Backup Internals: What is VSS, how does it work and why do we use it?

Technician’s License: Reflect as a portable application

One of the long standing requests for Macrium Reflect is the ability to be able to image any system, regardless of whether Reflect is installed. Our Technician’s License offering previously gave you a key that would let you install on…

DLL Redirection — debugging techniques for Windows Applications

Just how exactly should that API be called?

When you’re dealing with a simple Windows API call such as MessageBox, you can probably deduce what you should be doing via an experiment or two, but…

Why Agile Methodologies don’t quite work in small software businesses

A few years ago this thing called “Agile” started to be mentioned. At the time I was working on part of a large distributed communications system as part of a small team that had managed to eek out a way of…

Virtual Disk Drivers, UAC and NT

Macrium Reflect, as you may know, has the ability to mount your backup images as drives in Windows Explorer. We do this via a device driver which presents your image as a disk drive to the system.

How to discover SQL instances

If you need to discover an instance of an SQL server in code, there are three ways of doing so. Some are more reliable and consistent than others so a mixture of at least two will guarantee that you find the instance that you want to. The following methods hold true for all…

Customer support the Macrium Way

Customer support is one of those odd things for a business. It is a direct cost to the business and doesn’t bring in revenue that directly impacts the bottom line, yet customers have high expectations that when something goes wrong, there is someone they can turn to to…

Starting the Macrium Blog

We pride ourselves on two things at Macrium:

• Our support. We aspire to offer the best support in the industry bar none.
• The technical skill of our team. We believe we employ the best people, bar none.