u/NavicNick

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Looking for a Macrium alternative that verifies image file after creation

A bit of context, in the past I was burned by a bad USB cable causing my image backups to be corrupted. Since then I've turned on the "auto verify image" setting in Macrium Reflect 8, which has saved me from keeping corrupted backups for multiple reasons by notifying me when a backup has failed because of the corruption. I do one full image backup at the start of the month, then every week do one differential backup that deletes the previous differential backup (so, one full + one most recent differential).

Recently, I've wanted to move away from Macrium as I've been having some weirdness happen with it, but I also just want to use something that gets updated and doesn't require a subscription. A big requirement for the alternative is that it has something similar to Macrium's file verification step.

I've looked into Veeam Agent (and used it in the past) but I'm still unsure how it's "health check" image verification works (the documentation, while thorough, confused me a bit lol). It does sound like it doesn't work with full backups though, which I'm not a fan of, and I'd also like it to check the file right after creation, instead of on a schedule. With Macrium, when any backup file is created and finished, it will then (with the setting on) read back the backup file in it's entirety to make sure there is no corruption. If it fails, it will send a windows notification saying as much. It doubles the backup time but I think it's well worth it, and would love for the alternative to have something similar where every backup file is checked for corruption, after the file has been created (so not on a schedule).

TLDR, I want a backup program other than Macrium that can do full and incremental image backups, that also verifies every backup file that was created after a backup has no corruption.

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u/NavicNick — 4 days ago