My honest recommendation is that you spring for the paid version of Reflect if you can afford it. Having a robust tool you can trust to do it is worth an investment. Option 1: Upgradeīacking up is important. I see three options: upgrade, continue as is, or jump ship.

The paid version of Reflect 8 continues to be available and supported. Security updates will also stop on January 1, 2024. There are several ways to interpret that, but my take is that effective immediately, the current free version will no longer receive any updates other than security updates. After that date we will no longer provide any changes to the v8 Free code base.

Security patches will still be provided until 1st January 2024. Macrium Reflect Free v8.0 is the last version to receive feature, compatibility or bug fix updates. Quoting their recently updated support policy, the folks at Macrium have announced that:

Switch to a free alternative such as EaseUS Todo.

(My recommendation, if your budget allows.) Reflect Free will get no further updates after.

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