Macrium 119 gb 24.42 mins (medium compression)/intellisector (default) **** WINNER!!! ****Īcronis sadly seemed to take forever. Redo Backup 141 gb 50 mins (yes I even tried this freebie which was just released with a new version)Įasus Todo 149 gb 30 mins (fast compression) *** 2nd place *** Ok enough rambling and back to the test results: because if the drive dies the drive dies. (I have had my secondary drive act flaky before and that got me panicked and paranoid about ONLY keep those files on that drive.) And no point in saying well partition the c: drive and keep the video/audio files there. I keep a redundant copy of those videos etc on the c: drive and of course they get backed up with the system. well what if THAT drive dies? I don't have a backup of my backup.
#Iperius backup ransomware install
My logic for this? I do keep my image/videos/music on another separate drive that I install my games on and use for backups.
(I know they are compressed and can't be again!) That is taking up about 50 GB of space. I have about 180 GB space used on c: drive for windows and keep in mind that I also have a backup of all my videos/MP3's and photos on the windows partition also. Acronis's solution would simply not do for me, because it would probably interfere with KIS and I would never replace KIS real time modules for Acronis'. Of course, no defense is 100% unbreakable, but I love this triple-protection, because it's also light on RAM and CPU resources. I guess that KIS behaviour blocker would notice these jpg massive changes and stop the attack. Even if ransomware attack would get past KIS folder protection, it would first start encrypting the jpgs, being system images protected from modification by Macrium's Image Guardian. The system images are saved in a folder locked by KIS, together with some useless jpg files. Although I save backup images on two external drives, I like having a system copy saved on the internal HDD, for faster image restoring. This complements very well my KIS protection. I like Macrium's approach, because its Image Guardian technology simply protects backup files from being modified by any application, and it doesn't add real-time layers, that could conflict with antivirus' modules.
#Iperius backup ransomware license
And this is also the reason why I purchased the paid license of Macrium, when it was on sale. I agree that ransomware protection is a good addition to a backup software.