Macrium Reflect is a powerful disk imaging and backup tool for Windows, developed by Paramount Software (Macrium Software) from United Kingdom in 2006. It generates disk images and file backup archives by utilizing Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service, which ensures data accuracy at a specific point in time.

In the first place, only the users who have lost data can deeply experience and realize the importance and necessity of backuping data on a regular basis. And the data backup software have been so inundant that we have almost no chance to verify and compare them one by one, so that we can pick out the best one. However, I suggest you put AOMEI Backupper at the top of the list of the data backup software you're going to test.

Network clone (also called multi-cast clone) technology is mainly used to install operating system to, restore data to, backup/copy data from, or make system image from the hard disks of multiple client computers within a local area network (LAN) in batch, thus minimize the time you spend on installing the clients' OS or backuping data one by one every time. Of course, it is an old technology, but in many environments that is still practical and works all right.