OK, the restore had took complete 5h 15min which is quite a bit longer that the backup. Good things, all partitions are there and boot from the restored System HDD (which I had formatted upfront) were just fine. That said, unlike the version 9.x the version 8 of this Acronis Echo Enterprise Server is working correctly. Tomorrow I'll carry on to check with CloneZilla again. That last I'd done were not able to restore! More to come will be PC-Backup, Amanda, FWBackup and Idera Backup Server. Again, all will be done for Linux Debian Server only and NOT any version of MS OS's!
I only recreated C partition manually (the rest of the partitions are RAW - because MSR is not visiable in computer management so could not delete MSR), then fired up DS to restore the partitions, however "restore partition structure" is greyed out. When I tried to restore to C, it always tried to restore to MSR. Not sure what the problem is..
It did not assign drive letter when using HD1:4 instead of C:. Code: DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 F Win8.1SE UDF DVD-ROM 441 MB Healthy Volume 1 System NTFS Partition 14 GB Healthy Volume 2 Recovery NTFS Partition 300 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 3 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy Hidden Volume 4 E IMG NTFS Partition 57 GB Healthy Volume 5 Y EFIBOOT FAT32 Partition 512 MB Healthy And the restored OS booted fine after restart.
Well, what can I say has turned into a real discussion thread with members posting results and even more in-depth test results Great to see this in house rather than statistics off other web pages. At the end of the day we all want information to see what is best but also what is best for a normal user to use. Not every person knows about partition layouts e.c.t. ( but should make some effort to learn ) average user just wants to restore system once they have made a backup with said software. Keep the discussion going some great information here
Just a question about Drive Snapshot: Could I use to create an Diskimage with ext2/3/4 (Linux) partiton using an bootable USB Stick with Drive Snapshot? And for sure, also do an Restore!!? Thanks.
Thanks, will give that a try today and see how that would work. As I wrote already in other post's, I'll need to use that with Linux Servers and not any Windows OS. For regular and incremental backups of the servers data I use different apps, it's just for to backup the system HDD of the server while all data are written to an different HDD! Will report back later how it goes. Thanks.
So, I get the problem that I could not create the bootable USB Stick with Drive Snapshot. The command used on the Website for to convert the .SNA to .IMG didn't works in Windows 8.1, just get an error! How to do trhat on Windows 8.1? Thanks
Thanks Tito! Rufus didn't work as many other apps! And you're right about DOS! Need to create an DOS Boot USB Stick, lack of floppy drive!! Will try that a bit later today!!
Thanks for the reply! And NO, those empty space need to be there or the server wouldn't work! I tested that a few weeks ago already. Also what I didn't understand is the outcome of that "Backup" 14MB instead of 12GB! That's simply impossible even if you use the highest possible compression! That said, I wouldn't admit it works for Windows OS's well, but Linux! The best solution for now is the use of DRBL with integrated Clonezilla for Linux Server. Anyway, thanks for to try to help with that problem.
Code: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 478536608 1843284 452385000 1% / udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev tmpfs 96880 352 96528 1% /run /dev/mapper/debian32-root 478536608 1843284 452385000 1% / tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock tmpfs 193740 0 193740 0% /run/shm /dev/sdb1 233191 17155 203595 8% /boot That's the HD 2 in Snapshot. The capacity used of that HDD is app. 12+GB, with NO data, or any special apps, just the needed one an one Backup apps which has just a few MB. I selected the whole HDD for to backup by Snapshot and not just 1 partition! That even wouldn't work for me because I need an exact copy of that HDD in full. AS you look at the screenshot of the partition of HD 2, the 3 small Free (empty) spaces are marked black which means clearly unallocated (NO Partition). The dark-blue is the boot partition and light-blue the apps/data partition. Than means the real partition used are just 2 separated by those 3 unallocated spaces. LVM is used for the partition scheme. Now, if I select a full HDD for to backup, why Snapshot is using to work on 1 partition only? The name of that apps is Drive Snapshot and not partition snapshot, or am I wrong? Maybe I've a problem to understand the German thinking?! Even I'm quite fluent in German Language too, maybe even better than in English! Ah, maybe I should contact those German developer?! Because not about that problem only, even why that apps could be used for to backup via Network/LAN! Just some thinking!! Thanks anyway for the help.
Hi, I'm trying to create a UEFI Win8.1SE bootable for my Acronis True Image. I look and search through the Win8.1SE forum but unable to find any instruction how to create a UEFI secure boot USB drive. I tried using Rufus but my UEFI PC will not detect as UEFI bootable USB drive. I used Windows 8 32bit host computer with Windows 8.1 x64 source DVD. I did read some that I need to check "add EFI boot" in the Final step of Win8.1PE but I can't find that option. Can you point me to a guide or maybe if you can give me a brief step by step. I use the UEFI bootable usb flash drive guide from eightforums .com Thanks.