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We have created a new Changed Block Tracker (CBT) driver that automatically upgrades the previous version when you install version 7.2 with the CBT feature, now is faster and more resilient.
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From this point on, any incremental/differential images that are taken, within the current Windows session, will use our Changed Block Tracker technology. This ensures that any changes to the NTFS file system that may have occurred outside of the current Windows session are recorded into the image file. With our Changed Block Tracker driver enabled, the first incremental/differential image taken since Windows was restarted will be performed using the traditional method. While this is method is one of the quickest solutions available, we do not consider it an optimal solution when used in a continuous incremental scenario, especially if multi-GB files are present in the file system. Traditionally, Macrium Reflect has detected changes to the file system by comparing the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) on the source volume, with the MFT of the most recent image in the backup set. This decision enables us to provide one of the most robust Changed Block Tracking solutions available to date.

USB flash drives and dual-boot systems) and instead, focus solely on optimizing MRCBT to reduce incremental backups times in the current Windows session. Through discussions with our customers and after careful consideration, we decided to remove the functionality from MRCBT that allowed it to detect whether a volume had been mounted outside the current Windows session (i.e. This is especially relevant when a file system contains very large files, such as virtual hard disk (VHD) files, where speed improvements are significant and can reduce the Incremental image time from hours to minutes or even seconds. It reduces the amount of time it takes to perform incremental and differential images by monitoring the changes to an NTFS formatted volume in real-time. Macrium Reflect Changed Block Tracker (MRCBT) is a feature of Macrium Reflect.
