DISCUSSION - ("Cold") disk imaging

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  1. oliverjia

    oliverjia MDL Addicted

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    Tested the backup speed for three imagers (all boot cd, and cold image): Acronis TI 2015, IFL v2.93 and Shadow Protect v5.2.4. File system is NTFS, UEFI Windows 8.1 Enterprise X64 of on a 128GB SSD. Used space on the SSD is 21.8GB.
    Have a 2nd HDD in the same computer as a storage drive. The test was to image the whole SSD OS drive, and saved the images to the HDD drive. In all three programs, default parameters are used. The only options I changed were the compression level: for Acronis and SP, used high compression; for IFL, used enhanced size - A.

    The resulting images are almost the same size: Acronis image: 11.6GB, IFL image 11.7GB and SP image 12.4 GB. The most significant difference is the time used: Acronis only needed 1.7 min, SP 3.2min, and IFL 5.1min. The speed of Acronis is just too impressive. I know it was fast before, but did not realize it's so much faster than other imagers.

    Despite ppl reported bugs in Acronis 2015 version, I have been using Acronis for more than 10 years and never had any problems. Granted, I only use the boot CD and image from outside of Windows. Looks like Acronis and SP would be my imager of choice for Windows system in a while.
     
  2. doveman

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    Be interesting to see if SP correctly resets the MountedDevices registry key when restoring to a different drive/partition. I never had a problem with this with TI but I think I did with EaseUSToDo Backup and maybe Macrium Reflect.

    I always liked Ghost for the fact that I could create two batch files, one to backup and one to restore, so that my brother could just boot from a custom built ISO (via USB or grub4dos) and just type "backup" or "restore" to run the job. With complicated interfaces to navigate, there's too much risk of him not understanding and doing something wrong that screws up his system. Whilst I can create automated backup jobs in Windows with Macrium, etc, when it comes to restoring a non-working system, he'll have to boot an ISO and thus I can't TeamViewer in and help him and the best I can do is boot the ISO as well (in Virtualbox) and talk him through everything, which can be painful!

    I guess the answer is to create a PE with TeamViewer included so that he can boot to that and then I can take over.
     
  3. EFA11

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  4. Flipp3r

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    Hey Oliverjia.

    Can you also do a restore test & see if all good? That would be great!
     
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  5. Flipp3r

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    Thanks for that. I've been using an old version Q1 2010 mainly to reset hal for migrating.
    Have not used it on any modern OS. Worked fine upto svr 2008...

    With the Shadow Protect Software you should be able to do Bare Metal restores...
     
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  6. EFA11

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    #248 EFA11, Feb 3, 2015
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    "patch" for x64 and x86 available as well for 6.0.x.

    Code:
    034e8f49b668a8ed78abcb8ffb9cdc95ac582212 *macrium.reflect.6.0.x.(32-bit)-patch.exe
    aeadb7baa48497063679e4f671345f4e5414242d *macrium.reflect.6.0.x.(64-bit)-patch.exe
    6096c86b69ec99d0fe5a71e6f17647829bd424ee *reflect_home_setup_x64.exe
    2f66ea2aee99f6b22c03533f3b07b251662fac51 *reflect_home_setup_x86.exe
    b0471a126fdf862644d503569599c485b60964a7 *reflect_server_plus_setup_x64.exe
    a0116d707548a09fd79d30a688f890f0eaea2b41 *reflect_server_plus_setup_x86.exe
    0ed8c540f464df69fece92275aedb7d7ebae9d92 *reflect_server_setup_x64.exe
    3f88b6a54112421e5e5932a9558ce0c4ffe7ee5c *reflect_server_setup_x86.exe
    0713363d5041fb3a83ce9a4c4a2bd5b22701bf9b *reflect_wkstn_setup_x64.exe
    1895d56793649cab46a3b1e5ba92c7ae3a66248c *reflect_wkstn_setup_x86.exe
     
  7. Zamber

    Zamber MDL Member

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    I have tried AX64 Time Machine. I liked it.
     
  8. EFA11

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    I always wait for a reaction hehe, well not always :eek:
    DL will show up here.
    Code:
    /public/80b04873e9a3/macrium2
     
  9. EFA11

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  10. Tito

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    @All

    We don't support warez; please remember that.
     
  11. EFA11

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    fixed, sorry guys lol. I dont always think so well before 7am ^_^
     
  12. Mr.X

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    Terabyte Image for DOS - Version 2.94 - February 8, 2015

    Upgrade History:

    • Updated /recover option to work with latest versions.
    • Adjust GPT placeholder when adding a partition to the MBR on GPT drive.
    • Support EXT4 64bit feature.
    • Other potential changes, updates and enhancements

    I love this program and I contribute for Spanish localization of various products including Image for DOS / Windows. :cool:
     
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    Code:
    b3a85e8e2bff5a4e264c8f5dc43961e05b1927ec *Languages\ifw_gui_de.zip
    6de5b80b30a9485c746b877a9b802e402df96a5e *Languages\ifw_gui_es.zip
    7d2cdeaba272b522336844aec74ba3a503e01545 *Languages\ifw_gui_fr.zip
    404e7c73efea25871ef74224268163560b8f5f9a *Languages\ifw_gui_hu.zip
    b20fb3f369434ffc428fb91d50be0442deac94cf *Languages\ifw_gui_it.zip
    dd4abe59ed83b1ebb63d84881232c931fc2fc52e *Languages\ifw_gui_nl.zip
    83668feef76e4f65a8b4d6808925602367221f60 *Languages\ifw_gui_pl.zip
    072fb09e6c22e01cceed0395171b130ec4a96dc3 *Languages\ifw_gui_pt.zip
    ddfc31252f7615408d36e24203e78ff6810bc1bc *Languages\ifw_gui_ru.zip
    728cb1a4701af7c22bf678e805dd0944ea5d0911 *Languages\ifw_gui_zh.zip
    9ef02118a500d032a116186ceca08faa1ae22504 *ifw_en_trial.exe
     
  14. EFA11

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  15. EFA11

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    doing a little testing, will PM you with results

    you have pm
     
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