J.D Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 On 4/19/2018 at 6:12 PM, crooky said: Be careful Depends on UEFI or Legacy boot. Yes, need to be sure your imaging S/W program can handle your OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanners Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Guys There is only one backup software and that's Veeam! It made its name in the virtual world originally. Its free and does physical boxes and has all the functionality of all the others without the need for medical help I've tried (over the years) most other brands of backup software and hands down its Veeam for reliability and usability. Just Google = Veeam Agent for MS windows Free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.C Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows hand down. https://www.veeam.com/windows-endpoint-server-backup-free.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Adding a slight branching to expand this topic a wee bit...: How about reliable drive imaging for Linux users ?? EXT4 seems to be the hitch in that realm - as some (like Macrium & RDI) claim to handle it, but thus far none have seemed to do so reliably. Of course the absolute holy grail for Linux users will be a utility that takes an entire, already customized installation WITH all the user data and will easily make it into a live/boot/installable media... This did exist in Remastersys until it died, and was 'sposed to become a reality with a fork of that called Respin, which now also seems abandoned, sadly. I know very little about Veeam - it has always seemed overly complicated to me vs. just having a boot media for an imager. A bit of info from there=> https://www.veeam.com/linux-backup-agent-faq.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrZeb Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 21 minutes ago, smallhagrid said: Adding a slight branching to expand this topic a wee bit...: How about reliable drive imaging for Linux users ?? EXT4 seems to be the hitch in that realm - as some (like Macrium & RDI) claim to handle it, but thus far none have seemed to do so reliably. For Linux and Windows Acronis TrueImage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Thanks for responding to my query !! I have ATI & it is wonderful...up 'till it hits EXT4, sadly. With most users now headed that way it seems like a good time for the utility makers to get that right !?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrZeb Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 What problem did you find? According to the documentation it should work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Seems to make an image just fine...but: Makes corrupted restores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 8 hours ago, J.C said: Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE hands down!!! https://www.veeam.com/windows-endpoint-server-backup-free.html I guess, two (2) times is enough, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrZeb Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 16 hours ago, smallhagrid said: Seems to make an image just fine...but: Makes corrupted restores. That is strange! they have a rescue disk that is Linux based so I don't think that is something "new" for them. I used the software long time ago with Ext3 and it worked just fine, didn't use the software recently with Linux... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.C Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 7 hours ago, pc71520 said: I guess, two (2) times is enough, isn't it? Hahahha, didn't know I posted it here already! Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdm_0 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Macrium Reflect, aomei,o&o disk image ate some good programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baziroll Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 i heard Image For Windows is very good you can test it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 On 3/6/2018 at 7:33 PM, J.C said: Hahahha, didn't know I posted it here already! Sorry. No problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahaka Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Aomei Backupper Professional is very reliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRS Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Macrium software reflect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hcvn Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Terabyte is best for me. It very fast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soze Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 I've always liked Acronis or Ghost and prefer ghost for these reasons: You can hot image a running system Comes with ghost explorer which is a portable app that mounts the image so you can extract as many or few files as you want instead of the whole image Automatically leaves out dumb windows files like hibernation file and the page file that just take space in the image for no reason Acronis is much better for linux though, and I have ext4 and it restores fine for me, maybe @smallhagrid your source drive has a bad sector? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mukkacow Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 Hi @mkc21, I personally use Veeam® Agent. You can obtain a free NFR license key directly on their website. The first time you use Veeam it will create a recovery .iso that you can burn on a DVD or make a bootable USB. You'll be able to save volumes backups to: - Local Storage - Shared Folder SMB (CIFS) on a NAS - Microsoft OneDrive - Veeam backup repository or Veeam Cloud Connect repository l8r! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitorio Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 On 4/15/2018 at 8:52 AM, dcs18 said: Acronis True Image (ATI.) @dcs18 I backup my windows 7 disk with Acronis Ttue Image, but how about Drive SnapShot? Do you recomment it as a second or third choice. If yes or not, why? And If you trried it before? Thanks for your input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 17 hours ago, vitorio said: @dcs18 I backup my windows 7 disk with Acronis Ttue Image, but how about Drive SnapShot? Do you recomment it as a second or third choice. If yes or not, why? And If you trried it before? Thanks for your input. Hello vitorio! I've never had the occasion to use Drive SnapShot — the only other backup & restore program that I've ever tried-out is Macrium. The reason I prefer Acronis over any other program is that the backup and restore is so reliable that I have never met with a failure in my entire career . . . . not even once — I perform a full backup of my system partition at least once a day . . . . sometimes even twice a day. The key to the Acronis reliability that negates the need for a second backup & restore program is a hidden function of validating backups — this option is not enabled by default and when enabled, ensures a rock solid backup that will never fail (please note, enabling the validating feature increases the backup time.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 On 4/15/2018 at 2:36 PM, mkc21 said: Do you use any software for doing backups of whole drives? Which ones can you recommend? When it comes to important data and good hdd health, i don't bother myself with other stuff risking integrity and safety i integrated only the best ones on my WinPE10: (i never install them on a system only when differential/incremental backup is needed. in this case, Macrium Reflect is the one to go for me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeepWillys58 Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 On 10/27/2018 at 8:57 AM, Jordan said: When it comes to important data and good hdd health, i don't bother myself with other stuff risking integrity and safety i integrated only the best ones on my WinPE10: (i never install them on a system only when differential/incremental backup is needed. in this case, Macrium Reflect is the one to go for me) Hi dear friend Jordan Can you share your WinPE10 with us? Thank's in advanced. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeepWillys58 Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Hi Guys, Some of you have already used the Paragon solution, Backup & Recovery, I used the Paragon HDM Premium and it always worked well, now they have released this new one, I just downloaded it to see how it works, but I wanted your opinion too ... Thank's in advanced. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Just now, JeepWillys58 said: Hi dear friend Jordan Can you share your WinPE10 with us? Thank's in advanced. Regards There are better and fully loaded bootable iso's like those created by Sergei Strelec or Bob Omb Mine is exclusively dedicated to backup/restore/partition tasks This one is a test on RS5 But i'll consider sharing it soon maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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