Comparison

CopyHaven or Macrium Reflect?

Macrium Reflect is a powerful backup tool, best known for copying a whole disk – Windows, programs, and all. CopyHaven does one thing: keeps your files safe, simply. Which you want depends on what you'd need back.

Updated October 2026

	Macrium Reflect X Home	CopyHaven
Price	A subscription, yearly or for three years (about US$50 a year when PCWorld reviewed it)	A$49 once per PC
Whole-disk images	Yes – restores Windows, programs, and settings as they were, and clones disks	No – your files only
Files and folders	Yes, including open files (it takes a snapshot)	Yes, including open files (it takes a snapshot)
On the drive	Macrium's own backup files (`.mrbak` for files and folders), opened with Reflect	Plain copies of your files, which open on any PC without CopyHaven
Ransomware	Image Guardian stops its backup files being changed, on local and USB drives	Holds a folder back if most of its files change at once, keeps previous versions, and swaps drives
Setting up	Many options: schedules, retention rules, filters, rescue media	Tick folders, pick a drive; four-step setup with sensible defaults
Checking	Can verify backups	Checks every backup, and every file's contents once a month

Choose Macrium Reflect if…

When a PC fails, you want it back exactly as it was – Windows, programs, and settings – in an hour, not a day of reinstalling.
You're happy learning a tool with many options, or someone looks after it for you.
A yearly subscription suits you.

Choose CopyHaven if…

What you can't replace is your files – documents, photos, email, accounts – and you'd reinstall programs anyway.
You want backups you can open on any PC, without the backup program.
You want it set up in a few minutes, and a plain answer to "am I backed up?".
You'd rather pay once.

Or both

Some people use an image backup every month or two, for a quick rebuild, and a file backup every day, for their work. The two don't get in each other's way.