of the problem would likely have been different. The error text now displays the initial and correct reason for the failure.
Clone target disk could not be found
A clone could fail with an unidentified target disk. This has been resolved.
MIG installation
Macrium Image Guardian could turn off after a reboot if installed for a single user as opposed to the default 'All Users'. This has been resolved.
Unable to restore to an uninitialized disk
Restoring to an uninitialized disk could cause the target disk not to be found and the restore to fail. This has been resolved. If this issue affects you then please create fresh Windows PE rescue media after updating.
New update: Bug Fixes v7.2.3825 - 2nd November 2018
Extended Windows Shutdown Times
Some customers have experienced extended Windows shutdown times and have been unable to perform a safe Removal of USB storage devices when the Macrium Changed Block Tracker (CBT) driver is installed. This has been resolved. Note: This patch will require a reboot. The initial reboot will still be using the previous CBT driver, so may take an extended amount of time to shutdown. The new CBT driver will be active after the initial reboot.
Windows XP/Vista/7 Scheduled Tasks Exit Code
Scheduled backups on Windows XP/Vista/7 could complete with code 0xff. Tasks would complete successfully but error as the application was unloading. This has been resolved.
Explorer Crash
Some customers have experienced a Windows Explorer crash if displaying the 'Backup Method' column when exploring folders containing Image files. This has been resolved.
Wi-Fi Drivers copied for Windows PE
Windows PE could incorrectly load Windows RE Wi-Fi drivers at start-up and stall the boot sequence. This has been resolved. If this issue affects you then please create fresh Windows PE rescue media after updating.
Rescue Media Builder
RMBuilder.exe could crash if invalid/non-writable media was inserted when burning optical rescue media. This has been resolved.
Rescue Media Builder
The Windows volume manager could cause a delay when a partition was created on USB media causing the media creation to fail. This has been resolved.
Backup Start Dialog
The delay time selected when a schedule backup starts was not being honoured. This has been resolved.
Backup Failure Emails
When upgrading pre-7.2 backup definitions, the option to include/exclude 'Cancelled' backups from failure emails was not saved. This has been resolved.
Windows PE 5.0
Windows PE 5.0 rescue media would incorrectly show 'PE 4.0' in the application title bar. This has been resolved.
Windows XP System Tray Icon
When running scheduled backups on Windows XP the Reflect Monitor system tray icon could be hidden. This has been resolved.
MIG Notifications
Macrium Image Guardian could show an incorrect blocking notification for ReflectBin.exe. This has been resolved.
Server Plus SQL backups
Macrium Image Guardian could block Server Plus backups of SQL databases. This has been resolved.
ShadowProtect incompatibility with CBT
Some customers have reported a Windows BSOD if StorageCraft ShadowProtect was installed. This has been resolved.
What's New v7.2.3897 - 26th November 2018
Note: This patch will require a Windows reboot.
SMB 1.0 Support
We've added a check-box to re-enable legacy SMB 1.0 support in Windows RE and PE 10 version 1709 or greater..
Bug Fixes
Backup Completion Email
Backup completion emails could fail to send if the senders email was specified using the 'friendly name <user@domain.com>' format. This has been resolved.
Rescue Media Builder
The following issues have been resolved...
An application error could occur if Windows RE couldn't fit on CD media.
Old ISO files were not being deleted before creating new CD/DVD rescue media.
External USB volume format failure.
PE 10 rescue media would incorrectly show PE 5.0 in the Reflect application title bar
SRT drivers were not being injected into the WIM when building rescue media.
One Drive update failure
Macrium Service would lock OneDrive.exe and prevent Windows Update from updating the OneDrive service. This has been resolved.
Macrium Image Guardian (MIG)
The following issues have been resolved...
MIG would fail to detect that a Robocopy operation was accessing a backup target when Reflect was configured to use the unique volume identifier to locate backup drives.
MIG could cause some Anti-Virus software to hang when inserting USB flash drives.
Macrium Changed Block Tracker (MRCBT)
The following issues have been resolved...
A BSoD could occur after removal of a USB attached storage device.
CBT would incorrectly attach to devices flagged as having removable media.
A BSoD could occur if a user-mode application attempted to read an offline NTFS volume.
CBT could block formatting of some NTFS volumes, causing the format command to stall at 99%.
ISO File Creation Failure
RMBuilder could fail to create ISO image files. This has been resolved.
Macrium Image Guardian (MIG)
MIG could incorrectly display a blocking notification during consolidation when the consolidation target folder was a protected network share. This has been resolved.
Various
Various bug fixes and changes to improve Macrium Reflect.
New Update: What's New v7.2.3954 - 17th December 2018
Compatibility with Windows 10 Insider Preview 1809 (18290/8)
System Image files can now be mounted in the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview release. We've worked around the Windows Container Isolation File System (wcifs) bug that caused a GSoD with earlier releases of Reflect.
Bug Fixes
Macrium Changed Block Tracker (MRCBT)
The following issues have been resolved...
The number of error events that CBT writes to the System event log has been significantly reduced.
On some systems, CBT could cause a BSoD if a third-party device driver split a request to read or write from a volume into multiple, smaller reads or writes.
On some x86 systems, CBT could fail to read the NTFS transaction log due to a low memory condition. This resulted in a failed backup reporting a read error occurred due to insufficient system resources.
Various dates reported by CBT were displayed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) format, not the currently configured local time zone format.
Backup End Toast Notification
The notification displayed when a scheduled backup completes now includes the xml backup definition file name.
Rescue Media Builder ISO File
If an alternative Windows 'temp' path was set with insufficient space for the ISO file then RMBuilder would not report an error and create an invalid file. This has been resolved
Macrium Changed Block Tracker (MRCBT)
Some customers have experienced a Windows system exception causing a BSoD if the CBT feature was installed with v7.2.3954. This has been resolved.
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