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Okay...

@Froggie Just unwatch it. I find it interesting.

@hdmi You evidently know a lot more than me. I wonder if you would try an experiment? Could you run a Macrium Reflect backup in...

I went to ChatGPT for an impartial opinion. In Windows 11, can VSS lead to inconsistent data? In Windows 11, Volume Shadow Copy...

it made it in less than 12 parsecs TBH..

FFS - why are people not reading OPs post properly. OP is looking for an alternative as they percieve Acronis which they own is slow...

Yes, a backup that is based upon a snapshot is perfectly reliable, just not in the particular sense that, after the restore, problems...

Used Macrium Reflect for awhile now. It's personal preference really.

That's the whole problem. When the snapshot begins, there's the possibility that a task is still busy writing multiple chunks of data...

Votes here for ... Macrium Reflect (freeware still available from majorgeeks) AOMEI BackUpper (also freeware)

I disagree - to a point. I agree that a snapshot is NOT a backup. However, a backup that is taken that is based upon a snapshot is...

I don't doubt that it can verify that the data that was written to the image matches the data that was present in the original snapshot...

The contents of the drive changing while the backup is in progress is a non-issue. That is the whole purpose of VSS. A snapshot is taken...

As Froggie says, all backups are a snapshot in time and, yes, by the time the backup is finished the contents of the drive may have...

That's not entirely true at all. The image is not meant to track a LIVE FileSystem while it is engaged (same at the end of the...